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Links of the day:

One: Mesmerizing photos over at Shorpy, The 100 Year-Old Photo Blog.

Two: The supposed world’s highest man-made structure is the skywalk over the Grand Canyon. A unique photo-op, that I apparently won’t enjoy fully if and when given the chance, due to mild acrophobia (which was brutally challenged here).

Barely a week with a K2, 3-column theme, I had to agree with Sonny: the site was not looking good, at all. The other 3-column themes look blah, so after random searching, found out about Tarski, which claims to be lightweight, flexible, and widget-friendly. Loving it so far, especially the constants.php implementation/feature, which is great for ad placements, and ideal when upgrading to the latest theme version. If you have a php code to insert though, you have to do it the old-skool way (via sidebar.php, etc.). Commenting on the new design is encouraged :)

Related Post: Two or Three Columns?

Recently found available for online video consumption: an old (early 2000?) Living Asia Channel feature of my hometown Obando (Bulacan).

Not exactly for-tourists material, though.

There’re a lot of things going on for Japanese film Linda Linda Linda (IMDB entry, trailer), but lets start first with a scene from it (took the lead from Greencine, who mentioned that it was the 2006 favorite among Japanese movie site Midnight Eye readers):

Then: there’s the next song, the official video of the first song, the original from The Blue Hearts, James Iha writing the film score, a very catchy single from the band’s bassist (actual pro-musician), the drummer being Noriko from Battle Royale, the guitarist being hot, and the twenty-something Korean frontwoman being a photographer.

MUST. SEE. THIS.

I AM CURRENTLY VIEWING THIS!

Will be writing a proper review soon.

Read the review of Linda Linda Linda here.

Hat-tip to Karla for this bit of news: Paramita’s Tala video is now enjoying airplay over that videoke-slash-music-video-channel; its available online via the director’s Multiply site. Further convince yourself with this fetching video still. Great to know this, since Tala is hands-down the best song from the band’s album.