things that only i could care about

things that make me smile

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.

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; [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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

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: More [...]