Crepuscule with Valis Blues World…Crepuscule with ValisBlues World is a wonderful collection of links and original content about the Blues and related subjects (record labels, artist profiles, etc.). It ain’t pretty, but it doesn’t need to be.[Link provided by Valis Hertel, a fellow AotMer]. [A Blander Blog]
I’ve got to spend some time there.
Eliza can solve all your problems. ….Eliza can solve all your problems.. OS X comes with the simulated therapy program, Eliza. In the terminal type emacs and hit enter. When the editor has loaded, hold shift and hit the escape key. Then type x, then doctor and hit return. Answer the first question and […]
Two wordsThere once was a monastery that was very strict. Following a vow of silence, no one was allowed to speak at all. But there was one exception to this rule. Every ten years, the monks were permitted to speak just two words. (189 words) [dive into mark]
If you use Fink , you…If you use Fink, you must follow these instructions in order to upgrade to a 10.2 compatible version or you will experience bizarre problems (I did). [Nicholas Riley]
SpeakNSave- SpeakNSave is a small application written for OS X that uses built-in speech technology and AppleScript to save computer generated speech to .aiff files, which can then be used for presentations, movies, web announcements, or even converted to .mp3 for iPod listening. [AppleScript Info]
NetNewsWire Lite 1.0b22- NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use, customizable RSS news reader for web sites. This version fixes crashing bugs and some UI glitches. More detailed changes are listed on the change notes page. In related news, a very early prototype of a weblog editor that will be included in NetNewsWire Pro has been announced. It […]
Thailand’s musical elephantsPreservationists at a Thai elephant reserve decided to provide the pachyderms with outsized, hephalump-friendly instruments, including a harmonica and a drum-kit. The elephants not only play with the instruments, they play together on them, jamming in what is clearly recognizable as music.
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Where the heart is. Performances have…Where the heart is. Performances have expressed our feelings more powerfully than records in the last year. by Jim Farber
Two weeks later, David Byrne played a show at the Apollo that contained what must be the most moving moment I have ever witnessed at a live show. After completing “This […]
Download iBush 1.1iBush 1.1 Released:
iBush: Artificially unintelligent Oval Office Occupant simulator… What’s new in this version: even more eloquent, ReadMe explains aim and meaning of the program, now talks about gun control, too
User Review: (freeLunch.apps CEO speaking:) I just discovered that iBush was silently removed from the MacUpdate website. They continue to publish information about […]
BlappMichael McCracken delivered beautiful gift to my mailbox this morning. It’s called Blapp and its a Mac OS X desktop app for managing and editing Blosxom-based weblogs.
And it doesn’t stop there. You can drag-and-drop any text or HTML right into your weblog to be edited in its built-in plain-text editor and previewed in […]