I did what I always do, if I can, when a movie I want to see opens on a Friday afternoon. I sneak out and catch a matinee, usually before the theaters are full on the weekend. But the theater was full for the 3:25PM show at the Regal on Union Square for Despicable Me.

In a summer without blockbusters, yet (I'm totally looking forward to Inception, coming out next Friday) Despicable is a nice reminder that movies can be easy and fun even if they follow a formula, as this one certainly does. A gruff work-obsessed middle-aged guy is shown to have a huge heart by a small swarm of lovable kids. It's a very funny, very sweet movie -- lots of great gags, hilarious characters, a little bit of (good) bathroom humor, and lots of heart-tugging.

PS: I'm looking for bloggable clipart of minions. 145 pixels across, white background. A choice of minions in funky poses. Help much appreciated, not finding anything on Google.

PPS: I liked that a neat 3D animated movie didn't come from Pixar.

PPPS: I loved that one of the minions was named Dave.

 7/9/2010; 5:43:33 PM.   .

Here's a bookmarklet written by Marc Barrot:

iJotEdit

As with all bookmarklets, you install it by dragging it from the web page into the icon bar in your browser.

Now, with the browser open to this page, click on the bookmarklet and prepare to have your socks blown off!

The source of the page opens in the browser, in an outliner, where you can browse it and edit it. The editing doesn't save back to the server, yet -- but it will. (Of course only if you have permission to edit the document.)

Marc already had a web outliner called iJot. I showed him how Scripting2 embeds a link to the OPML source in every page. From there it was relatively easy to detect the OPML and open it.

A lot of people will want to edit this way.

BTW, this is how a bootstrap works.

 7/9/2010; 10:37:22 AM.   .