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December 27, 2009 · 17 comments

in general

I finally saw Avatar, and left the theatre with lots of conflicting reactions to the movie.

cinematically gorgeous
amazing visuals
fascinating biology
but… why are the Na’vi simply caricatures of humans?
but… in a fully 3D-modeled-and-rendered world, why are the Na’vi so human?
why is Cameron so heavy handed in his Gaia-theory stuff?
this is largely just a mashup of every Cameron movie I’ve [...]

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User Avatar Photos in WordPress

September 2, 2008 · 13 comments

in work

WordPress has supported Gravatars for awhile, which is great, but if you’re rolling out a site for a bunch of students to hammer on, it’s not ideal to have to send them to a third party service to set up photos. It’s awkward, and confusing, for new users to have to go somewhere else to [...]

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