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I can now say with the authority of experience that Star Wars Episode III sucked.
Update: Zach’s right, my opinion of the original trilogy has fallen over time. But I stand by the statement that Episode III is worse than it should be.
The real reason for the update, however, is to note a couple pictures of [...]
The proceeding was forwarded to me by my dad, who included a note suggesting that jokes may embody the only real truths we can know.
A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was:
Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world? [...]
I have an appropriate fondness for Engadget’s How-To features, like today’s “Make a customized RSS screensaver in Tiger.” MacOS X 10.4 Tiger comes with a pretty decent RSS screensaver (don’t miss the movie), which can be set to display feeds from any source that Safari can read and bookmark. And if that’s all you want [...]
I’ve been excited about geolocating photos, blog posts, etc for a while. So this past month or so has been quite exciting. Most recently, GPS Photo Linker has been updated with Mac OS X 10.4 specific features:
With Spotlight in Mac OS X 10.4, you can instantly search for the city, state and country information automatically [...]
There’s a lot of talk about the New York Times story about UT Austin’s undergrad library throwing out its books. Problem is, I don’t think it’s as exciting as people are making it out to be. First, the undergraduate library is one of 14 libraries on campus and the real issue was space, not books. [...]
The Flickr API rocks. It helps that the developers are really excited about web services (PDFs converted from their original PPTs).
Anyway, there are code libraries available for PHP4, JavaScript and others. Michael Madrid’s Oberkampf is a dead simple PHP library that looks easy enough for non-coders to use. And I found myself quite satisfied with [...]
After months of no news or no good news, and just as I’m about to knock Palm news site 1src off my feeder, palmOne starts leaking details of their LifeDrive “mediacentric handheld.” Then somebody leaked the whole datasheet, and 1src was there with the deets.
Engadget was on the story the next day, and summarized as [...]
Trouble: John Markoff has been doing tech stories for the New York Times since the beginning of days, so it’s likely he’s written something you’ve read and enjoyed. But he’s also written a number of wrong or counterfactual stories that he makes little or no apology for. At the core of the claims against him [...]
Via Ernie Miller I saw a link to John Hiller’s story about Google’s War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders. Googlization is a concept libraries have been strugling with for a while. And while it’s hard to say wether the change is good or bad, I can say that failure to change makes [...]
I’ve loaded some more of my old photography, inlcuding this shot of sunrise on Mount Monadnock (info) from the spring of 1992 or 1993. Josh stands on the outcrop in the foreground. I held the exposure open longer than appropriate for true brightness and color, but I like the effect.
Other photos:
Another sunrise on Mt. Monadnock, [...]
I’ve been back at work less than a week now, and I’m already behind. I’ve finally posted the handout and slides (as a QuickTime movie, PDF here) from our IUG presentation. I’ll submit them to IUG for their archive and add them to the Plymouth State University library portal integration page in an update soon. [...]
Kwajalein Atoll is a part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, lost in the Pacific Ocean (MapTech makes it easier to find) along with more recognizable locations like Bikini and Enewetak atolls. The military presence is far from gone, however, as Kwajalein is home to Reagan Test Site, where the US Army tests the [...]
We’re all talking about Hilary Rosen’s apparent about face, apparently pro-customer, anti-DRM essay now (props to David Rothman for taking the high road on this). In an update to his Monday post, however, Ernie Miller notes that the RIAA and Hilary Rosen’s history is that of blanket opposition to MP3 players (and fair use) in [...]
So grenadine isn’t officially a liquor, but it gets kept behind the bar and this one has a great label. The collection comes from the estate of a friend’s mother, who appears to have had a taste for old martini culture (not pictured are several bottles of vermouth).
There’s more in my Flickr photoblog.
It’s a book review. It goes like this:
Pointless, crude, badly drawn, unintelligent, offensive.
Life-threateningly funny.
Buy this.
Another Amazon UK customer wrote:
Funnier than the real people with Tourettes
The book is Modern Toss, by Jon Link and Mick Bunnage. Cartoons and more info are online.
