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 […]
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.
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
A new trend in email spam is to add a couple of random words from the dictionary to the end of the subject heading, which somehow appears to trick the spam filters into thinking it’s not spam. Obviously annoying, as I’m getting more spam, but it allows for oddly entertaining subject headings, such as:
Big Natural Breasts… reappear akimbo, or
MlLFs – MlLFs – MlLFs dehydrate carnivore, or
Trans-x-uals, Girly Boys… !!!! northerner resins
That is all.
After a marathon 26-hour session, this Animal Planet show is out the door. Another edit and 2-3 hours more to go. I guess I’m not going to be doing the 48 Hour Film Project this weekend after all.
Addendum: It ended up being 30 hours… minus a couple on the office couch somewhere in the middle. But, I got double pay, so I’m not going to complain. Officially, at least.
You want to keep up on the real issues for this fall’s election? Just hit this page every once in a while:
Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004
Yes, I will eventually finish the Saga of NAB 2004 (as soon as I stop working 12-16 hour days, hopefully sometime this week), but to tide you over, please accept this humble photographic preview of days five and six.
Photo Album: My Visit to Dave [Long since Offline. —Ed. 2015-08-22]