Futurismo Zugakousaku has some really awesome Quartz Composer examples
on his site, showing off Tiger technologies.. They’re all in Quicktime,
and some are even downloadable to test them out.
I’ve been playing around with Quartz Composer too, but my main interest has been the gpu-accelerated stuff.
But these examples now are’re a real show-off. And be sure to open them
in Quartz-Composer to see how easy it is to build such things.

http://www.zugakousaku.com/index.cgi?quartz&samples&en&

I got this stick from Markus last
week, I couldn’t answer it up to now. Markus send his stick in german,
but I figured that I had to translate it in order to follow the rules
which demand that I have to throw this stick to other webloggers
afterwards, and all the other weblogging friends I have/(can think of
right now) aren’t german.

1. How many gigantic bytes of music do you have saved on your computer?
Hm, I think there’re currently about 40gb of music, tendency “up”

2. The last album/cd you bought was .. ?
3 Days ago 3 albums at once:
“All that Jazz”,
“Royal Philharmnoic Orchestra – Easy Listening”,
“Irish Music” (for mom )

3. Which track were you listening to when you got this message?
Cabin Crew – Star to Fall

4. Name five tracks to which you listen quite often and which are important to you.
(in no specific order)
Zero 7 – Sommersault
Coldplay – The Scientist
Bach – Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D-Minor “Air”
John Denver – Leaving on a Jetplane
Royksöpp – Remind me
Carlos Gardel – Por una Cabeza

5. Which other people do you give this stick (3 people) and why?
The lucky fellows I offer this stick are:
Variable Rush,
Joe Cam,
Kassie

I just uploaded Tagbag 1.10b, here’s a changelog:

*List is sorted alphabeticaly
*Implemented a new CSS-Based Scrollbar (Apple uses the very same one in their Widgets, it feels a lot better to use
*Fixed the bug which didn’t open a Finder-Window when clicking a tag on some systems
*Added a preference-key to optionally don’t display the @
*Added a preference-key to optionally group items based on the
dot-character (design.web, design.print, design.shirts would be grouped
by ‘design) (only works one level/one dot)
*Added a preference-key to optionally hide the amount of files for each tag
*Seems as if Unicode/Non-Western/Asian Characters work now (at least they work here..)
*Changed some CSS-Settings, the dashed line between tags is gone

There’re still some quirks, but they seem to be minor for now, I hope
to get some reactions back I probably missed some new bugs, and the
preference system needs a small overhaul, but for now this one should
work a lot better than the previous 1.02b

This is so sad. And it frightens me, sad day for the internet, sad day
for humanity, and for sure another indication that being human isn’t
but a mere glorification of something we simply don’t want to admit
ourselves:
Arguments
on Internet message boards are nothing new, and often are a central
component. But in San Diego, California an argument turned deadly on 25
May 2005, resulting in two murders, and two other attempted
homicides. 

 

What’s worse, is that the killer has returned to the board to taunt the remaining members.

via linkfilter

that fuck was only 17. I hope they find him and some of those cops die for tripple fisting anal penetration.

Yeha. I’m drunk, sorry about that, I wanted to drink about 1-2 glasses
of good red wine but ended up with 3 glasses of red wine and 2 of white
wine. I updated tagbag, I’ll post the update tomorrow…

In this interview, the new CEO of Intel says the following tidbit:
Pressed about security by Mr.
Mossberg, Mr. Otellini had a startling confession: He spends an hour a
weekend removing spyware from his daughter’s computer. And when further
pressed about whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate
safety from security woes ought to buy Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh
instead of a Wintel PC, he said, “If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe
you should buy something else.”

Great, isn’t it. All the Mac Zealots while love that, and all
the Gates-followers will probably go mad. It’s just new fuel for a
never-ending fire
But. At least he’s honest.

//
Some might argue why he didn’t propose the use of Linux, but that might
be related to the shattered multi-distribution problem. Linux isn’t
Linux, but that’s a whole topic of it’s own, and pretty much every 2.
IT-Journalist already wrote his/her blurb about it. So I’ll keep my
uninformed mouth shut..

This track-a-day is from the 9th of May, so it’s a bit old, but I had
previously not really enough time… It’s a try at jazz, with a jazz
piano, a bass et cetera. Nothing special but at least it’s a new
track-a-day (I still have a really good one around, I might post it
this week)

Length: 0:26min

Software. Apple Garageband 2.0

Title: Without a Band

Download the File here

Wow. now this is something every übernerd really needs.

Story over here

Ok, I .. kinda like podcasting, it’s just that I really don’t use it
too much. I used to download the one or other file and listen to it
while jogging, but not too often and now that somebody stole my iPod
even that’s history.

But what I like is how Apple seems to be more cutting edge now. They
always play with the latest technologies. RSS Screensaver in Tiger, RSS
in Safari, Quartz-Composer alone, Scripting Quartz composer in
Javascript an so on. It’s kinda the tech nerd’s dreamland, I love that.
They’re certainly listening to their user-base.

There’re once again blurbs
about Apple moving onto the X86 platform making the rounds; Sounds like
some sort of rumor-cycle to me I guess it would be pretty stupid to
do something like this now, as it seems that PPC finally overgrows X86
usability-wise: Even Microsofts new Xbox2 uses a (modified) G5 Cpu (and
the new Playstation3’s Cell processor is sorta ppc too). However, funny to see that so many people are once again eagerly discussing the + / – of this matter…