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Monthly Archives: April 2005
pimp my safari
forget pimp my ride, check out pimp my safari. i’ve already beeng using fiwt and PithHelmet. good stuff.
tiger review from windows guy
Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite reviews Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. He concludes (emphases mine): The marketing that accompanies Tiger’s release is no different: Described by Apple as “a super-modern operating system” and “the newest major release of the world’s most advanced operating system,” Tiger will, in Apple’s words, “change the way you use a computer.” …
vienna teng wows ’em
Vienna Teng played the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. They liked her. A lot: By the end of her quietly breathtaking 20-minute set that night, she was a star. “We got up there and the response was just stunning, overwhelming, really,” said Teng, who brings her hushed, meditative, piano-based songcraft to The Ark for two shows …
open firmware’s default catch
i was upgrading a friend’s iMac G3* to Mac OS X 10.3.9 today. after we rebooted, he was stuck in open firmware. after i typed mac-boot at the prompt, it said default catch and refused to proceed any further. the usual trick of >set-defaults >reset-all did not help. what did fix the problem was booting …
all marketers are liars
seth godin has a great new blog about marketing. he also has a book by the same name.
MGM v. Grokster, in 30 seconds
Michael Weiss, CEO of Morpheus: A victory for StreamCast will ensure that Americans won’t have to live in a society where every file is fingerprinted, every user is tagged, every search is monitored and every result is filtered.
o2 prepaid mobile GPRS
note for future reference / googlers: access point for O2 prepaid mobile GPRS in the UK: payandgo.o2.co.uk
man, this is hard
glen has put together really short audio clips from 20 cover songs. can you guess who/what?
George Bush’s iPod
The BBC checked out what was on George Bush’s iPod and invited readers to suggest songs for him. Among the picks: I’m a Loser, by Beck Criminal, by Eminem Lawyers, Guns and Money, by Warren Zevon I Want It All, by Queen