I loved reading these Phillip Pullman book, then listened to the audiobooks (which were quite good), and sure enough, now they are making a movie out of it (hopefully, more to follow!)
For those not familiar with the books, you should really go out and at least do yourself the favor of hearing the audiobooks. They blow Harry Potter away, IMHO, very cool stuff.
Anyway, on their website there is a link to create your own Daemon. While most people in this world equate the existence of soul on the inside of someone, in Lyra’s world (where the Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, and Amber Spyglass take place), Daemon’s are a representation of one’s soul, attached by invisible cord yet living on the outside. That’s a very simple explanation, but the point is, here’s my Daemon! A lioness! Don’t be shy, click away and see if you agree this is the same one I would end up with..
I am not a big DivX user but I like a free bit of schwag or software when it’s offered in some legal way. Well, one of my co-workers pointed out last Friday that DivX, the popular codec for video on the Internet, is being offered for free today.
Normally, you only get the free player when you download, but they are handing out free licenses today to encourage more people to create online content using the DivX codec.
Someone gave me a DivX pre-release DVD for a movie that’s officially coming out today. Bummer, my BOSE Lifestyle 35 doesn’t know what to do with it.
So, DivX looks great on the computer screen, but I don’t think many manufacturers have embraced the codec in that way, but the compression is good and quality of the finished product are nice. From all the DivX videos I have found, it seems that more people use it for pr0n and pirated videos more than serious production, which is a shame, because it is nice. I mean, not as nice as the wildly accepted and “you dont need to download extra crap” Flash Video format by Adobe (formerly Macromedia) — but hey, more options are nice to have and it may encourage better development all around. Cheers, DivX, thanks for making it a free ride for awhile.
It’s true. Apple socks Microsoft’s slow, hackable, klunky, bug-ridden, insecure (insert additional expletives here) browser with a blazingly fast new build of Safari, Apple’s RSS-friendly web browser that comes bundled with OSX.
I’ve downloaded it and the beta looks pretty darn promising, it even has that Apple-esque style (ala iTunes/QuickTime look and feel.)
It looks pretty promising.
Even more so promising is that they plan on releasing this new bad boy on their own Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5), which may give Firefox a run for its money.. Most of us OSX die-hards use Firefox because #1 IE hasn’t been updated since Mac OS 9.x days, and #2 the earlier builds of Safari are just painfully slowwwwwww.
But don’t just take my word for it, go try it yourself. You can download the beta version here:
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