The Blender Institute has just released the follow-up to the 2006 'open source' movie Elephants Dream, entitled Big Buck Bunny.
The short 3D animated movie is a comedy about a well-tempered rabbit "Big Buck", whos woodland paradise is spoiled by three forrest dwelling bullies. Big Buck becomes a kinda Rabbit Rambo and prepares for comical revenge!...
Read the rest of this entry »After I mentioned yesterday that I’d turned commenting off, I was alerted by Michael C. Harris regarding his Habari Disqus plugin that puts Disqus comments on to posts that have no existing comments. So I’ve put Disqus back on for the forceable future.
Also, the ‘RSS feed bug’ apparently isn’t technically a bug, or indeed to do with RSS at all... it is an Atom feed. Either-way, personally I don’t think the feed should be updated every-time a post is edited, only the first time it is published, or if the most recent post is edited. But such is the way with projects like Habari, I will either need to learn far more about PHP and try and change it myself... or stop complaining to the already overworked guys who have produced a really marvelous blogging platform....
Read the rest of this entry »I've been mulling over whole topic of having comments enabled on my site for a while, and I've decided to turn them off. This isn't because of anyone who has commented wrote something I got upset by, I have met some supremely nice people as a response to comments left on my posts.
Then again, I have received comments from insufferably unpleasant individuals, which I chose to keep on the site out of openness and honesty, and tried to answer with a reasonable comment, but I did somewhat wonder the point of leaving responses to a discourteous fly-by-night....
Read the rest of this entry »After a few weeks of fiddling, I have finally released 281 - Habari Edition.
This is a port of the original Wordpress theme 281, created by Paul Stamatiou. Obviously I should thank Paul for letting me fiddle with his original theme, maybe this will prompt him to look at moving to Habari in the near future. 281 should look identical to a Wordpress site running the same theme, although over time I will be adding some of the additional plugins Habari offers to give you more to play with, right out of the box!...
Read the rest of this entry »Last year I commented on how we in the UK are poorly served in terms of topical satirical comedy on television by comparison to the US.
Since then, Marcus Brigstocke's The Late Edition on BBC4 has continued to stagger on with only occasional success. Comedian and musician Mitch Benn, (and colleague of Brigstocke on BBC Radio 4's The Now Show), has a theory on why there's no true British equivalent of Real Time with Bill Maher or The Daily Show....
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