Saturday, July 03, 2004

The fafbloggers?

Ten minutes of lazy googling investigative reporting might bring you the fafbloggers:

Chris Mastrangelo, Mike Fried and John Leen

Chris is/was a member of "Tech House" at Brown.

Then again, I could be wrong.

Michael Moore abandoned independent movie theaters -- the only ones to give him a chance in the beginning. It's like when Metallica sued bootleggers -- the same people who made them famous. On the other hand, I don't really care and if I were Michael Moore I'd be raking in the cash too (ya know...like a guy who makes money pointing out the failures of others.....) Regardless, check out this 3-minute documentary by a buddy of mine, Finding Fahrenheit 9/11, and make up your own mind.


When: 7/1/2004

Company: Michael Moore

Severity: 5

Points: 105
[Newcum's FuckedCompany Feed]

I'm willing to give Moore a lot of leeway. But nobody is immune from criticism.

Thursday, July 01, 2004

Jurisprudent Fusion, or Throwing Laffer a Curve

The presumption of innocence is a hallmark of the American court system.

What would happen if this were reversed in the particular case of American tax law?

Would tax evasion go down?

gmail bindings in browsers

I hadn't realized how hooked to gmail I was until I was reading the NYT site and I hit "u". I think we need to have a firefox extension that allows gmail key bindings. The most useful would be a "g+i" combination to go up to the root url, say if I was reading a NYT story, I could go up to nytimes.com.

The other key that would be useful is "u" - which would just take me up in the hierarchy by going up one in the URL. So if I was in nytimes/news/candybars, "u" would take me up to nytimes/news/.

There already exists an extension for firefox that handles going up in the hierarchy. I want a combined plugin.

And one more thing. It should autodetect that we're at gmail.com and disable itself.

mmmm.

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

satMac meet kryptonite

The satMac needs a new titanium case. Apparently, it cracks very easily.

:(

Monday, June 28, 2004

set WWDC2004 = Crap;

The Apple WorldWide Developers Conference was the most dissapointing Apple Event in years.

No new systems, a preview of an OS that won't come out until 1st Half 2005 (read as late as June 2005), and a score of "advancements" that have been available independently of Apple.


  • Metadata file system like the one BeOS had working, on Apple hardware, six years ago

  • System wide searching similar to that already implemented in Quiksilver

  • Desktop Widgets a dead ringer for those of Konfabulator

  • RSS Feeds in Safari Repeat after me: The browser is not the place for added non browsing functionality. Rather than go the route of a suite in the manner of the netscape suite, have the dignity to buy out NetNewsWire or PulpFiction in the same way you bought out SoundJam to make iTunes.



There were other announcements, but they are barely worth mentioning.


  • An updated SMB file system driver. To keep up with "Everybody Else"

  • BSD utilities that handle resource forks out of the box. This in a .4 point release?

  • New Displays - in Aluminum! yawn.



I'm leaning stronger and stronger towards believing that we need a GPLed Carbon environment.

Give me a linux system running on Apple Hardware, running apps meant for Apple's operating system, but better.

What is it they used to say?

Think Different.

Sunday, June 27, 2004

Dale a Flaming Liberal?

The Full Monty was on this afternoon as I hooked up my TV to the cable (with the new splitter I bought today at Lowes.)

Not realizing the movie had ended and Fox had segued to NASCAR, you gllorious reader will understand my surprise as I heard the words "Fahrenheit 9/11" come out of the speakers.

It seems that the NASCAR commentators were referring to Dale Earnheardt talking about going to see Michael Moore's new movie as a potential bonding experience.

Dale!