It's April 1st, right?
This is the best Haxor ever.
Christopher walkin'
spike jonze is a god. i honestly can’t think of something he’s done that i haven’t grinned foolishly at. some of the best music videos ever made are under his belt. weezer’s ‘buddy holly’. bjork’s ‘its oh so quiet’. wax’s ‘california'(the guy on fire in slo mo). beastie boy’s frickin ‘sabotage’. fatboy slim’s ‘praise you’. he’s one of the producers of ‘jackass’. ‘being john malkovich’ was obviously brilliant. now we have this.
who knew, huh? badass Dune reference, as well, but that’s more to Fatboy Slim’s credit.
Make sure you have crappy Realplayer
Gnu-impossible-a
“[The RIAA is] really looking to understand and monitor the Gnutella network so they don’t find themselves in the same position as [they did with] Napster,”
Riiiiiiight. THAT’s going to happen.
LATimes registration required.
Calling all hackers…
If any site deserves to be hacked, it’s this one. I don’t mean Wired, but the site referred to in the article, which I won’t even link to from here.. it’s an anti-abortion site listing names and faces of doctors on a ‘most-wanted’ list. Fuck them. Please.
Sick of all the BS
Sigh. Everywhere I go, there’s another person ragging on OS X… ‘Mickey Mouse interface’… ‘OSuX’.. etc. I’m sick of that bullshit. It’s easy to put X down just by looking at the package. Yeah. The fucking buttons are jellyish. The Dock moves up and down… OOOOoooOOOh.. Oh my Fucking god. It’s the end of the god-damn world. You know what? I like clicking on the jelly buttons. I enjoy using the Dock now. I even turned the magnification back on a little bit, because I like the feedback the system gives me. Don’t like the colored buttons? Use the graphite interface instead. That’s what you wanted isn’t it? Gray buttons like 9? You’ve got it.
Everyone’s all up-in-arms about ‘well the only good things about X are the things 9 had wrong with it.’ Yeah. As I recall, that’s the fucking point of releasing software upgrades. To fix what was wrong in the past. Stability was one of those issues 9 had. Unix and multi-threading fixes that. You want to know what another of 9’s problems was? It was fucking OLD. If Apple hadn’t included the Platinum interface with OS 8, you’d all be wailing for a new interface.
Use X for 5 days straight. Open up any apps you need in Classic (you might even be surprised at how few you might need, and at how fast they run) and use the damn thing for 5 days. If you feel you aren’t going to like it, hey, borrow your friend’s copy. Just use it for a second, before you start your bitching. The Finder is NICER than 9’s Finder (although still a little inexplicably slower), and the Dock actually helps me a little more than it did when I first started. I still click on the date/time in the right-hand corner sometimes, looking for the App-switcher, but X is new. It’s going to take some getting used to. So instead of bitching and moaning in comment-systems and threaded discussion groups, just fucking TRY IT. With an open mind. If you gave a flying fuck about the platform, you should, anyway. And X isn’t so far away from what you think the platform is about. You’ll see.
Someone check the temperature in hell
Holy fucking shit. I’ve just successfully installed MySQL onto MacOS X 10.0. Take cover… the world may end any second now.
No one likes them
I had the wierdest dream last night: I went to see Metallica at a mysterious unknown venue… Only everyone wasn’t there to see them, but to ridicule them about Napster with verbal assualts and huge hand-made signs. I don’t remember much about their performace, only they were timid, and only playing the acoustic songs they have (all I remember is the intro to ‘…And Justice For All’). They had a flute player (possibly to illustrate my view of them being pussies, I dunno), and the performance kept getting fumbled up. Funny. Feel free to interpret.
Congress Adds 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us' Amendment To Bankruptcy Bill
Breaking news from The Onion:
WASHINGTON, DC– Seeking to increase fiscal accountability among citizens who have no chance to survive make their time, the House of Representatives added an “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” amendment Monday to H.R. 333, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2001.
MP3-Proof CDs?
Pride’s CD will incorporate technology that, in theory, will stop listeners from ripping its tracks into MP3s. If it works — a hotly disputed question — copy protection will change the terms of the battle over online music.
Raise your hand if you think this will work and/or not be hackable. If you raised your hand, you’re a moron. Gimme a break. If they can hack TiVos and the encryption mechanism for DVDs, this little anti-MP3 mechanism will be no problem.
NYSee
I know I’ve mentioned here before how much I enjoy being in New York. I thought I’d mention my new idea: in 2 weeks, I’m going to try to Priceline one round-trip ticket from Denver to New York / LaGuardia 2 days before I want to go. I’m going to walk the streets of Manhattan alone (well, not alone, Jen said she’d meet me there), and revel in its urban spring beauty for a couple days. My question is: Has anyone gotten any really great deals on Priceline? Use the comment function to let me know if a $150 ticket bid is realistic for a 2-day advance ticket for a Friday-Sunday trip.