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I’d never even heard of Night of the Hunter (1955) before seeing it on the list of 102 Movies you must see before…. Shame on me, it’s wonderful. Standouts…

• The “LOVE/HATE” tattoos on Powell’s hands

• Lillian Gish with a shotgun

• The bedroom which looked like some sort of cathedral

• Powell singing that damn song all the time - creepy.

• Underwater shot of Shelley Winter’s corpse - even more creepy.

It’s a terrifying, stylish nightmare of a film.

The next great video game “Revolution” from Nintendo is going to be called… are you ready…. ”Wii.” That’s right, as in “We.” Of course that’s not how I see it. I see “Wee,” as in “Wee Wee,” as in, oh-my-God-that-name-sucks. How many teenage boys are going to buy something named after their grandmothers’ euphemism for penis?

Jeremy left us some time ago and is doing great things in Boston (secret, magical things.) I’ve been struggling for a few days tracking down a bug in an app he was instrumental in building last year. Today, he was in town and kindly stopped by for far too long to help me find and fix that and a few other issues. Pretty good thing, that. Thanks JD!

I use Ruby on Rails every day and just now discovered you can run ./script/about from your Rails app root. Here’s some sample output…

$ ./script/about

About your application’s environment

Ruby version 1.8.4 (i686-darwin8.5.2)

RubyGems version 0.8.11

Rails version 1.0.0

Active Record version 1.13.2

Action Pack version 1.11.2

Action Web Service version 1.0.0

Action Mailer version 1.1.5

Active Support version 1.2.5

Edge Rails revision 35

Application root /Users/jbaty/Sites/mysite.com

Environment development

Database adapter mysql

So many things I don’t know about, but there’s one fewer today.

Happy Birthday Zim

I was just reminded by Zim’s sister Zara that it’s his birthday. Happy 3rd.

At any given moment I’ll have browser windows/tabs open with Basecamp, Flickr, Campfire, Stikipad, Gmail, Calendar, and that doesn’t include the internal Fusionary stuff. Quickly finding the one I want to use is becoming a challenge. Using Pyro for Campfire has made me think a bit more about how web apps can be used on the desktop. I know, I know, the whole point of web apps is that you can open them in any browser, from any computer. That’s great and all, but Pyro bounces its icon in my Dock when a new message arrives. Also, it has its own icon, so I can spot it easily while Command-tabbing.

There’s something to this idea of running web apps in a stripped down desktop app/browser thing. The folks at 3D3R seem to agree. They’re working on Bubbles, which is…

“Bubbles is a Simplified, Stripped-Down & Straight-To-The-Point browser window, that is tailor-made for housing those cool Web apps.”

It’s only for Windows currently, but I hear they’re trying to find someone to help with Mac versions. Call the Pyro guys.

Think you’ve got an idea for the next great Web 2.0 project? Check this list first. I’ll bet it’s already on there.

Basecamp has a pretty good thing going, and the recent introduction of its API has really made things interesting. I predict that many very cool tools built on top of Basecamp will be arriving shortly. The first I’ve seen are by Project Details Systems. I know I’m writing one.

Here’s a nice variant of the wonderful ProFont which works well in Cocoa Apps.