- rearrangeable icons + web clips: better weather info fast
- e-mail: Still can’t turn sideways…
- new maps: Neat. The way the pin looks like it’s stuck through a piece of paper is a satisfying touch
- video rental: sweet! Here’s hoping you can bookmark things so you can make a to-rent list.
- AppleTV update: glad it’s a software update. Two weeks? now now now.
Get your cards ready!
MacWorld, Torchwood, Packers vs. Giants… this is an exciting week, people.
via CzelticGirl
I’m going to make this soon, just ’cause of the name and story.
“But wait! Spend $12.92 more and get free shipping!” But on what, you ask? Find that filler item. Sweet!
via mefi
Piano-playing cats, hand-holding otters go on strike in support of the writers. Awesome also for Chocolate Rain in funereal chello and a scab cat.
I just got a spam from “Monstrous Schlong Shelley,” and for a second, I thought, “Wow, there were seven-hundred and one hobo names.”
This one is a descendant of Mary Shelley, and, ironically named–indeed, his schlong is monsterous–it is itty-bitty and malformed. It originally belonged to a squirrel.
Somebody asked for nun jokes on ask.me, and my comment lasted all of FIVE MINUTES:
Have you heard the one about the group of women who devote their lives to the service of others, work for one of the richest organizations in the world but face poverty in retirement, and are the subject of nothing but jokes in modern American culture? Wooh hoo! That’s a knee-slapper!
I like Leopard’s 3D dock, but those glowing blue dots are gonna annoy the crap out of me; here’s how to change them back to triangles.
The Leopard intro movie’s music is totally wrong, it really needs to be this.
In a foolish attempt to make a quick fix to my CSS, I edited the live file in TextMate via Transmit. I’d forgotten that that feature had been flaking out on me recently, and, well… mah file done got et. There’s no backup (on this machine), and GoogleCache and the Wayback Machine have failed me, so things are going to look a little DEFAULT today.
Eek! Masher!
update! I found this old thing in the closet…
Starry Night is now available for your iPhone. This is much handier than those cardboard slidey things, but since it’s a web application and doesn’t actually live on the phone, you’ll still need a network somehow — which means the really dark sky places are out of reach. Then again, if you’re on that hard-core of a stargazing expedition, you’re probably already at the point of rattling off “GC 19728″ instead of “Alpha Centauri” or “The Bright Shiny Thing Up There; No, Not That One — To Your Left A Bit.”
I’ve ordered from them a few time and have been beyond delighted with their selection, shipping, return policy, and customer service, but this goes beyond awesome.
via the Czelt
If only it sings when you squeeze it… regardless; mine mine mine! They have ninja and viking kittens, too.
via DaddyTypes
I popped open the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this morning, and it took me a minute to parse this photo on the front page. Awesome!
For all the iPhone hoopla, and all the whinging about that it’s exclusively available with AT&T, it seems like nobody’s mentioning Steve Jobs’ shared past with them.
I definitely want want want one… but yesterday, for a very little while, my Treo 650 was still cooler than the iPhone when I ssh‘d into the server with it. update: Other cool people agree on that point. The Treo was also nice, because when the router went down, I never dropped my IM conversation.
Related:
DVD Jon cracks the iPhone to work without activation
put your iPhone into field-test mode
I finally just saw Pirates of Silicon Valley. Yick! But it’s too bad that it ended when it did, because I’d love to see John DiMaggio freaking out on Ballmer’s Developers Dance.
Did anyone else notice the white ericophon that’s all over the Apple set in Pirates?
Looks like it’s been on deck for years. Probably better timing with the rest of technology to wait until now.
We got our new toy from Apple last week — the Apple TV. It’s sleek and pretty and very, very cool. Now, all of our iTunes media is available in the living room. In anticipation, I’ve started burning all of the CDs to a hard drive. Goodbye, clutter! Goodbye, scratched discs!
A week into it, here are some things I’d like it to do:
Some of that can be accomplished by hacking it — video formats, weather, internet radio, wake up remote drives and sleep are all on the to-do list, and given that Leopard’s going to be all about the coverflow, that’ll probably show up on the Apple TV before long. Aside for my minor whinges, the Apple TV is really awesome — and it’s only barely a 1.1 product. I’m really looking forward to more.
*these may have to do with our network configuration?
** for that matter, I’d like a whole new user interface for the Location Free Player, it’s terrible. The new case design is sweet — very early-eighties, Trinitron sleek — why can’t the UI be, too?
A nice collection of John Cleese ads for Compaq. Computers Often Make People Quite Angry!
via Mefi
live every week like it’s shark week
by Wesley Willis
You are my special working hard bish.
You are the best in the long run.
You really whoop a snow leopard’s ass.
You really whoop a snow leopard’s ass.
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
Every week that’s like shark week is very special to me.
dynagirl.com is the best in the long run.
I like you a lot in the long run.
You really whoop Saddam Hussein’s ass.
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
You can really rock your ass off.
I like you well.
You really whoop a llama’s ass.
You can really rock it out.
Rock over London,
Rock on Chicago.
dynagirl.com – we build excitement.
“ASSHOLE, YOU COULDN’T RAPE A WAFFLE!”
This one, I think gets bumped up to “of the Year” status.
Nifty! Not only is IE7′s File/Edit/View/Etc. menu in a really stupid place below the toolbar*, the Edit menu doesn’t work. If you select a URL from the address bar and then try to copy it from the Edit menu, it loses focus on the address and you can’t copy it. Paste is similarly fucked up. The right-click contextual menu works, so why not this? Click to watch:
You’ll notice that I took this movie on my Mac through Remote Desktop. I tried the copy/paste maneuvering directly on the Windows (XP) box, with the same results. I also tried it in Internet Explorers 5-6 and it worked just fine.
Geeks Are Sexy posted a registry hack to move the File/Edit/View/Etc. menu back to the top. I did this and it worked, in terms of moving the menu bar back to where it belongs, but it didn’t fix the copy/paste issue. Swell!
*”Reload” and “stop” are in the extra-stupid place of after the address bar, and no, they can’t be rearranged.
Here’s an awesome little app that will make a really great Star Wars opening title sequence. I made this with maybe four minutes of farting-around time, but be warned that it was a jillion million CPU cycles — this clip was generated from 2818 rendered stills. (Proofread!) It will render for PAL, NTSC, and all kinds of stuff. Fancy.
also via a.wholelottanothing
Mythbusters’ Adam Savage asks the hive mind for ideas for an old-west-themed show.
