Just before Matrix Reloaded came out, I made far too many posts about it and the rest of the Matrix universe (Animatrix, comics, propaganda etc.). After the mild disappointment of the film, I’m loathe to do it again for the third cinematic installment. I’ll be going to see it tomorrow (the day of release) but not at the first showing, as I had hoped. Oh well.

For those that don’t know (have you had your head under a rock?), Warner Bros are releasing the film simultaneously around the world; same day, same time. Thankfully, while Los Angeles will be getting it at the insane time of 6am, here in the UK it starts showing at the more reasonable 2pm.

This week’s random links:

• Sliding Doors 2 – Not content with doing the finest CSS tabs tutorial to date, a week later we get more. Does Doug Bowman sleep?,
• Keyboard Advance – Use your GameBoy Advance as a basic word processor. Clever, but only for those who want to do all that swapping melarkey,
• Unfinished Jokes – Louis Theroux (genius among men) has perfected a new comic form (” In Roman/biblical times, a chariot is being driven quickly, despite wet weather. Something about Antioch braking.”),
• eBay Pet Auction – A little depressing, but very funny (via Anil),
• QuirkMode – Work around browser bugs with this comprehensive guide,
• Analyis Of CD copy protection – Exactly what it claims to be,
• Local Feeds: Glasgow – A news feed for blogs and sites near Glasgow (other cities worldwide available, but this is the one I appear on dammit),

And we’re done.

Some were billing it as Macaulay Culkin’s comeback, it’s not that. Some said it was a work of comic genius, it’s not that. Some said… Let us just say that a lot of people have said a lot of things about Party Monster. I’m going to say very little more.

It’s not very good. By that I mean, and please excuse my use of our robust language here, it is utter shite. It’s written in such a way as to alienate the audience from the characters, making it rather difficult to care when things go wrong. Sure, there are some funny moments, but they’re only moments; seconds that die off as quickly as they arrived, leaving you just as cold to the characters.

I could say more, but I think everyone has said enough.

It had to happen sometime. I knew that as soon as I heard about Atom that someone would inevitably get round to styling the bloody thing, forcing every alpha geek from here to xanadu to do the same (“but better”). It finally happened: Sam Ruby is styling Atom.

Not that it’s any harder than styling RSS. And not that I’m going to do it quite yet. I don’t think there is any demand yet for a stylised Atom feed. I’ll wait until nearer that time.

I’ve always been a sucker for spoon-based games (especially the classic card game, Spoons). So when I read this I had to pass it on. From Yea, but is it art:

Visit their home and then, when leaving, tell them that you’ve hidden a spoon somewhere in the flat and they have to find it. You could mention that there is a five pound note wrapped around it too… The missus’ pal then phoned up sounding rather angry and demanding to know where we’d hidden the spoon. Apparently she’d broken three nails and killed a plant which was uprooted from its pot in the quest to find the missing spoon.

Read the whole thing, very funny and certainly worth trying.