Archives for June, 2002
2002.06.30 (Sun)
Can Silence Be Copyrighted?
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Now this is funny. A producer who has included a track of a minute’s silence on a CD has drawn…
2002.06.29 (Sat)
Nice Caps, Shame About the Face
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Anyone else notice how Mark Van Bronkhorst’s Conduit typeface is attaining a disturbing level of ubiquity? It’s an Officina…
VersignOff
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Via Splorp comes news of this latest thorn in Versign’s side, VerisignOff.org. The goal of VerisignOff is to help…
Remaining U.S. CEOs Make a Break For It
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The latest on the corporate crime spree from SatireWire: Unwilling to wait for their eventual indictments, the 10,000 remaining CEOs…
The US: Backward Nation?
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New Scientist picks up on one possible effect of the Supreme Court’s school voucher ruling allowing public funds for religious…
Separation of Church and State Weakens
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For good and ill the United States sets the tone these days for much of what gets discussed and how…
2002.06.28 (Fri)
The Plunder Continues
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I’m going to get off this corporate crime kick real soon now, I promise (because, really, it’s endless). Listening to…
The True Price of Petrol
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I’m seeing a disturbing increase in the number of SUVs driven in Tokyo. The streets here are generally extremely narrow…
More GM Crop Bad News
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I’m starting to get a picture of the world my grandchildren will inherit – and it’s not pretty. Crop pollen…
RSS Feeds: The Long and Short of It
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If you’re like me (and I know I am), there are lots of sites you visit on a daily basis….
More Corporate Criminals (collect ‘em all)
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How many Japanese brokerages indulge in illegal practices? Ten percent? A quarter? Guess again, folks. Illegal Practices Found at 60%…
Spam Poetry No. 3
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You can live the life of others Let’s $chedule An Interview… Marijuana Difference!…
2002.06.27 (Thu)
Dan Gillmor on the Corporate Crime Spree
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Read Dan Gillmor’s column on the recent corporate crime spree – “Corporate sleaze carves into our trust” and weep. Gillmor…
Caffeinate Your Garden
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Coffee is just a miracle drug, no two ways about it. I’ve been dumping my coffee grounds in the garden…
More Evidence of Music/IQ Connection?
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You’ve probably already seen this because I got the link off the Daypop Top 40, but it’s worth a mention…
2002.06.26 (Wed)
Noble Defeat
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South Korea’s 0:1 loss to Germany last night was a noble loss. The team played a great game and really…
2002.06.25 (Tue)
Humans: Stupid and Greedy
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Well, this is certainly news. Human Demand Exceeds Earth’s Sustainable SupplyRachel Moeller, Scientific American Humans have typically exercised little or…
World Cup Refereeing Scandals
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For a tournament that began with an excellent standard of referreing, things have certainly got out of hand. The BBC…
2002.06.23 (Sun)
Shibuya Phone Box
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Every time I go to Shibuya I’m reminded of why I no longer go to Shibuya, at least not…
AmphetaDesk and the XML Feed
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Many thanks to M. Sinclair Stevens for pointing out that the v0.91 XML feed doesn’t work with AmphetaDesk. You’ll need…
2002.06.22 (Sat)
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (for this book)
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I’ve always thought that having an Amazon wish list – or at least alerting complete strangers to its existence –…
2002.06.20 (Thu)
An Eco-disaster Waiting to Happen
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Australia has introduced more non-native pests to its ecosystems than, I imagine, any other country. Now it’s about to happen…
Ahn Won’t Be Playing in Perugia
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Well, this is very sporting: Italian club dumps Korean strikersmh.com.au Italian soccer club Perugia has cut its ties with South…
Clearing Jumbos for Takeoff
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Here’s something I expect to see end up in court. ‘Passengers of Size’ Pay Double on SouthwestJon Herskovitz DALLAS (Reuters)…
2002.06.18 (Tue)
Japan 0 : 1 Turkey
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I wish I could say that Japan deserved to win that game, but the sad fact is they didn’t; the…
Evolution
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“Evolution” USA, 2001. Directed by Ivan ‘Special Place in Hell’ Reitman. Screenplay by David Diamond. I certainly wasn’t expecting much…
Looks Like a Wet Afternoon’s Soccer
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30 minutes till kickoff in the Japan vs. Turkey game and the rain is still coming down thick and fast….
Amphetadesk for Mac OS X
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Amphetadesk is a free, cross-platform XML newsfeed aggregator which is now available for Mac OS X. It’s currently at version…
2002.06.17 (Mon)
John Dean’s “Unmasking Deep Throat” Published
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Caveat lector! On May 7 I made mention of an ‘e-book’ (i.e., PDF file) by John Dean to be released…
There is No Disputandum with De Gustibus
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At dinner with friends a couple of weeks ago the subject of Murakami Haruki came up. I’ve tried to give…
2002.06.16 (Sun)
A Visit to Studio Ghibli
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Yesterday was a big, once-in-a-lifetime day. I had the great honour of accompanying the novelist Peter Carey and his…
2002.06.14 (Fri)
Darling, You Look Positively Bovine
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I have no idea where my wife finds these things (I never seem to have such luck), but today…
Spam Poetry No. 2
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You can’t make these up. Over 250 MILLION Email Addresses all time low 30 year mortgage rates I will take…
2002.06.13 (Thu)
May the Gods Bless Honeybees
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For some reason I’ve always loved bees (at a distance). I’m a honey junkie as well as a hardcore caffeine…
2002.06.12 (Wed)
The Worst Pun I’ve Heard in Ages
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If you were going to make a Macintosh application that let’s you print blank sheet music, what would you call…
2002.06.11 (Tue)
Contax Customer Service
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The control wheel on my old second-hand T2 broke. I took the camera into the Kyocera service centre and…
Sucking Blood and Chewing Scenery
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“Shadow of the Vampire”2000, USA. Directed by E. Elias Merhige Willem Dafoe hams it up as a vampire ‘hired’ by…
2002.06.09 (Sun)
Celebrity Sell-out Index: Yo-Yo Ma
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I just saw Yo-Yo Ma on TV doing an ad for Suntory whisky. His star may be falling, or maybe…
2002.06.08 (Sat)
The Philosophy of Punctuation
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Garret at dangerousmeta points to an article by Paul Robinson on a subject close to my heart. The Philosophy of…
Buildings Are Only Human
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When it’s too expensive to demolish the old building – or you just can’t be bothered – it can…
2002.06.07 (Fri)
Cocoa Formatting Trick
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A Mac OS X Hints reader posted an interesting tip today about being able to copy and paste formatting between…
Mozilla CSS Bug List
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James at ordinary-life.net provides a link to a very thorough list of CSS1 bugs in Mozilla. A quick scan shows…
Silk & Quartz Text Rendering
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Silk is a freeware prefs pane from the clever people at Unsanity Software which enables the Quartz text rendering and…
Echo Afros and Leg Bracelets
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On a quick trip up to the bank this afternoon I noticed a guy with an afro about 2 feet…
2002.06.06 (Thu)
Kibble-consciousness
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The Sydney Morning Herald has real paragraphing problems lately. I see breathless young copy editors, their minds perhaps already agglutinatively…
Poison Whales
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I was talking to an American friend recently who said that the best piece of meat he’d ever eaten was…
Mozilla 1.0 is out. I’ve been using rc3 as my main browser for the last month and despite a few…
Australia Rejects Kyoto
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Very disappointing: Australia rejects Kyoto treatyCNN.com CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) – Australia, the world’s largest coal exporter, will not ratify the…
2002.06.05 (Wed)
CD Session Burner
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CD Session Burner by James Sentman does one handy little thing and does it well; it burns multiple sessions…
RSS Auto-discovery
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RSS auto-discovery is catching on….
Beneath the Scroll Wheel
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If you’ve ever been curious as to what’s underneath, this is what I found after gently removing the iPod’s…
More Leunig Links
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Curly Flat is “an appreciation of the work of Michael Leunig” and is probably the best place to start if…
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