[2005/04/29]

→ these creative commons-licensed star-charts reminded me of sean, who i was very happy to see last night for the second time this week (welcome to ny!). | comment 0 | trackback 0

→ speaking of torrents, my fav site would have to betorrentspy. | comment 0 | trackback 0

→ my fav bittorrent client for mac os x is currently bits on wheels. some great features and def a nicely done app. | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/28]

→ be sure to plan ahead for your next trip: penguins are required to walk through the metal detectors at the airport. do you think the tsa actually has a guideline for this? or maybe this is just the conclusive proof that airport security has no basis in logic, evidence, or sense. maybe it's like when they used to require you to wake your laptop in security (wonder why they stopped that bit) presumably to prove it was a real computer and not a bomb. maybe this was to prove the penguins weren't robots? | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/27]

→ what are the chances that this plug-in-play on windows wireless (not bluetooth) keyboard/trackpad device adesso wireless slimtouch keyboard WKB-4000 actually does work just fine on mac os x? anyone have any suggestions for a wireless, compact, and mac os x-compatible keyboard and pointing device? | comment 0 | trackback 0

→ the css Zen Garden is a really elegant way to demonstrate the power of proper css. click on a number of the "select a design" options to see how wide the range of manipulations possible are. | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/26]

→ joss said it best: "Trailer. Serenity. Tuesday." here it is, come and get it. | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/25]

→ posted some photos today from passover. | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/21]

→ target's newly (re)designed prescription pill bottle looks really nicely done. i would like to see one in person., but the nearest target pharmacy is in jersey city. at least according to the target store locator. | comment 0 | trackback 0

→ a fun little tidbit about the new pope (aka benedict XVI): "On November 25, 1981 Pope John Paul II named Ratzinger [aka new pope] prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly known as the Holy Office of the Inquisition." nice. | comment 0 | trackback 0

→ in case you need any more evidence that the us patent system is depressingly corrupt/incompetent, microsoft just successfully patented the 911 process. and check out the proposed user interface. real easy to use, huh? | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/19]

→ coming home from the country bar. brown and grey, stone and wood. rach and armin. | comment 0 | trackback 0

→ morning. upstate. beautiful light that day. | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/18]

→ well that's a shocker: adobe is acquiring macromedia. i would have thought that antitrust concerns would be a rather major impediment to this. | comment 0 | trackback 0

→ imagine myst, but on the web, and in a warehouse/post-industrial space and you have 99 rooms. i've only explored a bit so far. | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/16]

→ rach had another couple of poems published, this time in ascent aspirations magazine. yay! | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/15]

→ boingboing has a more complex and nuanced update to the oil, trains, cities bit i linked to a week ago. | comment 0 | trackback 0

→ there sure are a lot of different options wen shopping for hole punch designs. the letters and numbers have a quirky, handdrawn character to them. i have a 5. or maybe it's a 2. | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/14]

→ my professional friend rob andrews is performing in prayingproject a exit art this weekend. if you happen to be near 10th avenue and 36th street on fri, sat or sun between 3 and 9PM. he'll be scrubbing himself raw with a big, wooden scrub brush. | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/13]

→ dude, louis has a blog now called mia studenti. i'm not the target audience, but still a vicarious-livin'-through-blog thing. | comment 2 | trackback 0

[2005/04/12]

→ weird that this is a boston paper, but the L is running computerized now. my most missed thing about the London underground: "As in the subway systems in Washington, D.C., and London, screens installed in stations will tell riders when the next train will arrive." ah. . . | comment 0 | trackback 0

→ one darn comprehensive site on knife technique (we're talking french/cooking not filipino/fighting style here). | comment 1 | trackback 0

→ i read most blogs in something called a newsreader (or rss aggregator) that goes out and grabs posts from all diff sites and pulls them together into a mail-like interface for reading and keeping tabs on what i haven't yet read, want to revisit, etc. that's a part of how i thought this post Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity was from ev's blog the first time i read it. it's not. ev and k, separated at birth, perhaps? | comment 1 | trackback 0

[2005/04/11]

→ two articles on cities, oil, resources: one an interview titled vital cities and the other (oddly in rolling stone) named the long emergency. the latter is especially chilling. though reassuring in an odd, romantic way for those of us who love cities, trains. | comment 0 | trackback 0

→ a study concludes that poems take more effort to read than prose. that doesn't sound so surprising, but this was interesting: "Even when they used identical content but displayed it in both a poem format and a prose format, they discovered readers found the poem form the more difficult to understand." | comment 1 | trackback 0

→ another reason, besides using it to open pop-ups that bypass safari and firefox's blockers, to view flash with a bit of suspicion: shared objects can be used as a hidden cookie of sorts. | comment 1 | trackback 0

[2005/04/07]

→ the proposed daylight savings change proposed recently by congress is sorta (maybe) ironic in light of the mailing we (macktez) just did. | comment 0 | trackback 0

→ this is a great offer for any non-profits events out there: free wireless internet for a day. it's essentially a cellular modem that works on verizon's 3G data network (which get's theoretical speeds a bit greater than a full T1) connected to a wifi access point -- meaning you turn it on (presumably plug it into power) and poof you have broadband wifi internet access for anyone nearby. nifty. | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/06]

→ the macally syncbox ii is a small, portable device that copies data from one USB device directly to another. like from a camera to a hard drive. it wouldn't, i suspect, allow copying music from one ipod to another, though. still interesting. | comment 2 | trackback 0

[2005/04/04]

→ ev's post on his self-proclaimed boring dreams is one of his finest. a perfect little jewel-like mini-essay. | comment 0 | trackback 0

[2005/04/02]

→ for those of you who liked the vw/gene kelly ad: futureshock late at night | comment 0 | trackback 0

→ screenshots of the katamari domacy 2. get ready to roll some up, little prince. | comment 1 | trackback 0

→ haven't noted any usb oddities for while, but these usb sushi flash drives do justify a mention. | comment 0 | trackback 0