HTML5 canvas layering

We were talking about HTML5 canvas and I remembered I had this layer experiment: Orbital.

Starhunting

Picked up Starhunter, it was just $5 last week for the whole series on DVD at Wal-Mart. Interesting similarities to Firefly, and since it predates it I wonder if Whedon copied some of the concepts. The cheap set doesn't come with translations or subtitles.

Here are the similar characters from Starhunter (2000) to Firefly (2002). Since there is less of a budget, there are fewer characters in Starhunter, but the ones that are there carry over pretty well to Firefly.

• Dante Montana - Malcolm Reynolds


• Lucretia Scott - Zoë Washburne


• Percy Montana - Kaylee Frye


• Badger - Rudolpho

Look here for a comparison of the two.

Queen Anne's Revenge in ST:TWOK era

Starhunter

From Starhunter, TIL: don't fight in an airlock unless you're wearing a spacesuit.

The Tulip:

Seen in the Rag Tag Fleet

Better in German:

Tombstone

Doesn't quite have the impact of Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Black God, White Devil).

Launch of Curiosity to Mars

That was a beautiful launch - minimal cloud cover, though the rocket pierced though one strata early on.

I had to force the kids to watch.

They are four lightening towers at the Cape Canaveral Launch complex 41, the first clean pad.

The Atlas V is the primary booster. The centaur rocket stage boosts the upper payload to a Geosynchronous orbit.

Robotic Bodyguards

Robotic guards for inmates, courtesy of BBC news. Not created by OCP.



How long before the AD police are called in to prevent Rogue boomer mishaps? Bubblegum Crisis is not far away. (C. 2040.)

TEDx Talk for Thanksgiving

I wish you to have a good day.

Target Eggs from MS?

Last night I was perplexed what market conditions would cause Target in Hudson (WI) to sell eggs from Mississippi. Now I'm even more glad I didn't buy any.

I'm not sure if they usually got them from Iowa, or they usually get them from Mississippi.

Ist SOAP!

Saw this a few years ago, but this is pretty funny.

Tom Jones and the Cardigans take on the Talking Heads

Say what you will, but I now know some lyrics I never heard through David Byrnes mumbled speaking.

Acoustic Waiting

Take that autotuned vocalists.

Saruman

Is?

Also if you lose your nose, you are in slytherin.

And here's the one I submitted.

This one cracks me up everytime, I know, it's...

Perepiteia

Perepiteia is a new generator developed by the Canadian inventor Thane Heins.

What version is which MacOS?

Mac Forums from 10.4 is Tiger. 10.5 is Leopard. 10.6 is Snow Leopard.

Crush

Orange Crush, second only to Rondo...

Political cycles

All I can hope for is that the cycle will not consume all effort of politicians, after all there seems to be plenty of work left to do. But please people why are you still considering entertaining people from the BACK of the class? No one that has trouble understanding the existing government structure should even be in the running at this point.

Demolition Man was Duplication Man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_(film) read under plagarism.

Microbes to Phobos [rev] Bummer

This Article was much more rosy yesterday, now the same URL is showing that the Russians may have lost contact with the mission probe.

All Shook Up

Last night we went as a whole family to see All Shook Up at the River Falls theatre. It had great singing and acting. There were a few twists in the storyline that were unexpected and the humor was pretty good though a little mature (gender twists), but not too far out of the line of 1920s humor. The kids mostly made it all the way through. And the term roustabout is firmly established in my available vocabulary for a short while.

Elvis vs JXL and a Paul Oakenfold remix are the most Elvis I'd heard in a while.

Seed banks are up and running

Already, the seed banks are up and running. In The Windup Girl, there are several in the world. The Svalbard: is already containing 1.5 million seeds but can hold up to 4.5 million.

Quitewrite

I like how everything glides in and out on this site, quietwrite.

I'm still alive

Current trends in web JS/CSS tools

I'd heard of a bunch of these tools, but not yet using most of these.