Category: Miscellaneous

No I didn’t watch the big game yesterday. I didn’t even watch the Simpsons. Mostly I worked on my 3D animation projectt and after my repetitive strain injury started to flare up, I watched a bit of Malcalm in the Middle and talked to Anna on the phone. I think this project is cool, but I wish I knew more about 3D Studio Max. I did find this great resource though – 3dcafe.com. I found what I was looking for under the free stuff button.

Here is a link to a review of the new version of 3D Studio Max 6. I’m barely learning 5.1, but it looks cool all the same.

Blogger now has an official stance on the subject.

I think I figured out how to fix the University’s problem with their flash screen savers. All they need to do is put a blank text field overtop of their flash screen savers so that they will get the text-copy/paste menu instead of the About Macromedia Menu when people right click. They should pay me or something.

I talked to someone in IT. They said they are aware of the problem but at this point they don’t know how to get around it.

Can’t get on their website, but you can find their mailblog at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boingboing-mailblog/

I’ve wondered about this myself. When people like Maher Arar are seized, jailed, interrogated without charges, on unspecified allegations of unspecified connections to unspecified terrorist groups, and tortured – why doesn’t anyone seem to want to do anything about it?

ASCII and the Matrix – together at last.

Scientists have synthesized a virus from scratch and it has “become bioactive” (started reproducing).

Read more here.

In case anyone reading this was wondering, yes I do have another blog. You can find it here.

The Faculty is accepting nominations for New Media Reps til Wednesday. I’m going to run again – we’ll see if anyone else does.