V For Vendetta is advertised as an action packed, dark, facinating film about - well, the trailers sort of avoid what it’s about, they just show you the scenes that intrigue, like Natalie Portman in a little-girl skirt and sneakers. Allow me to save you time and tell you what this movie is truly about. The people of Britain are being oppressed and persecuted by evil conservatives who resort to such tactics as murder, rape, and imprisonment of homosexuals. V (the name of the savior) uses terrorism (against the evil conservatives) to speak the will of the people, who are too scared to do anything themselves. A cop (who is played by a very good actor Stephen Rea) on V’s tail becomes sympathetic to the cause while Natalie Portman’s character Evey is just a poor, pretty, young thing that V saves (from the evil conservatives). America is no help during this troubled time because they have had non-stop civil war since the Iraqi war (thanks to the evil conservatives).

This is not the first (and it most certainly won’t be the last) time false advertising is used for a movie. Take Brokeback Mountain for example; tv ads showed scenes of two cowboys fighting, a guy and a girl dancing, etc. Only when you watched the movie, or heard from someone who did, did you find what it was truly about. The reason is that nobody could sell a movie about gay cowboys. Want another? How about Million Dollar Baby? Advertised as a boxing movie, it was actually about the “right to die” debate. Again, they couldn’t sell that garbage, so they disguised it.

The point is, do not get too excited about previews! If you don’ t believe me regarding V, go spend your own money. It bothers me that because conservatives are being blasted in these movies, it’s all OK. I would never have believed that after our recent events here and overseas that terrorism would be painted in such bright colors.

One last thing - one tagline for V For Vendetta is, “An uncompromising vision of the future from the creators of ‘The Matrix’ trilogy”. This implies a reasonable prediction and that since the Wachowski brothers did it, it has to be good. They are wrong on both accounts.

And then they go and do this.

C’mon Sony … keep giving more reasons to hate you.

Check out Typo Garden to see all the entries, including mine. Since I submitted mine at the last minute, my design ended up on the front page! Sometimes there are benefits to procrastination.

I will keep you updated on the status of the contest, if I win anything, etc.

The test basically has code that should only, by standards accounts, be rendered one way. Most of the code is very advanced HTML and CSS techniques. Some of it is actually older code that should not be rendered at all. This is all part of the test. One problem browsers have now is that they don’t ignore old or badly coded HTML (Internet Explorer, I’m looking at you).

Passing this test is the current gold-standard for a web browser. However, no browsers (not even the mighty Firefox) have been able to pass it…until now.

A few weeks ago, Apple released an update to its operating system Mac OS X Tiger. With this update came a new version of Safari. David Hyatt, one of the chief engineers behind Webkit (Safari’s rendering engine) made a point to study the Acid2 test and make Safari conform to it. So now Safari is the first full version browser to support the Acid2 test.

This does not mean Safari conforms to every single web standard. It just means it has corrected the problems made apparent by the test. It also means it’s getting very close.

To see how your browser stacks up, just visit the Acid2 Test page and take the test. Have fun.

The problem here is not that one man had a “dismissed from reality” opinion on what happened during the time of the hurricane; I am certain others share his view. The problem is that some people are actually going to believe him. Why? The black population of America is starving for leaders and role models. That is why you keep seeing Jesse Jackson’s face on TV. Any real man (especially a Reverend) would have apologized, hung his head in shame, and crawled under a rock after being caught stealing tens (possibly hundreds) of thousands of dollars from the very people he proclaims to care about to give hush money to a woman he had an illegitimate child with. Not Jesse! He did none of this and in fact is still in charge of the very company he used to steal from other black people. Al Sharpton, another black leader, has had his share of problems as well, but is still getting listened to. Upstanding members of the black community, however, such as Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, and Clarence Thomas are disowned by blacks because they have the audacity to be conservative. Tiger Woods is not a role model because he has no “Street Cred”. It’s a freaking joke. Spike Lee seems to be acting in the black people’s best interest because he made some movies about black people, Malcolm X being extremely well done. Because his quality of work is very high, it should not matter that he borrowed his definition of “documentary” from Michael Moore.

The point of all this to remind all people to just think for themselves and not buy in to what someone is selling just because they are famous or they appear to be intelligent. Our celebrities are as a whole a low educated demographic. When someone does challenges an idea, don’t get fooled by ancient tricks of debate like Spike used on Tucker Carlson, read between the lines and see what the real information is. Most of all be very cautious when a man that falls in the upper 1% of income in the United States pretends as if he has the pulse of the minority he once was a part of.

Peter Griffin: Save your money, Tucker. This place doesn’t have porn. You know, that really grinds my gears. Where in the bible does it say that a man can’t fire off some knuckle-children in the privacy of his own neighbor’s living room while his neighbor’s at work because I don’t have a DVD player? Well, I don’t know where it says it because the Bible was way too long to read!

Peter Griffin: Kids, your mother and I have decided that we are gonna help you two get out in to dating world.
Lois Griffin: That’s right. Chris, I’m gonna show you how to be an affable, desirable young man who doesn’t smell like the inside of a wool hat.
Chris Griffin: Why you gotta break balls?
Peter Griffin: And Meg when I get through with you, you’re gonna be beating guys off with both hands!
Meg Griffin: This is gonna be so fun!
Peter Griffin: Hey! Zip it! Rule number one: No speaky until the *man* speaky to *you*.

Stewie Griffin: [after Brian walks in on Stewie shaving himself] Umm, feel free to say no to this but… would you mind shaving my coin purse?

Man #1: [Lois and Peter are watching a Sam Adams commercial on TV] I’ll have water, please.
Man #2: I’ll have water too, but with lemon, please.
Man #3: I’ll have a Sam Adams, please
Man #4: It’s 9:30 in the morning!’
Man #1: Don’t you have an outstanding DUI?
Man #3: Yeah, but I gotta get the taste of weed and hooker spit out of my mouth.
Man #4: I’ll have a Sam Adams too.
Sam Adams: Samuel Adams. Always a good decision.

Odo: I’m watching your every move, Quark, so don’t think you can get away with any law-breaking.
Quark Griffin: Yeah, yeah, whatever, man.
Odo: I mean it! You’ll have me to deal with!
Quark Griffin: Ohhhh, I’m really scared.
Odo: I could morph into a giant python and eat you alive.
Quark Griffin: Hey, here’s an idea: why don’t you morph into a guy with something interesting to talk about?

Directed by: Pete Michels and Peter Shin
Rating: Unrated
Starring:
Seth MacFarlane…. Stewie Griffin/Peter Griffin/Brian Griffin/Glen Quagmire/Tom Tucker/Additional Voices (voice)
Alex Borstein….Lois Griffin/Additional Voices (voice)
Mila Kunis….Meg Griffin/Additional Voices (voice)
Seth Green….Chris Griffin/Additional Voices (voice)
Lori Alan….Diane Simmons (voice)

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Still a Portal?

No, not really. Bort’s Portal was conceived way back in 2000, back when portals, or web entry points, were all the rage. Everybody wanted THEIR site to be the first stop on the internet. A lot has changed since then. There are many, many sites that do the portal thing very well, so there’s no reason to compete. Plus, people don’t use them anymore. Their value is waning. With news readers gaining exponential popularity, nobody will be opening web browsers first anymore. With web sites now coming to YOU, there’s no reason for you to go to THEM.

So, Bort’s Portal is technically no longer a portal. I just kept the name because it’s cool.

Moving Ahead

So now, instead of embracing the internet rave of 1999, I’m embracing the internet rave of 2004. Blogs, however, are probably here to stay. It’s the easiest way to create and update a web site, and everybody has opinions. This is closer to the community effort Bort’s Portal was first conceived as anyway. It’s also much easier for me now that contributors to Bort’s Portal can add to it anytime they want, without me manually coding it in.

So, welcome people viewing from CSS Reboot. There’s not much here yet, but it might be worth an RSS subscription.