Del.icio.us op 7 februari 2009

Regardless of how they were transcribed, these words provide an intriguing insight into the mind of Monk, a musical genius who changed and transcended jazz even as his life was beset by bizarre and erratic behavior caused by (choose one or more) mental illness, illicit drugs, medications prescribed by psychiatrists who were, according to ones preferred source, astute or incompetent, the LSD he unknowingly took, the peyote he may or may not have taken with the encouragement of Timothy Leary, …

Alien III Screenplay by John Fasano Story by Vincent Ward & John Fasano FIRST DRAFT March 29, 1990

or a month or so in the summer of 1990, I was hired to work as a ‘conceptual architect’ on the movie project Alien III.

I've always been a fan of both painted artworks/posters and the classic LucasArts adventure games, and so I'm trying to preserve those classic artworks by Steve Purcell, Bill Eaken and the likes, cleaning them up, painting out overlaying text or stickers, plus taking the extra step to make these babies printable in poster size (or make them work as posters AT ALL).

You may have noticed that a lot of sites are managing to launch pop-up windows that can penetrate any standard blocker built into a web-browser these days, and pretty much all proprietary blockers too. What's going on?

Pixar University's Randy Nelson explains what schools must do to prepare students for jobs in new media.

The most dangerous place in the world is between a mother and her child.

Ever see an awesome graphic or visualization in the New York Times and wonder who did it? Chances are it's either Amanda Cox or Megan Jaegerman.

At a time when few major label releases hit six figures, Williams had four songs that shipped between 180,000 and 250,000 copies in 1920 alone! Williams, along with Al Jolson and Nora Bayes, was one of the three most highly paid recording artists in the world

While waiting for Apple to approve the iPhone/iPod touch port of my Wii homebrew game Horror Vacui I thought I would jot down some notes on the evolution of the game mechanics.

Some of these actor-director teams have a history together—remember Ron Howard and Tom Hanks’s breakthrough, Splash, a quarter-century ago?—while others produced their first mind-melds in 2008. Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet even brought marriage and kids to the Revolutionary Road set. But in each case the chemistry was profound, the effect exponential.

This toad from the Nectophrynoides genus is one of 15 amphibian species in Tanzania that have been described for the first time.

It's some ganguro guy (Really, he's not senta, he's crossdressing) with some ganguro girls dancing and singing. It's… really weird.

Ganguro appeared as a new fashion style in Japan in the early 1990s and is prevalent mostly among young women and women in their early 20s to this date. In ganguro fashion, a deep tan is combined with hair dyed in shades of orange to blonde, or a silver grey known as "high bleached".

Eeek.

Steve Martin rules

Leve fysieke humor!

Quick – Who directed Nightmare Before Christmas? Most people incorrectly answer “Tim Burton." Granted, it was his vision originally, but director Henry Selick brought it to life in a film that many people still hold dear to their heart. Selick returns this week with a film likely to find a similar cult following

If you think scorpions are scary, just take a look at this guy. Named Schinderhannes bartelsi, it was found in fossilized form in a German quarry, and dates to 390 million years ago. That's about 100 million years after the extinction of the last known animal to sport what's technically known as a "great appendage" — a giant claw growing out of its head.