Rantings, mostly…

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So do me a favor and click here for Ajax Tutorials. It really is that simple.  By following that link you are helping me to notify Justin’s statistics script that you were referred by me.

Despite the link name, there are no tricks, no hidden spam, and no adult material.  It is a simple contest to win a few Ajax developer books.  That’s all.  It was his wish that all links have either that name above, or Blogging Tutorials, or even Internet Marketing.  So hell, click on any of them if you like, they all do the same thing!

Make sure you check out his Blogging 101 and Copywrighting 101 areas.  Definitely a ton of useful content there.

Thanks!

I recently had the bright idea to create a nice tag cloud application in pure JavaScript and power it via an XML file, and/or a backend (such as an RDBMS).

Then someone pointed me to Kang-min Liu’s Widget.TagCloud implementation.

Dammit.

Well, Kang-min’s version does not pull cloud information from an XML file or a database.  Instead it uses “array of hash.”  Basically an array containing JSON data or Object declarations.

I may modify his application to include both of these.  In one route I can use DOM methods to load an XML file for parsing, on the other, to keep it purely JavaScript, as in, no HTML document containing a form, I would have to use an XMLHttpRequest to coordinate data from the database.

We’ll see…

My daughters and I just returned home from seeing this on its opening night, and I can say this — none of us were disappointed!

This movie had us on the edge of our seats laughing and loving the main character, Remy the entire time.  Mixed with the antics of his brother Emile, and the gruff resolve of his father Django, this movie was a hit all around.

Remy, the main character.  Together, with Remy, you will understand loss, fight through oppression, and learn to embrace your desires and unleash your potential.

Emile, the lovable, rotund older brother of Remy.

Django, the sagely father who’s not too old to learn a lesson himself.

This movie, all 1 hour and 50 minutes of it, took us through hardships, and very poignant moments where we were left to delve inside ourselves and understand the artist that lay within all of us.  The hidden emotion that we so often fail to express to each other was unleashed in waves of eager wisdom, conveying to us the desire and emotion of a kindred spirit, one found, oddly enough, within the confines of an admirable, yet humble rat named Remy.

I highly suggest any lover of Pixar films definitely check out their latest, and longest installment.  Definitely worth the price of admission.

We were also lucky enough to see two other Pixar greats.  The short-film “Lifted,” and also the preview to the movie “WALL-E,” coming 2008.

Make sure to visit Pixar to check out all their great offerings and check out information on all their upcoming releases.  In fact, if you have a nice broadband connection you can go straight to Pixar’s theater and view tons of their work.

All images are the sole property of Disney and/or Pixar.

I guess despite Google’s questionable practices, there are sites that still think it reigns supreme.

IMDb has once again updated its site, and this time it looks a lot like Google’s “Image results for…” on its main page.

I use IMDb probably fifty or more times a week, and personally, this is not a function I need, or want for that matter.

In a related topic, I think Google’s display is fairly biased, actually, I don’t think, I know it’s fairly biased.

For example, search Google for “Mandela.”  (Or even “Nelson Mandela.”)  Now search for “Pamela Anderson.”

Now tell me which one actually showed you an image preview.  Yeah, bias at its best.

He is quite the talented actor, despite his silence all these years.  From Billy Butcherson in “Hocus Pocus,” all the way to the Silver Surfer in “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” Mr. Jones has been delighting us, without us even knowing it.

Make sure to check his website out at The Doug Jones Experience.

How many of his character roles can you name?

Also make sure to check out his independent Silver Surfer film at IMDb.

Oh man, I can hardly tell the difference!

I watched “You, Me and Dupree” the other night, and noticed, damn, Kate Hudson is *smoking* hot!

So like the red-blooded pr0n-hog that I am, I went in search of some updated pictures of her.  OK, I didn’t really expect to find Kate Hudson pr0n, but anyway.

Right as I was getting ready to start my search, David Spade, on The Showbiz Show with David Spade, started making fun of Uma Thurman’s “worst saggy boobs.”

So of course I wound up at cele|bitchy.  And lo’ and behold, aside from Uma’s saggy boobies, I see Kate looking um… quite repulsive.  Sorry Kate.

In fairness, she has definitely whipped her ass back into shape.  Believe me when I say she was sizzling in the aforementioned crap-tastic movie.

At least Star Magazine didn’t put her on the same page as Kirsten Dunst and Courtney Love.

(WARNING: Graphic link follows.)

For the record, I still think Uma Thurman is uber-sexy.