Rubber Johnny
Rubber Johnny [swf].
A work of insane genius.
VB Lives, Long Live VB!
With .Net Visual Basic was supposed to have died the death it so rightly deserves… except that there’s a ton, a boatload, a big boatload of legacy VB code floating around out there in the form of ASP pages that will need to be maintained pretty much forever. VB will be our generation’s COBOL, mark […]
…just trying to put the punk back into punctured lung
Five times in the head
London police shot a guy in connection with the recent bombings, which is understandable since the absolute last thing Britons should have to put up with right now is more crazy sumbitches blowing them up… except that they shot the wrong guy. They shot him a lot in fact, five times in the head. Five, […]
Drunken Batman on Wil Shipley & Delicious Monster
Drunken Blog does great interviews. To date Drunken Batman has interviewed Martin Pittenauer of SubEthaEdit fame, Jonathan Rentzsch of mach_override fame, and Christopher Forsythe of Growl fame. Put these guys together in a room and you have the Mac software equivalent of the ‘92 Dream Team.
Just added to the fray: a typically-long, rambling, fascinating interview […]
Scotty couldn’t take much more, captain
James Doohan, best known for playing Montgomery “Scotty” Scott on the original Star Trek series, has died at the age of 85.
The Canadian actor died early Wednesday morning at his home in Redmond, Wash., said his agent and friend Steve Stevens. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease.
- Star Trek’s Scotty dies
Somewhere out […]
Welcome to Mexico
Down in Cancun Canadians are being stranded by the hurricanes pummelling the east coast. The airlines sound like they’re doing what they can for those they can’t fly out:
“The head office people arranged us to be bused out of Cancun and put in a hotel with reasonable lodgings, and that sounded like a pretty good […]
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Previously people needed to register with this site in order to comment. This measure was designed to prevent comment spam, and thus far it’s been 100% effective, however it is a pain in the ass for anyone who wants to comment.
Today I’ve installed WP Hashcash and removed the need for registration. We’ll see if this […]
0xCAFEBABE
Geeks truly have geek senses of humour. For instance, this is the file format signifier at the beginning of Java class files: 0xCAFEBABE. (via the wikipedia).
Curious as to why that was chosen instead of, say, 0xDECAFBAD or 0xCAFEDEAD I came across this old, old pre-dot com era thread about the subject which explained all:
Subject: Re: […]
Zoomify
Zoomify icon overlay is pretty cool, so I stole it from the first place I saw it (and changed the icon; that other one is too Windows-like):
(Just noticed that this doesn’t work in NetNewsWire… )
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