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¶ by Rob FrieselI want to shock my vagus nerve. This is the coolest thing since the home defibrillator. currently playing: Love & Peace Orchestra “Holding On”
Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
I want to shock my vagus nerve. This is the coolest thing since the home defibrillator. currently playing: Love & Peace Orchestra “Holding On”
Hey… Isn’t this article about John…?: When my eldest was five, we bought him an old Mac Classic to learn keyboarding and mouse skills. One day I noticed he seemed to be using the mouse wrong. On closer inspection I found he was using it upside down! He’d turned it 180 degrees, so when he […]
A has concluded that we will not seek another Dell no matter how desperate for a PC we get. Not after the past couple days nightmare of trying to troubleshoot her precious “Bloody Ninja”. (Well, Bloody Ninja isn’t so much precious as the files on it were.) So like Wednesday or Thursday of last week […]
Would programmers become better programmers if they would just lighten up?
In addition to today’s one and two other posts, I’ve crapped my brain in to this one… I was super stoked earlier today to discover that A’s surprise for me came in and I snatched it up. (How I have missed this disc!) Other than that: Shit is hitting the fan left and right. It’s […]
currently playing: Underworld “Shudder/King of Snake”
About 6 months ago (you may recall), Google announced their Google Suggest beta project – – the idea being that they’ll “suggest” the top hits for a given string. So, with my interest piqued, I blogged the alphabet according to Google. More of a curiosity than anything else… I guess I’m not surprised that it’s […]
With a little help I made my first Dashboard Widget: the Oblique Strategies widget This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. For those unfamiliar with the Oblique Strategies, may I recommend Gregory Taylor’s site on the subject. Short version? Musician Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt, faced with the “creator’s block” […]
Took me a while to work up to this article in the most recent issue of Wired. But J Allard is now my new hero. First: But Allard insists that his plan is different […] To him, hi-def is about more than screen resolution [it’s about] a persistent, evolving online persona regardless of which game […]
No sooner do I get Malkovich set up than Apple makes the announcement at WWDC ’05. har har har The comment thread on Engadget’s livecast was worth a good gander. The same mix of uninformed knee-jerk reactions and “oh yeah!” insightfulness one would expect from that crowd. But the two most interesting [p]reactions were on […]