October 2007 Archives
The new video clip from the nerdiest musicians in the world.
They Might Be Giants - The Mesopotamians
Ozymandias meets The Monkees.
I can't tell you how much of my misspent youth was spent typing in BASIC programs from magazines.
See, computer magazines of today aren't like they were in the 8-bit days. They weren't all stuff for gamer d00dz or, as APC puts it, "IT professionals and power-users". Always offbeat and funny, they catered to the pimply-faced hobbyists (that would be me) who actually wanted to do stuff. It's only with the advent of blogs that this kind of DIY became possible again.
The best Australian magazine was Your Computer, published by the brilliant Les Bell.
Of all of the computer magazines, though, the best was Creative Computing. It was full of cartoons, recreational maths, programs, news and puzzles. After the jump is a challenge from some time around 1976. If you had a micro in the 80s, see how much you remember...
Enough hard-core geekiness for the moment.
We saw Ratatouille on the weekend. I'm not going to do a review. I'm just going to use this as an excuse to post some classic Brad Bird.
Family Dog is an episode of the Stephen Spielberg series Amazing Stories. It's the only episode that was animated.
Written and directed by Brad Bird, design by Tim Burton, music by Danny Elfman and featuring the voice of Stan Freberg (one of my favourite voice-over actors of all time). That should be enough to get you watching, surely?
