Archive for September, 2008

Seth MacFarlane

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Seth MacFarlane is the creator of Family Guy, but you most likely know that.  He's also doing short online animations called Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy (as embedded above).  Also, the season premier of Family Guy is below.

The Election on Twitter

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Damn you Twitter.  You are always coming up with blog worthy stuff.  This time it is some spiffy election page.  It basically a big filter to show only election related tweets, you know, tweets with the candidates and/or VP candidates names in them.  And the interface is slick because it ...

Twitter Failure? Surely Not

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

What do you know, Twitter issues. When I try going to twitter it says: Authorization Required This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.

C-Span Embedded Player Error

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

So I thought I'd check out C-Span and see what they are serving up today.  And lo and behold I had almost forgotten that you need the ever crappy Windows Media Player or the equally crappy Real Player to tune into one of several channels of their content. Ben Bernanke and ...

Slacker Uprising

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

I'm not a Michael Moore fan. Let's just get that out there first.  But, for some reason, I have watched several of his films.  The only reason I'm mentioning his latest film, Slacker Uprising , is because it has released to the Internets very recently. If you care to ...

Mediacom’s New Default Search Page

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Click to Enlarge Mediacom Communications, my ISP at home, recently decided to pull a fast one by redirecting all typos and searches in the address bar to a search results page of their own making.  This unwanted act is supposedly to "help" customers "find what they are looking for".  Don't ...

Spiraling Torus knot

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

I found this on reddit.  The file name of the animated gif is 1spiraltorusknot.gif.  I'm assuming it is some form of Torus knot.

Chromium for Mac is here but is very unstable

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Chromium   Slashdot has word of Chromium, a port of the Google Chrome browser for Linux and Mac from Codeweavers. I'm using it on my Mac as I type this post.  Chromium let me insert images via the "Add media" feature in WordPress, which is more than what Firefox and Safari let me ...

More iTunes / iPhone Trouble

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

I know, I know, I bitch and bitch about my iPhone here all the time, but I really do love it.  For the most part.  Until shit like the above screen grab happens.

TechCrunch50 Conference

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

The TechCrunch50 continues today and into tomorrow.  From what I can gather it is conference of basically 50 online start-ups who each give a presentation that explains and demos their site/service. Today there is a panel of some sort of "judges" that are giving feedback on each company that gives their ...