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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
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 Aha. Aha. Aha, aha. Whatever. Doesn't matter, because dashboard ist dash-ugly.Controversy about Konfabulator vs. Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'. The developers of Konfabulator accuse
Apple of copying the functionality into the next release of Mac OS X (10.4, aka 'Tiger').
However, one should note that Apple originally invented the concept of desk accessory, which were prominent in
early (non-multitasking) versions of Mac OS. Later desk accessories were mostly replaced
with separate applications. Now, it seems that desk accessories will make a comeback.
So, Konfabulator copied an idea from Apple, improved it, and now Apple is implementing
desk accessories once again. I don't see a problem in that.
But I'm worried about security - and this is one reason why I never started
to use Konfabulator in the first place (plus some usability issues).
Installing all kinds of third-party extensions to Konfabulator
is a security risk, and there should be some kind of certificate system to
ensure a minimum amount of trustworthiness. Perhaps Apple can solve this issue better.
On the other hand, the same issue of trust applies as well to separate applications. [Universal Rule]
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 Damn. There's a tube strike going on.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2004 |
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 The Final Frontier. Fantastic space animations - hubble animations, Earth, special effects, all in quicktime or, or if you dare to download a few 100MBs, even in broadcast quality. It's fab.And if you want to know what Space sounds like, listen hear (sorry about the pun). Thanks to Reimund for those great links.
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Monday, June 28, 2004 |
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Sunday, June 27, 2004 |
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Saturday, June 26, 2004 |
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 film. Added a few more bits and pieces to the film cover gallery.
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Friday, June 25, 2004 |
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 A Page a Day. May I point the attention of my readers towards the Ulysses Weblog ('a page every day') and to the Finnegans Wake Weblog (guess what: 'a page a day')? Subscribe to their RSS feeds and become highly intelligent Joyce specialists.
4:34:17 PM Literature | |
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Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
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 OS X Software of the Month. Camino 0.8. Oh, it rocks. Better than Safari actually.
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DAZ considers Bryce to contain an important set of tools and is strongly dedicated to its future development. When correctly combined, DAZ|Studio, DAZ|Bryce, DAZ|Mimic, and innovative third-party plugins will synergize to form a powerful suite of products capable of creating the complete 3D virtuality. Was about time, really.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 |
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 The Rattles. Round the corner, at IT&W.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2004 |
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 Cavemen and Psychos. Eegah! The movie. How strange.It's the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast told in a really crappy, low-budget way with horrible musical performances by Arch Hall, Jr. as Tommy.
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Monday, June 21, 2004 |
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Sunday, June 20, 2004 |
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 A Dinner and a Murder. No pulse, no heartbeat. If condition does not change, this man is dead.Another movie classic: Murder by Death. Here, and here.
9:07:51 AM Cult | |
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Saturday, June 19, 2004 |
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 Back from Bloomstown. With a really nasty cold. More tomorrow.
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Monday, June 14, 2004 |
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 Busy. I'm off for a meeting with my old mate Leopold Bloom. See you back on Friday.
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 Clever & Smart. The website of Male, allegedly 'Germany's first Punk Rock Band'. I still believe The Neat deserve that title, but there you go.
8:57:28 AM Cult, MP3 | |
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Sunday, June 13, 2004 |
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Saturday, June 12, 2004 |
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"robot5"Housekeeping. I've updated the archives, added Axel and Wolf to my links section (under friends) and gave the Pico Search Engine another go at scanning the entire weblog. I'm almost at the page limit there and thinking about swapping Pico with freefind - has anyone of my readers tried it yet? Comments are welcome.
7:56:14 PM Blogs | |
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Imagine you witness the landing of a UFO here on Earth. So far so good, don't worry. Almost everybody witnesses UFO landings; that's perfectly alright. But imagine the UFO looks like a circus tent. And the aliens look like ... clowns? Now how are you going to explain that to the police when you report your sighting? Killer Klowns is one of the funniest SF movies I've ever seen. Here's the website. Soundtrack (Real Player) is by The Dickies, who also performed the lyrical and intellectual song 'Stukas over Disneyland'. I'll be back on Sunday with a new Short Story of the week. The Roper's waiting . See you.
12:11:31 AM Cult, MP3 | |
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Friday, June 11, 2004 |
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 The MP3 Competition of the Academy of the Very Old Farts, part 268. Sir Majo, Herr Kantel, Meister Prillinger, Monsieur Hebig - we're in for some proper music. Allow me introduce the one and only Mr Burt Bacharach! Applause, applause! Thankyou, thankyou. You may sit down now. Stop clapping your hands, please. And please sit down. Please! Yes, even you in the corner there. Time for some classics:Casino Royale, The Sundance Kid (Raindrops), Do you know the way to San Jose, What's new Pussycat?, Bond Street, I'll never fall in love again Well guys, now I'm seriously awaiting your James Last, Max Greger and Neil Sedaka entries. Previous competition links
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More than a million pages from 19th Century British newspapers are to be put online by the British Library.
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Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
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 Raumpatrouille Picture of the Month. MZ4 is out of oxygen. How peculiar.
8:37:24 PM Orion Pics | |
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Wednesday, June 9, 2004 |
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 The Death of Senna. Interesting conspiracy theories at The Senna Files.
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This web page is a duplicate of my Grand Uncles photo diary of his experiences in World War II. I have attempted to present the material exactly as he prepared the original.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2004 |
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Picked up Catherine and we went over to Regine's. Paloma Picasso was there with her husband and her boyfriend. Or his boyfriend. Or their boyfriend. I don't know how that one works.
8:49:53 PM Art & Advertising, Cult, Literature | |
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Monday, June 7, 2004 |
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 Amphorentänzer. The designer and painter Axel Hinnen finally got his website up and running. His paintings and sculptures are amazing and of a strange beauty - plants growing out of people's bodies. Deserves a great big fab!
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Sunday, June 6, 2004 |
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 Little Girls should be seen and not heard. X-Ray Spex with Oh Bondage Up Yours [MP3, 2.6MB]. More Punk audio at punkrockers.Formed in 1976, X-Ray Spex was the first punk band to use a saxophone and it's aggressive shrill dominated their sound. Their look was pure kitch - lots of plastic and lurex in bright colors. They started by playing pub gigs in the King's Road and were featured in a 'youth' programme on weekend TV. Their second gig was at the Roxy and it was recorded for the Live at the Roxy album. First single was classic Oh Bondage, Up Yours!
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Short Story of the week [1]. New at The Cartoonist: the short story of the week. From now on I'm going to publish one of my short stories every Sunday. Here's the first one.
12:04:16 PM Short Stories | |
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 Happy Bloggers. When bloggers meet in London, they naturally meet at Belgo Central for nice Belgian food and beer. Like last night, when Plep, Mr Bali Hai (who travelled all the way from the US to join in), Konstantin, Annie Mole (who brought her book) and yours truly got together to discuss new blogging strategies. Not. We met just to have some fun. Which we had.
10:05:14 AM Blogs, London | |
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Friday, June 4, 2004 |
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 Traffic. Welcome to the wonderful world of Tativille. Many thanks to wlan WeltamDraht.
4:32:12 PM Cult | |
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 Yet another Competition. Jeff Patterson of Gravity Lens is looking for a new logo design for his Bad Day Studio.I am throwing out an open invitation to anyone with (or without) artistic talent to take a crack at interpreting or "reimagining" the Bad Day Studio logo.
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Thursday, June 3, 2004 |
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Wednesday, June 2, 2004 |
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 A Concert. The Fluxus Anthology. MP3s by artists like Wolf Vostell, Joseph Beuys (with his Stuka Bomber Piece) or Alison Knowles with A Nivea Cream Piece for Oskar:First performer comes on stage with a bottle of handcream, labeled "nivea cream" if none is available. He pours the cream into his/her hands and do the same thing. Other performer enter, one by one, and do the same thing. Then they join together in front of the microphone to make a mass of massaging hands. They leave in the reverse of the other they entered, on a signal from the first performer.
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 Rhodan Bits and Pieces. A cover gallery (something wrong with this website/frame: clicking the link it displays: Sorry: ungültige Anfrage; so just hit return on your keyboard or click refresh and the covers should show up in all their glory), blueprints of spaceships | |
Yeah, right. 
Fabulous Toys. 
Glimpses of London's Past. 
Orwell. 
FW. And while the 
Automatic Re-wind Now. Added a few more spreads of 
Instant. 
Muumimaailma. 
Modern Technology. Absolutely everything about the 
Road Signs. This is funny. A group of artists, putting up 
Art. Books. The Swiss publisher 
Even more Strange Bikes. 
Some really Strange Bikes. At the 
Bloom. I can't help it, I really like 
This is Fun. So much fun on one website. 
The Polaroid 
Oh My. So they still exist? Unbelievable. 
One for the Kids. Augsburger Puppenkiste production photography of the sixties (
Some more Blue Lines. 
Blue Lines. 
Fabulous News. 
Another Bad Guy. 
Paper. A collection of East German paper bags: 
Plastic. An exhibition of 
Grosz. A few digitised books, 
Ah. 
You don't talk about the 
East and West. 
Made in UK. 10 years of British pop '76 - '86. 
Political Propaganda. 
Interior Design. 
Dubliners. Four wonderful days in Dublin; it's such a nice town. Although on Bloomsday itself it was full of more or less crazy people, dressed up in Edwardian clothes. And no, I did not buy James Joyce Lemon Soap. Here's a 
Another one for the Bots. 
Bandwidth Saver. 
At Your Service. Fancy becoming a butler? Or thinking about hiring a butler? Well, check out the 
Ah. 
Scary. 
This is M. Sasek. 
A Repeat [
See-thru. 
Batman Begins. More images of 
The Fifties. Photography by 
The Gilded Palace of Kitsch. At 
Bop! Stolizei! The German police are running 
Otto. 
The Model. Nico as a 
Sounds. Straight from Warhol's factory. 
Quotes. 
Old Macs. Things to do with your 
Action Shots. 
To Boldly Go. The Enterprise as a 
Ali. A 
Beertime. 
Paper Arcade. 
Pardon. 
Scrap Books. 
Extremely Fab. 
Score, Baby! Your guide to 