May 2010
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Happy birthday Stevie!
It’s also your birthday! I am confuzzled by things happening on the same days as other days, because I am old. You’re not old yet but hey, you’re getting there, right?
Happily, I also discovered another cocktail today, which was provided to me today by MrCraster. So you’re, uhh, getting the same sort of thing as Beth. Which is probably a bit lame. Sorry! Anyway. Simply mix...
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For Damselesque: the Minted Memories cocktail
Happy birthday Beth! I wanted to do you a video today but I’m travelling so haven’t had a chance. However, I can still provide you this recipe for a cocktail Danielle and I discovered in San Francisco. It’s quite unusual and very tasty! It’s based on a traditional Persian afternoon drink; it was invented by Chef Hoss Zaré at Fly Trap, near SFMOMA.
Start with 100ml of...
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Charlie Stross on the iPad →
Charlie Stross, noted scifi author and all-round geek, has a new iPad. Here’s a taster but you should read it all if you’re not bored of iPads already:
There are three use cases for a device like the iPad: (a) as a stand-alone computer, (b) as a PDA-like companion machine, sharing data with a primary computer, and (c) as a thin client, sharing data with servers over the internet...
eating a bag of bees.: At least 2-3 times per day,... →
But never quite so much as when I miss an appointment because I entered it in my iPhone calendar wrong. And then I have to send long, blubbering, ridiculous e-mails to the people I accidentally stood up.
During university, I missed a quantum physics exam because I turned up a day late. To make things worse: I thought it was on a Saturday, which (whilst not unheard of) was highly unlikely and...
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Thundercats writer murdered →
If I saw this plot in a TV movie I’d be rolling my eyes and shouting “oh come on! That’s ridiculous!” at the screen. Kotaku:
Stephen Perry, who was a writer for 1980s cartoon ThunderCats, recently went missing. His van was found last Sunday. Inside it, a man’s severed arm. Stephen Perry, police now report, is dead.
The 56-year-old writer went missing from his...
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To every journalist who's written about the iPad...
Either:
learn how to interpret raw statistics in the context of longer term trends like pent up iPad demand or Verizon’s two-for-one Android sale (stop being dumb) or
stop wilfully misrepresenting statistics (stop being evil) or
fuck right off.
Any questions?
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More on Lost: what BSG did right
Both shows had long running arcs packed with characters who knew more than us and therefore did things we couldn’t understand.
Battlestar Galactica found the balance Lost couldn’t though. It explained in a reasonably satisfying and consistent way how all those strings had been pulled — but left us to make up our minds about the nature of the string puller.
That’s what I...
I guess that one really needed a “read more” link, huh? You can’t seem to add those in edits on tumblr. So sorry for the text attack across your dashboards.
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On Lost
And lo, unto the 120th hour came the end of times, and the Internet was rent asunder. Brother turned on brother in a poorly thought out Biblical metaphor and I have no idea where I’m going with this.
Fan reaction to the Lost finale seems to occupy one of two extreme camps, in the typically polarised view that public discourse on the Internet takes. On the one hand, Group A: people who loved...
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Lost thoughts
It hit the right emotional notes (and there was some wonderful acting, in particular from Terry O’Quinn, Michael Emerson, and Daniel Dae Kim (“Detective… Ford?” cracked me right up). And I would neither expect nor want it to explain everything.
I would have liked about 380% more exposition though, because then it might have explained just a few things.
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whltexbread replied to your photo:Techie Sunday. I love cracking a case open to come…
WHY DOES YOUR DVR HAVE PARALLEL PORTS
You are gazing upon the magic of SCART! Although now that you mention it they dolook like LPT ports. I have never noticed that before.
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Lost ending predictions (SPOILERS)
The flash-sideways world represents some sort of happy ending where most of the characters end up.
Fake-Locke is not Jacob’s brother, who really died when Jacob threw him in the Kincaid cave-painting. The smoke monster that came out was released from it, and had all of his brother’s memories, in the same was as he now has Locke’s memories and appearance. This same smoke monster...
I laugh in the face of warranty seals
Also, just fixed my Sky HD box.
I’ve suffered from stuttering recordings (even in SD) for ages now, to the point where I’ve all but given up using it. Well, that’s jeopardising my ability to watch Lost tomorrow, so I finally got motivated to try swapping it. I found an old 250Gb SATA drive in my cupboard o’ spares (dunno where that came from) and after swapping that...
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iPad thoughts
With the UK release of the iPad finally upon us, loads of people have been asking me what I think of mine after two weeks of use. I’m not going to attempt a formal review because there are many more qualified places to go to for that information. This is just some loosely organised notes.
It’s not a big iPod Touch; the iPod is a small iPad
I’d read this sentiment a few times but hadn’t really...
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In the UK, Sky are simulcasting the Lost finale...
That means it starts at 5am, timezone fans. So the question is: am I getting up really damned early tomorrow, or am I going to disable the entire Internet all day for fear of spoilers?
Edit — sunrise tomorrow is at 4:58am, so I could tell myself I’ll photograph it to make 5am sound less stupid to myself.
On Domino's and FourSquare
In the UK, Domino’s now gives:
free garlic bread on all collection orders if you check in to FourSquare whilst in the store, and
one free (small) pizza a week to the current mayor.
I can’t decide if that’s clever or lame.
(And yes, haters, I order pizza from Domino’s. It’s the best pizza I can get delivered to my house. Think about that for a little while. The...
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On Apple and AT&T
ronbailey replied to your quote:The new Android OS will support tethering, meaning…
I think one of the more valid criticisms of Apple today (at least here in the US) is their continuing partnership with AT&T - a company that is almost Apple’s polar opposite when it comes to customer care. I just can’t wrap my head around it.
Oh, I don’t think it’s any mystery. When Apple...
“The new Android OS will support tethering, meaning you can use your phone as a...”
– Dan Lyons writing in Newsweek. O2, who were previously the UK’s exclusive iPhone carrier (we now have three), have supported iPhone tethering over USB and Bluetooth since Apple added the feature in June 2009. This story is repeated around the world in most of the countries the iPhone ships in....
Watchfuckyeahinfo:
What Seven Years of Source Code for Flickr.com Looks Like - Flickr - Gizmodo
I don’t even do work as cool as this animation, let alone Flickr itself.
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Twitter fights subpoena to out users who... →
Can you imagine Facebook going to the mat to protect a user’s privacy like this?
Coyotesqrl said something dumb about firefighters →
In addition to the whole “charging into burning and/or exploding buildings” thing, as has been covered by Michelle and Toni, I would also add that (at least here in the UK) more than half of all firefighter call outs are car accidents. Many of these involve tasks ranging from cutting people out of wreckage, administering vital first aid, watching them die, and encountering dismembered...
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#sftu questions
I’m geotagging photos from January. Can anyone remember the names or locations of:
The restaurant we went to after the Academy of Science thing?
Either of the two bars we went to on the Friday night — the really crowded place with the piano, and place over the road with the loud music?
The place where we went for dim sum?
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Migrating from Lightroom to Aperture via TIFFs...
Also, tedious.
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Adobe®: We Love Choice →
bananacasts:
valhallaisland:
The $600 Flash authoring tool is the only way to produce Flash applications.
The free Mac OS X Developer tools (that require an $800+ Mac computer) are the only way to produce iPhone and iPad applications.
Both systems are as closed as each other.
Adobe claims Flash is open.
Apple makes no such claims. If you want to make iPhone or iPad apps you use Mac OS and...
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WatchI was wondering who would be the first to make this, and then it turned out to be Dom Joly himself.