wrapped in plastic

by jebni on March 9, 2004

Our home is slipping into another dimension. Today I come home and the walls are stark, the furniture under plastic. All our belongings packed away, the kitchen inaccessible. Eating from a sachet. Outside, the heat is too oppressive, so I (…)

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ender’s haunting

by jebni on March 6, 2004

In my latest reading of Ender’s Game, I’ve noticed that Orson Scott Card borrows Ursula Le Guin’s faster-than-light communications device, the ansible. Alas, Card, that font of “respectable homophobia” — the deep homophobia of reproductive civilisation — apparently doesn’t realise (…)

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3g is heavy

by jebni on March 5, 2004

This is a test post from my new 3G phone, a Motorola A920. It’s more of a PDA than a phone, and after some frustration with the stupid network, I think I’m in love. I’m also determined to blog “properly” (…)

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the revolution is here

by jebni on March 3, 2004

Here’s my latest project, the new  L e e  J e a n s  site, which was launched today. As with last season, you can move anything around, resize it, spin it, whatever, and then make customised screensavers, animated e-cards and desktop wallpapers out of your designs. (…)

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crockfest

by jebni on March 3, 2004

Why is it that when the  T r o p f e s t  people at work find evidence of  S q u a t f e s t , they “naturally” ask me about it? Hmmm… (I animated the big hook this year for the  T r o p f e s t  ident. Additionally, I animated a jeans commercial that was (…)

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no homecoming

by jebni on March 2, 2004

Orson Scott Card is an awful, awful man. But yesterday, by chance, I started reading Ender’s Game again, and lo, it is good.