Adam Fields (weblog)

http://slashdot.org/articles/05/03/15/015219.shtml?tid=101

Why, oh why, are every single one of these fan films populated by people with the same stilted “Skinemax” delivery style? I mean – it looks GORGEOUS – great ships, great sets, great costumes. great effects, but… no Alderaan.

Oh wait, it’s just like a real Star Wars movie.

Bonus points: which planet in the Star Wars universe gave rise to the Long Island accent?

A bunch of guys are really into playing Storm Troopers in Star Wars Galaxies. The gamemasters decided to reward them for this, and sent them a virtual Darth Vader to give them a surprise inspection and pep talk. Of course, it couldn’t have been the real Vader, since no one got strangled to death…

Via boingboing:

http://swg.warcry.com/scripts/columns/view_section.phtml?site=13&id=25

CGI-animated lego batman starring Adam West, Mark Hamill, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and Dick Van Dyke.

Nice.

http://www.daveschool.com/BATMAN/index.html

I’ve launched a new blog dedicated to product reviews of things I use. Check it out!

From my about page:

“I am an expert consumer.

I’m that guy that all of my friends go to for advice before they buy things. I’m picky. I won’t keep something unless I’m satisfied with it. I routinely buy things, find I don’t like them for some reason or another, and return them. But, even through all that, there are a lot of things I do like, and I see no reason to keep that to myself.”

http://www.buyadam.com/blog

Very cool. Flat, yet not flat. Laser cut sheets of metal folded into furniture:

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/household/thinology-laser-cut-furniture-035710.php

In space, no one can hear you clean.

Interesting story about what astronauts do with their laundry:

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/news/2003/news-laundry.asp

It’s been bugging me for a while that Firefox doesn’t let you easily adjust the cache request frequency by default (i.e.: it doesn’t check for new content on every request, which sometimes makes using and debugging web apps difficult).

Here’s a good page on how to fix it:

http://www.mikeaxelrod.com/archives/2005/01/customizing_fir.html

I’ve been listed at Master Blogs.

This seems like a good collection of blogs, judging by the ones listed that I know. I’ll have to check the others out.

Thanks!

I posted a review of spout ladles for Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools list. (The review hasn’t been posted to the site yet, just the email list.)

To be honest, I don’t remember at which store I got mine – I picked it up years ago. Sorry about that.

There are a large number of restaurant supply stores in Chinatown (NYC). I’d try one of those. Here’s a big long list of some of them:

http://www.chinatownweb.com/NewYorkCity/BusinessDir/res-equip.htm