New layout and CSS

I hope you like the changes I’ve made to the navigation, layout and stylesheet. If it works for you send me a shout out, if it doesn’t I probably know why: I use about 39 frames, and my stylesheet is completely anal-retentive. By way of rebuttal, this allows me to use a minimum amount of graphics (the gradient background fades and logos), which (hopefully) reduces load time. If you have other reasons for disliking it, feel free to let me know what they are. If your platform doesn’t support “Georgia” (my current favorite serif typeface) or text smoothing (a.k.a. anti-aliasing) you’re not getting the full effect, but you still have to admit it looks pretty darned good. ;-) Thanks for visiting!

G.I.T.S.: Stand Alone Complex

Don’t let the super-crappy websites fool you, some high quality Ghost in the Shell multimedia is headed stateside. In the wake of Innocence the “Stand Alone Complex” storyline (about which I know nothing) is coming to the U.S. in both cartoon and video game formats. The cell animation of the cartoon looks like quickly knocked-off mediocrity, actually, but the trailer for the video game looks promising. Hopefully it will provide what previous gun-toting, purple-haired, anime bad-ass chicks like Oni’s Konoko could not.

Slimmed down PS2 coming soon

Expect big news from the people that sell us stuff as the holiday season approaches. Sony has captured my attention by developing a redesigned and slimmer PS2. It weighs 32 ounces, half as much as the original, is incredibly thin, and also shorter. Discs will top-load instead of by tray, and the network adapter hardware will be inside. It will not support the much-delayed hard drive. Nintendo and Microsoft, consider your asses kicked…in the battle to take up the least space in the consumer’s living room.

AskMoses

Ever wonder if it’s OK to drive on Shabbat if it is your only way to get to the synagogue?

AskMoses!

(I was pointed to the site by the Web comic Shabot 6000.)

Innocence is Bliss

Last night I saw Ghost in the Shell: Innocence (Japanese site), Mamoru Oshii’s sequel to his 1996 anime masterpiece. Based on the manga of Masamune Shirow, Innocence blows the original film away. Go see it. Full review coming soon.

9/11 III, Happy Anniversary

Conspiracy theorizing is not a great hobby, but demanding that the government be open and accountable is the essence of patriotism. Immediately after the events in 2001, I, and many other bloggers, had questions about how and why the events happened. The official word on the events never began to address any of the more nagging and controversial questions. Here’s a refresher on what those are…

Great minds think alike

For the record; I just now saw egographies,
a french site eerily similar to dragonize in terms of layout…actually I like it better so I think I’ll steal some ideas from it.

The Cost of War

Cost of War estimates that the war in Iraq is costing taxpayers $2000 a second…

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

-President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953

What a Commie!

Not taxes, the other one…

All the high-profile obits coming down got me searching the Web for a site that collected them all. My search ended at Blog of Death.

SETI might actually have found something…

A telescope in Puerto Rico has picked up a radio signal from deep space three times, lending credibility to the likelihood of intelligent origins. If it is found a few more times “it really begins to get exciting,” says Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the University of Bath in western England. Data from the telescope was analyzed by the distributed computing project called SETI@home, which uses a screensaver on your PC or Mac to analyze the huge volumes of data gathered by telescopes.