Lost - The beginning of the end

Posted a recap a few days ago on my main blog. Enjoy :).

lost 4x01 the beginning of the end

The Moonkin Code

Every warcraft Balance Druid player will love this video ;).

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/.

9 Crimes

Because it's such a wonderful song I had to post it here.

Pearl Jam Censored

From Arstechnica:

The incident happened during a Lollapalooza webcast over at AT&T's "Blue Room" media showcase. Pearl Jam's performance of their big 90's hit "Daughter" morphed into the melody from Pink Floyd's "The Wall," and Eddie Vedder served up a pair of anti-Bush lyrics to the tune. "George Bush, leave this world alone," he sang. "George Bush, find yourself another home."

Fans at the event got to hear the words in all their glory, but in the webcast, the lines were censored—AT&T made the decision to silence them, apparently believing that they would prove offensive to listeners. When Pearl Jam found out about the censorship, the band posted a strongly-worded message on its web site.

 

Frightening that in this day and age, big corporations are still trying to censor, even these somewhat innocent political messages.

China Olympics 2008 Countdown

BBC News Pictures

KDE 4.0

Ars Technica has a very nice overview of the upcoming KDE 4.0. KDE is a windows manager for Linux, in case you stumbled on this page and have no clue what it is ;).

KDE.org announcement

Nvidia abandons Video Mirroring in Vista

Currently I use a PC (with 7600GT Nvidia video card) that is connected to a 19" LCD monitor and a Philips LCD TV to watch movies and also MLB.tv. This machine is dual booting XP and Vista Home Premium. I kept using XP because the nvidia Vista drivers wouldnt allow any resolution higher than 1280x1024 once the TV was on :(. This was no problem at all in the XP drivers.

So today I installed a new BETA driver from Nvidia and I was glad to see this issue resolved ! Also had to install numerous Vista updates and had to reboot twice :(. But much to my surprise there was no option like there is in XP to display video full screen on the LCD tv !!! And after some searching it turns out this feature has been abandoned :(. Apparently Ati does support this, and it's called Theatre mode. So next time you build a Multimedia or MediaCenter PC, get an ATI card. This feature is a musthave for me, especially for MLB.TV. I need to have the baseball feed fullscreen on my TV, and not the tiny window that gets stretched to full screen as that doesnt work properly.

Article on IT wire
Nvidia Forums

New photos

Added some new ones taken this weekend when it finally stopped raining ;).

From Foto's Juni J...

I adjusted some of the photos contrast color etc and uploaded those to flickr.

Also on greendale.tk.

Linux at Dell

Slackware 12.0

Slackware 12.0 was released just a few days ago. It's currently available as a torrent, I assume the mirrors will have images of the ISO soon as well. This has always been my favorite distro, used it many many years ago ( i am really getting old). Though Ubuntu is now on my laptop and mandriva on my desktop. It's not the easiest distro out there, but it if you know your way around config files and are not afraid to learn and do some research, I think it's still one of the best.

It seems this release has some really up to date software, more info on allaboutlinux.

http://www.slackware.com
Slackware torrents
Slackware forum at linuxquestions
Slackware review
Review at ShiftBackspace.com

Potter reaches cult phenomenon status

Nice article (taken from AP) at yahoo on Harry Potter's history. I am currently reading book 6 that I hadnt come to read yet, to get ready for the release of the final book 7.

In the beginning, "Harry Potter" simply needed a home. Several British publishers turned down Rowling, believing her manuscript too long and/or too slow, before the Bloomsbury Press signed her up in 1996, for $4,000 and a warning not to expect to get rich from writing children's books. An American publisher had bigger ideas: Scholastic editor Arthur A. Levine acquired U.S. rights for $105,000.

"I can vividly remember reading the manuscript and thinking, `This reminds me of Roald Dahl,' an author of such skill, an author with a unique ability to be funny and cutting and exciting at the same time," Levine says.

"But I could not possibly have had the expectation we would be printing 12 million copies for one book (`Deathly Hallows'). That's beyond anyone's experience. I would have had to be literally insane."

Potter reaches cult phenomenon status

Mac or PC ?

glumbert.com - Mac or PC Rap

MACorPC.org

Linux leaders plot counterattack on Microsoft

Interesting story on Zdnet.com:

Leading names of Linux, the world's biggest grassroots software phenomenon, are spending three days debating whether an increasingly commercial open-source community should fight or ignore the world's largest software maker.

Recently, Microsoft has sown dissension by claiming open-source programs such as Linux violate 235 of its patents while striking deals to insulate the customers of two Linux suppliers--Novell and Xandros--from patent lawsuits

news.zdnet.com

Console sales

Interesting article on arstechnica on console sales the past month. Apparently Nintendo is leading the console race by a landslide. Who would have thought !

As you know, Nintendo absolutely owned the first quarter of the year, and with 338,000 more Wii consoles sold in May, the sales show no sign of slowing down. Still, the DS took top honors, with 423,000 units sold. These amounts almost look anomalous, for the sales of every other system are so far below Nintendo's preternatural numbers. As this trend continues month after month, Nintendo's domination is becoming a fact of life. When will it end?

So it seems the public is more interested in original fun family games than the next run of the mill first person shooter, Madden 2012 or Need For Speed XXII. Also I think the ps3 and xbox 360 overlap the PC games market a bit, with similar releases, while nintendo has far more original games to offer. So a Wii is a better supplement for pc gamers than a 360 is. And I am not even starting on the ps3, that console doesnt offer much at the moment, though that might change in the future when better games appear.

Drobo

Scoble has a very interesting demo of this new harddrive device on his site, called a drobo. Basically it's an enclosure for up to four sata drives, and it combines them all in one big safe drive. You can use any combo of drives, and it keeps your data safe. Looks very promising. One big drawback, it's usb 2.0 only for now, and thats a little slow. And it's pricey. An ethernet and / or Firewire connector would be excellent. Also it's not available in Europe yet.

Would love to get one though, since I got quite a few spare disks laying around and with disk drives now being so cheap, I wouldnt mind buying a big disk to stick it in this device. So I am going to keep my eye on these and see whether it gets better.

scobleize.com podtech demo
Review on gizmodo.com

ROFLMAO

ROFLMAO

Charity on That Catholic Show

A new episode has appeared on SQPN.com of That Catholic Show. This one is very funny and has a nice message to boot.



That Catholic Show #4 Charity and Mercy
Make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed, it offers far superior video quality than the YouTuby video above.

Two Cats in a Box

Two Cats in a Box
Originally uploaded by Morphisat.

LOTRO The game so far

Posted a little bit on aboutlotro.info on my experience in Lord Of The Rings Online so far. In short, it's been a lot of fun so far. If you dont have a lot of playing time, but still enjoy MMORPGs, or would like to try one out, this game might be for you !

digitalis II

digitalis II
Originally uploaded by Morphisat.

Look what popped up this week in the garden :).

How Scoble reads his rss feeds

Article on Scoble's Blog on this video

Tech Tags: scoble rss

Secrets of the Lord of the Rings

Episode #3 of this podcast was released on the SQPN website this week. It's best of the three so far, in my opinion. Father Roderick does an excellent sound seeing tour of The Old Forest in LOTRO, while also telling about the history of The Old Forest and Tom Bombadil. The music and soundeffects from LOTRO come through really well in this podcast, especially the music while within Tom's house is wonderful.

Secrets of the Lord of the Rings #3

tolkien lotro podcast sqpn

Installing Ubuntu Studio 7.04 - Linux For The Creative

From Digg: Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavour of Ubuntu, built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional. It is an official derivative of the Ubuntu open source operating system and comes with many applications as well as a beautiful dark theme. This walkthrough shows how to install it.

Unfortunately the ubuntustudio site has been down since the announcement, but the post on Digg has various links to torrents etc so you can download it from other sources. I am downloading as we speak, using this torrent and will certainly make a post (or two) about this flavour of Ubuntu !

read more | digg story

Tech Tags: linux ubuntu ubuntu+studio

Catholics and Candles

What's the deal with Candles and Catholics ? Find out on That Catholic Show #2, another SQPN quality production.



The rss feed offers a better quality video than youtube provides. You can subscribe at sqpn.com.

Tech Tags: sqpn, catholic, video

Sunrise New Zealand

Sunrise New Zealand
Originally uploaded by kiwimission.

The 24hrs on Flickr has begun with this wonderful photo !

Secrets of Star Wars

This is starting to look like an sqpn Link blog, but I have to link to this one ;). They have released another interesting podcast series named the Secrets of Star Wars. Sqpn has been very busy lately with the release of quite a few new series.

Here is a quote from the press release:

“The new podcast series can give Star Wars fans new insights into the saga, and they can learn something about the Christian faith in the process,” says Fr. Roderick, a long time fan of the Star Wars films. “The podcast will make you look at these well known movies with new eyes, helping you enjoy them even more when you know how many interesting religious and moral themes are hidden below the surface.”

Tech Tags: star+wars,sqpn,podcast

That catholic show

Even though I am not a Catholic, I thought this new SQPN video podcast was very entertaining and very well produced ! The rss feed provides a high quality video than the Youtube video below, so you might want to check that out

Video on YouTube

That Catholic Show

Tech Tags: sqpn, catholic

Dell chooses Ubuntu

Dell will be offering a choice of XP, Vista and Ubuntu when you buy a new pc from them ! Very interesting move by Dell. This is a big step for Linux on the desktop.

Article at Desktoplinux.com

Tech Tags: linux, ubuntu, dell

Brandy Hall

Brandy Hall
Originally uploaded by Morphisat.

A wonderful sight in LOTRO, the Brandy Hall, on the east river bank of the Brandywine river.
http://aboutlotro.info

Technorati tags: lotro, mmorpg

Lord of the Rings Online

Field of Flowers
Originally uploaded by Morphisat.

Opened up a new site at http://www.sobaseki.com/drupal about LOTRO. Also added some screenshots to my flickr account ;).

Technorati tag: lotro

Summer in april

sunny1
Originally uploaded by Morphisat.

It's 25 degrees celcius here in Holland and probably even warmer in the sun. As you can see not a cloud in the sky.

Technorati tag: april

Technorati Tags

Found a nice site which lets you easily create technorati tags, for those blogs that dont natively support them and where you cant upload plugins etc., like blogspot and wordpress.com.

http://www.marketwest.co.uk/tools/index.php

Technorati tags: technorati, technorati+tags

Cooking Priest

Another enjoyable video in the Healthy Catholic series. And I am not even catholic :).



Full article at sqpn.com.

Technorati tags: sqpn, cooking.

Windows Vista Desktop Wallpaper

Amazing shots at http://www.hamaddarwish.com/. The photographer that took some of the shots for the Vista desktop wallpaper put up some 'outtakes' at his site. They are really breathtaking :). Like this one.

Vista review

Nice review here at windley.com.

Just recently installed it on my new Core2duo with 2Gb and I must say it's really nice on such a machine. Very responsive and nice looking. Hope it stays that way when times goes by ;).

Saddam's Hanging

Excellent article on this ugly affair on BBC.CO.UK.

Altogether, the execution as we now see it is shown to be an ugly, degrading business, which is more reminiscent of a public hanging in the 18th Century than a considered act of 21st Century official justice.

 

Technorati tags: saddam, iraq, politics

Vista Overview

PC Magazine posted a nice Vista overview.

So far I have been using the media center on an Amd 2500xp with 756 (or so) RAM and wasnt very impressed. Sure it looks nice, but not THAT impressive. Also tried readyboost, and though the usb stick's light was constantly flashing it didnt make a bit of difference. Furthermore the harddisk always seems to be busy. And this was just while browsing the web with FireFox (cant stand IE7's interface or lack thereof). So on that particular PC i am back with MCE 2005, which works like a charm :).

And on my main pc, that i use to game / email / surf etc, I am not going to try it for a long time. It's pretty stable with XP sp2 and I havent seen any features on Vista that I care for...

Microsoft missing the podcast boat

Good article over at Geeknews. I have to agree. It's curious why Microsoft has left off any podcast support off the Zune and Windows Media Player 11. Even their new feedreader in IE7 doesnt support automatically downloading RSS enclosures, supposedly for security reasons. And now that podcasting is really taking off, it seems like Microsoft is missing the boat.

tags: microsoft, zune, podcasting

FireFox 2.0

Firefox 2.0 has been released ! I was already running RC3 and without even noticing it went to 2.0 ;). Very nice improvement, I already wrote about it in a previous post. There are also a bunch of new banners and buttons available, like the one below,  to put on your site and/or blog at the affliates page.

Cnet review 

PC Magazine

Yahoo News Link

The power of blogging

Jan Pronk has become a Persona Non Grata in Sudan, thanks to his blog ;). This goes to show how powerful blogging has become, when governments are afraid of the opinions expressed in blogs !

Jan Pronk's blog

Expel UN envoy, Sudan army says

 

Technorati tags: jan pronk, sudan, blogging, human rights

IE7 released

It's now available on yahoo (so you get all the yahoo 'extra's', like the toolbar etc). And it will be availble without it (I hope ;)) from microsoft at the Microsoft IE site. If it's like IE7 in Vista, it's a lot better than IE6 (and it should be), though it has some really odd interface quirks. Firefox has a way more logical interface I think.

Their 2.0 release is right around the corner !

 

Technorati tags: IE7, Microsoft

Windows Live Writer

The new version that can be found at http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/, does support Blogger Beta, using a workaround from http://jcheng.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/blogger-beta-workaround. Though livewriter says it can't retrieve my template. So you can use LiveWriter to post, but it's not as 'WYSYWYG' as it is, when you use say, Wordpress. This is more a Google fault i'd say, for not just using a standard method to allow posting and retrieving posts and categories.

Windows live writer is very nice though, much better than the standard blogger edit window. If you're posting from windows to your blog, you should definately check it out. Especially love the easy way you can now add technorati tags, something that cant be done through the blogger interface, unless you type out the technorati tags, which is a cumbersome process.

Update: A new build (145) now offers correct Blogger Beta support , it even retrieves the correct template.

 

Technorati tags: windows_live_writer, blogger_beta

Organ Sales Thriving in China

Pretty disturbing news from the BBC website. I already heard reports on this subject on the dutch radio, now it seems to be confirmed by several sources. Ofcourse we cant object to any of this, the economic relations with China are more important than some silly human rights.

Technorati tags: China, Human Rights.

Vista revisited

Whether it's stable, easy to use or worth an upgrade might be debatable, but at least it looks pretty ;).

Vista RC1

Pretty extensive review at DrDobb's Journal. This release is quite solid ! Have been playing with it for a short time and it's a whole lot better than what the previous ones I have seen.

Update: Scott Hanzelman's impression of RC1

Technorati Tags: vista

More photos

Published a few new photos I took today on flickr. Thought the one above is one of the best I did so far ;).

Blogger Beta

Logged in today (for creating the post below) and I noticed the Beta link in my dashboard. Picked a new template and fiddled around with the layout editor. It's quite nice actually. You can add custom code, like the technorati and google ads link on the right sidebar. Also you can add RSS feeds from other sides, pick Blogger logos. Basically you add and edit everything since you can just put in text, photos and even javascript code.

So I'd say it's a huge improvement over the older blogger software, this is much easier to customize and it looks good too, some nice AJAX stuff in that layout editor, like the save button that lights up when you made changes that havent been saved !

Ah just after saving this post I noticed there is no longer a 'publishing your blog' thingy, it's posted immediately. Hooray for that !!!

Also you now can label your post, others might call em tags ;). Just to be sure, I'll still add my technorati tags here : Blogger+Beta.

Picasa

Felix

Aug 26, 2006 - 1 Photo

Testing google's photo service with this picture I took using my new camara :). I am also using flickr, as you can see on greendale.tk. This is one of our cats, Felix wondering what I am up to...

Mighty Mouse

Currently I am using a PC and a Mac Mini side by side. Unfortunetely my KVM switch doesnt play nice with the Mac Mini. I had to get a ps/2 to USB convertor to get the keyboard working but the mouse is a no go. So I have two mice sitting on my right side of the desk :). One is a nice Logitech laser mouse, the other one was one of those standard logitech ones. Not bad, but I am missing some buttons and it started to irritate me. I thought that was a good excuse to order a Mighty Mouse for my Mac Mini. I got the one with the cord, the wireless one was 20 euros more and I dont really have the need for a wireless one. I'll quickly sum up the pros and cons, since there are alreay a lot of reviews of this mouse that basically all say the same thing.

Pro:

• Feels good in your hand


• Very precise


• Small 360 scroll button works very well

Con

• Very short cord on the non-wireless mouse, I only just reaches my USB hub


• Side buttons are virually useless, very oddly placed and hard to press

And the software on the cd says it needs 150Mb ?!? What's that all about ?
All in all not a bad purchase, though a bit overpriced, but hey It's An Apple :).

Technorati Tags: Mighty+Mouse, Apple, Mac+Mini.

Writer Zone

The windows live team has released a new application. You can create blog posts from your windows desktop, like w.bloggar or marsedit (for OS/X). It looks very good at the website, I have yet to test it, but it looks very promising.

Writer Zone

Technorati Tags: Windows+Live, Writer+Zone.

Mac Mini Colocation

Found this post at the FreeMacBlog. Apperently they're using Mac Mini's as webservers and they seem to do a good job :). The macmini is powerful enough to be used that way and they take up a lot less space obviously than a 1u rack pc.
The site now also has some tutorial movies about how to set up a macmini to function as a server !







Here is the link to the main site: macminicolo.net.


Technorati Tags: apple, mac+mini

Web 2.0

Found a fun site on web 2.0 at www.web2logo.com. When you click on a logo it takes you to web2list.com, where you see a small review and the logo again.

Passing Moments

Passing Moments
Originally uploaded by thepres6.

While browsing flickr, I found this wonderful photograph. Outstanding shot with the mirror in the water and the wonderful sky !

Here's a link to favorites:

Flickr Favorites

Blogger Beta

As you can read on Blogger Buzz google has released a new version of Blogger with many new interesting features. This article on QuickOnlineTip is nice as well.

Was hoping I could switch over to check out the new features, but No Joy yet ;). If you're really anxious to try it out you can sign up for a new account, but I'll just be patient for the time being !

Technorati tag: Blogger

RIAA Wants to Depose Dead Defendant's Children

That'll teach the darn kids ! Downloading mp3s from the internet ! Not even in Death shall you be safe !

Recoding Industry vs. The People

Technorati tag: RIAA

Windows Vista not ready yet ?

Interesting post on ex-microsoft employee's blog:

http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/.

Too many things are too slow and/or don’t work. I’ve been on the betas of every Windows OS since Windows 3.1 and Vista is starting to feel good, but it doesn’t feel good enough to release to the factory in October. It feels like it needs a good six more months than that, which would mean a mid-year release next year.

I gotta agree with this. I tried the July build that came after the public Beta 2 release from the MSDN network and had quite a few problems. (IE7 constantly crashing being one of them) and the whole felt a bit sluggish on an AMD3500+ with 1Gb. We'll see whether MS will ship it early next year or wait a bit a bit to straighten things out.

Here is another article on windows vista at winsupersite.com.

Technorati tag: Windows+Vista

Mel Gibson's serie pulled by ABC

Interesting news on the creator of Passion of the Christ. Perhaps he should actually read the bible and put it into practise ;).

The move came after Gibson was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving early on Friday and was reported to have launched into a tirade against Jews, asking the arresting officer if he was a Jew and blaming the Jews for starting all wars.

The actor, who holds strong conservative Catholic religious and political views and whose father is a Holocaust denier, apologized on Saturday and has entered a rehabilitation program to treat alcoholism.

From yahoo news

Technorati tag: Mel+Gibson

The rise of Bit Torrent and the fall of trading

Nice post at Eric's Music Ramblings.

I remember the good old days of mail trading. Anxiously waiting for the mail man to come by with your new goodies (cassette tapes and later DAT tapes and eventually cd's). Kinda makes me feel old ;).

Microsoft will push IE7 through windows update

It will even make it a high priotiry update, because the security should be much better. Also there will be a tool available for those who doesnt want to get it.

News.com
Slashdot
Discussion on channel9.

Technorati: IE7, Microsoft

Redesigning logos Web 2.0 style

There is fun thread on the Yay Hooray boards. A lot of these logos can also be found on flickr though.

Technorati Tag: Flickr

VMN Storage

1 GB of Free Online Storage on VMNStorage.com


You get 1GB and a modified version of AceFTP (for Windows). Seems to work nicely, I just signed up after getting the invitation email in my Gmail account. Not sure why I got it, maybe I signed up for something some while ago ? Anyway, it cant hurt to have 1gig of storage in a central place ;).

Technorati tags: vmn+storage

Technorati

Looks like technorati redid their site, giving it a somewhat more colorful yet cleaner look ! It also seems to be less of a mess, it's easier to search and stuff. Will definately take a closer look ;).

Technorati tag !

YouTube - David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff - Jump In My Car

OMG o.O.

YouTube - David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff - Jump In My Car: "David 'The Hoff' Hasselhoff - Jump In My Car"

OpenDNS

OpenDNS recently opened up. It's a replacement DNS for your ISP's DNS. It seems to work pretty good over the short period of time I have tested it.

OpenDNS: It's Not SiteFinder for Obvious Reasons
OpenDNS on photomatt.net.
Tom Raftery's IT Views

Technorati tags: OpenDNS

9rules.com: What is Web 2.0 ?

What is Web2.0 ? Interesting discussion right here:

9rules — Browse: Read anything about everything

Looks like everybody has gotten their own definition ;).

Fun column at PC Magazine

There is a great column at the PC Magazine site by John Dvorak.

The current PC platform is so close to being permanently broken that I'm stunned that people aren't already up in arms. Every­one should be sued for false advertising.

Indian Bloggers angry at ban

According to the BBC news, at least 17 sites were banned by the government, some are even hosted at blogger.com ! Apparently it's the Indian ISP's that block 'm off...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5194172.stm

Sysinternals Sold to MicroSoft

Microsoft finally bought the site that revealed the Sony rootkit and that brought us many excellent windows tools !

Betanews Article
http://www.windowsvistadownload.co.uk/?p=20
Blog post by founder of Sysinternals

Zoom Player

A new version of my favourite media player ZoomPlayer Pro is out now :). Wel worth registering as it gives you full control over what codecs are used for decoing avi's, mp4's dvd's etc. Together with ffdshow and Nvidia decoder (for MPEG2, dvd's for example) a perfect combo !

PodShow Plus

Posted are little review of the new Podshow Plus site at greendale.tk. I am not very fond of it, to put it mildly ;). Had to use it again today to find the new feed for the Gillmor gang, and they moved their feeds to podshow plus. It wasnt a pleasent experience searching for the rss feed :(. And then once I found it, it turned out my links in iTunes had finally updated ;).

New template

Found this template on the blogger template site. Though I liked the previous one, it was a little dark (actually very dark). This one looks move lively :). Only added the technorati box on the right as far as customization goes !

w.bloggar

Already am using MarsEdit on my Mac Mini, but I thought I'd give this one a try. It can be found at
http://wbloggar.com/.

Looks very nice so far, quite a few editing options and compatible with a lot of blog software. Shame my Greendale.tk blog doesnt seem to work, I think it's a server side security thing, that prevents posting from other sites...

Voting in the USA

Sounds like a John Cougar song, but it's actually a website ;).

911archive.org.

Archives - virtualdub.org

Very funny article on how many dll's are needed to produce the infamous 'hello world' program when programmed by MS's .Net.

Archives - virtualdub.org

New animal species ?

Now for something completely different :). Thought this was interesting on the BBC site, a new giraffe like species might have been spotted !

Pirate Bay Taken Down

Although I dont use bit torrent for downloads, except for bt.etree.org, I thought this story about the taking down of The Pirate Bay site is interesting.

Father Roderick

For those of you able to read dutch, there is a very nice article on a presentation by Daily Breakfast's Father Roderick at Frankwatching.

IE 7 beta 2 Reviews

A very nice overview of various reviews on IE7 Beta 2, Microsoft's latest effort to get IE back on track can be found on Betanews. As far as I am concerned it's too little, too late, but I'll keep an eye on these news articles ;).

Air vents are for air

Fun post on Lost at johnaugust.com :

Air vents are for air: "

On a recent episode of ‘Lost,’ a character climbed through air ducts to get past heavy blast doors, which had trapped him and another character. By narrative standards, this sequence would seem unremarkable. Except for one thing:

‘Lost’ takes place on a freaking magical island.

You’ve got polar bears, black smoke monsters, and a cabal of mysterious Others. There’s no shortage of dramatic opportunities, which is why it’s so disheartening to see the show reach for that lowest-hanging fruit: a guy in an air duct.

(Via johnaugust.com.)

Iraq Situation

How long will this go on ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4935528.stm

Microsoft Mac Lab

Very nice tour can be found here. Didnt even know they had such a thing :).

Neil Young: Impeachement

Veteran rocker Neil Young has recorded a protest album featuring an anti Iraq war track with "a holy vow to never kill again" and a song titled "Let's Impeach the President," the singer said on Monday.

Full Story at Yahoo News

Elder Scrolls Oblivion

Already preordered this long awaited and highly anticipated rpg game, while cruising the web came upon this site: http://www.waiting4oblivion.com/

Oblivion to ship on March 20th. Play.com has the date as 29th.

Kirby Puckett

To An Athlete Dying Young

THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come, 5
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.

found at http://www.bartleby.com/103/32.html

Greendale.tk

Windows Vista

Found a link to this article on Novell's corporate site, weird enough. It's an interesting read and pretty much confirms what I already expected ;).

Why Windows Vista will suck.

MC Hammer

Found out through Adam Curry's daily source code that MC Hammer has his own blog ! And it's even pretty interesting, unlike his music, way back when...

Cinephile Series - The Wild Bunch

Great new episode in the cinefile series at Reel Reviews. One of the best podcasts on movies...

Cinephile Series - The Wild Bunch: "

Reel Review #53: ‘If they move, kill ‘em!’ Not only one of the best Western’s ever made - one of the best films ever made. Sam Peckinpah hits his high note in this amazing film. There is so much to say - just watch it. ‘Let’s go.’

(Via MWGblog.)

Cheney drunk at hunting accident ?

Interesting article on Cheney and the hunting accident.

We talked with a number of administration officials who are privy to inside information on the Vice President's shooting "accident" and all admit Secret Service agents and others say they saw Cheney consume far more than the "one beer' he claimed he drank at lunch earlier that day.

"This was a South Texas hunt," says one White House aide. "Of course there was drinking. There's always drinking. Lots of it."

The First Bootable OSx86 10.4.4 DVD » cavemonkey50.com

Interesting piece on how ppl are now able to use OSX on pc's :).

The First Bootable OSx86 10.4.4 DVD » cavemonkey50.com

Waiter Rant - Metro New York Article

From WaiterRant :

Metro New York Article:
Paul Berger did a piece on me in the ‘Blogarithms’ section of today’s Metro New York! Pick up a copy!

(Via Waiter Rant.)

I want to live, I want to give: A "Heart of Gold" Roundup

Interesting stuff on Neil Young on the Neil Young news site Thrasherwheat.

I want to live, I want to give: A "Heart of Gold" Roundup: "
Heart of Gold Film Reviews

Neil Young Jonathan Demme'Heart of Gold' film premieres @ Sundance 2006
Unscripted Interview: Demme & Young
'Prairie Wind': A Roundup
Commentary on Nashville Ryman Concerts and 'Prairie Wind' CD
The Song 'Heart of Gold'
NEIL YOUNG: HEART OF GOLD film website
The Magically Miraculous Year: 2005"

(Via Neil Young News.)

Ed calls AT&T Wireless

Found this very funny podcast, after hearing a promo on Adam Curry's Dailysourcecode. Well actually some stuff is rather sad ;). The state of some 'customer service' is rather bad...

Ed calls AT&T Wireless: "Ed calls AT&T Wireless (now Cingular). You won't believe this one."

(Via Talk About Service.)

Camino 1.0

\o/ Camino 1.0 is out !

Camino 1.0: "MacMinute: ‘The Camino Project today announced the Camino 1.0 browser, a free Web browser for Mac OS X, built on the open source Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.’



Sweet!"

(Via Ranchero.)

HDR Group

There is a new digital photo technique called HDR. Here is a link to one of the pics, think it's wonderful !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebatl/98399006/in/pool-hdr/

This is the Flickr Pool.

Games are good for you

Interesting link to a study on the effects of computer games :).

Games are good for you: "

A new study of 100 university undergraduates in Toronto has found that video gamers consistently outperform their non-playing peers in a series of tricky mental tests. If they also happened to be bilingual, they were unbeatable.

Barely a day goes by when video games, generally Grand Theft Auto, are blamed for something evil. But that doesn’t mean they are bad. I have my own views on the whole ‘video games are murder simulators’ debate, and maybe I’ll write them up one day. For now though - I’ll focus on the positive.

Researchers in Toronto have found that people who played video games are able to concentrate better, and excel at multi tasking.

Prof. Bialystok suspects video gamers, like bilinguals, have a practised ability to block out information that is irrelevant to the task at hand.

You can read more in the article on the Globe and Mail website.

"

(Via Binary Moon.)

Heart of Gold Film Reviews

Reviews for the new Neil Young movie Heart of Gold are appearing accoring to the Neil Young news blog.

Heart of Gold Film Reviews: "

NEIL YOUNG: HEART OF GOLD film website
Caution. Metaphor alert ahead.

The movie reviews for 'Neil Young: Heart of Gold' have been rolling in at steady clip and are virtually unanimous in singing the film's praises. And unanimous in using mining phrases like 'glittering gold' and 'strikes gold'.

Opening in limited release this weekend in New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto, the film is being

"

(Via Neil Young News.)

Boagworld.com

If you're into webdesigning, be it professional or for a hobby, then you should check out boagworld.com. Paul Boag has a lot of useful tips and also a nice podcast ! There is a new episode out no. 22.

22. How your website sells: "Whatever your website is about, it has to sell something. From selling an idea to a product or service, every site has its place in the sales process. This podcast looks at what that process is and how your website plays its part.>

(Via Web Design Podcast (boagworld).)

Disney, Pixar and Apple: What Happens Next?

Some thoughts on this recent merger on macslash.org !

Disney, Pixar and Apple: What Happens Next?: "I think one of the most interesting things about the recent Disney-Pixar merger is how often the pundits bring Apple into the mix. Apple is, of course, the most-interesting company of the three, even though it's not offiicially part of this merger! This column on Silicon.com brings the speculation of the ways Apple can leverage this new relationship to a mainstream audience. Author Seb Janacek seems to think that the Mac Media Centre is a certainty, and has replaced the PowerBook G5 as Apple's next 'gotta-do' product. What do you think, MacSlash? Will I be plugging a Mac into my TV anytime soon?"

(Via MacSlash.)

How the hell did I get on this mailing list?

There is a very funny post on John Augusts sitem which is a very nice blog btw, worth checking out :

How the hell did I get on this mailing list?: "

PajamaGram sells robes and pajamas — mostly for women, but they have some ‘cute’ couples pajamas that are worth flipping to the back to see. Such as these his-and-hers crossword pajamas.

I ask you: Could anything be better than doing the Sunday crossword puzzle while wearing crossword pajamas?

(Via johnaugust.com.)

Trans 2006-01-31: “Aloha”

The podcast about the Lost tv show, the Transmission, brought from Hawaii, has come to an end :(. I enjoyed it quite a lot, shame it has come to this.

Trans 2006-01-31: “Aloha”:
There’s so much more we should have said, and yet we know we could never have said enough. ‘The Transmission’ must end, but we hope you’ve enjoyed the ride at least half as much as we have. We’ll never be able to fully thank you for sharing your love of ‘Lost’ with us, and for making our little show something truly remarkable. We look forward to joining you in the fantastic ‘Lost’ fan community, and to tuning in to the ‘Lost Podcasting Network’ for our fix of some true LostCasting talent. Mahalo a nui loa, and aloha.