“In some ways, then, the iPod revolution is a Rock Snob’s dream. Now, nearly all rock music is easily and almost instantly attainable, either via our friends’ computers or through online file-sharing networks. “Music swapping” on a mass scale allows my music collection to grow larger and faster than I’d ever imagined. And I can [...]
Entries from August 2005
Death of the rock snob
August 26th, 2005 · No Comments
Tags: tivo + movies + music
My Name is Earl
August 24th, 2005 · No Comments
Jason Lee has always been a hero of mine … since the days of Blind Skateboards, his artwork, his involvement later on with WE and his company Stereo Skateboards … I hope this show does well …
“You could say that Jason Lee is almost famous. But in a few weeks, the actor best known [...]
Tags: tivo + movies + music
Links for August 24th
August 24th, 2005 · No Comments
This to That (how to glue)
http://www.thistothat.com/
A List Apart 4.0
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/ala40
Time to plan out your moon bases
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7880
Adam Savage Interview (Mythbuster)
http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000408.php
Panorama from the top of Mt. Everest
http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire trailer
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/harry_potter/thegobletoffire/
Instantly see what company controls a phone number
http://fonefinder.net/
Tags: daily links
Screen Capture Image Type 1.0
August 23rd, 2005 · No Comments
SCIT (Screen Capture Image Type) 1.0 - Mac OS X
“Use this app to change the image format for the screen capture function, (known types are: BMP, GIF, JPG, JP2, PCT, PDF, PNG, PSD, TIF). The changes takes effect immediately, no need to logout and then re-login. Requires Mac OS Tiger (10.4 or above)”
http://www.daniele.ch/downloads.html | [...]
Tags: computers + internet
The Greatest Easter Eggs In Gaming
August 23rd, 2005 · No Comments
“According to
Tags: games
The Chumbawamba Factor
August 23rd, 2005 · No Comments
“Chumbawamba sold a lot of records, and every single one of them ended up in a milkcrate at a yard sale, six months after it was purchased. And what we told [the record labels] is, ‘Look, you had a great long run of business essentially built on regrettable impulse buys,’” says Garland. “‘That was a [...]
Tags: tivo + movies + music
Flower
August 22nd, 2005 · No Comments
Flower, more photos found here.
Some fun canoeing yesterday north of Hull,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevey/sets/800194/
Tags: montreal and the world
The Pirate Bay
August 19th, 2005 · No Comments
“thePirateBay.org is a Swedish bittorrent site. They have received cease and desist orders from the heavy hitters in the software/movie industries.”
Great responses to legal threats/notices/etc.
http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php
Tags: hacks
Happy Mac – 1984-2002
August 19th, 2005 · No Comments
Nice Printable obituary style poster for the happy mac icon.
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/extras/posters/pics/happymac“
Tags: computers + internet
Einstein’s Big Idea
August 19th, 2005 · No Comments
“Exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. In “Einstein’s Big Idea,” NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation.
E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary [...]
Tags: tivo + movies + music
Friday Design
August 19th, 2005 · No Comments
Tags: design
Links for August 17th
August 17th, 2005 · No Comments
Fat Fingers - Find mispelled items on ebay
http://fatfingers.com/
Voo2do - Basecamp type knockoff
http://voo2do.com/
New Bryce … Terragen
http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
How you’re “seen” on the internet
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/aboutyou.ch
Great Tornado photos !!
http://ccdigg.blogspot.com/
Credit Card payment calculator
http://www.creditreliefsoft.com/products/creditcalc/demo/
Possible Crocodile Cure for Strong Viral infection
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-08-16T050539Z_01_DIT618322_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-AUSTRALIA-CROCODILE-DC.XML
Great photos from the last Discovery launch
http://www.ktb.net/~billmeco/sts114A.html
Origins of some company names
http://thekaran.com/iStuff/companyNames.html
Tags: daily links
Animation Film History and Pixar
August 17th, 2005 · No Comments
“Animated media has roots in history that stretch as far back in time to when ancient man learned to illustrate using even the most primitive tools. Though they probably didn’t create what we would consider to be animations or ‘illustrations-in-motion,’ they did try and portray remembered moments from past hunts, future quests, or encounters with [...]
Tags: design
Conan vs. The Bear
August 17th, 2005 · No Comments
Some great and some terrible… overall though – very strange …
http://www.conanvsbear.com
Tags: memes
Sympathy For The Devil
August 15th, 2005 · 2 Comments
Awesome comic depicting the famous Rolling Stones song ….
Full image (1.8meg)
Tags: memes
