Since going Mac in October 2006 my encyclopedic knowledge of horrible Windows dialogs is getting rusty. Lucky me, almost every time I have to deal with a Windows XP machine I also see the worst dialog ever:
“ALERT: You just inserted a disk of some sort with files of some kind, would you like to… [annoying [...]
Superman I & II
Alien
The Z Channel
Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back
The Twilight Zone. I’m told that I used to watch this at all hours before I could even talk. Great.
Old school Warner Bros. cartoons, especially those featuring Wagner, Bugs conducting the symphony, Duck Twacy, Bugs in the Coliseum, or that creepy red monster [...]
Also, I need a new phone with a non-crap camera.
Related post: Fortress of Solitude lamp
This Week in Tech did a great interview with Jonathan Coulton. He talks at length about how he built a successful career as an independent musician by using the internet to serve a niche of dedicated fans.
Coulton also talks about his former life as a programmer and how he always longed to do music for [...]
Two days ago, thanks to someone submitting this post to YCombinator News nathanbowers.com went from ~65 unique visitors a day to 558. Of course you usually need several spikes like that before the traffic sticks. Pageviews are good, but subscribers and commenters are what really matter.
Each blogger has their own theory about building traffic. Some [...]
Remember when I talked about a huge artistic breakthrough that dwarfed everything else I did in March?
Here it is:
In true blocked artist style I had been putting the sculpting off even though I had an excellent guide to DIY toy sculpting sitting on my desk.
I’d tell myself: “I’ll just do a few more sketches then [...]
After a huge Apple software security update I had to reboot. I don’t reboot that often and I always forget how much I dislike the Apple boot sound. Actually, the sound is great, but it sounds terrible coming from laptop speakers.
Long story short, either 1) mute your Mac before rebooting, 2) hold down the mute [...]
Print matters!
This means:
Never ever use white text on dark backgrounds in PDFs. Do you think people are made of toner?
Always use a print-specific Cascading Style Sheet on your website. If you won’t do that then at least make sure your regular CSS only applies to screen display and let the browser apply default styles when [...]
The next time you’re whining about something ask yourself:
Am I problem solving or just venting?
Will venting fix the problem?
Does the person I’m complaining to really want to hear this?
Venting and seeking sympathy makes you worse off because instead of fixing the problem you end up feeling good enough to not take the action you need [...]
I hadn’t watched Tron in years, but in a recent viewing I noticed that Sark’s Carrier…
…looks just like the Sulaco from Aliens.
Both were designed by Syd Mead.
For more futurism, check out this Flickr set of Mead’s paintings.
Hopefully this post spawns a productive discussion about which ship would win in a fight.
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