As I get more used to Symfony, I find myself wishing that I had given RoR a longer try back in the day. It’s too late for me to start my current project from scratch again, so PHP it is and will be. But gosh, Ruby looks fun.

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo. 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films….. = a trip of a lifetime.

I considered making a Good Vibrations reference, but thought better of it.

Glass isn’t a high-viscosity liquid—who knew? [comic from xkcd]

If you’re reading this on Facebook, click here for the video.

There’s a nice post on Gawker dealing with the threat posed by masses of teenage girls kept in a constant state of anticipation and anxiety by the producers of Twilight. What will happen after the movie comes out and there is nothing to focus this energy or—and pray this doesn’t happen—what if the movie disappoints them?

A surprisingly tough question: what’s scarier, zombie horde or rioting teenage girls?

And a zombie proposal (visit the YouTube page to read the story behind this):

Who would have thought I’d ever tag the same post “zombies” and “marriage”?