October 28, 2009 by
I am a huge fan of horror movies. More specifically, the gore-terror-survival horror genre. I love the ultra-violent blood bath stuff that comes over from Europe and the twisted sadistic torture imports from Asia. In other words, I don't mess around with anything less than R and prefer unrated and/or banned.
As I was looking for inspiration for my annual Halloween movie marathon invitation, I stumbled across director Ti West's poster design contest for his new film The House of the Devil. (Although this flick is pretty tame compared to what I described above, I thought it was an absolutely perfect homage to classic '80s scary movies—you should see it when it comes out on Friday). The 6 contest winners can be seen here and I think you'll agree they're pretty much all awesome.
I also found this great set of color schemes inspired by vintage horror movie posters. So tell me, "what's your favorite scary movie (poster)?"
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October 27, 2009 by
I meant to write about this when it happened but it somehow slipped by me. GitHub is no longer a gem repository. Well, they’ll host old gems for a year, giving you time to change your gem sources, but no new gems or new versions of gems.
For some reason I wasn’t subscribed to the GitHub blog (you should, it’s great), so I didn’t hear about this right away. I had a nice half hour of losing my mind trying to figure out why the latest version of Authlogic I could get from GitHub was 2.1.1—when 2.1.2 was clearly available—before I Googled it and found the blog post.
The new hotness is now Gemcutter. Look at how pretty that site is. I mean, anything is a step up from how ugly RubyForge is, but Gemcutter is so nice it actually makes me want to publish a gem, and I don’t even have anything gem-worthy.
Oh, and a small gotcha. RubyForge and GitHub both host their gems on a subdomain, e.g. http://gems.github.com. So I thought logically Gemcutter’s would be http://gems.gemcutter.org, but that didn’t work. It’s actually just http://gemcutter.org; no subdomain.
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