Tom Morris: 2003-10-01

Moral outrage! People doing what they want in a free country. Fuck me silly with a red hot poker, but what's the big problem? Some teenagers are showing some ass. It's not like anybody is forcing them to wear low-riding jeans. Oh, wait, I just can't wait until Protecting And Strengthening America Through The Banning Of Low-Riding Jeans And Other Booty Showing Clothing Act (2003) - coming to a house of elected representatives near you!

Collaborative learning 2007-04-15T15:58:14Z

Proposal for a collaborative learning system by Stick (yes, "Now I Must Wank" Stick) at Kuro5hin.org. Very good, actually, has lots of really interesting responses. I was thinking along the same lines. We need a lot more public reference libraries that are of as good quality as university libraries (believe me: being able to get hold of all sorts of journal articles, interesting books and archive after archive of newspaper microfilm make a good learning environment!). I do like the idea of some centrally managed index of different online materials and articles.

Perhaps for techie things, some kind of meta tag system could be implemented to describe how articles lie on the Beginner to Master continuum, so that if such a thing was built we could say to a search engine: "Hey - I wonder if there are any good articles about C++ written for beginners or intermediates." That would be really kind of cool. We need a way to distinguish the online equivalent of "The Dummies Guide" from really in-depth complicated stuff, and this is where meta tagging and such can help.

Dark Water 2007-04-15T16:00:13Z

I went to the Phoenix Arts theatre Monday night and saw Dark Water, an amazing Japanese horror movie directed by Hideo Nakata. Thanks to a deal with the university I got in for £2 (including a drink), and although I haven't seen Ring, this film scared the shitneys out of me.While the movie disappointed some, to this non-horror movie buff, it was pretty damn kickass. And yes, it was a perfect urban ghost story and miles better than any of the cheesy bloodfest movies I've seen. Anyway, we've got the Monty Python day coming up in November featuring clips, an analysis of the work, talks and, best of all, a showing of the genius 1979 film Life of Brian. And it's only a tenner too. Genius, I say. Especially, considering, my local cineplex craphole charge about $6.50 to watch shite Disney crap. I never thought I'd live to see the day when arthouse would be cheaper than the local Hollywood dump.

If you get a chance to see Dark Water - preferably at the cinema, or when it gets it's theatrical release - do. It's pretty good movie, and - believe you me - it's better than Hollywood can produce.

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Tom Morris

2003.10.01