This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on February 24, 2009). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.
Sometime between February 23rd and February 24th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!
- Safari 4 Hidden Preferences:
$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NOto kill the tabs-on-top 'feature'. Admittedly, I haven't installed the Safari 4 beta yet (that's on the dock for this evening), but just from the screenshots and Erik's notes, it doesn't seem like such a good idea. - And the Circle Is Complete: Star Trek novels with new titles photoshopped in based on the cover art. Some really funny stuff in here.
- UserFriendly comic plagiarized multiple punchlines from Metafilter comments: The author's a long-time Metafilter user and apologizes here, while people keep finding more. (Ironic disclaimer: all of the preceding text was <del>borrowed</del> <del>copied</del> <ins>plagarized</ins> from Waxy.org links!)
- Last.fm – the Blog · "Techcrunch Are Full of Shit": "On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who's been listening to the 'leaked' U2 album. ¶ I denied it vehemently on the Techcrunch article, as did several other Last.fm staffers. We denied it in the Last.fm forums, on twitter, via email — basically we denied it to anyone that would listen, and now we're denying it on our blog."
- Roger Ebert: The Oscars are Outsourced: In his post-show wrapup, Ebert mentions one of my favorite bits of last night's Oscar ceremonies: the set. "By moving the orchestra onstage and replacing a traditional orchestra pit with the semi-circled seats of nominees, they made the Oscarcast feel a little less like a show, a little more like a party. ¶ The new design also made possible a crucial new camera shot, looking directly at the nominees from behind the presenters on stage. The looks in the eyes of Viola Davis, Marisa Tomei and Amy Adams as they were praised by Oscar legends was dramatic–infinitely better and less sadistic than the the traditional practice of framing the nominees in little boxes so we could see the instant reactions of the losers."