After long last every review has been fixed and tagged, so now all the videos should work and all the internal links should work. Of course, as soon as I say that I’ll find things that are broken…

The complete movie list has been finished as well and added as a page. It’s the easiest way to find all the reviews. I’ll try to add it on the sidebar as soon as I sit down and actually do it. Now the real fun can begin and I can work on making a wordpress theme for the main site! I have a few candidates in mind for modding purposes, and have even figured out how to fix a table spacing issue that was causing problems with some of the themes I wanted to test out/steal parts from. As much fun as hard to read blue menus and a generic mountain range is, it’s time for a change. Hopefully this doesn’t take more than a month or so, but as I got a lot on my plate right now who knows…

The video reviews have started! I’ve been trying to work on an angle for them for a while, and hopefully this will at least be not boring. The first one is up and the second one will be up soon, they’ll probably show up two at a time in keeping with the show’s theme and how quickly I can watch films that would work better in video format. The Discount Puppet Explosion 411 show has pages on YouTube and Blip.tv if you want to follow them that way. We even have a subscriber already, and going through his movies he uses photos from TarsTarkas.NET for his Godzilla reviews. Since he isn’t a jerk like the guys at the Godzilla Wiki, that’s fine by me. This might not be the only multimedia expansion of TarsTarkas.NET in the near future…

Written reviews will continue and the next one should be up in another day or so, maybe sooner if I have time tonight. We also managed to find a way to get twitter to update when we post so now TarsTarkas.NET can be even more lazy. And that’s the greatest victory of all.

The fixed articles mean I will have more time to devote to cult movie news articles here on the blog, so they should start appearing with more regularity, assuming the wireless internet at work gets fixed so I can actually do stuff during my lunch break on the laptop. But if it’s broken still I’ll just have to play more Space Empires 4…

So this site called Nmap made a graph of the 300,000 or so most popular websites using their favicons (those little pictures up in the web browser address area for those of you wondering) and then sized them by popularity. Blah, blah, Google’s the biggest, but the important thing is TarsTarkas.NET’s favicon is there! That’s right, some site we’ve never heard of used our badly compressed favicon to make an art project! JEALOUS??? Of course you are!

A large-scale scan of the top million web sites (per Alexa traffic data) was performed in early 2010 using the Nmap Security Scanner and its scripting engine.

We retrieved each site’s icon by first parsing the HTML for a link tag and then falling back to /favicon.ico if that failed. 328,427 unique icons were collected, of which 288,945 were proper images. The remaining 39,482 were error strings and other non-image files. Our original goal was just to improve our http-favicon.nse script, but we had enough fun browsing so many icons that we used them to create the visualization below.

The area of each icon is proportional to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon. When both a bare domain name and its “www.” counterpart used the same icon, only one of them was counted. The smallest icons–those corresponding to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach–are scaled to 16×16 pixels. The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and the whole diagram is 37,440 x 37,440. Since your web browser would choke on that, we have created the interactive viewer below (click and drag to pan, double-click to zoom, or type in a site name to go right to it).

http://tarstarkas.net 10000 bytes in 0.00 seconds.
http://tarstarkas.net/favicon.ico 1406 bytes in 0.01 seconds.

Online lookup : The icon is at (16.760, 16.653) and is 32 × 32 pixels.

The new review is Makin, a Thai softcore vampire film that is cheaper than a McDonalds minimeal and leaves you less satisfied. In fact, a McDonalds minimeal sounds pretty good right now, except for the fact that McDonalds is outside and I am lazy. So I guess I’ll eat this salad we have at home. Needs more Russian dressing…

Oh, Makin sucks, but at least we got lots of photos and a movie clip! Read it today! And bring by some McNuggets if you’re stopping by…too lazy to go to out!