Year: 2004

  • LaCie Announces Dual-Layer DVD Burners

    geek

    Oooooh… I’ve been waiting for this. LaCie has announced external dual-layer DVD-burners, which essentially lets you burn your own DVD-9 discs (with nearly twice the capacity of normal DVD-Rs) at home. That means 4+ hours of best quality video on a single disc. w00t!

  • WordPress, Here I Come

    geek

    Okey, now I’m definitely moving over. WordPress imported all of my MT entries without a hitch, and looking through what docs there are, it seems all the features i want are already in there— save possibly the MT-Amazon plug-in I was using to create my review links. Ah well… that’ll be a good programming challenge for me to replace that, and maybe even contribute something new to the community.

  • First WP Test Post

    geek

    Well, I’m trying to see how this new WordPress thing works. I like the interface a lot (reminds me of b2, which I used to use, and coincidentally enough, is the direct precursor to WP). Considering the new liscening deals that Movable Type has put into place (yes, there’s a free version, but the paid one is required for using registration for comments), and that this baby is not only open source, but free and PHP-based instead of Perl… I think I may have to make the switch.

  • Into the Oracle — Arol Zendik

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    I was approached this afternoon by a guy who said he was part of what basically amounted to a hippie enclave of folks who had decided to drop out of society. For a meager donation, I could receive a magazine, a bumper sticker (“STOP BITCHING – START A REVOLUTION…”) and a CD of the founder’s […]

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  • LEGO Escher

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    AAl just sent me this link to Escher’s "Relativity" in LEGO. A pretty amazing feat of LEGO engineering, with links to a few other Escher drawings that the author has built with LEGO blocks. The extended construction photos are quite amazing.

  • This Old Mac

    geek

    In recent days, two Flash-programmed replicas of old Macintosh computers have appeared on the radar. For your enjoyment:

    Web SE
    The better of the two, in English or German. A remarkably faithful rendition of System 7 with equally accurate software, right down to the After Dark control panel, and the MyEyes eyeballs that used to sit in the menubar and follow your cursor around. (Yes, this is the same one that Wired did a story about.)
    http://myoldmac.net/webse-e.htm

    P.dro Classic
    Warning: IN FRENCH. Looks like it’s running System 6 on a Mac Plus or so. Not quite as polished as the Web SE, but the startup beep and drive clacking really adds to the experience.
    http://www.erreur-404.com/classic-pedro.html

    Update
    There is also someone who has transformed a Mac SE into an ElectriClerk, just like from the Terry Gilliam movie Brazil:
    http://www.ahleman.com/Props/ElectriClerk.html

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