A new feature to be included in Mac OS X ‘Tiger’ is generating much criticism from Mac users, developers and bloggers for its uncanny resemblance to another, independently produced application.
Dashboard displays a number highly customisable mini-applications known as ‘widgets’, and, like Expos
”… peer into four different modes of a molecule visualization with subatomic detail.”
Don’t know what the hell that means but it sounds great. Apple introduces some new aluminium displays, one of which is a huge 30” across.
Win a part in the Hitch-hiker’s film (take a photo of somewhere you think deserves to be spared from the bad tempered Vogon Constructor Fleet)
TextDrive is a hosting company from Dean Allen. What other names could Dean call his forthcoming web related ventures?:
James Joyce’s Ulysses: One Page Every Day (includes an RSS feed)
Elsewhere ‘Slurpee’ Commercial (Quicktime Movie)
SETI Institute’s Are We Alone? – A Weekly Science Radio Program (audio archive)
Wikipedia: Fraggle Rock (“a world with a relatively complex system of symbiotic relationships between different “races” of creatures”)
… or how English football has declined. Between 1906 and 1910, England played France 4 times. The aggregate score was 48-1 to England.
It was an all-postal ballot here in the North East. For me it might as well not have been; I left it right until the last minute and had to deliver by hand. There was a Royal Mail van parked up outside the town hall; the post men and women are having a busy time.
Reaction to Morrisey’s declaration that ‘Bush should have died, not Reagan’
More Images of the Venus Transit (this page is getting 1100 requests per second)
While watching the legendary Bobby Womack on last night’s Later… with Jools Holland, I was struck by the fact that he plays a right-handed guitar left-handed. Jimi Hendrix famously did this, but he re-strung his right-handed guitars so that the strings were in the right order. Bobby Womack leaves the strings just as they are, meaning that the chord shapes are upside-down and awkward to play and he has to strum upwards for the them to sound normal. Very odd, but I appreciate musicians who develop a unique style of playing in this way.
The Beatles’ Come Together video (haven’t linked to a Flash piece for a long time) (via del.icio.us)
All UK flights have been grounded due to a system failure at air traffic control (has anyone checked the fuse?)
It’s too orangey for crows… (the classic Kia-ora advert in MPEG format) (via LMG)
Symphony #2 for Dot Matrix Printers (iTunes Music Store link) (via Cloven Hoof)
Hollywood likes to put relatively unknown but highly talented film makers in the director’s chair for its big summer blockbusters. However, this results in some odd clashes of genre and style when reading director filmographies. For example, the new Harry Potter film has been directed by the Mexican film maker Alfonso Cuaron, who directed Y tu Mama Tambien. I find this almost as bizarre as Mike Hodges, after directing the Tyneside gangster epic Get Carter then going on to direct Flash Gordon.
