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Showbiz – News – ‘Spamalot’ team breaks coconut record – Digital Spy: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a45654/spamalot-team-breaks-coconut-record.html?rss Could only have been better if it had been reported on a Monday morning.

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games. on a mac ? for free ?

I don’t generally bother with games that much, mainly because trying to get tens of Unix apps to play nicely after one of them has a security upgrade, or two of them just have to be tweaked to add a feature I want takes as much thought as an Infocom adventure. (Hmm, perhaps unfair; I’ve [...]

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aperture 1.5.3 hack

Update 22apr07: Hex offsets for MDD dual 867MHz now available Ok, things haven’t changed much for machines close to the minimum spec since 1.5.2, so for my 1GHz 12″ PowerBook all I need to edit is the Info.plist file inside the Aperture.app/Contents directory. I changed both the minimum RAM and minimum CPU requirements down to [...]

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rapidweaver for free: worth repeating

Realmac Software | Weblog: http://www.realmacsoftware.com/blog/files/rapidweaver_35_macuser_free.html The next edition of Mac User will have a full and free version of RapidWeaver 3.5 on the cover disc. If you’re at all interested in publishing more web pages/sites than iWeb lets you, and like the idea of simply using Cut-n-Paste to create a web page (from TextEdit, Nissus, [...]

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whomix – doctor who theme remixes

From Tim, who obviously thinks I need a distraction: whomix – doctor who theme remixes: http://whomix.trilete.net/ What a lot of work – a few select examples also came with the link, with my favourite being the Nyman one: Nyman: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=45 007: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=167 Flamenco: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=106 Morse: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=97 Piano: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=169 Cyberdisco: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=120 Ambient: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=128

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behold the tyger

Neil Gaiman’s Journal: Rabbits and Tygers and Butterflies oh my: http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2007/04/rabbits-and-tygers-and-butterflies-oh.html Oh, the Tyger ! Now that is a great 4m 30s film combining animation and theatre styles I would never have expected to coexist together into a most evocative story (worth having the music on too, as it does add to the film). Update: [...]

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