Griffin PowerMate
Originally I bought the Griffin PowerMate because of its form factor: it feels good, looks good, and has a blue LED. I’m a sucker for blinken lights. I like well-made hardware, especially Mac hardware, and it is certainly that. But I didn’t think it would be especially useful to me on a day-to-day basis, particularly […]
Infinity bit Triple
I love this software, not because it works well but because it is so patently craptasticly made up:
Super Cipher P2P Messenger is a secure P2P messenger, that uses unbreakable Infinity bit Triple Layer Socket Encryption for completely secure communication. It works on the LAN as well as over the Internet and you can add contact […]
New toys from the Apple Store
Just got back from sunny, warm Laguna Beach and of course no trip to California would be complete without at least one stop (or two) to the Apple Store. If you have an iPod Shuffle I can’t recommend enough getting Sonic Impact i-Pax Portable Speaker System (that’s a mouthful: SIIPPSS). The only thing missing from […]
MENSA Intelligence Test
I doubt this is particularly credible but it certainly is a lot of fun if you’re into the whole crossword puzzle/word game thing: MENSA Intelligence Test.
The test says that if you get 19 or more correct you can claim to be a genius. If that’s true then I’m a Supra-Jenus++ since I’m giving up my […]
Sodium Acetate heat pads
My gf brought a couple of QuantumHeat heat packs home from work today and they are, at the molecular level, easily as much fun to play with as 10 lbs of silly putty and a hammer. Maybe more so.
Essentially plastic pouches filled with sodium acetate and water, these heat pads work by storing up energy […]
Best use of a Mac Mini ever
All you sissies out there bragging about cramming your Mac Minis into your cars, or into your PC cases, or your fish tanks ain’t got nothing on 21st Century 3d when it comes to Mac Mini mods. Why? Because they took two of them, crammed them into this seriously kick-ass stereoscopic video camera, and skooled […]
Duplicating Rulers in TextEdit
I’ve begun using TextEdit for pretty much all my documentation needs. Between it, OmniGraffle and BBEdit there ain’t nothing lacking (I do try to use Word every few months since that’s what the rest of the world seems to use but it’s a. slow and b. has butt-ugly text rendering compared to TextEdit so […]
Happy Birthday To Jay
He sits right beside me, literally right beside me, and I could lean over and say it in person but then really, what have we built this international network of computers for if not to say: Happy Birthday Jay!
Prototype.js docs updated
Given that it’s a bit of a battle to read the whole source code to figure all its functions out, the updated unofficial documentation for Prototype.js v1.4.0 is most welcome.
“Why is a documentation update newsworthy?” you ask. “And is life really that boring at 2am?” you wonder.
“Because Prototype.js kicks all sorts of javascript ass”, I […]
Two Essays by V.S. Ramachandran
If the neorology of the human mind, and the means by which the human mind perceives itself and its body, is of any interest to you then you really ought to read “Phantoms in the Brain” by V.S. Ramachandran (I’ve written about this book before).
Today I stumbled across two essays by Ramachandran on Edge.org that […]