freeform goodness

• Chorizo con huevos — a really simple breakfast, but a tasty one. I had bicuits and honey with them, instead of tortillas, though.
• I’d like to wish Randy Morin a very happy 37th birthday!
• This link keeps getting reposted all over the place, but for those of us who “imprinted” musically during the ’80s, it’s a revelation.

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• Steak N’ Shake’s peach milkshakes are… rather good. OK, scratch that… They’re insanely good. Fast food fattening stuff doesn’t get any better.
• Everyone else is linking this, but it’s really worth a read. The True Story of Audion. I was an Audion user for quite a while, and Panic are a really wonderful small development house.
• 200 comment spams yesterday/this morning. I have done something about it. So far, it looks pretty good.
• I am really, really happy that it’s cool to cite the Cars as an influence these days. Sometimes it really pays off.

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• I’ve been quite busy over the last week or so, and I’ve neglected the blog. I’ve been running silent because I started a new job today. I am now working for Altair Engineering, on a product called PBS Pro. Standard blogging disclaimers apply (i.e. this will probably be the only time I ever mention work, directly.)
• Anyone have any experience with SuSe? I’m a BSD-kinda guy myself, we’ll see how it goes… I’ve not actually used KDE very much.
• If you’re tired of political “commentary” that softpedals… well, everything, take a look at the Rude Pundit — NSFW, for language. Worth a look for this classic entry, if nothing else. spotter: ssp
• I’m really happy with SpamAssassin 3.0. Working in concert with Apple Mail, I’m basically spam-free these days.

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Don’t you think this pro-Sun/anti-Red Hat opinion piece in the Register would be a little more credible without the surrounding ad content? (285kb JPEG image)

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• Technology really does change things. My parents, who live in Florida, sent me a link to their local television station’s website. This station happened to have a live stream of their weather coverage during the lead-up to Charley. As a result, I could sit here in Michigan and not have to wonder whether the storm was going to hit them or pass by — I could watch the very same Doppler radar coverage they were seeing and know that they’d be safe. Sweet.
• Sven-S. Porst does his usual clever Unicode explorations and gets to the bottom of character issues related to ΑΘΗΝΑ 2004.
• I used to get static from people who I like and respect for Windows bashing, but every now and again I read something that reminds me of the importance of shielding the general public from it. Clueless offshore “technical support” reading from scripts figures into this tale of woe, too. Broadband providers should refuse to install service on unfirewalled Windows PCs, and we need a more diverse pool of machines that aren’t all susceptible to the same nonsense. Well, I can dream.

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• A good start.

• “One thing I wish Apple had done differently is respect the white-on-orange icon. Such a small thing, but so important.” - Dave Winer

  Um, no. Can you imagine a company as aesthetically, well, sensitive as Apple biting off a chunk of little orange stupid?

• You know what I want for Christmas? Markup Barbie. You pull a string and she says “XML is tough.” - http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/07/06/tough
• “Keira Knightly Bazoomed for King Arthur Promotion”

• Blending reality TV with a bit of “rumspringa,” the UPN network is launching a controversial new series this month centered on a group of Amish teens as they venture from their rural environs into the outside world. - Reuters

• Before the buzz wears off on all the Jay-Z album remix projects, will someone please make THE BLACK DOG ALBUM? Seriously. Bytes? You know it would be fantastic. All those celestial breakdance fantasies swirling around Ed and Andy’s heads? There’s enough hip-hop there to make it work. - Dan Sicko

  Doing my part to spread the meme. :)

• As a resident of the Great Lakes State, I’m happy to hear that Kelly Ripa’s new $27.5mil deal requires her to comply with the provisions of the Great Lakes Agreement.

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• Thanks, Tiff.
• The paranoia flowing from a certain direction due to a particular newspaper article ought to be amusing, except it really isn’t. It’s kinda sad.
• Looks like Java on the desktop is officially dead, I mean, even more dead than it already was. All credit due to Sun though — their Microsoft payoff was a lot bigger than the one AOL managed for knifing Netscape.

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• The XML Files: All About Blogs and RSS — MSDN Magazine, April 2004
  A lucid, readable, and most importantly unbiased primer on blogging and syndication tech.
  
  
• Microsoft hit by record EU fine
  €497m, $613m, £331m [i.e. the interest on billg’s Christmas Club account]. More interestingly: “Mr Monti has ordered Microsoft to reveal details of its Windows software codes within 120 days”
  
  
• XP SP2 RC1
  Details on IE6/Win’s new popup blocker. For those of you who still use that thing.
  
  
• Interview with Matthew Dillon of DragonFly BSD
  A couple of weeks old, but very interesting. As a FreeBSD fan, I’m very interested in seeing where DragonFly BSD ends up.
  
  
• AbiWord 2.1.1 Released
  Includes a new native OS X binary. Interesting.
  
  

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• Butterfly XML — Elegant XML
  “Butterfly XML Editor is an IDE built on top of a new real-time incremental XML parsing algorithm. The editor features syntax and error highlighting, incremental validation, code completion, XSLT pipelines, and side by side DOM and source viewing.”
  
  
• Dilbert Mar-21-04
  Gross, but very, very funny.
  
  
• Emap closes down the Face
  “The Face, the magazine that was once the epitome of cool, is to close after 24 years, unless a last minute buyer can be found.” (via Hans)
  
  

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• Markdown (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
  Lots of pointless (to me) metabitching of the “why didn’t you just use so-and-so” variety in the comments (hmm, where have I seen that before…) There’s More Than One Way To Do It. Thank goodness.
  
  
• Zombies Drive Jesus From Top Of Box Office
  No comment, I just loved the headline.
  
  
• MacDevCenter.com: Panther, Python, and CoreGraphics [Mar. 19, 2004]
  by Mitch Chapman — Mac OS X Panther includes many updated developer tools. Among them is an enhanced version of Python 2.3 with its own SWIG-based bindings to the CoreGraphics library.
  
  
• Buying Guide: LCD Displays
  LCD monitors have finally overtaken CRTs in the marketplace, and now the chances are good that your next monitor will be an LCD.
  
  
• DVD-Audio News: AAC Chosen for DVD-ROM Zone of DVD-Audio Discs [HFR]
  The DVD Forum has chosen AAC for the DVD-ROM zone of DVD-Audio discs…
  
  

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