dave letterman disses bush via video
im glad i …:
“dave letterman disses bush via video
im glad i have no kids to have to explain how
a) bushie was allowed to be president for two terms
b) how leno beats letterman in the ratings
other than to instill in them that life is not fair.”
(Via tonypierce.com + busblog.)
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These pool of blood pillows would be fun for Halloween sleep overs, the dog likes them too - Thanks numlok! Link.
(Via MAKE: Blog.)
“Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Using custom icons has always been an easy way to spice up your Mac — even prior to Mac OS X! In our opinion, Mac OS X finally made icons beautiful. It’s so easy change your icons that we’re always surprised when fellow Mac users marvel at our icons.
Here’s what our user folder looks like:
Note the folder for our blog is a big truck — something Ted Stevens assured the nation that the Internet is not.
Kinda snazzy, right?
The first step to custom icons is to download some. I usually get mine for free at InterFace.com, but a quick web search will turn up many sites offering free icons. (The IconFactory makes some pretty hot icons!)
Icon sets are usually offered as very small archives (a fancy word for a compressed file). Open up the archive and you’ll get an ordinary folder full of icons.
Tiger Folders by Orhan Okay.
Clicking on these icons usually doesn’t do much. They’re either empty folders, or they’re .ico files. To actually use one, select it with a single click, and then select Get Info from the File menu (or ctrl click, or CMD-I). The Get Info command gives you more information than you would ever want to know about your icon file — it looks something like this:
Click the icon in the upper left-hand corner to select it and make it glow with faint blue happiness.
Now that it is selected, use select Copy from the Edit menu to copy it to the clipboard (or press the command and C keys).
Next, navigate to the file or folder you want to customize, click its icon, and select Get Info from the File menu. Select the icon in the upper left-hand corner, and then select Paste from the Edit menu to paste your fancy new icon over the factory model. Voíla. The process doesn’t delete the default icon — it just hides it. If you want to go back to classic Aqua, select Cut from the Edit menu, and then watch the custom icon disappear.
But what about those fancy Trash icons in the set you downloaded? That’s a more complicated hack — one that can be safely accomplished with the purchase of CandyBar. But using CandyBar is another tutorial!
Meet Your Macinstructor
Since this tutorial has been entered into Macinstruct’s Tutorama tutorial contest, the author’s name will be withheld until the end of the contest. To learn how you can win nearly $4,000 in prizes, read more about Tutorama.
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(Via Macinstruct -.)
Bookshelf Doors Make for Easy Secret Passages:
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The life of a gadget journalist involves storing away dozens of cardboard boxes filled with gizmos, away from civilian eyes. Hopefully in a secret gadget lair sealed off by these bookshelf-slash-doors. The doors can support loads of up to 500 pounds, come with oak, cherry and mapple veneers, and open and close via a steel hinge that swings out the center. Combine this with a electric opener triggered by a hidden button, add a booby trap, and you’re talking about the Gizmodo Secret Lair I always dreamed of.
I guess those shelves can hold gadgets, too.
Woodfold Bookcase Doors [via Uncrate]
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(Via Gizmodo.)
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(Via Mac OS X Downloads - Home.)
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About WorldTimes WorldTimes is a clear and compact world clock for OS X that displays up to 12 different time zones from a database of more than 420 worldwide locations. Emphasizing ease of use, WorldTimes handles each location’s daylight savings changes automatically, lets the user customize any location name, and incorporates the user’s system settings for the default time zone and format. With a small, understated display, WorldTimes takes up little screen space but always lets you see the time in the places you care about most. |
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(Via Mac OS X Downloads - Home.)
Pen with built-in paper scroll:
“Cory Doctorow:
Love this $30 pen with a two-foot-long scroll of writing paper hidden in the cap, so you’re never caught short and have to write on the back of your hand.
(via Gizmodo)
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(Via Boing Boing.)
Find Windows Vista’s product key:
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Need to save or write down the Windows Vista product key on your current PC? A beta version 2.0 of the previously-mentioned Magical Jelly Bean Key Finder app has been released, which reveals the product keys for Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, other Windows apps and even dead Windows installations.
When you run the Key Finder, it will automatically display the keys for common apps, as pictured. To check a dead Windows install, from the menu choose ‘Load Hive’ and point it at the Windows installation directory. This one’s a must-have for those of you who, ahem, lost your original install disks.
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(Via Lifehacker.)
See where a TinyURL is pointing with Tin Foil Hat:
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Firefox with Greasemonkey: The Tin Foil Hat Greasemonkey script adds a tooltip to linked TinyURLs that displays the source URL linked to with the TinyURL.
We’ve discussed TinyURL etiquette in the past, and the main no-no was sending a TinyURL without any context for the actual link (and even if the original link was posted nearby, you still can’t verify that it’s accurate). This simple Greasemonkey script takes care of all of the TinyURL confusion, offering a shortened URL while displaying the source at the same time. Handy!
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(Via Lifehacker.)
USC SCA To Offer Machinima Class:
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Continuing video games‘ slow takeover of the world, the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts is going to be offering a seminar on machinima. The class is being created in an effort to bring film and game students together to work on a common project.
CTIN 464, Game Studies Seminar. In this 2 unit class we will develop machinima. This is a perfect cross-division class for film and game students to work together. We will play games, watch films, and discuss the possibilities of machinima as an art form. Documentary machinima will be encouraged, and all topics are fair game, including projects about games. The history of machinima is short, and its full potential is yet to be realized- by aspiring media students.
Machinima being studied and created in a college setting… I never thought I’d see the day. At this rate it shouldn’t be too long before we see Harvard offering classes likeHow To Quickly Level Up Your Warcraft Character and Goldfarming 101.
[Thanks, Sean]
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(Via Kotaku.)
“Put the little balls inside the holes that are in the big ones to build atoms.”
(Via I-Am-Bored.com Latest Links.)
April 7, 1969: Birth of That Thing We Call the Internet:
“The publication of the first ‘request for comments,’ or RFC, documents paves the way for the information highway. Compiled by Tony Long.”
(Via Wired News: Top Stories.)
Hackers Dissect Apple TV to Create the Cheapest Mac Ever:
“Just two weeks after the streaming media box hits store shelves, tweakers get it to run OS X. By Rob Beschizza.”
(Via Wired News: Top Stories.)
Racial slur on sofa label stuns family:
“From the Toronto Star: ‘When the new chocolate-coloured sofa set was delivered to her Brampton home, Doris Moore was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as ‘Nigger-brown.’”
(Via digg.)
Her Gentle Way of Saying, “You Give Shitty Head”:
“Large man: You need a back rub?
Girl rubbing shoulder in pain: I’m fine, thanks.
Large man: I give great massages. My mama says it’s better than a orgasm.
MUNI bus
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: melissa
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(Via Overheard Everywhere.)
Public domain books published 1923-1963:
“Stanford’s new Copyright Renewal Database makes searchable the copyright renewal records of books published from 1923-1963, previously very difficult to do. Between those dates, a renewal registration was required to prevent the expiration of copyright, so books not renewed are now in the public domain. Publishing scanned books on Internet Archive.”
(Via MetaFilter.)
Software to detect fake photos:
“David Pescovitz:
When the Associated Press thinks that a photo may have been manipulated, they sometimes call Hany Farid, a Dartmouth College computer scientist. As previously reported on BB, Farid has spent several years developing a suite of software that helps automate the detection of manipulation in digital photos. For example, it looks for pixel repetitions, analyzes shadows, and examines the pupils of people in photos to determine if they were composited into the image. From Science News:
‘The eyes are a partial mirror into the world in which you’re photographed,’ Farid says. If there are two white dots in each eye, there had to have been two separate light sources. So, if a photo shows two dots in one person’s eyes and only one dot in another person’s eyes, it must have been spliced together from two different originals.Also, the color of the light determines the dots’ precise shade of white. A composite image from different photographs may have shades that vary from person to person…
‘This is an arms race,’ Farid says. ‘I can already tell you how it’s going to end: We’re going to lose…’
Previously on BB:
• F is for Photoshopped Link
• Time makes Reagan cry with Photoshop Link
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(Via Boing Boing.)
“Craig’s List ad causes woman’s home to be destroyed. We have all heard about the numerous Craig’s List scams and pranks, but this one takes things to a new low. Vandals ripped apart Laurie Ray’s house after an ad posted on Craig’s List invited people to take anything, and everything, they wanted. From the light fixtures to the hot water heater, everything is gone - including the kitchen sink.”
(Via MetaFilter.)
Verizon “Unlimited Access” Plan Is Extremely Limited:
“If you’ve got a wireless PC card from Verizon and are on their ‘Unlimited Access’ plan, you might be surprised to learn what isn’t permitted. Gaming for example, is not permitted. Neither is YouTube….
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(Via Consumerist.)
Except behind the Scenes, Where All the Decisions Are Made:
“Mexican girl: I feel sorry for white people. They’re not allowed to use stereotypes.
San José State University
San José, California
Overheard by: Cracker
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(Via Overheard Everywhere.)
Wikisky is like Google Earth for space:
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Pan, zoom, browse and explore the night sky in a Google Earth-like interface at Wikisky.
Wikisky can show you the stars above a given location at a certain time. Turn on constellation overlays to check out Orion’s belt, or hover over individual stars for name, distance, magnitude and constellation information. This is an incredible resource for astronomy enthusiasts - plan to spend quite a bit of time exploring here.
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(Via Lifehacker.)
Play hundreds of classic Nintendo 8-bit games on-line:
“Super Mario Brothers, Zelda, Mega Man, Castle-Vania and most of the other classic Nintendo titles playable directly in the browser without download. Gotta digg this!”
(Via digg.)
Ten Things Your Restaurant Will Not Tell You:
“Next time you decide to go out to eat, keep in mind these ten restaurant secrets. You may be better off eating at home.”
(Via digg.)
Fashion Update W/ Stereolabrat:
“1.LEGGINGS ARE NOT REPLACEMENTS FOR PANTS.
If you wish to wear leggings, they must be under a skirt or a dress. You can only substitute leggings for pants if there is a big hole cut out of it so your junk can stick out. So ask yourself: is there a hole for my junk? No? Ok then. I guess I’m wearing something on top of my leggings, i.e. CLOTHES.
2. UGGS: WHY ARE YOU STILL WEARING THEM?
Uggs make your legs look like pigs in a blanket. Especially when you wear them with a skirt. I especially like the purple Uggs. Someone asked, How can we make this even better? And purple was the answer. Thanks for that. I have another answer for you: THE FINGER.
3. WHITE SHOES ON MEN THAT ARE NOT SNEAKERS
Just stop it. Just fucking stop it. Enough. There is a point when irony crosses over to truly bad taste. You know who wore white shoes? Hitler. He was like ‘My goodness! Where are my white shoes? Also, kill more Jews.’
4. BATHING APE
Your sweatshirt is loud. Your sneakers are pink and orange and apparently only 200 people in the world have them and they all live in Japan. Good for you. Here’s a cookie. Enjoy it. What kind is it? It’s oatmeal raisin go fuck yourself. Bathing Ape is currently on the list of things that are dead to me. Other things that are dead to me: Arcade Fire, letters from children about how their dad is in Iraq. And also, still Madonna. Which brings me to my next point.
5. MADONNA
Madonna does not shop at H&M. She does not want to be your friend on MySpace. She’s a snaggletooth opportunistic talentless hackjob who does not reacharound when the moment is ‘getting special.’
6. THE GAP: BOYFRIEND TROUSERS
Good boyfriends don’t wear trousers. They wear pants. In England pants are another name for underpands. That’s fine. Good boyfriends don’t wear those either. My problem here are the models. Why does the Asian model look so X-TREME Asian? It’s as if she’s actually pulling her eyes to the side. What the fuck? In Asia, the models look like white people. In Ameirca, the models look more Asian than Asians. The whole thing is confusing. Current mood: Confused.”
(Via Stereolabrat.)
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