I just noticed that BBEdit 6.1 has a nifty little ‘Set Menu Keys…’ item in the ‘Edit’ menu. This allows you (among other things) to set ‘Command-Shift-S’ to the more oft-seen ‘Save as’ instead of ‘Save to FTP’ as is the application’s default for the key-command. I’m not sure if 6 or 5 has this option, I just noticed it with 6.1
Actually, I thought this was about the right price for a larger, upgraded, pile of steaming useless shit? … kind of like IE 5.1 for Mac OS X, except its free, thank god.
From Erasing:
I’d gotten complacent in my post-graduation life and had been feeling entirely too fond of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia and had sort of glossed over the fact that I do live in The South and that the student body of my alma mater is very heavily populated with ignorant, bigoted, homophobic, slow-witted, upper-class, identically-dressed, thick-necked, barrel-chested, cleft-chinned, ruddy-faced, party-hearty pack-hunting preppie redneck alpha-male Aryan fratboy assholes who were born with not just silver spoons but entire dinette sets in their collective sagging mouths, whose political affiliations lie somewhere to the right of Attila The Hun except when it comes to laws regarding weed and rohypnol, and whose chest-thumping machismo and obnoxiousness and bigotry and homophobia and misogyny will be rewarded in what passes for their adulthood with high-paying jobs and trophy wives and lives of privilege and pleasure and a lifelong freedom from ever having to comprehend the concepts of not being able to afford something or of not getting their way.
Hrm…. Sounds a lot like Littleton to me. Note: Absolutely ZERO relation to Columbine High School in Littleton, CO was made. I’m speaking more directly of Arapahoe High School and its surrounding neighborhoods.
For those that don’t know yet: “Schism” from the new Tool album (Lateralus) has hit the web. It’s all over Napster, but of course there are quite a few imposter songs out there. In fact, the first version I stumbled upon was bass only. The song length is about 6:45, if that helps.
Of course, it’s amazing. Completely prog rock in the way that only Tool can pull off. Hell, King Crimson is opening for them at some shows. And since you asked, I just love hearing new stuff from good bands, because it always casts their older work in a completely different light. For instance, Kid A is such a warm, comforting album in light of the dryer, more desolate Amnesiac (not dissing on Amnesiac though). To me, Aenema already feels a little different. Anyways, find “Schism” and see what you think.
Is it just me, or is MacOS Rumors, like, gone? Even MOSR.com doesn’t work. I haven’t been able to access it for a week now. Is it their flaky DNS, or did Apple finally shut ‘em down cause they got something right for once?
I think the recording industry gets dumber and meaner everyday. Fuck, this is almost funny.
Bowing to the threat of legal action from the recording industry, a Princeton computer scientists decided against presenting a paper Thursday on how the research team he led broke security on digital music.
WOOO!!
SDMI had held an open challenge some months ago, asking people to see if they could break the security measures.
But why are they threatening him? He did exactly what they wanted him to.
This is quite interesting… I would love to try it out but its in Japan only for now because the hard drive uses PCMCIA which is only part of the Japanese models. :<
From Adobe’s website:
Adobe has no plans at present to create a version of ATM Deluxe that runs on Mac OS X.
I think we can all join in for a heartfelt ‘Fuck you’ to Adobe on this. I mean, what could they possibly have as a reason for not carbonizing or cocoa-ing Type Manager? That’s ridiculous.
Johnson was driving past the statue recently with her young daughters and several of her daughters’ friends when the girls began to point, giggle and comment on the anatomically correct “David’‘.
“I didn’t even know it was art,’’ Johnson said. “To me, it’s just a naked man standing on the side of the road. Once the girls saw it, I found myself in a position where I had to explain what a penis is.’’
Jesus christ! You mean you had to actually be a parent for once! Oh my god!
Is this what happens when life imitates art?
The problem with the Jakob Nielsen approach is that a site designed solely from the perspective of usability is useless from the perspective of emotion. And emotion is where long-term customer relationships start, which is what you were after when you made that huge investment in your web presence, isn’t it?
Amen.
Interested in a thorough and sociologial look at the success of “All Your Base” (AYB)? Check it out. It’s a pretty interesting breakdown of memes, and how they penetrate society.
Naturally, questions arise. Notably: what the hell does this “All Your Base” nonsense mean? And why should I care about it? Come to that, why do I find myself repeating the oddest phrases, all-but-senseless strings of quasi-English along the lines of “Somebody set up us the bomb”?
The very definition of badass… The spring METAphrenie reel. (22Mb QT download)
from Salon:
The families of several victims in the Columbine massacre have filed a lawsuit against companies that create violent video games and sex-oriented Web sites, claiming their products influenced the gunmen.
“Absent the combination of extremely violent video games and these boys’ incredibly deep involvement, use of and addiction to these games and the boys’ basic personalities, these murders and this massacre would not have occurred,” said the lawsuit filed Thursday, a day before the two-year anniversary of the shootings.
Fucking bullshit. Mother-fucking ass-fucking holes. Jesus God-damned Christ in a fucking handbag. GAH.
The entertainment industry is NOT to fucking blame for something like this… especially for something that happened over 2 years ago… and the game they’re blaming (Doom) was created 6 years before THAT. This is a prime example of stupid people looking for someone to sue. It’s not about the victims anymore, it’s about the need to bleed the system dry, and get as many pennies as you fucking can. This is utter, complete bullshit. The only people to blame are the fucking victims themselves. If they left enough alone, those 2 kids would have had no reason to fucking shoot up the damn place. Do you honestly think that playing Doom or Quake and going to ‘sex-related’ websites had ANYTHING to do with the fact that these kids were verbally tortured day-in and day-out for nothing other than they didn’t play sports or look like the rest of the fucking kids in that school? I’m not defending the gunmen in the least, it was a despicable and ugly, horrible thing to do, but let’s face the facts here, they didn’t do it ‘cause Sarge told ‘em to.
Now, I’m jumping out on a limb here, but I’ve lived in Littleton, and I know what those people are like. These parents I can almost guarantee are suburban Republicans with giant houses and gas-guzzling Expeditions. They LOVE their capitalist way of life that affords them these great items. This ‘free market’ of ours has done wonders for their bank accounts and stock portfolios. But when the video game market determines that violent video games are what sells, they freak out because, well, violent video games are the reason why their kids are dead or injured. Why can’t these people see the way the world fucking works? Why can’t they wake up from their suburban sub-reality and see that they’re simply WRONG? It’s okay they’re pissed, but why can’t they truly search inside themselves for what THEY might have done wrong? When money, complacency and lack of compassion take the place of love in your hearts, peope die. Rage Against the Machine said it best..”Cellular phones, sounding a death toll.”
Check out the second post down in this Plastic.com discussion about it.
Ximian announced the availability Ximian GNOME 1.4 today… which looks strkingly like… well, MacOS 9, except for the installation manager, which looks a lot like WinXP, which I won’t even link to.