Dark Horse Comics has a short comic on their Dark Horse Presents myspace page that introduces us to Captain Hammer, Dr. Horrible’s arch nemesis. This is all a tie in to the new Joss Whedon web series Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog starring Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible and Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer.
They released a little teaser too (via):
Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.
The Shilo gang has brought it again with their latest dj mix, Shil Presents: We Make It Good, Volume 3. This volume features the artful spinning of London’s Graeme Sinden. I’m listening to it as I type, and it’s a nice upbeat mix so far. Good for beating back the hump day hum-drums.
Wow, I just watched the video for Aphex Twin’s Come to Daddy. This is also the first time I heard the original version of the song. I heard the cover that Mike Patton and Dillinger Escape plan did a while back, but never seemed to get around to hearing the original until now. As sacrilegious as this sound, it’s a bit of a toss up as to which one I like better. I think I’m just at a time and a place in my life that I’ve heard some pretty exotic music and now that I’m finally getting around to listening to more Aphex Twin it just doesn’t have the same effect on me as it would had I heard it 5-10 years ago. Don’t get me wrong, I can appreciate that it is phenomenal music, especially given the scene in which it was originally released. Sometimes certain music will just flick a switch in your head and shift your perspective a little to the left, I’ve had that happen many of times myself, and I can see how this would’ve done the same to other people. I just didn’t see the fireworks or anything like that. I know, I suck.
So, I downloaded and played the demo for Ninja Gaiden 2 the other night, and—big surprise—it was awesome. You get a couple of weapons to start off with that are pretty fun to mess around with, my favorite of those would be the Eclipse Scythe, it’s giant and does plenty of damage. About half-way through the demo you get the Lunar Staff and that kicks plenty of ass too. It’s a little lighter on the damage, but it has a fast attack speed and if you get a moment before a fight you can power it up for a super-attack. With auto health regeneration I didn’t have to use any of the little power ups that you pick up along the way either. The pacing was pretty good in this regard, fight-regenerate-fight-regenerate and so on. I think the only thing that bugged me about the demo was that the camera seemed a little wonky. I just don’t think to tap the button that auto centers the camera angle in the middle of a fight, so there were a couple of times that I couldn’t see anything in front of me. Luckily, blindly hitting the attack button while readjusting the camera seemed to minimize the damage. All in all the demo was worth the DL, and will eventually lead to a trip to my local GameStop to pick up a copy for myself, just as soon as I finish up TimeShift, Mass Effect, Doom 3, and Call of Cthulhu.
If you haven’t heard by now Netflix is pulling the plug on one of it’s most popular features, Profiles. I for one am a little disgruntled about this. For starters I spent an entire Saturday afternoon separating my sci-fi, action, and anime titles from our main list. Now I will have to do this all over again to get them back in the mix. The whole reason I made a separate profile is so I could get a chance to watch those movies, and Ivy could add whatever romantic movies she wanted without having any disagreements about what movie we’re getting. Since setting up my own profile, I’ve been able to spend less time managing my list too, about 0–5 minutes a week compared to at least 30 minutes a week. Ivy especially appreciates not having to sort through all the “weird crap” that I like to watch just to get the latest season of Nip/Tuck to the top of the list.
When I got the infamous red email yesterday, and Ivy and I read it over. The first thing out of Ivy’s mouth was “Great, now all of your movies will be mixed in with mine again.” and was shortly followed by “Does Blockbuster let you set up separate lists?”
If you didn’t already know, June 20th is Take Your Dog to Work day, and for the occasion the official website of the day is having a contest in their Professional Pooch Gallery. Since we are total dorks for our dog, Ivy and I decided to submit a shot of PT for kicks. After a week they finally have his pic posted.
Now PT needs your votes. We all know he’s the cutest little bugger in the land, so let’s make it official. Follow the link to find Mr. PT with all of the other Shih Tzu’s… CLICK
Paws up, tails down.
I love seeing examples of great Photoshop work, and designfeedr is providing the goods today with samples from some of the top PS Artists/Designers in the biz, check it out. Be sure to skim all the way down to the bottom of the post to see some resources to up your game.
Speaking of upping your game, PSDTUTS just posted a list of their Favorite Photoshop Tutorial Sites.
If you haven’t found a reason to appreciate Barack Obama yet, this just might do it. Once again the Obama-tons are taking to the intertubes, this time to battle the mud-slingers with a new website called Fight the Smears. I don’t know about you, but I can respect someone who can stand up to all off the petiteness and grade school name calling that goes on in American politics in a mature fashion. From a design standpoint, Fight the Smears—like all of Obama’s marketing pieces—is nice and clean. I reckon that whoever has been working on this campaign will be raking in the design awards when all is said and done.
I think we just found reason #343 to vote Obama in November.
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