| Saturday, July 14, 2007 |
13:38 - Welcome to the Anti-Social
http://hideapod.com/
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Diet-Coke-Spattered Monitor Moment of the Day.
Via Mark.
UPDATE: From one of the embedded links:
But still, from 2.5 percent to 10 percent is a whooping leap.
A whooping leap. Now that is an awesome mental image.
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13:14 - Gentlemen, start your photocopiers
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Maybe I'm just seeing things, but—does the new "transparent menu bar" effect in Leopard not look to anyone else like a not-very-subtle attempt by Apple to ape the "glass brick" window border effect in Vista?
Dude. Weak.
UPDATE: I am also perplexed by the loss of the rounded corners on the menu bar. That's a motif that has said "Mac" since 1984, if not before. Why ditch it now? It wasn't hurting anything. Apple, stop replacing all the guns with walkie-talkies!
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11:45 - Baby wants a Zima
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/07/taking-cartooniness-out-of-cartoon-does.html
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Aww, was John K. not impressed by Ratatouille?
It's not enough to just have the character tell the other characters what their one personality trait is and why they have it. Am I the only one that notices that? "I'm a strong woman living in a man's world and I'm not gonna let a wimpy snot nosed kid like you stand in my way!" "Oh yeah! Well I'm the villain! A shallow no talent bum who has nothing better to do than make money critiquing those who do have talent!"
I love the guy and what he has to say and teach, but damn, sometimes his insistence on his own particular vision leads to nothing but sour grapes. Considering how many people it's made happy, by what criterion of his do Ratatouille and modern blockbusters like it fail? Yes, I realize one could make that same argument about things like Pokemon, but this is reductio ad cranky-bitter-old-man-rant.
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| Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
21:27 - That's what friends are for
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/6292354.stm
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Boy, if that doesn't inspire a guy to convalesce, I don't know what will:
A sports car enthusiast who suffered a mini stroke while restoring a Lotus Esprit was amazed when online friends finished the work for him in secret.
Simon Pritchard, 36, from Abergavenny, had been in the process of rebuilding the 25-year-old car when he fell ill.
When members of the Lotus Esprit online forum website heard, they donated money and time to fix it.
The original 18-month project costing £25,000 actually took his friends just five weeks to complete.
Awesome story. Via Mark.
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17:17 - I'll take the bastardized American version, thank you very much
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/12/cardboard.food.ap/index.html
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Uhhhh huh. Presumably this isn't the authentic flavor that expatriate operations are always trying to capture.
Squares of cardboard picked from the ground are first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda -- a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap -- then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning are stirred in.
Soon, steaming servings of the buns appear on the screen. The reporter takes a bite.
"This baozi filling is kind of tough. Not much taste," he says. "Can other people taste the difference?"
"Most people can't. It fools the average person," the maker says. "I don't eat them myself."
Like cars, like food, perhaps?
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Brian Tiemann
