King Kong
Oh Peter Jackson, how you disappoint me so.
I beg of you: please don’t remake any more of the classics. Please.
Ridley Bent Free on iTunes
Adam turned me on to this guy named Ridley Bent awhile ago, insisting that I listen to his stuff. So I did, and then I did a lot. I liked it so much that when I heard Adam was going to see Bent play live in Vancouver I asked him to get me a copy [...]
Spam Does Good?
You’ve probably already seen the spam du jour going around that purports to be from the FBI and then asks for a bunch of personal information from the recipient, presumably so the spammer can then steal their identity.
Boingboing reports that some dumbass in Germany received the email and promptly turned himself into police. Upon further [...]
The Official RSS Logo?
Looks like Microsoft has adopted the logo Firefox uses for RSS: Icons: It’s still orange.
I like it, looks good, better than the rectangular old “RSS” badge the old-skool feed freaks are still using. And who doesn’t like orange? It tastes like… Tang.
Stupid Music Tricks: OmniGraffle Musical Taste
Got a Mac? Got iTunes? Got OmniGraffle? Then you gotta check out OmniGraffle Musical Taste, an AppleScript that takes your iTunes library and hooks it all together in OmniGraffle, highlighting the most popular bands and giving you a starting point to… I dunno but the output is pretty cool in a mostly-pointless sort of way.
Good [...]
Mac IE Finally Taken Off Life Support
Finally. Microsoft will no longer support or make available Internet Explorer for Mac:
All support for the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer will cease on December 31, 2005 and all official distribution of the browser will cease on January 31, 2006. In other words, IE is finally dying.
Given that Mac IE hasn’t been updated in any [...]
No More Email?
This Wired article on how people deal with the death of virtual communities, Not With a Bang but a Whimper is sociologically interesting in its own right but this statement:
“It’s really heart-wrenching. How will you connect with those people you spent every single day with? It’s as though someone suddenly took away all e-mail,” [...]
When 3 == 11: Synching Cellphones on a Mac vs. Windows
It’s Friday morning, it’s early, and nothing starts a Friday off right like a little Windows bashing. Remember the old Jeff Goldblum Apple ads about setting up a Mac: “there is no Step 3″? When it comes to synching your cellphone with a Mac Jeff Watkins finds that there is no Step 4 in The [...]
Bad Code Makes Me Thirsty
This one isn’t from production code I’ve encountered (or created) but rather from the big WTF?!? site of them all, The Daily WTF. I love it:
“APPL IS COMPLTLY FRIED,” Damien’s emergency pager read, “CANT EVEN LOGON TO SRVR!!!” Damien dragged himself out of bed and VPN’ed on in. The middle-of-the-night page did not lie: any [...]
Bad Code Makes Me Thirsty
Ran across this one today while digging through some code provided by an outside source. Clarity of names eludes them:
<tr>
<td align=”right”><label><h2>*First Name:</h2></label></td>
<td><input name=”firstname” type=”text” class=”textInput” /></td>
</tr>
<tr >
<td align=”right”><label><h2>*Last Name:</h2> </label></td>
<td><input name=”firstname44″ type=”text” class=”textInput” /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align=”right”><label><h2>Nick Name: </h2></label></td>
<td><input name=”firstname11″ type=”text” class=”textInput” /></td>
</tr>