Found a good resource for learning how to operate manual transmissions...
4.30.2004
4.29.2004
By now, I’m sure you’ve all heard about the Ebay wedding gown thing... dang funny though...
Lots of news from Apple: iTunes celebrates one year anniversary; cool new version released; Over 70 million songs purchased; iTunes on Campus program; Music Store turns small profit, video iPod denied; iPod update; and finally, Pepsi’s iTunes promo shows weak results, despite all the soda Brian bought using the sneaky peeking method...
Lots of news from Apple: iTunes celebrates one year anniversary; cool new version released; Over 70 million songs purchased; iTunes on Campus program; Music Store turns small profit, video iPod denied; iPod update; and finally, Pepsi’s iTunes promo shows weak results, despite all the soda Brian bought using the sneaky peeking method...
4.28.2004
Cult movie Donnie Darko is getting a new theatrical release this summer. The new version will have 20 minutes of never-before-seen footage, new visual effects, and new music. (via TrendCentral)
Let’s help W and Google for those weapons of mass destruction:
Go to Google
Type “weapons of mass destruction” (DON’T hit return)
Hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button
Read the error message...
Let’s help W and Google for those weapons of mass destruction:
4.27.2004
Today is my 3rd anniversary with the wonderful L&N Sales and Marketing. Sigh. However, I did recieve word that this week my “Original Scrunchie” logo will be officially registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...
Our wonderful mayor has proposed his budget and “the City’s arts and cultural institutions may absorb the single biggest hit, with total subsidies slashed by $4 million.” Spread the word on what’s up and what to do with this PDF brief.
Heather Champ’s photo blog rocks... check it daily.
CNET Networks on Monday launched a free digital music service, allowing people to search and download what it said were thousands of songs contributed by independent and unsigned artists. Check it out here.
BMW’s Annual Report.
Our wonderful mayor has proposed his budget and “the City’s arts and cultural institutions may absorb the single biggest hit, with total subsidies slashed by $4 million.” Spread the word on what’s up and what to do with this PDF brief.
Heather Champ’s photo blog rocks... check it daily.
CNET Networks on Monday launched a free digital music service, allowing people to search and download what it said were thousands of songs contributed by independent and unsigned artists. Check it out here.
BMW’s Annual Report.
4.26.2004
4.23.2004
Is MickeyDee’s goin’ veggie? At the recently revamped McDonald’s on the Strand in London, the Salad Plus menu is emphasized alongside the regular menu, and vegetarian options like Quorn products are also offered. The traditional plastic chairs and tables are traded for soft sofas and Corbusier-style chrome and leather chairs and bar stools. I still remember those uncomfrotable swiveling orange molded plastic chairs that were bolted to the table... Times, they are a’changing... (via TrendCentral)
How to get the most bang should you be bumped... from your next airline trip.
How to get the most bang should you be bumped... from your next airline trip.
4.22.2004
Happy Earth Day!
Happy TV Turnoff Week!
This weekend is the Hot Rod Hoedown at Kahunaville in Delware...
I think this is where Nissan got their idea for that wierd Skyview Roof...
QM2 arrives in NYC for the first time...
Check out Volvo’s YCC... designed by a team of eight female engineers and marketers with the female driver in mind. Drivers receive custom comfort through still-in-development “Ergovision” technology: the driver’s body would be scanned at the dealership and the information stored on a key fob. When the key is entered into the ignition, the seats, pedals, steering wheel, mirrors and headrest (with space for a ponytail) would change accordingly. GPS, stereo, and mobile phone dialing are all voice activated. There are various storage compartments for everything from sunglasses to a laptop computer, and buyers can choose from eight varieties of colors and textures for the seat covers. Although the YCC was designed with women in mind, the innovations clearly benefit both male and female drivers. Because women influence more than 80% of all car purchases and they purchase more than 50% of all new vehicles, it seems that Volvo is heading in the right direction. (via TrendCentral)
Happy TV Turnoff Week!
This weekend is the Hot Rod Hoedown at Kahunaville in Delware...
I think this is where Nissan got their idea for that wierd Skyview Roof...
QM2 arrives in NYC for the first time...
Check out Volvo’s YCC... designed by a team of eight female engineers and marketers with the female driver in mind. Drivers receive custom comfort through still-in-development “Ergovision” technology: the driver’s body would be scanned at the dealership and the information stored on a key fob. When the key is entered into the ignition, the seats, pedals, steering wheel, mirrors and headrest (with space for a ponytail) would change accordingly. GPS, stereo, and mobile phone dialing are all voice activated. There are various storage compartments for everything from sunglasses to a laptop computer, and buyers can choose from eight varieties of colors and textures for the seat covers. Although the YCC was designed with women in mind, the innovations clearly benefit both male and female drivers. Because women influence more than 80% of all car purchases and they purchase more than 50% of all new vehicles, it seems that Volvo is heading in the right direction. (via TrendCentral)
4.21.2004
Holy Volta!
Good article on Quentin’s obsession with Uma over at Rolling Stone.
BT has released The Technology EP, featuring exclusive remixes of The Force of Gravity, Superfabulous and The Great Escape, and remix parts for all three tracks! Also includes the video of Simply Being Loved (Somnambulist).
Some helpful OSX tips and tricks, via a Delaware Computer Exchange email:
Rebooting without the Restarting
OS X starting to act a little weird? Feeling like you should reboot the computer, but don't want to wait for a complete restart? No problem, in many cases you can get the "cleansing" benefit of a restart just by logging out and then back in. Just go to the Apple menu and choose the "Log Out" command.
Ooops! Didn't Mean to Drag That File...
Next time you discover you selected the wrong file, or are inadvertantly moving an icon that you meant to leave alone, here's a quick fix: You can just move your cursor to the very top of your screen, above the menu bar and let go. The file(s) will magically drop back to where they started. Another approach is to hit your Escape key during the dragging action - that will cancel the move.
Don't Wait for That Page to Load!
Tired of clicking Web page links, waiting for the page to load, and then using the Back Button to try something else? In most Mac Web Browsers you can make a clicked link open in a new, separate window by holding down the Command key as you click. Then by leveraging the Command + ~ trick to flip windows, you can go back to reading pages that are loaded while you wait for others to become available.
Reducing Screen Clutter
There are several ways to reduce screen clutter when switching applications. If you Command + Option click an application's icon in Dock, you'll hide all applications except the one you clicked on. If you Command + Option click on the desktop (or a window in another application) you'll switch to the desktop/application and hide all others. If you want to temporarily hide all open document windows except for the ones in the program you are currently working in, just use the keyboard shortcut Command + Option + H. This will invoke the "hide others" command that used to reside under the application menu in previous versions of the Mac OS.
Fast Switching Back and Forth Between Applications
If you are in the middle of a repetitive back and forth transfer of data between two programs (perhaps copying and pasting various segments of text from Word into a graphics application), try the Command + Tab key shortcut. This shortcut will take you to the last application you accessed, do it again and you'll be back to the one you started from.
Dock Positioning Shortcuts
You don't need to go to the Apple menu to control where the dock is located. Control-clicking the Dock's dividing line will bring up a contextual menu with right, left or bottom options. Also you can manually drag the Dock by Shift-clicking the divider.
Good article on Quentin’s obsession with Uma over at Rolling Stone.
BT has released The Technology EP, featuring exclusive remixes of The Force of Gravity, Superfabulous and The Great Escape, and remix parts for all three tracks! Also includes the video of Simply Being Loved (Somnambulist).
Some helpful OSX tips and tricks, via a Delaware Computer Exchange email:
Rebooting without the Restarting
OS X starting to act a little weird? Feeling like you should reboot the computer, but don't want to wait for a complete restart? No problem, in many cases you can get the "cleansing" benefit of a restart just by logging out and then back in. Just go to the Apple menu and choose the "Log Out" command.
Ooops! Didn't Mean to Drag That File...
Next time you discover you selected the wrong file, or are inadvertantly moving an icon that you meant to leave alone, here's a quick fix: You can just move your cursor to the very top of your screen, above the menu bar and let go. The file(s) will magically drop back to where they started. Another approach is to hit your Escape key during the dragging action - that will cancel the move.
Don't Wait for That Page to Load!
Tired of clicking Web page links, waiting for the page to load, and then using the Back Button to try something else? In most Mac Web Browsers you can make a clicked link open in a new, separate window by holding down the Command key as you click. Then by leveraging the Command + ~ trick to flip windows, you can go back to reading pages that are loaded while you wait for others to become available.
Reducing Screen Clutter
There are several ways to reduce screen clutter when switching applications. If you Command + Option click an application's icon in Dock, you'll hide all applications except the one you clicked on. If you Command + Option click on the desktop (or a window in another application) you'll switch to the desktop/application and hide all others. If you want to temporarily hide all open document windows except for the ones in the program you are currently working in, just use the keyboard shortcut Command + Option + H. This will invoke the "hide others" command that used to reside under the application menu in previous versions of the Mac OS.
Fast Switching Back and Forth Between Applications
If you are in the middle of a repetitive back and forth transfer of data between two programs (perhaps copying and pasting various segments of text from Word into a graphics application), try the Command + Tab key shortcut. This shortcut will take you to the last application you accessed, do it again and you'll be back to the one you started from.
Dock Positioning Shortcuts
You don't need to go to the Apple menu to control where the dock is located. Control-clicking the Dock's dividing line will bring up a contextual menu with right, left or bottom options. Also you can manually drag the Dock by Shift-clicking the divider.
4.20.2004
So Chris Bangle has been “promoted” to the newly created post of Director of BMW Group Design, an executive position distanced from the design floor. All the grumblings must have been heard... I, for one, don’t necessarily dislike the ideas behind his aesthetic. I just don’t think they are necessarily well-executed across the entire line. While I only somewhat like the Z4, I really dig the new 6 Series; but when spread across the entire line, I don’t think it works overall. I applaud forward-thinking, design that pushes the envelope, but I still think it needs to be rooted in function and reality. Difficult position to be in, leading design of a luxury marque that is at once technologically superior yet rooted in tradition. His shoes must not be ones that are comfortable to be in...
Anyways, a few new tweaks to the site... added a section to "stuff" about my new bike, as well as added a link from "spinning" that lists the contents of my iPod for the times when the iPod is on random (which it usually is). To think I can listen to 10 days, 6 hours, 14 minutes and 48 seconds of uninterrupted music and never hear the same song twice... brilliant! I know, useless, but neat, in a geeky sort of way. Also managed to do something useful, cleaned some things up a bit and got pages working decently across browsers.
Anyways, a few new tweaks to the site... added a section to "stuff" about my new bike, as well as added a link from "spinning" that lists the contents of my iPod for the times when the iPod is on random (which it usually is). To think I can listen to 10 days, 6 hours, 14 minutes and 48 seconds of uninterrupted music and never hear the same song twice... brilliant! I know, useless, but neat, in a geeky sort of way. Also managed to do something useful, cleaned some things up a bit and got pages working decently across browsers.
4.19.2004
Andy’s work is absolutely amazing. Congrats on your success at the Philadelphia Furniture and Furnishings Show.
Interesting news on the new engines to come in the next generation MINIs...
At the close of the fiscal 2004 second quarter, Apple posted a 29% increase in net profit, a 5% increase in CPU units and a whopping 909% increase in iPod sales. Now, iPods are outselling Macs. Amazing.
The most iTunes-Pepsi bottles purchased at one time?
Cool graf sites Graphotism and They Made Me Do It.
Interesting news on the new engines to come in the next generation MINIs...
At the close of the fiscal 2004 second quarter, Apple posted a 29% increase in net profit, a 5% increase in CPU units and a whopping 909% increase in iPod sales. Now, iPods are outselling Macs. Amazing.
The most iTunes-Pepsi bottles purchased at one time?
Cool graf sites Graphotism and They Made Me Do It.
4.18.2004
Special thanks to everyone who came (or tried to come) out to McFadden’s to celebrate K’s birthday... thanks also to Puri for tending bar and Kimmie for helping organize... sorry for all the craziness...
4.15.2004
Congrats to Mr. Hogan and his first cover for the AC Weekly...
Great online all-in-one dictionary: English, Computer, Dream and Medical terms as well as a Thesaurus.
Great online all-in-one dictionary: English, Computer, Dream and Medical terms as well as a Thesaurus.
4.14.2004
oneplusoneequalsthree is a cool design blog from down unda.
The Associated Press reports that in a recent study, researchers found that doctors who spend at least three hours a week playing videogames made about 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the tasks 27% faster than their counterparts who did not play videogames. Read more here.
The Associated Press reports that in a recent study, researchers found that doctors who spend at least three hours a week playing videogames made about 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the tasks 27% faster than their counterparts who did not play videogames. Read more here.
4.12.2004
Make that chicken dance.
Now you can create your very own advertising methodology diagram and impress clients! just fill in the blanks with some swank-sounding words and you too can be the next Razorfish!
BTW, finally unsick, mostly. Now I'm working on getting my vision fixed... what did that damn contact have to go down the drain?!?!?!
Now you can create your very own advertising methodology diagram and impress clients! just fill in the blanks with some swank-sounding words and you too can be the next Razorfish!
BTW, finally unsick, mostly. Now I'm working on getting my vision fixed... what did that damn contact have to go down the drain?!?!?!
4.10.2004
4.05.2004
TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING: With hundreds of new illustrations, tens of thousands of dollars worth of photography and months of merciless art direction, this volume is carefully crafted and overdesigned in the tradition you've come to expect from House Industries. The entire House crew will individually sign your book and carefully pack it in a secure custom shipping box. A special numbered and embossed bookplate guaranteeing the authenticity of this first edition is also included. Books will ship on April 21. Fonts are available for immediate download. Check out this hardbound 240-page full-color House Industries extravaganza plus five new fonts at houseind.com...
Very cool mechanical found-object sculpture...
Very cool mechanical found-object sculpture...
4.04.2004
Happy birthday Grampop.
4.03.2004
Jon can make a mean Alabama Slammer. The secret is in the real OJ, not frozen concentrate. Oops!
4.01.2004
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