I love the trend of remixing movie trailers to be completely different from what they were originally intended to be. “10 Things I Hate About Commandments”[youtube] is just that.
“Ten Things I Hate About Commandments” is a mash-up trailer for a John Hughes style teen comedy, using footage from the Charlton Heston version of The Ten Commandments. It’s masterfully done, and milk-out-the-nose funny. [boingboing]
Priceless.
A news item from Macworld.com announced that Camino 1.0.1 has been released.
Camino 1.0.1 is a “security and stability update” for Camino 1.0. Several critical security issues have been corrected, and Camino uses version 1.8.0.3 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine. The Java Embedding plug-in has bee updated to version 0.9.5+d. Ad-blocking has been improved, especially for German ads. Locally stored SVG files can now be opened. And Camino on Intel-based Macs can now read Keychain entries stored by Camino on PowerPC-based Macs. [article]
I’m running it now and it does seem to be a little more snappy than the previous version. I would say that it might deal slightly better with WordPress, but still no built-in spellcheck. Bummer.
I can’t even begin to explain it, but tracking the news of natural disasters has been a lifelong obsession. When the (reported) 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck this morning near Tonga, I held my breath as I listened to the ongoing reports coming in about the possible tsunami that might have resulted.
Thankfully, nothing happening. Fiji was in line for a possible wave, so this is doublely good news as Laura has extended family there. I even mentioned this to Rebecca that it’s times like these that I kinda wish we had Fox News on our cable package, simply for the fact that they treat situations like these as if the world was ending. Compare their website to CNN and you kinda get what I’m saying.
The same comparison could be made of other news websites, but I picked the two of the more popular competitors in the U.S.
Every so often, I go through the mess of bookmarks that I have stored up in my browser and bring back some links that I stopped checking a while back. GlobalSecurity.org is one of those sites that isn’t all that exciting, but is worth a good read to get the gritty details about some of the things going on around the world.
This year is the 20 year anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster[wiki]. Not the greatest thing to observe, but it’s a landmark none the less. Their information on Chernobyl is a pretty interesting read. It gives you a better understanding about the whole operation at the plant rather than just the incident itself. The pictures are very striking as well.
I actually watched the Eagle Cam for a while today, and the bird just sat there looking left to right. That’s it. And I was totally sucked into it.
Streaming, live video with sound. The eggs should be hatching soon. It’s kinda neat. Check it out.
I found this interesting website from CNet News that tracks the price of gas across the U.S. and Canada. GasBuddy.com has a tracker that is color coded by county for the states, but I can’t find anything similar for Canada. At the same time, I’m not too sure of how often this is updated, but it seems to have valid information.
As of right now, California and New York seem to be getting slammed the most with prices going around $3.30+ per gallon, the rest of the U.S. not fairing too much less. And the U.S. congress wants to give everyone in the nation a $100 rebate for gas? At this rate, $1000 would be a better amount for everyone. I say save the money and put it into energy alternatives.
Hey, the oil companies seem to be loving this.
I caught wind of this blog from Tod Maffin, and for anyone who has worked in public radio(and has a sense of humor, I might add), you have to check this out. Public Radio Slave is everything I should have done during my public radio days back in Iowa.
There is something to be said when you work in broadcasting. Everyone is your friend because they don’t see you as someone who works in radio. You’re their best friend. It breeds some bizarre situations and brings the strangest types out of… well who knows where some of these people come from. It can get pretty strange, and listeners are not all that I’m talking about.
And try being a broadcast engineer. Just because you can hook up your home stereo doesn’t mean you are fully qualified to label yourself as an expert. The phrase “I don’t know but we’ll make it work” was always a favorite response to anyone looking to give us their input.
I’ve been debating it for a long while. I have all these random photos that I take, but not sure how to go about sharing them unless I invite the world over to go through my iPhoto library. Flickr seems to be the next best thing.
I hope to be good about adding what I can to it. My hope is to show off my experiences in Vancouver in the visual sense. Like it or don’t, I’m giving it a shot.
This upsets me to no end. The Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA, is the big giant we all love to hate. If you are one to be in support of freely downloading your music at will, these are the people who are looking to throw a lawsuit at you for a few thousand dollars.
The thing that gets me is that the RIAA is not only comprised of executives from inside the industry, but of musicians themselves. I understand that they want what is right. I am completely and totally all for artists getting the money they are entitled to from their music being distributed. To tell their fans to cough up the cash and drop out of community college is amazing. Looks like Mr. Record Company Executive will be having an extra week on the island this year.
That’s what really upsets me. By the time this money gets funneled down to the artists themselves, it is literally pennies. I could go on about it, but Courtney Love’s piece on Salon.com speaks to this really well. However, it was the piece by Steve Albini that opened my eyes to the situation a long time ago.
Don’t know who Courtney Love and Steve Albini are?
Please put a spell checker into your great and wonderful browser. I love using WordPress, but it pains me to no end that I have a lackluster abilty to check my sppeling. Grammer is a constant annoyance that I can deal with, but being able to make sure that you spell everything right on the fly like you can in Safira is a life sacber.
Opoen source, fast, slick, and a prety great browwer. Camino is awesome, but it could be awesomrer.
And if you guys know of some other way that I can get this put into Camino without some uber hack, that would be outstanding.
Thank you.
