Gobsmacked. Christopher Eccleston.

I’ve only really seen him in dour and serious stuff. Not sure if he’s weird enough. On the other hand, I suppose Tom Baker’s the only genuinely weird person to play the role.

Sedna

So why didn’t they call it Mondas?

Ok, so it’s not a mirror-twin of Earth and is unlikely to be inhabited by ruthless cyborgs. But still.

So to all my loyal readers I ask: are there any computer gaming sites around anymore that aren’t horrid, ad-infested content-free wastelands? I used to read gamesdomain.com a lot but it seems to have completely lost focus in the last couple of years. cdmag.com (Computer Gaming Online, if I recall) is gone. What gives?

Even better, are there any good gaming review or analysis weblogs around?

Some cool links via electrolite’s sidebar today:

• LOTR: the musical
• physics experiments gone cynical

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philosophical

A billion suns igniting is my optimistic vision of the World Wide Web on a good day.

technical

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The New York Times on Sky Captain:

Word of ‘’Sky Captain’’ began to spread around the Internet only after Conran finished primary shooting in London last spring—extraordinarily late for the Internet, which often seems invented specifically to track movies with giant robots in them.

Via amygdalagf.

while the government refuses to increase Medicare payments to GPs in any significant way, it has increased the Medicare levy to pay for the Gulf War and the East Timor expedition; thus the Australian government has been willing to raise the health care tax for military adventures, but not for health care.

From Frankenblog

Lots of good stuff.

Via Calpundit:

http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/001483.html

(curtain opens on four men in suits in a well-lit conference room.)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT: …so I know you’ve studied the tapes. I doubt that I’m telling you anything you don’t know. But it turns out that he was eating so much because he had to. He needed it in order to turn into a butterfly.

(pause)

That’s why the caterpillar was so hungry, you see.

There’s quite a cottage industry growing up around the idea of making Internet Explorer suck less than it does. youngpup’s “sleigh” script allows IE to render 32-bit PNG files correctly. Now Dean Edwards brings us IE7.

From the overview:

IE7 invokes a DHTML behavior to load and parse all style sheets into a form that Explorer can understand. You can then use most CSS2 selectors without having to resort to CSS hacks.

The behavior is lightweight and is automatically loaded via a CSS inclusion. No alteration of your original document is necessary. Nor do you have to alter your CSS.

Very exciting.

Via Outpost Gallifrey, the list of writers working with Russell T. Davies on Doctor Who.

• Mark “League of Gentlemen” Gatiss
• Steven “Press Gang” Moffat
• Paul Cornell
• Rob Shearman

Can I get comments to work? I wonder.

sigh

Trying to edit something with a particular category.

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