Bo dragged me to see Narnia at 2AM this Friday. Throughout the movie I kept wondering if the image quality was somehow compromised, like those horribly low-res posters they have up, with Tilda Swinton in the polar bear drawn war chariot. I crave more pixels! Particularly if those pixels reflect the delectable sight of this movie’s White Witch. Tilda Swinton and Jadis queen of Narnia, two longtime crushes that go great together… I’ve adore both since I first encountered them, in Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio and C.S. Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew respectively.
But this infatuation doesn’t blind me to the fact that the White Witch, that pagan goddess in a Christian mystery, is trapped here in a Pantomime. Or, as Shimon Adaf put it, a Festigal (which is the local equivalent).
At least there aren’t any songs.
Month: December 2005
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symfony advent calendar
Symfony is an impressive looking PHP5 framework that seems like an attempt to do Ruby on Rails in PHP. They currently have a 21 day tutorial called the symfony advent calendar, showing how they build a site called askeet, with all the bells and whistles.
If this post was any geekier, it would be in hex.
Ghost Rider teaser trailer [ via jwz ]
It was the time of the Sun Dance and the Big Tractor Pull.
– Mary Margaret Road-Grader, by Howard Waldrop is online at Strange Horizons (and has been for years?). Go read it. I had a collection of Waldrop’s stories once, which I must have loaned to someone — you know, one of those You must read this!
loans, except the other guy forgets all about it, and you forget who that other guy was — and I regret it to this day. Post-Apocalyptic survivalism with Communist Disney animatronic robots, telekinetic Sumo wrestlers, reincarnated Pharohs, Israelis traveling in time to enact Elders of Zion conspiracies, be-bop, dinosaurs, movie monsters and nostalgia – fittingly that I remembered Waldrop because he’s just reviewed King Kong for the Locus site).
In this story (like in his cool but unfocused novel Them Bones), Waldrop writes Indians. Like in Little Big Man, Waldrop’s Indians combine movie Western noble savageness with an endearing down-to-earthness. I love them.
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Unicode Resources
Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources is a web site about Unicode and multilingual support in HTML, fonts, Web browsers and other applications
. Good stuff for figuring out why you get question marks or empty boxes on web pages.