Musings of a Chicagoan

• ‘King Kong’ Movie Trailer
  Wow. I have absolutely no interest in seeing this movie.
  (tags: movies stupid)
• Slashdot: Google Earth Launching For Free: “They have a few famous sightseeing places included by default, and just rotating and zooming around the Three Sisters or Yosemite was almost breathtaking.”
  Yeah, but could we PLEASE have a Mac version? I know it was a Windows product you bought, but, still … *sigh*
  (tags: cool google goodideas interesting)
• WGN Weather Weblog: “The readings bring this year’s 90° tally to to eleven at Midway–as many as all the 90s recorded in the past three Junes combined.”
  Okay, God. Time to turn down the thermostat. Please. PRETTY please?!?!
  (tags: chicago weather)
• WGN Weather Weblog: Current Heat Wave
  “A delightful Pacific air mass delivers lower temperatures and humidities Friday and Saturday. But heat is expected to build back into the Midwest for July 4 (next Monday).”
  (tags: chicago weather annoying)
• Mac Net Journal: “If a picture is worth a thousand words, I wonder what this shot of the front window of the Pierce County Republican headquarters has to tell us?”
  (tags: funny photos politics neocon)
• Mac OS X Hints: “The goal of this small AppleScript is to be able to change the sound output device quickly and easily.”
  SoundSource does it for me, but if I need keyboard control or want to clear the menu bar space — food for thought.
  (tags: reference mac)
• Mac OS X: How to deathorize all iTunes-authorized machines
  “Although you can not see the computer serial numbers or edit them, once you have the maximum number (5) of computers authorized, a button will appear to Deauthorize All computers, effectively resetting your music rights.”
  (tags: cool reference mac music)
• Pearls Before Swine: Actually, this doesn’t seem to be such a bad way to spend one’s time.
  (tags: comics funny)
• Aw, wook at da widdle biddy baby cootie wootie little kitty …
  (Since when did I turn into Elmira?)
  (tags: photos cute as.hell cats)
• rangelife: HomeDepot.com to Customers: Drop Dead!
  “You can buy stuff from HomeDepot.com, but they do not let you cancel orders online. Instead they make you call the customer service line during business hours.”
  (tags: interesting stupid badideas)
• “Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter’s home.”
  “The proposed development, called ‘The Lost Liberty Hotel’ will feature the ‘Just Desserts Café’ and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon’s Bible each guest will receiv
  (tags: ironic funny as.hell politics cool)
• Kutztown Area Patriot: “Thirteen Kutztown Area High School students are facing felony charges for tampering with district-issued laptop computers.”
  “The more computer-savvy students began to disable the administrations’ ability to spy on the students’ computer use.”
  (tags: stupid as.hell dumbass)
• Join the Dark (Meat and Mayo on Wheat) Side, Luke …
  (tags: funny scifi photos)
• Flickr Badge Maker
  (tags: cool photos webtoy)
• How to Roll Back a Branded Version of Internet Explorer Back to Plain Vanilla IE
  (tags: reference microsoft)
• Catch you on the Flip Side ..
  I remember this television series! I think I either caught it during its original 1985-1987 run, or maybe the rebroadcast.
  (tags: nostalgia cool as.hell tv music interesting)
• Netflix: “I suggest you implement a ’ship me my next movie’ feature to the Queue, so that days when I put a movie in the mail to return, I can register that action online, and you can preemptively ship me the next movie while mine is being returned.”
  *Great* idea. I’d love if they’d implement this. But I think the slower turnaround time is actually part of their business plan now.
  (tags: movies goodideas)
• Forbes: “Piper Jaffray said iTunes, the online music-download service from Apple Computer, ‘would be the primary beneficiary’ in its category of a Supreme Court decision against peer-to-peer, or P2P, file sharing.”
  (tags: mac interesting music censorship)
• “Thinking meat! You’re asking me to believe in thinking meat!”
  Very Asimov-ian.
  (tags: scifi cool reading)
• Blogger poetically describes a chance encounter with Lou Reed
  “I am, at root, nothing but a skinny Jewish kid from the suburbs. And if I’m sitting here with my shaved head, and my sunglasses and tattoos, and twenty solid years of cherished sensual, chemical and experiential escapades under my belt, it’s because this
  (tags: interesting music nyc insightful cool reading)
• Collection of Toilet Screencaptures in Video Games
  Most have not been ‘used,’ but there are a few sick game designers out there …
  (tags: gross as.hell funny)
• “Vote For Pedro shirts aren’t cool anymore. Seriously, cut it out.”
  (tags: insightful funny movies)
• “Aren’t you a little” — HUBBA HUBBA HUBBA AOOOOGAH — “for a Stormtrooper?”
  (tags: cool scifi girls sexy funny woohoo)
• Hilary Rosen on the Supreme Court’s decision to hold P2P software developers liable for copyright infringement …
  “I hope all sides will take a deep breath and realize that this Supreme Court decision doesn’t change one bit their responsibility to move forward together on behalf of their consumer.”
  (tags: geekery insightful music movies cool)
• Screenshot of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 In-Browser RSS Display
  It’s remarkable how incredibly to-the-minutest-detail a total ripoff it is of Apple’s Safari RSS display.
  (tags: amazing mac stupid as.hell dumbass microsoft just.wrong shameful whaddafuck)
• Tribune: “Lynne Mapes-Riordan [...] Her brother-in-law had been slain. She needed to get off the plane, find her sister and help. [...] The airline refused to let Mapes-Riordan and her husband off the plane.”
  “The crew told her they’d fly on to New York, then quickly return to Chicago. That didn’t happen, either.”
  (tags: shameful awful tragic sad chicago terrorism dumbass)
• Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)
  (tags: cool reference google geekery interesting brilliant)
• I recently learned that RCN’s “Mach” is megaBITS per second, not megaBYTES per second.
  And thus, I understand much more what the whole ‘Mach’ thing is. Thankfully, Google will convert things for me …
  (tags: reference google geekery)
• “Peter is getting an award at the end of the show, and the ending perfectly mimics the end of A New Hope. It was really cool. They had John Williams going. He was walking, looked at Chewie, then got to the front and looked at Lois like Leia. Even C-3PO an
  I had wondered if the resurrected “Family Guy” would be good. This sequence was friggin’ hilarious.
  (tags: tv scifi cool funny as.hell)

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