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Deep within the blackness of space, preparations are well underway for Big Bang II, the rebirth of Mr. Sun.

Originally from Mr. Sun! by Mr. Sun reBlogged on Aug 5, 2006, 1:14PM

Originally posted by Mr. Sun from Mr. Sun!, on August 5, 2006 3:04 PM

I’ve used the same shell prompt for ~10 years now. 10 years. The colors I use come from an old IRC friend’s bash configuration utility (I probably have the script source buried deep in some archives somewhere).

You’ll notice that the prompt tells you the current user’s username, the hostname of the machine, and the current folder.

If you’d like something similar, simply place the following line in the .bashrc file of your home directory.

PS1="[\033[1;30m][[\033[1;36m]\u[\033[0;36m]@[\033[1;36m]\h[\033[1;30m]]
[\033[0;36m]:[\033[1;36m]:[\033[0;37m]\W[\033[1;36m]>[\033[0m] "

Realize that it should all be a single line (I broke it here so that it would fit).

Originally from Justin Blanton reBlogged on Aug 5, 2006, 8:02PM

Originally from Justin Blanton, on August 5, 2006 3:04 PM

Another Flickr group: Old Maps. Featuring scans of. See previous entries: Flickr Geotagging Group; Art of the Road; Feel Small Project; Flickr Users' Map Photos. See also Map Site Directory: Flickr....

Originally from The Map Room by Jonathan Crowe reBlogged on Aug 5, 2006, 1:28PM

Originally posted by Jonathan Crowe from The Map Room, on August 5, 2006 3:04 PM

Saved locations come to Google Maps -- if you have a Google account, that is. Locations you search for will be automatically saved by default; you can add them manually as well. See also Google Maps Mania....

Originally from The Map Room by Jonathan Crowe reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 5:20PM

Originally posted by Jonathan Crowe from The Map Room, on August 5, 2006 10:34 AM

In his Designing for Mobile, Brian Fling describes why “mobile is not the Web”:

200+ devices
30+ web browsers
Carrier controlled ecosystem
Limited input or output
Limited guidelines or resources
“No Standards”
People don’t “get it”
The list goes on….

Originally from pasta and vinegar by Nicolas reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 2:25AM

Originally posted by Nicolas from pasta and vinegar, on August 4, 2006 1:57 PM

Given his recent legal troubles, Mel Gibson may want to put some of the upcoming projects from Icon Pictures, his film production company, on hold. Here's a look at some of the movies we'll have to wait a bit longer to see.

Arrested at 2:36 a.m. Friday after his Lexus was stopped for speeding, [Mel] Gibson allegedly had a blood-alcohol level of 0.12 percent, over the legal limit of 0.08 percent. According to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Sheriff’s Department’s report says Gibson told the arresting deputy: “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” and asked him, “Are you a Jew?” —AP Internal Memo: Icon Pictures From: M. Gibson To: Production Staff Guys— As you know, I’ve been caught with my pants down. (But this time not literally, thankfully.) Under the influence of a deadly disease called alcoholism, I said some crazy things. Things that were totally made up and had never actually crossed my mind before, even casually. For this I am sorry, as the thoughtful statement drafted by my Jew publicist attests. Due to these recent events, and at my... Click here to continue reading this article.

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Originally from The Morning News reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 11:12AM

Originally from The Morning News, on August 4, 2006 1:55 PM

jwang writes "I just set up Planet Catalyst at http://planet.catalystframework.org to aggregate blogs about the Catalyst framework. It is also linked from the main Catalyst homepage so you can reach it from there. The planet is focused on articles related to Catalyst and friends which means it filters articles on catalyst, dbic, dbix(::)?class, html(::)?widget or handel (case insensitive). Let me know if there are any other topics of interest that should be included.

Originally from use Perl by davorg reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 9:31AM

Originally posted by davorg from use Perl, on August 4, 2006 1:55 PM

Think that the Internet has made everyone's favorite childhood resource obsolete? Well, some residents of Carroll Gardens have found an innovative and oh-so-necessary use for their old collection of World Book Encyclopedias. A is for "Ahhhhh."

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 10:50AM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on August 4, 2006 1:55 PM

I’m guessing that the reason paid features were sneaked in by means of a new unannounced menu option* and a passing comment in the news blog (rather than, you know, an actual post) is so that the big announcement could be made at WordCamp. Which sort of makes sense, because they had to have some sort of news to generate the right kind of triumphalist atmosphere, and ‘we’re stealing LJ’s friends-only feature’ might not have been enough all by itself, what with the plebs having been told about it too.

At first I was thinking $15 compared pretty well with livejournal, but then I remembered all the other stuff I get for $25 over there. Usericons, phoneposts, unlimited customisation, mood themes, polls… granted, I don’t use most of this stuff, which is why I no longer think $25 is worth it and am reverting to free. Having been paying for hosting since 2002, I’m not target market for either of these hosts. The a-la-carte credit system, so that you’re only paying for the extra features you need rather than an entire package, is definitely a good idea. Livejournal users have been wanting that for years. I don’t know whether it will prove less lucrative than pressuring people into fixed-tariff subscriptions, or whether some kind of ‘pile your virtual trolley high with cheap add-ons’ mentality will kick in. The latter, probably.

And at first I thought Six Apart might be slightly worried by the introduction of friends-only, but actually no, because privacy is only half of the rationale behind LJ friends (the other half is friends page aggregation), and having extra blogs rather than filters, while useful for inflating the total number of blogs, is significantly more awkward for end users. It’s more like password-protection on diaryland or the late lamented diary-x than what LJ or Vox are doing, and none the worse for that. After all, if I need LJ’s privacy features, I’m going to be on LJ.

I like the idea of Sandbox (I haven’t looked at the structure yet, but I’m assuming it’ll be reasonably sound), though when I mooted a very basic theme in the forum I was thinking more of controlling selected features through the options menu. It doesn’t sound as if it has that, so until the community gets around to coding copy-and-paste stylesheets, this is really only useful to those who are already comfortable with CSS.

Question: is this the same Minimalist Sandbox as on Scott’s site, or are there wordpress.com-specific changes?

* which appears, by the way, to have replaced import/export, now squirrelled away under ‘manage’. I am so looking forward to dealing with the confusion arising from this in the forums while the staff party.

Originally from wordpressâ„¢ wank by that girl again reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 12:08PM

Originally posted by that girl again from wordpressâ„¢ wank, on August 4, 2006 1:54 PM

Photo by Kent Henderson

Sapodilla's sign-less storefront at 247 Smith Street doesn't look like much yet — but things are already heating up in their recently opened kitchen. The air-conditioning wasn't running when we stopped by Wednesday night, so we put in a take-out order at the tiki-style bar. We barely recognized the old Village 247 space — all the pastel murals have been pulled down to reveal brick-exposures and deep red walls. The friendly staff told us that the downstairs bar will be renovated into a lounge by the fall, "with banquettes and low-lighting to make thing a little sexier." For now, it's worth visiting for the food, which is definitely some of Smith Street's spiciest fare...

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 12:33PM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on August 4, 2006 1:54 PM

Scoble writes a nice post-Microsoft rant about what's wrong with his former company, and what the company should pay attention to. The answer: attention data. I agree. Positing a scenario in which he's looking for an office chair for less than $500, Scoble writes:

When I search on “Office Furniture” why is the first thing I see stores? I don’t wanna see freaking corporate info. I wanna know what HUMANS like to use in their offices.

None of the big search companies have figured out that it’s the humans who “optimize” the Web.

They just wanna collect the big company paychecks.

I’m hearing that too here at Podtech. It’s all bunk. If there is no audience, there is no advertising. I’m not an “eyeball” to be tracked, or optimized.

I’ll be looking for who lets me get to the other humans the fastest....

...Remember Active Desktop and Channels? Microsoft could have OWNED the blog world and RSS. Why did that fail? Cause when we looked at it all we saw were big companies.

If you optimize for them you’ll fail.

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 1:09PM

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog, on August 4, 2006 1:54 PM

I wonder if there will be new developer technologies at this WWDC as important as Cocoa Bindings and Core Data in recent years.

I don’t think so—which doesn’t bother me at all, actually. I do expect new technologies, and I expect improvements to Bindings and Core Data, but I don’t expect big new fundamental technologies like these.

My reasoning is pretty simple. Cocoa apps are generally built using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. Back in the early days of OS X we already had View technologies, but not much for Model and Controller. Then Cocoa Bindings came along, which covered the Controller part. A year later Core Data appeared, which covered the Model (data) part.

So we’re covered (M, V, and C) and I don’t expect fundamental new developer technologies.

But of course I stand ready to be surprised by things I didn’t think of!

Originally from inessential.com reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 1:25PM

Originally from inessential.com, on August 4, 2006 1:54 PM

Design Within Reach is screening The Eames Film Festival, featuring the short films of Charles and Ray Eames, at cities across the US. Unfortunately for me, a small town called New York City doesn't seem to be on the schedule. :(

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 1:30PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on August 4, 2006 1:54 PM

Fascinating list of terms that Jeopardy fans use to describe the game and different betting strategies. (via thih)

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 2:26PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on August 4, 2006 1:54 PM

US Congress takes head out of ass, puts 'French' back on menu. The days of "Freedom Toast" are behind us. Let us never speak of them again.

Originally from megnut.com blog by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 2:27PM

Originally posted by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) from megnut.com blog, on August 4, 2006 1:54 PM

"My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood".

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 11:43AM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on August 4, 2006 1:54 PM

Popular curry spice is a brain booster. Eat curry, improve cognitive function.

Originally from megnut.com blog by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 11:27AM

Originally posted by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) from megnut.com blog, on August 4, 2006 1:54 PM

Time to say farewell, and to thank you, Meg, for your great hospitality and generosity in allowing me to post on your blog. It's been a great experience, and has allowed me to explore some ideas I'd never have pursued in traditional media while using a voice that is only appropriate to a blog. I'm very much a believer in the how-do-I-know-what-I-think-till-I-read-what-I-write effect, so the freedom of the blog has helped me to figure some things out. Such as why the foie issue is so troubling to me.

In the end it's not about the foie. Life would be diminished in a very small way without foie gras but not drastically so (they way it would be, say, if pork were outlawed). It's that it represents another way uninformed people are trying to legislate what I am or am not allowed to eat. Government is happy to subsidize corn and encourage horrific treatment of billions of cows, pigs and chickens, to encourage through big business processed food that is bad for us, and then tell me that I'm not allowed to eat a natural product from an animal that has (in my opinion, as of now, though this may change) been humanely raised. When people tell me what I can or cannot eat based on a moral contention of their own, that really pisses me off. It's happening throughout our society. The foie issue embodies this troubling trend in America.

I believe that the issues about food that are discussed on the food blogs are important because how we eat determines how we live, literally and metaphorically. How we eat, and the decisions we make, shape the world. From an evolutionary standpoint, humans are a dangerous species--a wickedly smart predator that has so far managed to avoid the ecological disasters of its own predation. I hope we continue to do so, for my kids' sake, but it's going to get harder and harder. We're trashing our livestock; through genetic engineering and the creation of a monoculture, creating powerful bugs that can kill; we're fishing out our oceans, working our way down the food chain, and we're pretty much at the bottom feeders now; we're creating massive dead zones in our oceans from agricultural pollutants, bankrupting our fossil fuel supply and burning holes in the atmosphere.

So yes, dammit, that's why foie gras is important: because it's NOT important. Does that make sense? It shouldn't be important, but it has become important, and that is the shame of it.

See, there I go. I start out thanking Meg, and I tumble into another rant. But it seems to be the only way to be heard. Flannery O'Connor once explained that all her characters were in effect caricatures because it was the only way to make people see. Blogs seem to be particularly good at this as well. Food is important, arguably the most important thing there is, that and water. And blogging well and intelligently about food is important. Maybe it can change things. I hope.

So many thanks to all the excellent readers who commented on the issues, elevating and enhancing them and giving them perspective and balance. And again, many thanks for the opportunity to hang out for a short time on your excellent blog, Meg. I'll be reading.

Onward.

comments are open

Originally from megnut.com blog by michael@ruhlman.com (Michael Ruhlman) reBlogged on Dec 31, 1969, 6:59PM

Originally posted by michael@ruhlman.com (Michael Ruhlman) from megnut.com blog, on August 4, 2006 1:54 PM

All last week i hankered for fried green tomatoes. It's that damn cashew chutney combined with cornmealy fried goodness that i love! I can't seem to find any green tomatoes outside of the Union Square Farmers' Market, so last Saturday i forced us to wake up at an insane 7am in order to get there early for the good stuff. (Keep in mind i usually go to sleep around 3am, so this is quite a grand feat!)

Getting there early was such a good experience. The crowds aren't stifling and neither is the weather; basically your only competition for the best tomatoes are early-rising senior citizens and produce-hungry shoppers. We spent about $30 and came home with 2 bulging bags:

1 large bunch collard greens
1 large bunch kale
3 medium green tomatoes
4 assorted heirloom tomatoes
1/2 lb baby bok choy
1/2 lb okra
2 large jalepeno peppers
1 pint tiny strawberries
cilantro
basil
common mint
9 ears of corn

I wish i remembered the name of our corn vendor - all i recall is that he was on the west side of Union Square, with a table of corn on the end of a stall, $1 for 3 ears - because you gotta RUN this Saturday and get 18 or 24 ears of corn like i will. It was cut so recently that the ends still glistened, and so sweet that people were eating it RAW, juice down the chin and encouraging others to buy quickly.

When we got home we shucked and microwaved* 2 ears. We were pretty sure they were going to be good but definitely not as good as the little ears we had in Hawaii, and we were so wrong. All we talked about for the rest of the day was how excellent the sweet yellow corn was: so sugary, so tender you barely had to exert a forceful bite. We somehow didn't tire of turning to each other and going, "Fuck! Why was that corn so good?" for hours. Absolutely no need for butter or salt. Now, i ate my 3 ears within a few hours of purchase but be saved his last one for 2 days later. It was less sweet and little more starchy, but still excellent according to him.

You must get some corn. It's time for tomatoes. The peaches smell perfumey. And i finally got my green tomatoes! So good!

* How To Microwave Corn

Ever since our complimentary microwave from the bank (back in the 80s when banks actually gave you gifts for opening accounts) my family has microwaved fresh corn. It's faster and more flavorful than boiling, plus it's super easy.

1) Shuck corn and remove silk as best you can
2) Place 2-4 ears on a microwave-safe plate or glass dish
3) Cover with plastic wrap and vent in a few places
4) Microwave on high for approximately 1.5 minutes per ear, a bit less time if corn is super fresh
5) It's gonna be HOT - use mitts to take it out and to lift off plastic wrap, be careful of steam

Originally from beXnlog by beXn reBlogged on Aug 1, 2006, 11:35PM

Originally posted by beXn from beXnlog, on August 4, 2006 2:27 AM

If you’ve gotta run the wheel, you might as well do it in bare feet. Many of us are so busy being good little hamsters that we never have face time with green space. A group of students from Dalhousie School of Architecture decided to remedy this problem with a street-ready grass-lined wheel.

More on Inhabit …

Originally from Amit Gupta's Blog by Amit Gupta reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 1:12AM

Originally posted by Amit Gupta from Amit Gupta's Blog, on August 4, 2006 2:27 AM

Meebo, the start-up that lets you instant message online across different platforms (Google, MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc), has come up with a cool little widget that lets you chat with anyone directly from your homepage. It is called Meebome, and the details are here. We've embedded it here on the page, so that you can we what it looks like. To our knowledge, there is no other feature that lets you chat to various people -- individually, via one-to-one conversations -- from pretty much any Web page. There is Gabbly, but that is group chat, and it produces lots of noise because everyone can see what you are writing to everyone else. That homepage can be wherever you want it, from your MySpace account, to your blog, to your listing page at eBay. We think this is significant for a number of reasons. First, this is a very fun feature for regular bloggers, the ones with only four or five people reading their blog at any given time of the day. Second, and more profoundly, it is a deceptively simple feature that pushes forward IM-presence on the Web, and could help transform ecommerce -- that is, if eBay permits it on their site and allows chat directly between buyers and sellers. The blogger can decide to reveal whether they are present to chat or not, and the reader on the page can do the same -- just like in normal chat. It is just one more option to have a chat function at an important part of your Web identity. The big question is whether eBay will allow this or not. More shortly....

Originally from VentureBeat by Matt Marshall reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 9:00AM

Originally posted by Matt Marshall from VentureBeat, on August 4, 2006 2:19 AM

A mix for the heat: Al Barr, Ratatat, Bravo Silva, Prince, M. Ward, The Rapture, Eddie Holman, Towa Tei, Marcia Griffiths, Elton John, James Hand, The Roulette Sisters, The Alarmists, Cuizinier, The Raconteurs, The Weird Weeds

I just spent two and a half weeks submerged in the woods and there wasn’t much music besides frogs and a neighbor’s chainsaw. Radio stations were few; the local NPR broadcast was locked in a fundraising drive; my iPod wouldn’t talk to the tape deck in the car, and my working brain (I was submerged in the woods with a laptop, I should have said) only responded to Schumann, Handel, Brad Mehldau, and the Grateful Dead. And I forgot to bring any mixes with me. I love mixes in the summer. It’s good weather for jubilation. As a kid I’d hide in my bedroom during summer break to make cassettes. For lack of a record collection, or a world that contained mp3 blogs, the mixes weren’t big on variety—Beatles, Michael Jackson, Beatles, Belinda Carlisle—but at least the songs were never in the same order. Here’s a mix for this afternoon,... Click here to continue reading this article.

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Originally from The Morning News reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 12:18PM

Originally from The Morning News, on August 4, 2006 2:17 AM

Last Friday, Tzameti (13) opened at Film Forum. As far as I can tell, this is the only place where you can see this movie in the US. It's by first-time Georgian director Gela Babluani, takes place in France,...

Originally from Amy's Robot by Amy reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 10:30AM

Originally posted by Amy from Amy's Robot, on August 4, 2006 2:17 AM

If you had a blog on MSN Spaces then you now have a blog on Windows Live Spaces, with new friends features and gadgets, because Microsoft has finally rolled out the upgrade. The changeover was announced on The Space Craft,...

Originally from Guardian Unlimited: Technology blog reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 9:47AM

Originally from Guardian Unlimited: Technology blog, on August 4, 2006 2:17 AM

This image of the participants of a 1927 conference on quantum mechanics sets the record for the most brainpower in one photograph. Schrodinger, Pauli, Heisenberg, Dirac, Compton, Bohr, Einstein, Planck, Curie, de Broglie, and Lorenz, all in one place.
Update: A Great Day in Harlem depicts several of the world's top jazz musicians. More here. (thx, jim & greg)

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 8:54AM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on August 4, 2006 2:17 AM

Grass-Fed Rule Angers Farmers reported the New York Times last week. Includes addresses for submitting comments to the Agriculture Department regarding grass-fed legislation. If I'm going to spend the extra money for something that's labeled grass-fed, I want to be sure it's actually out in the pasture grazing for its meal, not standing in a feed lot eating "grass" harvested from unripe corn.

Originally from megnut.com blog by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 11:53AM

Originally posted by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) from megnut.com blog, on August 4, 2006 2:16 AM

In just a few hours, we'll be announcing the five winners of our Blink of an Eye contest here in New York. Come join us -- I hear there's air conditioning! The Midtown Loft, 267 5th Avenue, 4th Floor, 6 - 9 PM. We hope you can join us. Did I mention there's air conditioning?

Photo from carpe icthus.

Originally from FlickrBlog by Heather Champ reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 11:05AM

Originally posted by Heather Champ from FlickrBlog, on August 4, 2006 2:16 AM

Don't worry about me - I'm doing just fine!!

Originally from Andrea Harner by Andrea reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 2:56PM

Originally posted by Andrea from Andrea Harner, on August 4, 2006 2:16 AM

I’ve recently been playing with Vox, the new blogging/social networking product from Six Apart. I have to say that I’m very impressed with it—it’s blogging for people who don’t blog. It’s very easy to post an entry, and the integrated multi-media tools are dead simple to use.

If anyone wants an invite, drop a line in the comments.

Originally from pf.org by Paul Frankenstein reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 4:28PM

Originally posted by Paul Frankenstein from pf.org, on August 4, 2006 2:14 AM

he made edits and encouraged others in this episode; they locked the article  

Originally from Waxy.org Links reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 2:49PM

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on August 4, 2006 2:14 AM

This summer, we’re kicking off research to further explore the business value of user experience. This work will expand upon ideas first presented in our 2004 report, Leveraging Business Value: How ROI Changes User Experience.

We’re looking for your help to validate our ideas. If you have a minute, please complete our Business Value of User Experience survey. The survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=460122410765

As a bonus, by completing the survey you’ll receive a free copy of the Leveraging Business Value report, a $395 value. The information you provide will be kept confidential; with your permission, we may contact you for a follow-up interview based on your responses.

If you can participate, thank you for your time. Questions? Contact me at steve@adaptivepath.com.

Originally from Adaptive Path by Steve Toomey reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 5:01PM

Originally posted by Steve Toomey from Adaptive Path, on August 4, 2006 2:13 AM

Crazy Frog is No. 1 on the album charts in Canada, reports Jam! Showbiz. Crazy Frog's "More Crazy Hits" debuted at No. 1 in the nation this week, racking up over 15,000 in sales, according to data compiled by Neilsen...

Originally from ringtonia.com by Regine reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 5:16PM

Originally posted by Regine from ringtonia.com, on August 4, 2006 2:13 AM

Finally! I got the recipes ported over from my old site and you can now see them here. The design isn't so hot, need to do some more tweaking, but at least they're there. Now that they are, I recommend you make a bread salad or heirloom tomato salad for dinner tonight.

Originally from megnut.com blog by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 5:29PM

Originally posted by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) from megnut.com blog, on August 4, 2006 2:13 AM

Turns out the big fellow is all over YouTube. I've always said: when they get the cloning thing down, I'll start my own nation with 12 young Saboni, and we'll win Olympic gold every four years.

Some favorite videos:

• An incredible no-look pass to Bonzi Wells.
• An even more incredible pass to a nameless Euro. I have never seen anyone do a blind "tap-on" pass like this in basketball before. I've seen it in soccer, but not basketball.
• Love the young Sabonis hair do, the green court, a little victory dance, and the soviet bloc TV production.
• This one is not in English either, but I'd love to know what they're saying about him as they torment the sleeping Sabonis on the plane.
• Throws a mean elbow.
• I wish I spoke whatever language they're speaking in this old-school Sabonis mini-documentary. Much of it appears to pre-date color television.
• This is kind of hilarious. Video of young Sabonis with Axl Rose singing "nothing lasts forever..." It's actually the granddaddy of Sabonis highlight packages (includes a lot of the stuff above), complete with a shattered backboard.

Originally from True Hoop by Henry Abbott reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 6:48PM

Originally posted by Henry Abbott from True Hoop, on August 4, 2006 2:11 AM

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To meet daddy for lunch on the grass.

Originally from Kokochi by Mie reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 6:09PM

Originally posted by Mie from Kokochi, on August 4, 2006 2:10 AM

Here’s something I’d totally love to see at WWDC: the Cocoa framework open-sourced. Foundation and AppKit both.

It’s not that I want to work on it, and it’s not that I want to use _undocumented _private _methods, it’s that sometimes it would be really helpful to have the source so I can see what’s going on under the hood.

There are times when things don’t work as expected, or there’s some weird bug, and I want to look at the source—and be able to debug with the source—so I can see what the heck is actually going on.

I understand entirely that making Cocoa open source means a bunch of work. It wouldn’t be easy; it would be expensive. But Apple does have the WebKit experience to draw on.

And there are other drawbacks. But one drawback I think doesn’t exist: they don’t have to worry about competition. Is there somebody else who wants to create an Objective-C application framework for OS X? (Ah, nope.)

Apple would get big points for openness and generosity and developer support. (Assume that part of this would be making the bug tracker open to developers.)

(I have absolutely no inside knowledge. This would be an exciting and cool thing to have happen, but I put its likelihood somewhere around 0.01%.)

Originally from inessential.com reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 8:17PM

Originally from inessential.com, on August 4, 2006 2:10 AM

Switch is a DIY show for teaching young women about electronics through fashion and design.

Originally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by yatta reBlogged on Jul 25, 2006, 7:09PM

Originally posted by yatta from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on August 4, 2006 2:09 AM

Take me to WWDC! Mike McCracken WWDC flashcards!!

"This card may also be appropriate just after seeing the amazing demo of Apple's free version of your only product."

It sucks that Mike won't be there this year, but at least this way he'll be there in spirit.

Originally from Gus's blog, adventures in Flying Meat. reBlogged on Aug 4, 2006, 12:50AM

Originally from Gus's blog, adventures in Flying Meat., on August 4, 2006 2:09 AM

The Lisbon Perl Mongers have put up an ICS Perl calendar. The calendar will contain all the social and tech Perl events in Portugal, as Perl-related conferences and deadlines around the world. Suggestions are welcome. Enjoy :-)

Originally from use Perl by cog (posted by brian_d_foy) reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 9:50PM

Originally posted by cog (posted by brian_d_foy) from use Perl, on August 4, 2006 2:08 AM

Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, LG, Siemens, Panasonic. They’ve had years to get it right, but still no one has. The UIs suck. The smarter the phone the slower it is. The “other stuff” on phones still haven’t caught on [Chicago Tribune, registration required]. Today’s phones are failures — mainly software/interface failures.

What company gets the software-hardware-interface-experience connection like no other? Apple, of course.

Are we going to see Apple change the world again? Will Apple finally raise the bar on a piece of hardware and software that hundreds of millions rely on every day?

It’s theirs for the taking. Please take it, Apple.

Originally from Signal vs. Noise reBlogged on Aug 2, 2006, 10:00PM

Originally from Signal vs. Noise, on August 4, 2006 2:08 AM

Brent has been busy making guesses and putting out thoughts for things that may or may not happen next week at WWDC. Here's my list.

• Patches for SQLite to hand over to the main distribution to do file locking across samba, afp, and webdav. (Here's why this may be a possibility). And these patches get accepted to the main distribution so I can use it in VP3.


• VMware baked into the OS, and dubbed "Rosetta Extreme" or some crap like that.


• And if that doesn't happen, then I think VMware will finally have a product out for OSX.


• Tabbed Finder! (duh).


• More of the dark iTunes windows (duh).


• Resolution independence, along with some new displays to take advantage of that.


• I kept on telling people for a while that Apple would embrace Lua as a preferred in-app scripting language. But then I remembered "oh yea, they have a JavaScript VM already, don't they?". So I think they'll do something with that, and make a bridge that is useful outside of WebKit. I hope so anyway.


• Some sort of tab control (Brent wants this as well).


• Xcode 3.0 (OMG- 1250MB?!)


• Some fancy new compiler techniques (llvm?), to go along with a new runtime (objc 2.0).

Just a couple of more days...

I was eating dinner this evening with my wife, thinking about next week, and I sort of burst out laughing and shaking my head at the same time.

"What?" she asks.

"Next week is going to be pretty busy and intense" I say.

Originally from Gus's blog, adventures in Flying Meat. reBlogged on Aug 3, 2006, 1:10AM

Originally from Gus's blog, adventures in Flying Meat., on August 4, 2006 2:08 AM

"Our media is giving the impression that Israel is only fighting along the border in a defensive manner. The map exposes this lie of ommission -- this is an all out attempt to destroy the country of Lebanon." (via here and here)

Originally from Space and Culture by Matt reBlogged on Aug 3, 2006, 2:45AM

Originally posted by Matt from Space and Culture, on August 4, 2006 1:20 AM