You're pretty when you cry

Video to Vast's "Pretty when you cry"

which is just fantastically disturbing, in a "Company of Wolves" way. Not to be watched when alone at night...

In case your timbers need a'shivering

I was rather sceptical when tisme told me last week that there was a porn "homage" to Pirates of the Caribbean that had an actual budget, sets and special effects.

So I went googling. And was surprised by the trailer here. Okay, so it's "acting" rather than acting, but it looks like they made an actual _movie_. Almost entirely unheard of. And there's even an R-rated version for those people that like their porn without porn in it. What _is_ the world coming to?

Couldn't do worse

Scotland Sucks (ok, actual headline "Scotland is worse small country", but mine is punchier).

The prettiness, it burns!

Various people have mentioned PhotoSynth to me, but I hadn't got around to it, on the grounds that I'm a jaded near-dead sort (cf previous birthday post) and thus no longer excited by technology.

Only I then got around to taking a look, and good Lord it's pretty. It takes a bunch of photos, works out what the original 3D scene looked like and then allows you to zoom about the 3D space checking out individual photos

Incredible use of technology - and one I can actually see being useful in the future rather than just a pretty tech demo.

And I don't even like beer

Best beer ad ever:

(from imaget)

Social categorisation for beginners

1.) People who don't grok social cues = Asperger's Syndrome
2.) People who see, yet choose not to acknowledge social cues = Quite possibly Sociopathic
3.) People who only use social "cues" (hints) to communicate = Passive Aggressive

Stolen from the ever-sparkly autodidactic