Jon formally of the Jinja Market has a new computer, a new enthusiasm for all things web, and a new blog named …nuf said.
Not what you want to see when you open up your VGAP turn:
The Rebel Confederation has landed saboteurs on your planet.
30% of the money has been destroyed
40% of the supplies destroyed
20% colonists killed
20% of the defense outposts gone
60% of the mineral mines gone
30% of the factories destroyed
The colonists are upset
A couple gems found at MeFi today.
There are many things that I like. Ting is one of those things. Ting is a Jamaican grapefruit soda. It is magically delicious. It can be ordered online. I didn’t know that before today. I haven’t had Ting in three years. I miss Ting.
Todd alerted to the most wonderful Enigmo. A puzzle game in the vein of Lemmings and The Incredible Machine. It’s all about getting the drops into the right containers. It’s all kinds of fun. And it’s about time you go download it! It even runs great on my older iBook with my sad little video card (Of course you people with your new fangled macs get backgounds and lighting effects. :). I would have bought the full version already if I hadn’t just paid taxes.
OSX Bonus: The Enigmo logo image was uploaded via ImageWell Another great OSX utility I learned about from Todd. Check out his OSX Software Catagory for more. ImageWell sits in your menu bar and lets you upload, resize, and rename images all in one drop.
I’ve switched. I’m now using Safari as my default web browser. And I’m loving it. Safari beta2 released just a few days ago finally opens requests from other applications in new tabs in the open window. Just set “Open links from applications:” to “in the current window” and enable tabs. This feature isn’t documented but it works awesome. Big thanks to Brent of NetNewsWire fame for the heads up.
This little program called Ch2Sf made getting my Chimera/Camino bookmarks into Safari a breeze. Things I like about Safari so far:
Now if you’ll excuse me. I have many many bookmarks to finally get around to sorting.
Oh, and congrats to Jon who did the real switch and took back is compaq laptop to get one of these.
Wired has an interesting write up about the technology behind the upcoming Matrix Reloaded
Sometimes I suck. Yesterday was one of those times. By flagrant misuse of “rm -r” I managed to delete the past two months of Michael’s wonderful photos and uploaded images. Actually I wiped out his entire blog, images and some of his gallery but through movabletype and an old back up I was able to restore most of it.
The annoying part is that at the time of said flagrant misuse I was reading about this replacement rm [ via raelity bytes ] that makes the unix rm command work more like the MacOSX Trash. Instead of deleting anything out right it moves it to ~/.Trash/ instead. Which is the same place OSX keeps your trash.
I liked the idea but it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, but with a little googling and guessing at the content of japanese webpages I found a wonderful little Safe ‘rm’ Script It’s actually a collection of perl scripts.
Just put them in ~/bin/, make them executable and add this to your .login:
alias rm=~/bin/trash # makes you use trash instead of rm
alias del=/bin/rm # lets you still rm.
alias emptytrash=/bin/rm ~/.Trash/* # lets you manually emtpy the trash
Then add ~/bin/autoemptytrash to your crontab to run every hour and life is much much safer.
I set this up locally and on mintchaos.com. Join us tomorrow when we explore options to routinely and automatically back up webservers.
How to make a starship enterprise out of an old floppy disk.
I’d be all over this if I had a floppy disk. I stopped using them over three years ago. Quite cool though. Link via Boing Boing
Japan blogger Mike Gerhardt Brings us a special straight from Jpanese TV. Kodomo News: Teaching kids about war.
Kristen, Have you seen anything like this?
BlogShares: It seems I IPOed yesterday and currently my blog’s shares are worth $0.35 each. I currently have a value of $996.23, but three days ago I was at $2439.47. Wow. Volatile market I guess.
Because Les reminded me of it. And in case you missed it last time around. This is ZomboCom!