Archives for September, 2002
2002.09.29 (Sun)
iSync Poetry
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The Macintoshian Achaia iSync thread alerts us to this perfect snippet in the release notes for the 1.0 beta. Important:…
2002.09.26 (Thu)
Subliminal Ryoanji
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Don’t miss this wonderful reading of one of the great gardens of the world, the Zen rock garden of Ryoanji….
2002.09.24 (Tue)
Japan’s “Classroom Collapse”
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The Herald Trib carries a story from Howard French of The NY Times today about growing problems in Japanese elementary…
2002.09.23 (Mon)
FOAF 2 Vcard
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Jim Ley’s FOAF 2 Vcard takes a FOAF file and turns it into a Vcard (which you can drag and…
Gen X Wealth Disparities
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A story in The Sydney Morning Herald today by Matt Wade: Rich get richer, the young get poorer But before…
Got a FOAF file? Mine’s here. You can generate one FOAF-a-matically thanks to Leigh Dodds: FOAF-a-matic – Describe yourself in…
Strange Names
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A few years ago in Japan a couple tried to name their son Akuma. They were, if I remember correctly,…
2002.09.22 (Sun)
As my hairline recedes north as inexorably as the polar ice cap, I find myself increasingly fighting off thoughts of…
Bamboo Rifles
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This photograph from today’s Asahi Shinbun shows students of a Kobe elementary school learning to sight with bamboo rifles….
Spirited Away
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Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away has had its US premier. I saw it on tape a while back (the difference in…
2002.09.21 (Sat)
TigerLaunch 1.0b3
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Brent Simmons has released TigerLaunch 1.0b3, a free application launcher for OS X that provides a menu to access…
Out of Touch
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It’s terrible that we’re becoming a society afraid of touch. It can get you into trouble, raise suspicions, make you…
2002.09.20 (Fri)
Tiny Maps
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I spent a good part of the day preparing a series of test maps in English for a service that’s…
Thomas Lynch, Poet-Slash-Undertaker
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I was visiting Powells.com to buy the latest Paul Auster novel and, helpless as usual, I started browsing around….
2002.09.19 (Thu)
The Great .Mac Debate Continues
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If you convert an iTools account to a .Mac account before September 30, it will cost you $49 for a…
As everyone with OS X knows by now, the first update to Jaguar, 10.2.1, is out (check the Software Update…
Misguided Customers
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Steven Frank, a co-founder of Panic.com (makers of Audion, Transmit and CandyBar) has a weblog on which he’s provided a…
2002.09.18 (Wed)
The Japan Syndrome
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Via dangerousmeta and guaranteed to scare the bejeezus out of you, Howard French reports in The New York Times on…
2002.09.17 (Tue)
Hidden Signals
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As the number of mobile phone antennae skyrockets, it’s somewhat heartening to see that some places are trying to avoid…
Black Humour for the Modern Age
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In the don’t-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry department, ExitToShell() Software has released Homeland Alert X, a Mac OS X menu bar utility which…
2002.09.16 (Mon)
Half-conversations
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Mobile phones have filled the streets with half-conversations. Regular old public telephones (remember those?) tethered people to a little bubble…
2002.09.15 (Sun)
Wait – There’s Oil Involved!?
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Hilarious headline and sub-head on the Washington Post’s main page just now: War May Unshackle Oil in Iraq Hussein’s ouster…
2002.09.14 (Sat)
Another Moon For Our Sizeable Collection
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This story from the BBC about the earth’s recent acquisition of a ‘third moon’ reminds me of a thoroughly…
Thorpe’s New Coach
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Ian Thorpe has a new coach, which is big news if you follow swimming. To say that Tracey Menzies has…
2002.09.13 (Fri)
Proto-smiley
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I guess smiley archaeology was just a matter of time. The First Smiley The smiley and its many variants are…
Must-see Photography
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If you’re in the mood for some absolutely stunning photography, visit Etherf@rm. Right place, right time, right pair of eyes….
2002.09.11 (Wed)
September 11
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From “The Height of Ambition” by James Glanz and Eric Lipton, New York Times: The destruction of the twin…
The Coolpix Lives!
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On the off chance that the tip Eric sent along might work (when it hadn’t twice before), I put batteries…
Yeti: I Want to Believe
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This story is popping up everywhere but it’s so intriguing that I have to post a link here for future…
iCal: A Mini-Review
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Apple released iCal today, an “elegant personal calendar application that helps you manage your life and your time better…
2002.09.09 (Mon)
No House Week!
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This week was supposed to be House Week on Antipixel, wherein I was going to present a series of photographs…
ABC News Smuggles Uranium
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While the press certainly undoubtedly “plays an important role in testing how well government is protecting its citizens” [Paul Friedman,…
2002.09.07 (Sat)
The Lego Credit Card
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I’m not making this up: you can now get a Lego credit card (page is in Japanese). This is…
Niggardly Indeed
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I can’t believe how stupid this is. Parent offended by lesson in vocabularySherry Jones, Willmington Star (via Kuro5hin) Use of…
2002.09.06 (Fri)
The Real Demon
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It’s raining hard today so I can’t photograph all of the tiles properly, but I simply have to show…
Get a Real Job, Tom
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Goddamn it – this sort of thing should be illegal. The more I see what kind of crap people are…
2002.09.05 (Thu)
The Demon Plates
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I called by the demolition site this morning as instructed but they weren’t ready to get up on the roof…
Siracusa’s Jag Review
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John Siracusa of Ars Technica has been covering Mac OS X with wit and insight since its release. I’ve been…
Margaret Berry of The Morning News has written a wonderfully witty series on etiquette (which would dictate, I guess, that…
2002.09.04 (Wed)
House Week
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Next week is going to be House Week on Antipixel (in the spirit of last year’s Leaf Week). I’ll be…
Books on Japanese Houses
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Perhaps the definitive book on traditional Japanese residential housing is Heinrich Engel’s The Japanese House: A Tradition for Contemporary…
Oni-gawara: Half-way There
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I just walked down to the old house and spoke to the demolition workers about taking the oni-gawara off the…
Flabbergasted
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M. Sinclair Stevens dropped a perfect little stone into the boiling cauldron that is my mind just now. It deserves…
2002.09.03 (Tue)
Another House Dies
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The neighbourhood becomes an uglier place tomorrow when yet another old house gets demolished. Seeing these places disappear puts…
2002.09.02 (Mon)
Educated Quotes Nirvana (Almost)
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John Gruber has solved the quote problem. I mentioned a week or so back here about trying to get Brad…
“Quote” Test: Let’s Try This
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I’ll elaborate on this nonsense in just a minute: need to see if it works first. “The quick brown fox,”…
2002.09.01 (Sun)
The Happy Mac Lives!
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I suspected this was only a matter of time, but Ryan Schmidt seems to be first past the post with…
An End to Spam Pinging in MT
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John Biesnecker posted a neat hack to stop spam pinging in the latest version of Movable Type. By adding a…
Nasty Finder Bug in 10.2
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…or Night of the Living Desktop Back in April I stopped using the Desktop based on a tip that turning…
A Pilsener Runs Through It
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We spent a couple of days camping west of Tokyo in an area called Oku-Tama for what passed as…
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