Flashcube

I picked up the 2-disk set of Jimmy MacDonald’s Canada yesterday for about $15.00 at (what seems to be my favourite store lately) London Drugs. It was payday and I happy as all my bills were paid and I still had money in the bank.

Late in the summer of 2004, a team of archaeologists in Northern Ontario discovered canisters of film containing the most important footage in Canadian TV history: the long-lost episodes of Jimmy MacDonald’s Canada.
For a brief period in the mid-sixties, Jimmy MacDonald was the most popular TV star in the country. Ten million Anglo-Canadians tuned in each week to witness the irascible MacDonald’s mix of down-home platitudes, pro-monarchy utterances and non-stop rants against the emerging youth culture of the sixties.
Now, the restoration of these long-lost episodes is complete. For the first time in 40 years, CBC-TV is ready to present this incredibly influential show once again.

This is all bullshit of course as the show intersperses 1960′s archival CBC footage with a newly filmed host made to look like it was all done forty years ago. However, it does have the best opening theme and title sequence of any television show I’ve ever, ever seen. The 2-Disk set can also be purchased at the CBC store for $25.00

It’s enough of a pain developing for one browser let alone shoehorning my code to work with IE6. Hopefully Internet Explorer will be less of bitch to code for.

I run Virtual PC when needed on my Mac at work to test against IE6. Now the problem with Internet Explorer is that it is so entrenched in Windows that it’s damn near impossible to be running different versions on the same machine. Thankfully, someone’s cobbled together a standalone version of IE7.

Okay, maybe I’ve been a bit lax posting lately but I’ve got over a thousand del.icio.us bookmarks so I may as well start posting them.

I’m having to get real familiar with Flash for a project I’m working on. After a week or so of heavy-duty reading and tutorials I more or less get it. I can make an annoying banner ad as well as any other jackass.

The more interactive stuff is a bit more heavy-duty and involves learning another scripting language called Actionscript. Hoo-fucking-ray! That being said, a few websites have made the learning curve a bit shallower thanks to their tutorials.

<img src="http://www.flashcube.org/images/2006/podcast13.jpg" alt="Podcast13" title="" /Another few weeks, another podcast. This time I’m talking with Lee about this and that. Kudos to Lee who bought a $15 microphone that manages to better than the microphone built into my $200 Apple iSight webcam.

I also mention a script I wrote a few years ago for a movie that never did quite get made. I did try and apply for a grant to the Alberta Foundation for the Art under the guise of “video art” with the intention of making a full-length film but they didn’t buy it. For curiosity’s sake I’ve uploaded a Password protected PDF here. The password is “flashcube”. I re-read it and had a giggle or two. You might too

I’ve been warming up a bit to Christopher Hitchens lately. Sure he gave Bill Maher’s audience the finger and called them stupid but then again, they kind of are.

He can be a bit hard to stomach however he does have the intellect to back up even the strangest of arguments.

Steve Irwin’s wife gets revenge on the stingrays that killed her husband.

Hmmm…. I guess there’s not going to be another Crocodile Hunter movie then.

Viral game a Sony MP3 player of sort. Don’t know what shooting ones finger at cartoons has to do with it but whatever.

The South Park boys have created an employee orientation video for universal pictures.