Archives for December, 2001
2001.12.19 (Wed)
Time to Get Going
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I should start packing
Moodstats
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Moodstats from k10k
2001.12.18 (Tue)
Photoshop for OS X: Q2 ‘02
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Adobe CEO: Photoshop for OS X coming in Q2MacCentral Adobe Systems Inc. has slowly but surely been implementing support for…
Big Day for OS X Shareware
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Some great shareware releases today
Fast-food Horror Story
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“Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser. Disturbing but highly recommended
2001.12.17 (Mon)
Two More Sleeps
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Two more sleeps and we’re out of here
Most Obvious Headline of the Year
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Here’s an instant classic from reutershealth.com: Landmine workers face high death, injury risks Really!? Who would have thought……
Exporting i-mode
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While i-mode is undoubtedly a well-designed and marketed service, its rise is intimately tied to the Japanese marketplace
Christmas Cabbages
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The Christmas Cabbages are out in abundance. Just what is it with these things anyway?…
2001.12.16 (Sun)
Neat IE5 Feature
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Holding down the Command key lets you grab and scroll a page in IE5. Didn’t know that.
Getting Well Sooner
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Music during surgery may ease patients’ recoveryMerritt McKinney, reutershealth.com This doesn’t seem terribly surprising—in fact I would have expected this…
Advances in Straw Technology
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Astounding advances in straw design
iBook Otaku
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Some people go to extraordinary lengths to customise their machines, and nowhere is this truer than in Japan. Dr. Mip…
Graphic Design For Your Smoking Pleasure
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Cool matchbox design
OmniWeb Not-Quite-Redux
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OmniWeb: don’t even bother worrying about how it does CSS for now…
Earthquake Prediction?
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Temperature rises hint at earthquake prediction Catherine Zandonella, New Scientist Subtle signals from within the Earth might one day warn…
2001.12.15 (Sat)
My search for a portable mp3 player has ended: I’m podded.
AmphetaDesk
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AmphetaDesk is a cross-platform news aggregator built in PERL & XML which displays feeds in a browser window. Looks interesting….
Babies Rented Out as Drug Smuggling Cover
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Federal officials on Friday announced indictments involving a drug ring in which babies were used as cover, some of them rented to smugglers.
2001.12.14 (Fri)
Problem solving vs. Styling
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The Red Rock Eater News Service featured an article today about Richard Saul Wurman’s Access guide to San Francisco, specifically…
2001.12.12 (Wed)
Severely Tampered with and Cursed
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This is a weird piece of spam
Long Arm of the Law
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I find this a little hard to believe. Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Supportdailynews.yahoo.com STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A court in…
2001.12.11 (Tue)
A Whole Lot of Wireless
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Wireless internet users approach 50 million in Japan
Colonialism’s Glorious Legacy
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Aborigines dying at twice average ratesmh.com.au Indigenous people are dying in Australia at a rate more than twice that of…
Photoshop 7 Beta?
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Is this a screenshot from Photoshop 7 beta?
2001.12.10 (Mon)
Japan: Somebody Do Something!
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Good capsule summary of just how deeply Japan is in the financial pooh
One Step Closer?
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Volunteers face DNA needle in vaccine testsmh.com.au More than 40 healthy volunteers will be injected with DNA from the AIDS…
Circadian Manipulations
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I’m a morning person like Hitler was a people person.
2001.12.09 (Sun)
Abode of Chaos
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The sorry state of my ‘office’
Another One Gone
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Not only has it been a beautiful day and I’ve been stuck in front of the computer, but I just went for a walk to get some fresh air and stretch my legs and discovered that one of my favourite houses in the neighbourhood has been demolished. This is the sort of thing I take personally.
tangentorange.com
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tangentorange.com. Go there.
Beezy Beezy Beezy
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You’ll have to excuse the paucity of posts recently — getting pretty busy as I try to wrap up a bunch of things before heading back to Australia…
2001.12.08 (Sat)
No More Looting
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Hisane Masaki, Japan Times: After years of foot-dragging, Japan is taking its first significant step toward shedding its reputation as…
If you’re using OmniWeb and seeing poorly formatted crap (as opposed to well-formatted crap), well… you’re probably long gone. But if you’ve stuck around, I’m working on it.
Netscape 6.2.1
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Netscape 6.2.1 for OS X… problems
I Want To Believe
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Be honest, you secretly knew that there’s was something more to the WTC attacks on 11 September than some extremist Muslims angry with the US’ foreign policy, didn’t you?
2001.12.07 (Fri)
Segway = Heart Disease?
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Christopher Orlet takes a contrarian view of the Dean Kamen’s Segway in Salon: Segway’s assault on walking It is unfortunate…
Vinyl Going Strong
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Rumours of vinyl record death greatly exaggeratedsmh.com.au [The CD] is feeling the heat from a format which many music fans…
E-mail: 30th Anniversary
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The 30-Year Path of E-Mailnytimes.com Thirty years ago, give or take a month or two, Ray Tomlinson, an unassuming computer…
Pearl Harbor: 60th Anniversary
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Links to Pearl Harbour anniversary info
2001.12.06 (Thu)
Tim Porter Exhibition
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Tim Porter, special one-day exhibition Sunday, Dec 9 in Roppongi, Tokyo
2001.12.05 (Wed)
Procrastination
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Practice random acts of calibration.
On Japanese Food Shows
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My Theory of Japanese food shows
Princess Loses To Food Show
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On December 1, the whole nation was glued to the tube gleaning information about the newly born princess, right? Wrong.
LCD iMacs Soon?
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In the believe-it-when-you-see-it department, this article from The Register: Apple finally ready to launch LCD iMac - analysts Apple will…
Not Looking Forward To This
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T-minus 30 minutes until I stroll nonchalantly down the road to the dentist to get another wisdom tooth yanked.
Macitecture
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How are architects currently using Macs? What types of software and tools are available that practitioners need? What are the major compatibility issues between Macs and PCs?
Collect Them All
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Eight Japanese words added to Collins
Is That A GDP In Your Pocket…?
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It’s always fun to suspend logical rigor in order to link sex and economic indicators, so here’s this from smh.com.au:…
2001.12.04 (Tue)
Eddy Award Winners
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Macworld names Eddy Award winners
2001.12.03 (Mon)
I think that’s it for the day, folks. I’m zonked
Freaky Demise
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What are the odds? Deckhand killed playing PlayStationJames Watson, The Register An Australian deckhand was electrocuted while thumbing the controller…
The Archipelago of Dr Moreau
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Govt OK’s human-animal embryo cloning yomiuri.co.jp A government council said Wednesday it had permitted cloning technology to produce combined human-animal…
2001.12.02 (Sun)
Stress Management
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Sometimes all you need to unwind is a barrel of monkeys.
Mathematics & Yardwork
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If I were a cyborg, my name would be: J.E.R.E.M.Y.: Journeying Electronic Replicant Engineered for Mathematics and Yardwork Hmm. Not…
No-style & Good Style
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Plotting Alongwashingtonpost.com Via metafilter, in the it’s-about-time department, an article from Linton Weeks about the banal no-styles of most best-selling…
Dammit, Dave
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From Francis Heaney at The Modern Humorist: conversation between David Bowman and HAL 9000 as written by David Mamet.
2001.12.01 (Sat)
UBS Warburg: Too Early To Quantify Impact Of Dentsu Tradesg.biz.yahoo.com Dentsu, a Japanese advertising company, made its debut on the…
I Hate Computers
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Been stuck in front of the computer most of the day for lots of wrong reasons and only a few right ones.
The Last Leaf
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We wrap up Leaf Week with the autumn leaf nonpareil: momiji, or the Japanese maple.
Moving to Mac OS X
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Long-ish thread on macslash.com about the kinds of users likely to adopt OS X in the short run. Worth a…
World AIDS Day
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It is unequivocally the most devastating disease we have ever faced and it will get worse before it gets better.
Masako’s Baby
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A new princess for Japan’s royalscnn.com Congratulations — it’s a constitutional crisis! Happened to turn on the TV tonight and…
Everyone’s a Lawyer
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Everyone’s a lawyer when there’s a free OS to be had. If you want my 2¢ (which at lawyer’s rates…
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