No funny heading. It doesn’t deserve one. Things I learned whilst watching Legally Blonde 2:

• You can’t will yourself into a coma,
• You really can get away with passing off excrement as art (perhaps a bit strong),
• I really need to trust my instincts when getting dragged to see films: if you think it looks dire before seeing it, chances are you’re right,
• Maxibons are tasty.

Ok, so I’ve known the last one for quite some time, but the rest are true.

Terminator 3 surprised me somewhat. It played the mix of action and comedy perfectly: a lot of the former, a smidgen of the latter. Without taking itself completely seriously, it still did a good job of updating the skynet world.

My biggest problem with it is the changed premise (something that should be avoided in any series) which is unconvincingly explained later, particularly given the reasons for pulling the “happy” ending from T2 (anyone who has the Ultimate Edition DVD can watch it.) It doesn’t get in the way too much, however.

What I enjoyed most was the action sequences. No clever special effects, no highly stylised martial arts, just robots throwing each other around like the brutes they are. Fantastic.

Worth seeing, especially in anticipation for the inevitable T4.

Yes, time for some more random links, from random places… randomly.

The Copyright Cage is a long article about peculiarites in the copyright system, how arbitary it is, and how copyright law is being shifted away from society. Worth slogging through.

Over on Digital Web, Dave Shea is defending Fehrner Image Replacement. It uses powerful examples, way beyond the scope that I’d thought was possible from the technique. This could be something worth playing with some more.

There is an interesting article on Idle Words about the RSS “conflict”, or lack of.

And finally, trained hawks attack a dog. Fun.

Up until now, I’ve been waiting before adding support for Atom, despite working on the project since the beginning. Well, I’m waiting no more.

Support has been added in the form of my Atom feed. Just need to hope it validates at the feed validator.

It does validate!

I know I’ve changed my permalinks before and really don’t like changing them at all, but today I finally got around to doing the work that allows them to be the way I want them to be.

They no longer have crufty parts, and each permalink goes to a page with that item and that item alone (previously it was a page containing any items from that day). So they’re now in the form: /Archives/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/TITLE. No closing extensions, no ids.

And since I couldn’t have my permalinks breaking, all previous forms of permalink still work and should continue to do so. Real content coming later, perhaps.