Archive for January, 2007

God, The Devil and Bob

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Watching Mr. Deity I remembered another show, this one on tv, from a few years back that was cancelled too soon.
God, The Devil and Bob.

Mr. Deity

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

If you’ve never seen the Mr. Deity shorts, you really should.
They’re all here.
What is Mr. Deity?
Mr. Deity is a bi-monthly video series (every two weeks) that looks at God and the Universe with a smile (and sometimes, a wink).

Dry Cleaning’s “Organic” Ruse

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Dry Cleaning places are claiming they’re going organic to make the world a safer and cleaner place. It may not be so simple. The new chemical they’re using isn’t as safe or “green” as they’d like to you believe. More on it here.

Flip4Mac’s Security Hole

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Looks like Flip4Mac has a vunerability in it that isn’t being too widely reported.
The nitty gritty is here.
The short of it is:
WMV files use the Advanced Systems Format (ASF) container format, originally supported for Macintosh systems via Microsoft’s “Windows Media Player for Mac”. Since Microsoft decided to stop development of it’s Mac-port of WM Player, […]

Flatland: The Movie

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

If you’ve ever read the novel Flatland by Edwin Abbott you may be interested in a fan-made feature length film adapatation of the novel. Their site is here.

VueScan’s Endless Parade of Updates

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

There’s a piece of software by Hamrick Software called VueScan that is a general scanning app for scanners. Looking at versiontracker and macupdate it seems like this app is updated nearly everyday.
Sometimes it is.
Why is this a bad thing? Because the updates are largely quite non-specific: “improved” this, “fixed” that, “updated” something. Here’s today’s update […]

Bobby Adam’s Age Maps

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Age Maps are where two photos of the same person are put together side by side. It’s interesting.
(thanks to Lukas for the link!)

Maundering Maudlin-ly

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Maudlin - self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness
Maunder - talk in a rambling manner
Am I the only one who sees the humor in this?

Shadow of the Colossus

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

If you ever wanted to see the top of the temple in the demo/beta version of Shadow of the Colossus, check it out here.

Real life Replicants

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

At least it’s a first step.
Instead of the traditional metal clad robots of yesterday’s future, tomorrow’s robots may be all soft and mushy like a replicant from Blade Runner.