Archive for the 'Entertainment' Category

An AppleScript Quine

November 3, 2007

A few days ago, out of morbid curiosity, I went looking for a a quine written in AppleScript. To my surprise, I couldn’t find one.
I’d never actually written a quine before, so this was a good ‘excuse’ to make one (and brush up on some computability theory — use it or lose it).
Well, here [...]

Stay Focused

October 2, 2007

Here’s a clipping from an online ad for an album:

IN STORES AND ONLINE NOW
The ad was the album’s cover-art, with these words added. The album is on the Sony label, and the ad linked to a page selling the album in a Sony music store.
What’s interesting about this copy is that it focuses on [...]

Ratatouille Lifted

August 2, 2007

Yesterday I saw Ratatouille, it was very fun. They did an amazing job of showing the taste of strawberries as moving colored light. It was one of the few cases I can think of where motion made a graphic better in every way. Maybe it’s all those horrible animated banner adds I [...]