January 2008
93 posts
Help me solve a problem: I currently have an Airport Extreme Base Station (N) in my office, which is about 30 feet away from my television, Xbox 360, et al. The AEBS is currently serving wifi in mixed N/G/B mode, because everything in the entertainment center (save the Apple TV), and my iPhone, is only G capable. Of course, this creates a far slower network. I’d like to have everything in...
Cheeseburger in a Can →
An entire cheeseburger in a can. My, how technology has finally taken us to the sacred place, where our wildest fantasies are finally possible. (via smadden)
WatchSnowboarding III
Daylight, at last. Music is Never There by Cake.
Shawn Morrison: It's interesting that you're not an e-mail capitalizer. Most people aren't I guess.
Me: I honestly think we should pretty much get rid of capitals in English.
Shawn Morrison: Okay ee cummings.
Me: Well, it's true! I mean, why does writing "You went to the store" mean anything better/different than "you went to the store"?
Shawn Morrison: I GUESS.
Me: I would be fine with all caps except it's harder to read.
Me: I think we should remove casual caps and use all lower but use upper for emphasis and anger.
Me: you went to the store but you DIDN'T GET MY ICE CREAM
Shawn Morrison: Well, that's how I already do it.
Shawn Morrison: I also think we should bring back capitalization for important words. "I think you should go to the Clinic and get an Abortion."
Shawn Morrison: "PRONTO."
“When you get into the edit suite after shooting a movie, you feel a...”
– Christopher Nolan in Newsweek
RoundHaus →
There has been a lot of talk about Beanstalk lately, and while it looks nicer than RoundHaus, I still prefer the latter. RH has a really great testing integration feature for Rails apps where it will run your tests on checkin and report back to you. Awesome way to make sure your apps are constantly working.
I also had problems successfully getting an existing repository into Beanstalk, so that...
iPhonesque Growl Style →
I’m hesitant to reinstall Growl because of how much of a resource hog it was last time I used it, but man… this style makes me want to.
On my fourth run tonight, a twenty-something woman lost control of herself about 20 feet to my right after sliding up onto the edge of the path and coming back down, and from out of nowhere she bashed into me. Luckily for me, I’m finally a good enough snowboarder that I can make fast defensive moves and so I was able to slow down just before she hit me and I incurred no pain or damage other...
WatchGUI Concept - Motion Graphics
This looks neat. I like the way the background focuses in after log in, and some of the concepts are interesting.
Bonus points for the email message being from Gordon Freeman, and him asking for a crowbar. Geek!
I’m heading out to Seattle and then Whistler next week for a Blue Flavor get together, and I booked my flights a few weeks ago. The best deal with an airline I was willing to fly on was Delta, but they’ve got an annoying seating assignment routine with Expedia where they don’t let you choose seats until a few days after you book the flight. Of course, I always forget to go back...
Kitty Wigs! →
Good news: All wigs are in stock and shipping this week. This week… just think about it, you could have one by the end of next week. Better order now.
“Proficiently made, deeply offensive and undeniably cruel, like a popular...”
– Matt Pais in his Rambo review
T Incorporated →
Sure, the short version of the name of Tom’s new site might confused for an urban dictionary word for a homeless vagina, but that doesn’t mean the new design and functionality isn’t very well done.
My favorite feature is the stream, which is masterfully designed.
“Note: NO FART SOUNDS.”
– Shawn’s script note
The About:Blank Guide to Babysitting →
All seem like good advice. My personal favorite is waking baby.
PocketGuitar: A Virtual iPhone Guitar →
The multi-touch screen technology on the iPhone hasn’t even begun to be played with by Apple. I’m curious to see what kinds of cool stuff like this people create “officially” when the SDK comes out.
EveryBlock: A news feed for your block →
Fantastic web application with a gorgeous design (nice one, Wilson!), which allows you to keep track of what’s happening on your block and in your city. To be honest, I don’t know if I like seeing the recent crime statistics for my block…
Me: Okay, so i'm trying to buy an album with amazon and I downloaded the downloader app, right?
Me: So it installs, tells me to restart Safari.
Me: And then takes me to a page telling me to click "download album" for "Stars: The Best of the Cranberries"
Me: WTF?
Shawn Morrison: What did you buy?
Me: I didn't buy anything.
Me: How strange. I guess I'll just click cancel.
Shawn Morrison: Yeah.
Shawn Morrison: Check your purchase history too, just to make sure.
Me: Hmm, seems okay. How strange that it picked that random album.
Shawn Morrison: Though the Cranberries are pretty awesome!
Me: Heh, yeah, I could have had Zombie!
Me: Zombie... zoooombie... zombie ee ee ee ooooo...
Shawn Morrison: Great song. Though probably the only one I know.
Shawn Morrison: I really loved that song in high school.
Me: Oh, I had all of their albums in high school.
Me: Damn, now I might buy that shit!
Me: Nice sales work, Amazon!
I absolutely hate mail-in rebates. Most of the time, if I see a rebate on a product I completely ignore it when deciding on a purchase because I know I’ll never end up sending it in. I’ve probably lost thousands of dollars over the past ten years on unsent rebates.
Last night I sat down for a half hour and sent in four rebates. It was a pain in the ass, and they were all completely...
Dropping off and picking up my laundry at the corner laundromat used to be a well-oiled process taking only seconds. I’ve been going to the same place for five years and the owners know my face, my name and my preferences. I walk in and before I can drop my bag on the scale they’re already writing up the slip. When I come to pick up the clean clothes they immediately grab the faded...
80th Academy Awards Nominations →
Juno is the surprise hit of the year, with nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress (Ellen Page). I’m always thrilled when a comedy is nominated (even if they rarely win), because I don’t like the general attitude that a film must be a very serious drama to be the best film of the year.
Monocle →
New version of Jesper’s great little utility, which now has a bunch of really solid features (and, finally, a regular place in my menu bar).
Leaflets is Mashup of the Day →
I’d never seen the MashupAwards before, but I guess if there is a perfect award for Leaflets, it’s definitely “mashup of the day.” Now I just need to get these iPhone home screen icons in place…
Tabulate →
This is a really awesome idea and it works well. It’s fun to see how many people are starting to do cool things with bookmarklets on the iPhone. See also: Cameron’s Friendly Clip icon overrider.
WatchMRTV Episode 4
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Saw Cloverfield last night. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot. I do have to say, however, that as a New Yorker—and specifically a New Yorker who was working in World Financial Center 1 the morning of September 11, who stood outside, less than a block away as events unfolded, who has been forever affected by those events—I was offended by a moment in the film about 5 minutes into the...
“Hillary’s going to win. It was set in 1988 to go Bush, Clinton, Bush,...”
– Jeff Kreisler (via sujay)
Shawn Morrison: Right, I find most times you're just Superman-ing hoes without even thinking about it.
Shawn Morrison: Subconsciously.
Me: Definitely.
Shawn Morrison: Though you've really gotta figure a way to parlay that into super-soaking hoes.
Shawn Morrison: That's where your ho strategy is flawed.
Me: Yeah, I get close, but I'm never following through.
Me: And at this rate, I'm never gonna be cranking Robocop any time soon.
Shawn Morrison: No, definitely not. Though that one time you tried I think you took the term "Robocop" a little too literally.
Me: I'm sorry, was I supposed to just assume it DIDN'T mean shooting people in the face and wearing a suit of metal?
Shawn Morrison: I'll give you this: It's not clear.
Shawn Morrison: That poor girl.
AirMail: Manila Envelope Sleeve for MacBook Air →
This one looks like it might actually be for real, though, which is hilarious and strange and… well… people might actually just buy this thing. It might be a good theft deterrent, since people would think your MBA was just an envelope full of meaningless documents. (via shannon)
MacBook Air Battery Replacements Take Only Minutes →
This is good for all the idiots who have been screaming and crying about the MacBook Air battery not being removable. In my entire life, I have never cared about removable batteries in laptops, so this is just further icing for me.
Padded Case for MacBook Air →
Now accepting pre-orders. Think I might order two, just in case I lose the first one.
WatchUrban Legend ER
I love this.
Do what to my life? →
Awesome slogan. Nearly as awesome as the last corporate ad Bobby took a photo of, for Microsoft’s Sync, which has the most ridiculous slogan ever created.
Set an Apple Touch Icon for Any Site →
I tried writing a bookmarklet to do this when I first heard about it and failed. Drew McLellan, who is much smarter than I, figured it out and posted his results. Nice!
My first TiVo Suggestion recording just showed up: E! True Hollywood Story: Kelly Rippa. Um, yeah, so I clearly need to build up more ratings in the TiVo. Sorry, fella, but you’re way off. At least it wasn’t People’s Court.
“I’d hate to have to compare the discovery of the true model of one of the...”
– Me, when Katia traded me a NYTimes article about the Mona Lisa for my Soulja Boy post
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I am absolutely fascinated with the Soulja Boy dance phenomenon currently taking place in the world (and, mostly notably, the internet). Of course, it started with the release of “Crank Dat”, and pretty quickly morphed into a full-scale, country-wide obsession.
Now we’ve got celebrities, athletes, children and single mothers doing this Soulja Boy dance all over the place, and...
Product Party →
It looks like a simple product page for the company Hema, but if you wait a few moments you get a nice little show. (via implodr)
Lasagna Cat →
I’m absolutely fascinated with these. Mixing live-action recreations of classic Garfield strips with strange musical “tributes” to Jim Davis… it doesn’t get much weirder. Or better.
Finally got the TiVo set up this morning. The whole thing was super quick and the technician from Time Warner surprised me by being punctual (8:30AM during an 8AM-12PM slot) and knowledgeable. He navigated the TiVo menus will ease, clearly having set one up before.
I’ve gone through and set up a few season passes for my regular syndication recordings (Seinfeld, The Simpsons and...
Create a WebClip Bookmark Icon →
Hey web developers (Twitter, Flickr, etc, I’m looking at you), you can create an icon iPhone users will see when they put a webclip to your site on their home screen. Follow the instructions at the bottom of this page.