What the hell is a pooter anyway?

If Arrington's at 30, what about Gruber?

2008-04-08T20:17:00.002-05:00

Daring Fireball cites the New York Times article that claims Mike Arrington has gained 30 pounds in 3 years from blogging.

My question, is what about Gruber? I mean, what with the fucking cheese steaks in Philadelphia he must be topping 50. Just saying.

Merlin Mann has a Mann-Crush

2007-09-05T18:59:00.000-05:00

Alas, the jig is up for poor Nicholas. Now you all know that he does not, in fact, have flippers, and that he is actually astonishingly good-looking.

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August 2006 links, part 1

2006-08-02T21:41:00.000-05:00

Wikipedia entry on David Allen's concept of "Getting Things Done"
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Hawk Wings' implementation
link

Guitar Chord widget
link

the still terrible Johnson County fair page
link

vacation in the Wisconsin Dells
link

Nintendo 8-bit NES synth for Garageband
link

Japanese chiptune band YMCK
link

extreme megapixels
link

handy ultimate boot CD
link

ikey mac automation
link

July Links #1 - Food Related

2006-07-09T15:55:00.000-05:00

Des Moines Register - 100 places to eat in Iowa before your death link

Bean Sprouting Info link

Andy's Diner Father's Day Feast link

Bitter Orange- Naranja Agria link

iGourmet Italian cheeses link

About Mustard link

French's Mustard FAQ link

Sourdough Q & A link

Kashi recipes link

National Bohemian link

June Links part deux

2006-06-13T09:41:00.000-05:00

Apple Shell Scripting Primer - link

About the Digital Cinema Desktop Preview in Final Cut- link

What is corn syrup?- link

The differences between Linux distros- link

Upgrading your Mac mini with Merom- link

Applescripting resources at MacScripter- link

The Vintage Mac museum- link

Game console sales charts- link

Setting up your own personal wikipedia- link

Hacking the OS X migration assistant- link

Scoble's Weeks May be Improving

2006-06-11T21:17:00.000-05:00

Scoble was diligent enough to post a reply here when I commented on his blog before. link

What particularly amazed me at the time was the effort he was going through to have meaningless internet battles (remember the picture of the Special Olympics) arguing over semantics or even worse, getting pissed off by 'anonymous posting'. Well, chalk that up to the bad time that was happening, but then again, you have his wish fulfillment fantasy of April 1 (link) and you realize that in a way, Scoble is a good blogger, because he is invariably honest. You can tell he was going to leave Microsoft for the past few months during his existential crisis.

I am just hoping he shys away from MonkeyBoy territory.

June Links

2006-06-08T09:10:00.000-05:00

Good interview from about a year ago with the Silver Jews' Dave Berman - link

Interesting article about Oskar Fischinger from the Tate Modern - link

Fraser Speirs' handy AppleScript archive - link

The Lonesome Electric Chicken - link

the History of Single Life = link

Iceland Review Online - link

laptop sleeves - link

April Links Archive

2006-04-23T14:52:00.000-05:00

The Truth about 1080p - link

Strategy Guide wiki - link

Affordable Europe - NY Times 4/23/2006 - link

BiancaVision - food video podcast - link

Jon Ronson's columns in the Guardian - link

'The Awful German Language' by Mark Twain - link

Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon - link

Keith Stattenfield, Renaissance Man - link

The Capitol Steps are Terrible

2006-04-02T17:02:00.000-05:00

Or to put it mildly, The Capitol Steps Suck. Apparently they seem to be relatively well-liked out there in Culture Land, particularly with the NPR set. However, their appearances on NPR are one of its low points in programming. They're not that funny and exhibit 8th-grade level parody that doesn't even achive the level of satire.

Back to junior high swing choir with the lot of them. Now, about that time in band camp...

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Am I being too harsh on them? I don't think so. Not for the bastard children of Mark Russell.

Whither LiveType?

2006-03-30T18:37:00.000-06:00

Apple released the Universal Binary version of Final Cut Studio today, upping the version number to 5.1.

Of interest to a few, it appears as though LiveType did not survive the translation to Intel. Can't find any statement regarding whether or not it is permanently decommissioned, but I'll update the post if anything surfaces anytime soon.

Have never been a heavy user of LiveType, but I do appreciate its results, and it's quite fun to play with.

Update: As near as I can figure out, LiveType has been moved to be an element of Final Cut Express HD and jettisoned from Final Cut Studio. So, I think there still is hope for its continued existence when FC Express is updated.

2006-03-26T09:31:00.000-06:00

I'm not a regular reader of Scoble. Not a very good blogger in my opinion, and now, more than ever, turned into a kind of mini-Ballmer, a corporate shill striking out at the world because he can't process teh suckiness that was Microsoft's week. link

Hell, some of my best friends use Windows, and I wouldn't wish his biley blog on anybody!

2006-03-19T16:10:00.000-06:00

The lonesome shift of the Unrepentant Cabbie

Apple Video Quality in Focus

Link

Video Quality Comparison

Link Poor Windows Media, lagging behind. Oh, and don't forget Real sucks anyway.

Selected Work of John Fillwalk

Link I would prefer it if it were called the secret work of john filwalk but we'll take what we can get

MIDI NES cartridge

Link A cartridge that harnesses the power of the original NES's sound chip for user control. Daniel Murphy has wet himself with joy.

Faking UFO photographs

Link This might even beat knitting as a hobby. Is the exact opposite of the next link:

Fake Model Photography

Link Here, you're trying to take something real and make it look fake.

Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Creating a Compressor Droplet

Link It's by Larry Jordan, I think the one I took a Final Cut class from a couple of years ago.

2006-03-10T19:59:00.000-06:00

"Beyond that, the Google Video Store looks like it was designed by a hemorrhaging five-year-old with a predilection for the small box of crayons and bad code."

link at the Register

On other topics, I'm working on getting a wordpress blog going at my main url as the ability to sort by topic is worth the effort.

2005-12-24T12:21:00.000-06:00

Bookmarks Roger Bradley woudln't like

3:AM Design

Gasworks Gallery, U.K.

The Wal-Mart You Don't Know

Strangers With Candy Fan Page

California First Amendment Coalition

4Flix.net

Morsemania

Delia Derbyshire, electronic music pioneer

Crazy Japanese adverts

Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904

2005-12-24T07:12:00.000-06:00

Bookmarks December 24th ---

two Four Tet videos

How to access the files on your Mac from anywhere

Smarthouse, the Australian lifestyle magazine

The joy of Yacht Rock

iBackup

Using instant roux

John P. Vander Mass Railroadiana collection

Boetje foods

2005-12-21T10:30:00.000-06:00

The Former Dover, PA School Board are Given Extra Rectums
(to accomodate their massive quantities of bull-shit)

Paul Thurrott quotes from the New York Times

Ars Technica has a good article

2005-12-20T12:42:00.000-06:00

Bookmark Backlog 2

Baby and toddler feeding guide

4th Street Observatory

Steadman (the band, not Oprah's boyfriend the secret agent)

L.P. prices

Buca di Beppo

Shiina Ringo

The Data Compression News Blog

MIDI basics for Garageband users

UBUweb 365 days project lots of eclected mp3's

Snake Creek Grill

2005-12-20T11:09:00.000-06:00

Bookmark Backlog 1

Boundary Garlic Farm

King Kong (1933)

The Best Cheesesteaks (reviews)

Model photo retouch via Boingboing

The Land-O-Lakes trick

Chicago Sun-Times Tech page

It's Jerry Time (animated weblog. Cool visuals with annoying blogger identity)

Mummified Cat School Mascot

iPod My Baby

Rochester Art Center

Montage - Cedar Falls

Apple Webinars

Elected Officials voting records

Sex Jokes @ Stone Home

2005-10-27T08:01:00.000-05:00

Coffee

Daniel Stout has an interesting post on espresso makers including his reminiscences and recommendations.

Video podcasts

Apple's instructions for making a video podcast for the new 5G iPods. Ars Technica has a lengthier tutorial.

Once you buy that new iPod, you'll need screen protection.

On the computer front: PowerBook repair guides and screen spanning on iMacs and iBooks.

2005-09-11T17:01:00.000-05:00

Party on, Cringely

Robert X. Cringely's launch of his internet-only, PBS-affiliated geek interview show has been somewhat overshadowed by the tragedy that has been what happened to New Orleans. (Sorry for the difficult diction, I gave up half-way through a sentence that would have somehow thrown blame at the government, but then we know about that already don't we).

Those not familiar with his blog may find it here

The Nerd TV site can be found here

The first episode is a very good interview with Macintosh software pioneer Andy Hertzfeld. For the higher quality QuickTime(320 x 240 mp4), expect about a 90 MB download - also available as a torrent.

Is also available as an audio download, and the site says shortly to be available in podcast form.

Of interest - Andy Hertzfeld's book is called Revolution in the Valley and you can find it here. This book comes from his contribution to the neat history of Silicon Valley blog folklore.org.

2005-07-15T15:38:00.000-05:00

Roger Bradley should have more sex

iTunes BPM inspector here and here

Open Source unfettered QuickTime Player here

iSale, Mac OS X Ebay app,here

2005-06-15T14:41:00.000-05:00

Orson Scott Card is Batshit Crazy!

A reasonable review of this crazy man: here

2005-06-07T22:12:00.000-05:00

history of the university of iowa library talk:

here

2005-05-08T13:26:00.000-05:00

Where do old shows go when they die?

Keeping track of some of the good old shows from ZDTV, TechTV days.

Joey the Intern has a blog that mentions the old gang every now and then.

Laura Swisher has a blog as well.

What about Martin Sargent?

And of course Leoville.

Don't forget that Scott Heriot is a crazed Bigfoot afficionado. You can also find his Amazon book reviews. He has also made a documentary called Walk.

An interesting story from Victoria Recaño's web site.

2005-03-22T08:56:00.000-06:00

Thank you Fiona, may I have another?

People just can't seem to get enough of Fiona Apple this week. I will bring this to your attention although it didn't turn out as well as it might have.