Thursday, August 31, 2006
links for 2006-08-31
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"Aurora turns your Mac with iTunes into a handy alarm. For any given time and date (be it recurring or non-recurring), Aurora will wake your Mac from sleep and start playing your favorite iTunes playlist."
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A "Getting Things Done" app for the Mac, currently in public beta. Looks nice! I'll keep an eye on this one.
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"Just staying marginally fuckable is my main goal." That's why GayProf goes to the gym. Me, that's why I make sure to have plenty of cash on hand. Saves a lot of needless exertion and showering.
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As these things go, VideoEgg is one of the easiest, swiftest ways I've seen so far to create embedded Flash video on a site. Big kudos for having a Mac version and being Safari-friendly. Yum.
August 31, 2006 at 5:20 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
links for 2006-08-30
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Chuck had a tasty time at Hot Doug's, the very best hot dog stand in the whole wide world and a must-stop on every visit to Chicago. (Post-holiday visitors note: Doug is taking a long Labor Day break, September 4-15.)
August 30, 2006 at 5:22 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Monday, August 28, 2006
links for 2006-08-28
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Richard remembers. "Everything went so fast. Friday morning we were joking about the storm, lamenting the fate of Pensacola, which looked to face yet another direct hit. By Friday afternoon, the storm's track had changed."
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I'm sorry. How can you not read an article with that headline?! That is just super. I wanna go to a puppet-funding undies party!
August 28, 2006 at 5:22 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Thursday, August 24, 2006
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August 24, 2006 at 5:20 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Monday, August 21, 2006
links for 2006-08-21
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I...I can't explain it. But if you loved Centipede, Frogger, Pac-Man or Asteroids, you gotta watch it. You just do.
August 21, 2006 at 5:20 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Friday, August 18, 2006
links for 2006-08-18
August 18, 2006 at 5:20 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Where I’m at
Another quick trip to Chicago this weekend: came up last night to meet with friends and lift a glass in a final farewell to an old pal taken away too soon. Staying tonight for Patti LuPone as Rose (and new pal Jessica Boevers as Louise) in the
Gypsy concert, third row at Ravinia. Tomorrow, a final visit to Marshall Field and a stock-up at IKEA before hitting the road back home.
August 12, 2006 at 4:28 PM
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
links for 2006-08-10
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Rebecca Blood continues her most excellent "Bloggers on Blogging" series of interviews by chatting with Jason "Where's my helper monkey, damn it?!" Kottke. Good readin'.
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The Stephen Colbert "On Notice Board" Generator.
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"These are desperate times. We are the desperate measure." A fanmade Star Trek audio series (or "podcast") from the dark side of the United Federation of Planets.
August 10, 2006 at 5:18 PM
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Clearing the Cache
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
So long, old friend
Almost six years ago (September 26, 2000, according to my still offline jurassic weblog archives), I won a free 30-hour TiVo in an online promotion. Actually, I was supposed to have won a 14-hour model but, either by glitch or design, they gave all of those away and sent me the next better thing. Three years ago, I pimped it out with an upgrade from
Weaknees.
Last night it threw in the towel, as you can see from the Green Screen of Death above.
I won't be calling the toll-free number. Six years and countless hundreds of hours of programming enjoyed without channel surfing is a pretty good run for an appliance I didn't pay for in the first place. Before the fall premiere season begins, I'll give it a proper
burial recycling and bring home a brand-new (bought and paid for) dual-tuner model to take its place. With the rebate, it'll cost me about $100, plus a little more for another Weaknees upgrade.
I love TiVo. It has truly changed the way I watch television, and completely for the better. I can barely stand to watch live television without it. (And I don't have to: There are actually two other units in our home, thank dog!)
Weep not for TiVo, friends. The best is yet to come.
August 9, 2006 at 7:24 PM
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links for 2006-08-09
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"TubeSock converts YouTube's native FLV file format into H.264, MP4, or MP3 files." You can do it from the command line, but $15 is a small price to pay for convenience. Nifty.
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Oh, this poor fella. In television, once things go wrong, they tend to domino. (This is from a hometown station I used to work with, way back in the day, so it's particularly painful to watch.)
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Johnny Hazzard has a weblog. As if I needed another reason to drool. How can you not get behind a guy (ahem) who looks like that and has Elaine Stritch singing "The Ladies Who Lunch" as his theme song? Hubba hubba Johnny.
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Khoi Vinh modifies the new "standard" syndication icon and offers it up to the world. Just like the Times, ma!
Tuesday, August 8, 2006
links for 2006-08-08
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"Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt." Ever wonder why? This is just one of the tricks of the trade you learn as the son of a grocer.
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Send iCal notifications via Eudora (or a host of other apps) instead of Apple Mail.
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