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 …
Author Archives: paulschreiber
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
smoking is bad for you
it’s hazardous to your health and your social life.
a picture is worth a thousand words
nobody’s sure what to do about this “shitty” situation: Legal experts say there is no law against using feces as a flag stand and the federal legal experts say there is no law against using feces as a flag stand and the federal constitution is vague on the issue.
real world (X)HTML
Having been developing mostly in a bubble for a few year, I forgot that some people still use Internet Explorer for Windows. (Sheesh, get Firefox already.) Turns out (thanks, Tantek!) that IE6 doesn’t support XHTML. That’s not usually too much of a problem, unless you try and make a previously non-empty tag, like <script> empty. …