Peiratikos

Hollywood Clobbers Manhattan. Again.: From The New York Times. In this topsy-turvy post-9/11 world, New Yorkers are once again ready to witness NYC destroyed by huge waves and icebergs in disaster movies such as The Day After Tomorrow.

Oliver Stone’s Alexander: I'm waiting for the Baz Luhrmann version myself.

Onion Skinned Drop Shadows: Drop shadows that look good in any browser and automatically expand and contract to fit objects of any size. Change the size of drop-shadowed boxes and the depth of the shadows with no image manipulation. The technique uses nested div elements to lay background images on top of one another.

The Metamorpho Theme: Listen and be amazed! Metamorpho Metamorpho! Metamorpho Metamorpho! This is the story of the Element Maaaaaan, Metamorpho Metamorpho!

Creative Commons 2.0: Announcing (and explaining) the Creative Commons 2.0 licenses. Mostly the same, but with some key changes you'll probably want to know about if you use a Creative Commons license.

Chaotic Believability: On the other hand, Steven Wintle calls the early Marvel Universe "chaotically believable": "...just when is the real world ever cohesive and consistent? The left hand rarely knows what the right hand is doing, and a variety of interpretations and slightly off-kilter continuity is the element of inadvertent, lo-fi surprise that can make shared universe superhero comics not only fun, but also somewhat chaotically believable." Now we can combine Paul O'Brien, David Fiore, and Steven and say that the Marvel Universe is like the real world because the real world is the Text that we all must interpret.

“Continuity” Revised: David Fiore replies to Paul O'Brien's Ninth Art article on superhero-comics continuity. Does a shared universe continuity increase verisimilitude, or does it emphasize textuality with historiography and intertexual references? This question brings to my mind the No-Prize---if you, the reader, are given authority to contribute to the text by 'fixing' continuity 'mistakes' in the letter columns, this must mess with verisimilitude a bit, no?

Web Developer extension for Firefox and Mozilla: If you use a Mozilla browser and you're a web developer, you'll almost certainly find the tools in this extension useful.

Virtual Dopers Crave High Scores: Developers of massively multiplayer online games introduce addictive substances to their game worlds. Hardcore stuff, too, like stuff that'll make you overdose and die! Can you imagine getting addicted to crack and becoming a junkie on the streets of Mos Eisley? Well, imagine no more, friends!

Ping-O-Matic: "If you bookmark the Ping-O-Matic ping results page you can simply load that directly and have fast pinging of almost a dozen services a single click away. Also, you may want to ping when you make an edit a post to update it, and most blog packages are set up to ping only when there's a new post." Also, use http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ to have your blogging tool autoping.