Everyone else are talking about it.

Farenheit 9/11 is not one of those movies that can make me respond with a resounding "Yes, that's fucking awsome!" statement. Whenever someone askes me "so how was it?", I usually respond with a mild "it was good". It's not that I didn't enjoy the movie as much as others did, it's simply that the movie made me think more about the events that it depicted rather than the movie itself. So the response is more like: The movie? Oh it was alright, but what the movie TALKED about, that was amazing. Many thinks the topic of interest is very controversial, and it is. I have read plenty of articles though, that in comparison would make Farenheight 9/11 more like Farenheight 12/25. There are those around me who refuse to see the film because it's anti-republican propaganda. What I don't get is that we are in Canada, I can safely say that most Canadians are no more Republican as they would be a Democrat, in the American sense of course. The movie naively portraited Bush as a bumbling idiot. Something I consider to be giving him too much credit. No politician is really stupid at heart I believe. How else can he have enough personal chrisma to gather all those votes? 50% of votes are still votes people. I suppose having an ex-president for dad do help though.

pretty pretty backgrounds

I've been working on the UT E-studio website (warning: still in process of development) for the past few days. I've finally overcame my creative block, and made something that I'm quite happpy with. So happy that, I think I went a little overboard on the header images. I created 8 different headings that rotate pseudo-randomly by javascript. They are so pretty. :D The photos arn't mine though, I found them on stock.xchng. Royalty free stock photos, yeah!

First privately manned space flight a success!

Amid little fanfare and hype with the general public, the world's first privately funded manned space flight was a sucess. This is a great day for mankind indeed. Much like the first flight of a passenger aircraft, the possiblities that this event can bring is endless. Imagine cheaper and much more accessable ways of getting into space, that right now is no longer a dream, but a reality. I can't wait for private corporations to compete for space travel, Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi and the likes are investing billions into robots that can do little more than walk for 20 minutes at a time, imagine them putting that money into developing better space faring vehicles. Looking around though, I see people going about their everyday lives, unaware of this history making event. Most people will just sit at home and go "X-what?". It's unfortunate that our attentions are diverted to conflicts across the ocean over petty human greed, that we are unable to see the truly remarkable things in life. The engineers and the pilot of the project are the real giants. Although we can't see it yet, I believe they've already made the world a better place. More details of the event can be found here: X-Prize Scaled Composites, the project site Mojave airport MSNBC