Archive for June, 2005

Duh, Tom

Asked in an interview with the tabloid daily Bild if he believed in aliens, Cruise said: “Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?
“Millions of stars, and we’re supposed to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things out there, we just don’t know,” [...]

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NVu 1.0 released

NVu, a standalone graphical web editor based on the Composer element of the Mozilla suite (hence, from the Mozilla Suite comes Firefox the browser, Thunderbird the e-mail client, Sunbird the calendar, and NVu the web editor), has finally reached its 1.0 stage.
If you’re interested in a graphical interface for some of your web coding [...]

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Bye-bye, Crow’s Nest

I learned via ffanatic that the local indie/import/rarity music store is going out of business. I was saddened to hear this, until I really thought about it.
Crow’s Nest has been slowly dying for years. Besides being tied (rumours, mind you) to drug trade, its selection of music has been slipping. [...]

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I was up late last night

This weekend was my town’s annual Relay for Life, a 16-hour (from 1 p.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Sunday) event to raise money for cancer research, &c. The fundraising goal was $177′500, but the collective product of all 111 teams was about $215′000. I’m not sure how much longer we can sustain the [...]

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7-Zip Drag & Drop Support

Though Drag & Drop support (being able to drag files out of or into an archive window, like you can do in Windows explorer) still hasn’t been implemented in the official 7-Zip client, but berc over at SourceForge has submitted a patch that enables just such a feature. I’ve repackaged it here as [...]

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So many pixels…

After School Snack (I got the link via Feministe) tells us about large, multi-gigapixel photographs taken. We’re talking massive images here, images of such a size that they would slay lesser mortals with their sheer grandiosity.

If you are reading this text on a 1280×1024 computer monitor, a one-gigapixel Gigapxl™ image would be 35 of [...]

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Muzak XVIII

The “I Forgot All About This Meme Last Week So I’ll Double My Output This Week” Edition.

System of a Down • System of a Down • Spiders
Dream Theater • Scenes from a Memory • The Spirit Carries On
Kyuss • …And the Circus Leaves Town • Thee Ol’ Boozeroony
Green Carnation • A Blessing In Disguise • [...]

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