iSpazz is a plugin for iTunes on OS X, controlling the MacBook Pro/PowerBook backlight keyboard and optionally the display backlight.
In other words, It turns your MacBook Pro into a disco ball.
Yay!
Lay-Lo is a catalog of Atlanta graffiti, starting around 2000. The photos are listed chronologically, and are indexed by artist.
Jim Hodgson has released a new record, Beep Beep Awooga. Go buy it now!
SeisMac is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that makes your MacBook or MacBook Pro into a seismograph. It access your
laptop’s Sudden Motion Sensor in order to display real-time, three-axis acceleration graphs.
This is really frickin’ cool!
Way back in 1998, I got a job doing tech support for AIRnet, an ISP which serviced north Alabama. AIRnet had covered most of north Alabama, and was pushing farther and farther south — towards areas that didn’t know much about electricity, much less The Interwebs.
One of the high-growth areas was Blountsville, county seat of Blount County, Alabama. Blount being the opposite of ’sharp’, I suppose.
One afternoon, the receptionist called out, “I’ve got a live one! It’s from Blountsville! Who wants it?”
I volunteered, knowing what I was getting myself into.
“AIRnet tech support, how can I help you?”
“Yeah, I bought the internet the other day,” the woman said. (Wow, deep pockets on this one.)
“OK, ma’m, what can I help you with?”
“Well, I can’t get on,” she said.
“Can you be more specific,” I asked. “What happens when you try to connect?”
“Well I call that number that you give me, and it just squeals in my ear.”
Oh boy.
“Ma’m, do you have a computer?” I asked.
“Why, hell no — that’s what I pay you people twenty dollar a month for!”
“Hold please, while I transfer you to Billing.”
While speaking with the exterminator today, I picked up a nice bit of trivia: Vitamin K is an antidote to Warfarin — aka “rat poison”.
The exterminator asked if there was dog food left out where the rats could get to it. He explained that dog food contains vitamin K, which would neutralize any rat poison he left out.
I’m trying out Flock again. Hopefully it’s not as poopy as it was the last time.
So far, it seems pretty nice — better, in OSX/Intel, than Firefox, which has gotten noticeably sluggish lately.
I have experienced some random weirdness with blog posting, but the availability of an AdBlock extension made up for it.
