Thursday 2/27/03 §
Oddmusic.com: Unusual musical instruments and music played on them. (GirlHacker)
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Wednesday 2/26/03 §
If you have a scrolly mouse on your Mac and are running Mac OS X, you may want version 1.4 of USB Overdrive installed in Classic. For the first time you'll be able to scroll as easily in Classic applications as you do in Mac OS X applications. The only Classic app I still use on a regular basis is Adobe FrameMaker, but man, using that program without a scroll wheel really hurts. Thanks, Alessandro!
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Hand-carved emu eggs. Extremely fragile art; handle with care. (danelope)
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Gentium is a new, professionally designed, free multi-lingual font that includes wide swaths of character glyphs from the Unicode 3.0 specification. The name is Latin for "for the nations." I really like how readable and inviting it looks in this sample. (February 7)
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The God Shot. (#mefi)
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Tuesday 2/25/03 §
The Cathedral, a short computer-animated film by Tomek Baginski and Polish post-production house Platige Image, won prizes at SIGGRAPH and Animago and was just nominated for an Academy Award. I haven't found the entire film on the Web (it's only about six and a half minutes long), but you can get the trailer and some breathtaking stills from the official site.
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Monday 2/24/03 §
My God, it's full of tabs!
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Ghost World-esque Web comic: Same Difference. (speedysnail)
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Things that go blimp in the night. (Mike Whybark)
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Sunday 2/23/03 §
Throughout history, or at least since 1935, a surprisingly large number of people have needed no stinkin' badges. (MetaFilter)
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Friday 2/21/03 §
Sizes of wine and champagne bottles explained. A Nebuchadnezzar holds twenty regular-sized bottles of champagne. It is also, of course, where we broadcast our pirate signal and hack into the Matrix. (buffoonery.org)
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Thursday 2/20/03 §
A couple days ago, a car in front of me threw up a rock and took a tiny chunk out of my brand new windshield. Fortunately, my insurance paid the entire cost of repairing it. You can still see where the crack was, but it's not distracting. Still, my car is no longer perfect. Sniff.
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AgentMusic has released a pair of AppleScripts that use the company's online database of artist similarity. The first automatically creates playlists containing artists "similar to" the ones you've selected, while the second "clusters" your collection into groups of similar artists. (Boing Boing)
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This is a test of using curl to update my weblog rather than relying on Interarchy. Hey, looks like it works!
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Friday 2/14/03 §
Collected Tears of the Weeping Nivbed. Some amazing artwork by Justin Cherry. (Interconnected)
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Techno-lust: the upcoming Garmin iQue 3600 is a Palm OS PDA with an integrated GPS receiver and mapping software that will give you turn-by-turn door-to-door directions. Like all Palm OS 5 machines, of course, it also functions as an MP3 player (using SD cards). Or get the Bluetooth SD card and give it Internet access through your Bluetooth-compatible GPRS/GSM phone.
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Some nice desktop pictures.
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AutoFX has an interesting new Photoshop plug-in coming out that purports to be able to provide natural-looking lighting changes in photographs after you've already taken the picture. It's called Mystical Lighting and some of the samples in the gallery are pretty impressive.
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Thursday 2/13/03 §
All right, who's the joker who gave me a license plate for his new car with a number ending in PTL? Quick, I need something else PTL can stand for besides "Praise The Lord."
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Libertarian cartoonist Peter Bagge is against the war, but that doesn't stop him from skewering the protesters at an October rally in Seattle. (Boing Boing)
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Sunday 2/9/03 §
You know what there should be? Facial tissue packages for your car that are the same shape as a soft drink cup, so they fit nicely into cupholders. My new car has four cupholders.
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I logged into my Bank of America online account yesterday and discovered that my car loan has magically appeared there. I can pay electronically simply by transferring funds from my checking account to the loan. I find this slightly freaky because my car loan is actually through HMFC, Hyundai's loan company, not Bank of America. Like I said, magic.
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Best Buy is now offering a hard disk that, according to the Web site description, was originally 100GB but has been "supersized" to add another 20GB! I'm not quite sure how they installed all that extra capacity into a hermetically-sealed device, but it sure is a bargain! (Thanks Jackie)
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Friday 2/7/03 §
The Onion's AV Club talks with the Daily Show's correspondents. (February 7)
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There's a clever still life today at DigitalPhotoContest.com.
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Thursday 2/6/03 §
Michael Spencer nails the reasons Everybody Hates Us -- "us" being evangelical Christians. Very insightful and worthwhile reading, whether you're a Christian or not. (MetaFilter)
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More proof, if any were needed, that Americans are completely obsessed with convenience. (Warning: Lingerie)
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Tuesday 2/4/03 §
Linux on iPod. (Boing Boing)
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A perplexing piece by Gene Steinberg suggests that in ten years, the Macintosh will have an even bigger flat-screen display, even more voice control, and even better multimedia integration. Which is probably true as far as it goes. But Steinberg thinks we will use all this incredible power to... print things. On paper.
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Sunday 2/2/03 §
NASA has been keeping some secrets from us, I see.
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I found a great tip on Car Talk about avoiding blind spots. Everyone knows how to set up the side mirrors on a car properly and everyone knows that all cars have dangerous blind spots. Turns out these two facts are not unrelated, and as often happens, what "everyone knows" is basically wrong. I tried setting up my mirrors as recommended; it really does eliminate blind spots. You may have to retrain yourself a bit to look in a different mirror from what you're used to, since your mirrors won't overlap nearly as much anymore, but you'll be able to confidently change lanes without twisting your head around. It also seems to me like you'd get a lot less glare in your eyes at night from the headlights of the cars behind you in your side mirrors.
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