Macromedia has announced that they will not included Freehand in the next release of their suite, Studio 8. Since the Adobe announced that they were buying Macromedia, speculation has run wild about what products would get killed. Freehand was high on that list. While a capable program (I actually like using it quite a bit), […]
Graham Chapman, coauthor of the “Parrot Sketch,” is no more. He has ceased to be. Bereft of life, he rests in peace. He’s kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his last, and gone to meet the great Head of Light Entertainment in the sky… Link [via Screenhead]
Back in the day, I was a huge space nut. You know that kid you went to school with who knew just a little too much about dinosaurs? Yeah, that was me, only with NASA. But, I have to admit, the luster of manned space flight has tarnished of late. The “science” isn’t there, and […]
Google, the search company that knows everything about you, your friends, and that night in Vegas, is cutting off CNET over this story (which, ironically, now gets more Google juice thanks to this moronic PR move). From CNET: Google could not be immediately reached for comment. (Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking […]
Local Linux Purveyors, The Linux Box, have a nifty little utility to get rid of the crappy nagware-esque dialog box that Adobe tosses at every startup when you disable Javascript execution in Acrobat. You have disabled Javascript in Acrobat 7, right? Disclaimer: This messes with your registry. Back up beforehand, just in case. You can […]
So, you want to make a fortune on the internets, eh? Well my friend, then you need to start a news site devoted to internet-related news. That’s right, follow these simple steps and you’ll soon be pulling in enough Google juice you too will make a million dollars a year on Google Ads. Republish every […]
(Cross posted to Chelsea Blog) Today I began batch zero of brewing beer at home. My first attempt was, well, I don’t know yet. I have bubbles from the fermenter, which indicates that at least something is happening. It took a lot longer than I thought it would, although I had no frame of reference. […]
Wow, I am so glad I can buy a football soccer package on cable; they screwed with the basics of hockey. Don’t get me wrong, the players deserved a lot worse than they got, but when I read crap like this: They extended the blue lines and decreased the neutral zones, making it easier to […]
Quick and easy dessert, perfect for the summer. Take one ripe nectarine. Cut in half, remove pit. On the expose halves, sprinkle with a generous amount of sugar or Splenda. Sprinkle to taste with cinnamon. Grilled cut-side down over medium flame for 5 minutes. Rotate half a turn and grill 5 more minutes. Flip to […]
Yahoo! has! purchased! Konfabulator! Awesome! (sorry) This is actually very cool news because Yahoo! has said they will be giving the app away for free and releasing the APIs so you can tie into Yahoo! content. I hope they optimize that thing too… it’s cool but it sucks up way too many resources. Link UPDATE: […]