Month: May 2005
20 Questions with Vader
From the people who brought you the subservient chicken – Play 20 questions with Lord Vader. He beat me in 16 questions with a “Tomato”.
http://www.sithsense.com/flash.htm
Desirable Items
Black Matte Bullet Space Pen with Matching Clip
Features
- Writes at any angle. Even in ZERO GRAVITY
- Writes through dirt, oil, grease and on shiny surfaces
- Writes in freezing cold; down to -55F BELOW ZERO
- All Brass and Steel Components
- Unconditional Lifetime Guarantee
70’s Drug-induced Super Highway
Love this … so much so that i’ve put it up at full size for anyone to download. space_lane_full.jpg (I would suggest “right-click” and donwload as it’s large).
Atari 2600 Slow Ride
Still a use for OS 9
“This tip, while it does not always work, should be given a try first. You would be amazed at how often it does work and saves the bacon. Mac OS X hard drive issues: Sometimes you can’t see the drive or think the drive is fried. Try connecting it to a Mac OS 9 Mac.
I have had two massive failures over the years and this saved the bacon. My first one had to do with an early deployement of a OS X 10.1 server. The drives were mirrored by using an Adaptec card. 39160 card. Seems that the card, software and Apples RAID software did not want to co-exist together. I had a massive failure. Thought I might have to send the drives to Drive Savers. They suggested I hook one of the drives up to a OS 9 mac.
Lo and behold, there were my files. I copied them off and reformatted the hard drives. Used a ATTO card in place of the Adaptec and everything was hunky dory. This won’t always work but if it does it will save you time and money.”
Roadcasting
Gibson wrote about something like this in his last novel [Pattern Recognition] …
“Roadcasting is collaborative, mobile radio. It is a system, currently in prototype state, that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcasted among wirelessly capable devices, some in cars, in an ad-hoc wireless network. The system can become aware of individual preferences and is able to choose songs and podcasts that people want to hear, on their own devices and car stereos and in devices and car stereos around them. ”
Roadcasting
http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/M-HCI/2004/roadcaster/movies/scenario.mov
Reason #35 to pay your web designer more…
Read the text under the pictures on the soldiers in the top right corner….
Mac OS Startup Sound
“The Mac startup sound wasn’t a $$$ marketing exercise. It was a hack that was quietly dropped into the machine by an engineer with a home studio… ”
http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/05/tiny-music-makers-pt-4-mac-startup.html
Links for today
Ghetto Flashlight…
http://www.freewebs.com/inju1/
Organizing your CSS
http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2005/05/03/css-tip-flags.html
Great SNL Cartoon…
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002131.html#002131
Skateboarding is good…
http://www.post22.com/
So ahead of it’s time (also spike jonze’s first major video piece) ..
http://www.skateboardnaked.com/skateboardnaked_124.htm
Plant 42…
Not so stealthy …. Google Maps – Plant 42 in Palmdale, California
Park Opens Summer of 2006
“Palaeontologists have extracted soft, flexible structures that appear to be blood vessels from the bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex that died 68 million years ago. They also have found small red microstructures that resemble red blood cells..”
Positive/Negative
Stunning photographs.
http://www.positive-negative.com/archive/
Links for today
Whole site devoted to the Mac Mini as a home entertainment system,
http://www.machtpc.com/
Gadsby, a notorious book written entirely without the letter “e”,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby
How to Speed Up Publishing in Movable Type
http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/articles/how_to_speed_up.html
Bookmarks for web-designers and web-developers
http://www.alvit.de/web-dev/
Weekend trip
Linda and I took made a trip up to Harrington, in the Laurentians, on Saturday. We wanted to see the Rouge River (Fast currents, Kayaking and River Rafting operations) and the area where i grew up. We made a short stop in Calumet to see an old friend and got detoured on a great little hike to some amazing hidden waterfalls. Was great seeing all the harrington valley and the current state of the log cabin i grew up in and the surrounding land, even stopped by the very small elementary school i went to for grades 1 through 4.