Archive for October, 2008
Seven Document Formats Worse than Scribd
The other day while searching for some LaTeX information I came across this page on Scribd, and I was reminded once again how much I loathe this website. If you aren’t familiar with it, Scribd is a site which hosts various books, articles, and other documents. For reasons that are an impenetrable mystery to me, these people have decided that the way to bring together potentially many different formats of print media is to turn them all into shockwave flash. As in, this beautifully typeset LaTeX document, compiled to PDF, was turned into a scrollable flash…thing. Combine this with the rather sorry state of flash on Linux, and you get just about my least favorite website on the entire intertubes. Just getting it in a Google search makes me almost as mad as getting a link to Experts Exchange.
So, to keep my blood pressure down, I put things into perspective for myself by making a list of seven document formats Scribd could have chosen to use, but didn’t.
Why Tim Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Will Be Epic
I just finished reading this interview with Tim Burton about his upcoming film Alice in Wonderland, and I am really excited. I knew that this film was in the works, but I had somehow missed the fact that Johnny Depp is playing the Mad Hatter. With these two together, I cannot possibly imagine this film not kicking serious ass.