"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
Spotted on the 365 days weblog, a downloadable (QuickTime) movie of 60’s era Leonard Nimoy and a bunch of young ladies dancing around singing “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.” None of the video seems to have anything to do with hobbits except for the lyrics.
Really, it seems like the kind of wacky concept [...]
Whole Earth Magazine is having a cash crunch. The Spring 2003 issue is all ready to go, but there isn’t enough money for printing and mailing. I must admit, I’ve let my connection to Whole Earth fade a bit. I subscribed for several years, and I’ve always had a deep respect for [...]
Tim Bray is a pretty smart guy, and I find myself reading more of his weblog posts than nearly any other blog I monitor. He’s also apparently kind of weird — but in a good way.
A few years ago when I was commuting back and forth on the Expressway in Toronto every [...]
The new Kung-Log was just released, and, if you have Safari 1.0 installed, it now uses the Apple WebKit for previews. The preview pops up almost instantaneously, and it even fetches your style sheet from the blog home page, which means that your previews look more or less exactly like they will look [...]
For a while, I have been curious about Spring,
a Mac OS X application that can’t really be categorized. This very fact is what intrigues me.
To use Spring, you create a “canvas” and you drag various “objects” on to it. Objects are represented in the canvas by images, but once they are [...]
I also love stuff like this.
From a CNN story on the project:
“We also wanted your cubicle to give you a little shred of dignity and recognition and acknowledge you exist because you’re probably not getting that from your co-workers or your boss. So we’ve built in a mechanical flower that’s acoustically activated. When [...]
I love stuff like this:
The KNOCKOFF *PROJECT
Album cover spoofs, goofs, tributes, send ups, near misses and coincedences .This is the all-new Knockoff*Project. There are over 100 new [...]
Wired 11.07 has a brief interview with Robert Moog. It doesn’t say a whole lot, but it’s nice.
They also lay to rest the pronunciation question:
If the synthesizer business has a household name, it’s Robert Moog – even if most people don’t know how to pronounce it. In the mid-’60s, Moog (rhymes with rogue [...]
I’ve been checking out SnipSnap, a java-based wiki/weblog. I had asked why SnipSnap sites seemed to ask me to login again even after just 15 minutes idle time, and the developers told me that it shouldn’t be happening because they set an encrypted cookie which should invisibly log me back in.
Well, this cookie [...]
Announcing a minor revision to the JGSI Quartz Tools. Quartz is a java library for scheduling jobs, which we did not write. However, Patrick, with whom I work, wished that Quartz had an XML configuration format, so he put one together. So you could call it the JGSI Quartz Tool (singular), but [...]