Violence & reality
SU made a pretty good post about violence and teenagers, and what he thinks might be the problem. Check it out, and discuss it over at SVN.
Three out of four ain't bad
My silver
heaven
OS X Goes GM
Apple .announced today that MacOS X has gone Gold Master… which basically means that it’s being produced in mass quantities now, instead of disc images for internal builds. If you’re new to the Mac platform or are a Windows user, you have no idea how momentus this is; that it’s finally happening. A lot of us have been waiting for this ‘next-generation OS’ since it was called Rhapsody, like 5 years ago.
No one wanted to see your wife naked, anyway
“It essentially destroys your Windows operating system,” he said. NYTimes.
Ha. Windows.
So no CDR for me, then
The ruling was expected, but the judge gave Napster the responsibility for removing songs that were identified by the recording industry as copyrighted, even if the music companies did not know the exact names of all of the files in Napster’s system that contained the songs. From the IHT.
We don’t even know all the songs we own, but you better take ’em off… GOD, I hate the music industry. What’s worse is that Napster doesn’t even HAVE any songs… they make it seem like Napster is just distributing songs left and right… Like there’s MP3s on their servers or something. Jesus. Oh, and what about when tech-retarded reporters refer to Napster as a ‘website?’ That almost makes me laugh until I remember that these reporters are getting paid to write that BS. Isn’t a website defined as hypertext documents accessed over the http protocol? And isn’t Napster its own protocol? Stupid fucking press. Once the baby-boomers all die, I hope GenX and whoever else can succeed in tearing down these monopolies based on the distribution of information.. the music industry, the news ‘reporting’ corporations.. all of it. I’m starting to sound like Marx here, but damn. I’m just getting sick of this capitalist result of corporations controlling not only what we buy and what we eat, but what we know, who we know.. the whole damn thing. Down with capitalism! Ha. As I sit here about to go pick up my $4000 laptop computer that will help me earn my capitalist-pig dollars so I can pay for my capitalist-pig car and apartment. *sigh* Someday, I swear…
No surprises, please.
Just to continue in the lastest fad here on Alternate (posting pretty lame stuff), I noticed something interesting last night: the elevator tone (‘ding’) at Denver’s Pavilions mall downtown is the same note as the first one in the Radiohead song No Surprises.
Hellz yeah. You can tell the rest of the world they can shove their interesting content up their ass.
It used to be 12k, now it's 4.8k
So I’ve officially entered the 5k contest… Don’t know what that is? It’s this contest for web developers/designers to design and code an HTML page or site wherein the files used do not surpass the filesize of 5k. The rules are a little more complicated than that, but hey. So check out my amended entry… What did I change about it? You can see the original if you are so inclined. The original was 12k, so I had to scale it down just a tad.
My description of it:
This page is a relatively vague and subtle comment on the pervasive nature of not only the internet, but the internet’s chief language: HTML. I felt the need to express myself as an artist, and coding a particular uneventful day (one that did in fact exist) seemed to be a good idea. I had to scale the code down a touch to fit under the 5k margin.
Right next to the Gateway Country, I bet
Sweet. Apple is planning a Denver-based Apple store. Actually, it’s going to be in Littleton, a suburn of Denver (remember Columbine?):
The latest spot is in Littleton, Colo., where Apple is planning a 6,500-square-foot store, according to the March issue of Shopping Centers Today, a publication of the International Council of Shopping Centers trade group.
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Eat some cookies…
This page has some links to the major ad banner networks opt out pages… those are the assholes spamming you with 50 fucking cookies so they can track you everytime you load a page at *MOST* major websites. I have been experimenting with having cookies off and/or asking to accept them and I must say it’s a PAIN IN THE FUCKING ASS… anyway, this site’s links seem to be a very useful way to keep most of the larger ad tracking/marketing companies off your desktop.
By the way, the only company who’s opt-out feature didn’t work was of course, DoubleClick: the largest of all those corporations.