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Fab t-shirt from Reece Ward on redbubble.com
….and get laid in the process, but only if you’re a virgin!
http://dontstayvirgin.movielol.org/
Terms of Service
- applicants must be 18yrs old or above
- condom must be used, except if the applicant prefers to release his semen upon Tania’s body without any oral or vaginal contact
- Anal sex is negotiable, although Tania will cease the performance immediately if any form of ’surprise buttsex’ occurs
- multiple participants are not allowed, but applicants are entitled to have an audience observe the performance
- if anywhere along the process, it becomes clear that the applicant is not a virgin, Tania reserves the right to terminate all activity
- applicant must be able to provide sufficient evidence that clearly shows he has been defending net neutrality (eg. a print-out of a forum post, a link to a vlog)
- applicant agrees that in the event of the applicant infringing upon Terms of Service during the process of the act, Tania is not responsible for any genital injury that the applicant may suffer
- Tania may deny service for hygiene reasons
Bitchin’!
Fluid 0.7: ”
Freeware utility that lets you create your own ‘site specific browser’:
Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite webapps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, and logical separation from your other web browsing activity.
(Via David Heinemeier Hansson at 37signals; they’ve got icons you can use for Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire, and Highrise.)
“
(Via Daring Fireball.)
Following my post about the excellent Multi-Safari:
Multi-Safari is broken in Leopard, but fear not!
A fix is available from Thomas Aylott.
Nice one!
Via the BBC Website
BBC Radio 1 has banned the word “faggot” from the Pogues’ 1987 Christmas hit Fairytale of New York to avoid offence.
…MacColl’s mother, Jean, called the ban “too ridiculous”, while the Pogues said they found it “amusing”.
It’s quite funny actually. Listen here
UPDATE
The BBC has backed down!
BBC Radio 1 has said it will allow the Pogues’ Fairytale of New York to be played on the station uncut, after criticism of a decision to censor it.
From Macworld News
A North Carolina man last week was sentenced to 110 years in prison after admitting that he and a co-conspirator hacked into computers used by young girls and used illicitly gained data to blackmail them.
If you read the article, yup, the guy’s a scumbag.
But 110 YEARS?!
From the BBC:
The consumer watchdog Which? has uncovered an ex-nurse illegally advertising Botox parties on eBay.
By posing as a potential customer, a Which? researcher heard how the ex-nurse had injected drunken customers with the facial treatment.
Sounds like a fun night out!
How many more times are we going to have to endure this kind of crap?
It’s really starting to grate on me.
Amusingly, according to Macworld:
The ad was created by Omnicom Group’s TBWA\Media Arts Lab, but unfortunately has caused some browsers to crash, leading some sites to pull the ad from their online properties.
No mention of which browsers crashed though……
Help feed the poor while brushing up on your vocabulary.
Freerice.com is a website that does just that by giving you a word and suggesting four possible definitions. For each one you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice to the World Food Program (WFP).
Rice is paid for by advertisers, including Apple and Toshiba. It’s a cool idea and one that should be suppported.
I really hate reviews that misinform, and while the Macworld review of Leopard is mostly accurate, there are some gross inaccuracies!
First, if the Dock is on the bottom of the screen (where a lot of people tend to keep it), a stack will display as a curving column of icons or as a rectangular grid, depending on how many items are in the folder.
While this is true of the default behavior, it is easily rectified with a right click -> view as -> grid. Problem solved.
Interestingly, this choice is not available if the dock is positioned on the side. It’s grid or nothing!
For folders where the number of items changes regularly (such as Downloads), you never know which display you’re going to get.
Wrong again. Once again, right click invoked context menu has the answer, which happens to be the same as above!
Furthermore, stacks displayed as columns sort items alphabetically beginning at the bottom of the stack, while stacks displaying as a grid sort items alphabetically beginning at the top left.
Someone really ought to invest in a two button mouse. Context menus are a wonderful thing.
You open a Finder window in Cover Flow mode, then drag the lower-right corner of the window down to see more files. Oops! Watch instead as the Cover Flow icons grow to gargantuan size while the list of files you’re actually trying to expand remains the same size.
And you can then reduce the size of the icons by dragging the bar below them up, thus revealing more icons. 
For those who are a couple of generations behind in their hardware, the prospect of a Leopard world is bleak. For one, any Mac with a G3 chip is automatically left out. This includes all of the original translucent iMacs; you know, the ones that helped get Apple back on its feet.
Do what now?!
Other G4s that Leopard doesn’t support include Quicksilver and earlier Power Macs and Cubes released before January 2002; eMacs sold before October 2003; Titanium PowerBooks older than November 2002.
So, machines about as old as G3 hardware then…..
We were able to get an unsupported mini working that way, albeit slowly.
Which is possibly why they’re considered “unsupported”?
There are always going to be casualties in the bleeding edge market. Dropping support for the G3 was an inevitability. It struggled to run Tiger without loads of ram, and Leopard is a whole ‘nother beast.
Dan “Björn Türoque” Crane on the Air Guitar!
I consider the air guitar to be the ne plus ultra of both high and low tech, and thus find myself subservient to its power.
Well kinda……
Porn sites that offer free movies, but you have to install a “codec” to view them.
Sound familiar? All those setup.exe files are back but with a Mac flavour.
Once installed the trojan hijacks DNS and redirects popular purchase sites to sites controlled by the hijacker to extract credit card details.
Now I hardly think this constitutes “open season” on the Mac as Wired would have you believe. Fair enough it’s a development in the “viruses on the Mac” department, but, currently, you would have to be a bit of a muppet to get duped. Macs are not invincible, and they never have been. There’s been plenty of dodgy apps that do dodgy things once authentication has been given. This is nothing new.
And as for this pearl of wisdom from “security researcher” (?) Gadi Evron:
Apple’s day has finally come, and Apple users are going to get hit hard. OS X is the new Windows 98.
Ahuh……
From The Times
Excerpt:
7.25-7.30 I sprayed, and puddled and piddled and widdled.
Even the BBC are getting excited about this game.
It does look awesome though!
The new ad for Sony Bravia. Apparently Europe only?
Anyway, it’s great!
From The Times Online
In their defence the restaurateurs say that there were actually rats in the stew.
Nice….
From The Guardian
Director Ridley Scott turned grumpy old man yesterday, declaring 97% of modern films “stupid”…..
Yup. With you so far…..
…..and claiming mobile phone and other modern technology was killing cinema.
Um?
The only quote from Ridley Scott regarding this in the article is…..
“I’m sure we’re on a losing wicket but we’re fighting technology. Whilst it is wonderful in many aspects, it also has some big negative downsides.”
Yeah OK. The internet is a double edged sword for the film industry, but mobile phones?
I’d really like to read the rest of the interview…..
Oh yes please!!
Amazing artist.
I love his Rosa Parks picture.
It appears that absolute positioning in Opera 9 is broken.
Putting an absolutely positioned item within a relatively positioned div doesn’t work as it should….
The following code should place the image 10px from the top of the div, but due to the bug in Opera, it doesn’t!
<div style=”position: relative;”>
<img src=”someimage.jpg” style=”position: absolute; top: 10px;”>
</div>
The solution?
Nest the image inside another div, thus…
<div style=”position: relative;”>
<div style=”position: absolute; top: 10px;”>
<img src=”someimage.jpg”>
</div>
</div>
Problem solved.
Yeah, ok, I’m lame. Moving on…..
As a web developer working on a Mac and having to confess to running Safari 3 beta, this leads to a problem that I can’t test pages in Safari 2.0.4.
Til now.
http://www.michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/
Awesome!
UPDATE:Same thing for Windows and IE. Useful for me in Parallels!
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
From BBC News website
“A denial-of-service attack is a bit like fourteen fat men trying to get into an elevator - nothing can move,” explained Graham Cluley, senior consultant at security firm Sophos.
My initial reaction to today’s Oscar nominations.
Firstly:
Pan’s Labyrinth receiving 6 nominations:
Achievement in Art Direction
Achievement in Cinematography
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Achievement in Makeup
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Original Screenplay
I loved Pan’s Labyrinth. Easily my favourite film of last year, and, if I had my way, it would walk away with Best Foreign Language Film and Original Screenplay. A real shame it’s not nominated in best film (more on that later….)
United 93 receiving two nominations:
Achievement in Directing (Paul Greengrass)
Achievement in Film Editing
Another of my favourite films from last year. I thought it might have been overlooked, and am really happy that it hasn’t been.
Children of Men gets 3 nominations:
Achievement in Cinematography
Achievement in Film Editing
Adapted Screenplay
The Best Actor in a Leading Role category is interesting:
Leonardo Di Caprio (Blood Diamond)
Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson)
Peter O’ Toole (Venus)
Will Smith (Pursuit of Happyness)
Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
I would love to see Peter O’ Toole take the award. He’s been nominated 6 times in the past. He has been awarded an Academy Honorary Award in 2003 which he accepted saying that he would still like to “win the lovely bugger outright”.
I can’t help but feel that he’ll be beaten to the statue again this year. Forest Whitaker’s performance as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland is simply incredible.
And then there’s Babel getting 7 nominatons:
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Achievement in Directing
Achievement in Film Editing
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Original Screenplay
I’m sorry. Maybe I’m missing something. What is so great about this film?
I found it dull, really dull. It has some of the most contrived plot points I’ve seen in a film.
Granted, the performances are good, as is the direction, but the script sucks, and without a half way decent script…….
Anyway, full list of nominations is available from the Oscars website
From The Guardian
Sci-fi thriller Children of Men yesterday won the University of Southern California’s Scripter prize.
The award recognises book-to-film adaptations, with the honours in this case going to crime writer PD James and screenwriters Alfonso Cuáron, Timothy J Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. Cuáron also directed the film.
I really enjoyed Children of Men. Having not read the book, I can’t really comment on whether or not it should have won.
Other nominations were:
- The Devil Wears Prada
- The Illusionist
- The Last King of Scotland
- Notes on a Scandal
From curbly.com :
This is a fabulous idea for reusing your wine and liquor bottles after
your holiday parties. Just spray them with chalkboard paint. After the paint dries then rub chalk all over the bottle and then erase it. This will “prime” the bottle and give it that old chalkboard look that you so love!
Looks really nice and considering I drink a lot of wine, there should be no shortage of materials!
From lab6.com
Have a look at this. It canexxors:
1×1=1
11×11=121
111×111=12321
1111×1111=1234321
11111×11111=123454321
111111×111111=12345654321
1111111×1111111=1234567654321
11111111×11111111=123456787654321
111111111×111111111=12345678987654321
Nice.
Sentor Ted Stevens’ Net Neutrality Speech has been immortalised in song!
Hear it here.
*UPDATE* Above link wasn’t working as of 17/07/06.
Here’s an alternative link.
We all know what Tetris is, what it looks like, etc.
But if you had to describe it to someone, what would you say?
Having followed a link from Daring Fireball to a Cease and Desist letter sent to the makers of Quinn, an OS X version of Tetris, I believe the question has been undeniably answered…….
Specifically, the copyrighted features of the Tetris® game include, without limitation, downward, lateral and rotating movements of the differently orientated four-brick playing pieces, as well as the shape and appearance of the four-brick playing pieces, including the configuration of the four-brick combinations comprising the playing pieces.
Oh right……..
Additional copyrighted features include, without limitation: the scoring features, the feature displaying the next four-brick playing piece that will fall down the playing field matrix, the disappearance of any completed horizontal row, the subsequent consolidation of the playing pieces remaining in the playing field as a result of the downward shift into the space vacated by the disappearing row.
Ahuh.
Further, the makeup of the playing field itself, i.e., the vertical matrix, higher than it is wide, with a base of ten individual “bricks” per horizontal row, and generally twenty individual “bricks” per vertical line, is also copyrightable expression.
Sounds great! Where can I get this awesome game?
Oh, I can’t because the makers have had to “cease display, distribution, publication or offering of the ‘Tetris’ game in question”.
Lame.
It’s a great version of a great game. Let’s hope Simon and Chris can find a way to fight this.
*UPDATE* - The game is still available to download here. Get it while you can.
Having seen a post on Daring Fireball about posting to a blog from Textmate, I thought I’d give it a go.
Since deciding to learn something about PHP a few weeks ago, I went in search of a text editor that would suit my needs and Textmate seems to be the weapon of choice. I’ve been using it as my main text editor for a few weeks now and it is the bomb, the mac, and the daddy.
Just have to see how the blogging bit works out. Not as elegant as Ecto but does a lot more besides blogging!
From pcworld.com.
Along with its new look, Vista is introducing a new Microsoft document format, XPS (XML Paper Specification). Documents created with XPS can be shared with people who don’t have the originating application but do have an XPS viewer; Microsoft showed an XPS document being viewed in Internet Explorer. While not nearly as full featured as Adobe’s popular PDF format, XPS is intended primarily to speed up and improve the quality of printing.
So what exaclty is wrong with PDFs?
I reckon “Portable Document Format” inspires a little more confidence than the roll-of-the-tongue-tastic “XML Paper Specification”!
Technorati Tags: pdf, vista, windows, xps
From Blogorrhea Junior
Constantly bombarded as we are by the media with uncited cultural references, stuff creeps in. And sticks. How often have you spouted some clever signature line from a show you love? It works the same way with voracious readers. Ask any author how easy it is to escape one’s influences. I guarantee they’ll hiss at you and reach for the whiskey.
Applies to all things in life.
Blogorrhea also has a link to a site containing before and after 9/11 photos.
Very surreal. I think I prefer the landscape without them (from an aesthetic viewpoint, not in a cold and unfeeling way).
This time, from film critic Jim Emerson. His list of 102 films you must see is copied below with an asterisk next to the ones I’ve seen (a la Jason Kottke)
* 2001: A Space Odyssey
* The 400 Blows
* 8 1/2
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
* Alien
* All About Eve
* Annie Hall
* Apocalypse Now
* Bambi
* The Battleship Potemkin
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Red One
The Bicycle Thief
* The Big Sleep
* Blade Runner
Blowup
* Blue Velvet
* Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
Bringing Up Baby
* Carrie
* Casablanca
Un Chien Andalou
Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis
* Chinatown
* Citizen Kane
* A Clockwork Orange
* The Crying Game
* The Day the Earth Stood Still
* Days of Heaven
* Dirty Harry
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Do the Right Thing
La Dolce Vita
* Double Indemnity
* Dr. Strangelove
* Duck Soup
* E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial
* Easy Rider
* The Empire Strikes Back
* The Exorcist
* Fargo
* Fight Club
* Frankenstein
* The General
* The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II
* Gone With the Wind
* GoodFellas
* The Graduate
* Halloween
* A Hard Day’s Night
Intolerance
It’s a Gift
* It’s a Wonderful Life
* Jaws
The Lady Eve
* Lawrence of Arabia
* M (This is one of my favourite films of all time…..)
* Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior
* The Maltese Falcon
* The Manchurian Candidate
* Metropolis
Modern Times
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Nashville
* The Night of the Hunter
* Night of the Living Dead
* North by Northwest
* Nosferatu
* On the Waterfront
* Once Upon a Time in the West
Out of the Past
Persona
Pink Flamingos
*Psycho
* Pulp Fiction
* Rashomon (or indeed anything directed by Akira Kurosawa)
* Rear Window
* Rebel Without a Cause
Red River
Repulsion
The Rules of the Game
* Scarface
* The Scarlet Empress
* Schindler’s List
* The Searchers
* The Seven Samurai
* Singin’ in the Rain
* Some Like It Hot
A Star Is Born
* A Streetcar Named Desire
* Sunset Boulevard
* Taxi Driver
* The Third Man
* Tokyo Story
* Touch of Evil
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Trouble in Paradise
* Vertigo
West Side Story
* The Wild Bunch
* The Wizard of Oz
So that’s 75 out of 102. There are a few films on there I’d not heard of so i reckon I’m going to have to find some DVDs to watch!
It’s nice to see two Kurosawa films on the list. I’ve yet to see a film he’s made that I haven’t liked, and I’ve seen about 19 so far. My personal favourite is Red Beard which should have made the list, but hey, can’t have everything!
Technorati Tags: movies, undulattice
From NY Daily News.
Denise Richards fears her estranged husband, Charlie Sheen, may have had a hand in the death of a porn star and alleged hooker who ratted him out to a tabloid last year, court papers reveal.
In a bombshell sworn declaration, ex-Bond Girl Richards says she flat-out asked Sheen, 40, if he had anything to do with sex star Chloe Jones’ death — and he didn’t deny it.
Technorati Tags: movies, undulattice
From the BBC News Website
Home network hardware supplier D-Link has been accused of harming the net’s ability to tell the time accurately.
Detective work has found that many D-Link routers, switches and wireless access points are bombarding some net time servers with huge amounts of data
So it’s D-Link’s fault I lost that Ebay auction!
Technorati Tags: internet, technology
If you don’t like maths, don’t click this link!
Riciulous Fish - Pi
Interesting attempt to stop spam by requiring anyone leaving a comment to enter “two very large numbers”. These two numbers are then used in an equation to calculate pi.
