The Ironism » Uncategorized http://www.larsan.net of Lars J. Nilsson Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:50:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 MLP XII: A space edition http://www.larsan.net/2007/12/mlp-xii-a-space-edition/ http://www.larsan.net/2007/12/mlp-xii-a-space-edition/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:27:17 +0000 fungrim http://fungrim.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/mlp-xii-a-space-edition/ Since space is cool and important: ]]> http://www.larsan.net/2007/12/mlp-xii-a-space-edition/feed/ 0 Stardusted Rant http://www.larsan.net/2007/03/stardusted-rant/ http://www.larsan.net/2007/03/stardusted-rant/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:23:38 +0000 fungrim http://fungrim.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/stardusted-rant/ Sooo, Gaimans Stardust is becoming a movie. Wheee!But, they show the trailer on Yahoo Movies only. Booo!But what kind of retarded moron of inbread stupid som-of-a-manager put it on Yahoo Movies, the worst movie site ever to be created?! I mean, mixing Flash and ActiveX (?) to embed Windows Media Player? What a great idea!! NOT!Let’s see, I’ve got a Windo$e XP at work. Will it work? No, because I need to use MS Interfuck Exploder, and funny enough M$ has fucked it up, so I can’t install Flash on it. Morons. Firefox I have got flash on, but lo’ and behold, the ass-licker incompetent bloody visual basic scripters have made it impossible. Idiots.Linux+Firefox, no. Linux+Opera, no. Windows+IE7, no (because of flash install). Windows+Opera, no, Windows+Firefox, no.And I don’t have a Mac at hand. Coffe cup IQ bloody amateurs.After much wailing and gnashing of teeth I finally figred out how to paste the source link of the embedded stream stright into Linux+Firefox and get my MPlayer plugin to fix it. *sigh*Seems hyped ehough. They seem to have added a lot more action than what I remember from the book. That’s fair enough in my mind, as long as the Gaiman style and pace survives. Stardust is a remarkable book, much thanks to the same said pace and it lovely fairytale-for-grownups groove.So here’s to hope. Despite the morons at Yahoo+Paramount.

]]> http://www.larsan.net/2007/03/stardusted-rant/feed/ 0 MLP VI:”Quantum CD sales” http://www.larsan.net/2007/02/mlp-vi-quantum-cd-sales/ http://www.larsan.net/2007/02/mlp-vi-quantum-cd-sales/#comments Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:30:44 +0000 fungrim http://fungrim.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/quantum-and-cd-sales/ One of the first things I though when confronted with the Hollywood “ooh we’re losing money to piracy”-tune was that I’d like to see a comparative study with the rise of DVD-sales as well. Simply because I certainly not have the budget to continue buyng CDs and to buy DVDs at the same time, and I doubt others have.

Well, well. Ars Technica reports… A new study in the Journal of Political Economy finds no correlation between piracy and falling CD-sales. Surprise?

And then: punch-card computing is back again. Perhaps. Or not. But hey, sounds cool doesn’t it?

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