February 2012
9 posts
Iggy Pop's concert rider →
Probably the funniest ever created. All 18 pages.
Dromaeosauridae: In an email from a friend this... →
nanoraptor:
In an email from a friend this morning, on condition of anonymity.
“… What I definitely don’t like about comic sans is it’s too conservative. No, seriously, let me finish. It’s like the young liberal who went into middle management then gets to fifty five and wonders where his life went, so he buys a Harley or a little open top sports car, probably a Miata, and thinks himself...
“The internet is becoming this thing where it’s just people trying to become...”
– Merlin Mann
This is my opinion on social media as a valid job title
Reddit: He had a locker next to mine in... →
I just scanned all 572 parent comments (at the time of commenting) and not a single post on reforming gun laws. I’m both saddened that this indicates nothing will seemingly change in the near future (in this regard), and surprised that not one other parent comment exists. If I can buy a gun, I can shoot someone - If I can’t buy a gun, I can’t shoot someone.
Sad comment on...
“Happy music is easy to consume, you can just put yourself in the music and see...”
– Marcel Dettmann
January 2012
19 posts
How to setup VLC for Anime
If you want to make the default language English and disable subtitles, do the following.
Quit VLC
Go to ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc and open the file called vlcrc, open it
Look for #audio-language= and make it #audio-language=English, Japanese
Look for #sub-track=-1 and make it #sub-track=99
Look for #sub-track-id=-1 and make it #sub-track-id=99
Save
Voila!
“The perfect pair of dark denim jeans
A sense of humour
A daily read of an...”
– The essentials by Tom Ford
Steven Frank: shutup.css →
A browser plugin to prevent ever seeing comments on sites. Prevent the inevitable facepalm present on so many “news” sites.
Stopwords: iChat, Growl, and Lion →
How to re-enable Growl for iChat in Lion! Brilliant. Missed this with Chax on Snow Leopard.
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
3 posts
James & internet: iPod Phone →
jamescroft:
A great article on Patently Apple about the almost-made iPod Phone. Choice quote:
“Jobs called Fadell, Rubinstein, and Schiller to a secret meeting in the design studio conference room, where Ive gave a demonstration of multi-touch. “Wow!” said Fadell. But they were unsure that they would be able to make it work on a mobile phone. So they decided to proceed on two paths: P1 was...
October 2011
1 post
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to...”
– - Steve Jobs to then CEO of PepsiCo John Sculley in 1983, when he lured him into a co-CEO position of Apple Computer.
Ultimately this venture did not work out for Jobs and Sculley was personally responsible for Jobs ejection from the company just 2 years later, but dammit.. that’s the kind...
September 2011
4 posts
2 tags
amplified journaling done badly: Running →
yesnoerica:
Because I always feel like running Not away, because there is no such place Because if there was I would have found it by now Because it’s easier to run, Easier than staying and finding out you’re the only one who didn’t run Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described As in “the long run” Or as in having given someone a “run for his money” Or as in “running...
Safari Omnibar →
andytlr:
Safari Omnibar is a Safari SIMBL plugin that mimics Chrome’s combined URL and search bar.
I’ve seen a few average attempts at this before, but this works. It works really well.
I switched from Chrome to Safari when I upgraded to Lion, but I was missing this feature. It just makes sense to have them combined.
There’s an installer package that installs the plugin and SIMBL. So it’s...
“In each man’s heart there’s a secret sorrow that the world knows nothing about.”
– Lillian Roth
August 2011
5 posts
DropBox: 8GB referral Space Using AdWords for... →
Can’t believe this worked. I now have 11GB for free. A mate has 16GB. Think it depends on what other referrals / promotions you’d used before and or if you have a .edu email (which rewards more space). But the bottom line is I reached 11GB of lifetime Dropbox space in a couple hours for only a couple bux! Thanks for the tip @bdyling.
1 tag
really really really trying: How to write a... →
reallyreallyreallytrying:
Floaty melodic synth bit
Crazy overdriven Bloody Beetroots drums
Chopped up vocals going all crazy
“OH MY GOD” / “CALL 911 NOW” / “I DON’T KNOW ABOUT MY DREAMS” / “THIS IS MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER”
Reeeeeeeeeeeeee reeee BROP zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz *** WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB *** dzzz
Floaty…
How to remote torrent
Taking the time to write this up so I can point friends to it in future when they ask how I achieve such wizardry. Will update as people point out the probably glaring faults.
You need a computer at home. I recommend buying whatever Mac Mini you can find on the Apple Refurb store. Whatever you select (say iMac or old laptop) it will need to be constantly on, so don’t let the device sleep -...
July 2011
6 posts
WatchHuge props to my friend and unfairly talented designer Jesse Dodds for building the new WYSIWYG system for Campaign Monitor, announced today. Absolutely going to be moving my work to this great Aussie company asap.
You should follow him on Twitter. He’s good people.
IKEA
Mate of a mate started as a dishy and is now the national IT manager. Impressive.
June 2011
4 posts
