I saw John Vanderslice play live about a year ago and like the sucker that I am, I actually paid for his album Mass Suicide Occult Figurines because it’s good. Now he has the entire album in MP3s on his site. Even CD quality sound and two lower quality ones for people with “lesser” connections. Get the song Bill Gates Must Die.
This new version of Windows is awesome! Only a few BSoDs to speak of, and the interface is much less cluttered than a real Windows desktop. And the error messages are much more entertaining. Thanks go to SU for the link.
This is old news, but we’ve been down, so shut up. Palm Purchases Be for $11 million (in stock). In the case that you don’t know who Be is, they’re the maker of a rather languid operating system called the BeOS. They made hardware for it in the early nineties as well, called the BeBox and it ran on PPC processors.. Apple passed them up for purchase and bought out NeXT instead, and the rest is history. Historically, the one thing BeOS can do pretty well is handle large/multiple mutimedia files with relative ease, which is why it was popular with video editing people for a short time. That, and its error messages are presented to you in haiku format if you wish. I’m not kidding. BeOS has always been an interest for me, and most geeks as well. It’s a kind of an interest/hate thing. You’re interested in it, but get frustrated when a. there are no apps for it (all you PC weenies can stop snickering right now) and b. you’d have to sometimes write your own device drivers. So that ain’t happening any time soon, but maybe Palm can use Be’s know-how and expertise in multi-threaded environments to develop a relatively new and interesting use for the PalmOS. But the first time I see an animated banner ad on a Palm, it’s going out the fucking window.
…well… Damn, we suck. But the site works now. So fuck you…. blah blah blah, Anyway, were back.
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While researching a new name for an investment company, I came across this interesting tidbit at Dictionary.com:
4: printers once kept type for capitals and small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case, small letters in the lower half.
Whaddayaknow.
So I saw the Vagrant Tour last night, featuring such bands as Hey Mercedes, Hotrod Circuit, Dashboard Confessional and Saves The Day. All of which are on the Vagrant Records label. I must say, even if you’ve never heard these bands, go see this show. Dashboard Confessional, an acoustic act, I had never heard before but totally blew me away. Hotrod Circuit I only heard a few minutes of but didn’t hate. Hey Mercedes I missed entirely, so I have no idea, but Saves The Day just rocked the fucking house. Props out to Liberation Media for getting me on the list. I would serously check Pollstar for information about whether the tour is coming to your town (don’t try the Vagrant site, it’s down for ‘legal reasons,’ I’m told). I think the tour is pretty much on the west coast now, so if you’re out there, check it out.
Miramax is rereleasing Apocalypse Now with the added title “Redux.” Watch the trailer and tell me if you don’t see Harrison Ford in it. He wasn’t in the original, so he must have been in some of the scenes that were edited out. Although I like this movie, I’m getting somewhat tired of repackaging. Filmmakers are going to start intentionally leaving out certain scenes for resale later.
Of course Apple is in on this with Quicktime. Notice no one is putting these trailers out in Windows Media format.
“They are out of money,” said a source who requested anonymity.
Is that what happens when you file for bankruptcy?
As the U.S. economy continues to stagnate and layoffs proliferate, workplace experts say, it is becoming more important than ever for employers to be vigilant against retaliation by the people they are letting go.
Or maybe employers can start treating their laid-off employees with some dignity and compassion. IHT article, via the Bitchlog.
