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  1. Re:dump the caps lock on Mac OS X Hints · · Score: 3, Informative

    you need uControl. You're welcome.

  2. Re:ANSI color customization on Decent Terminal Emulation on Mac OS X? · · Score: 3, Informative

    click the little widget on the right hand side, just above the scrollbar and below the title bar, and voila.

  3. Undoubtedly on World's Largest Flower · · Score: 1

    This will doubtlessly make Jim Woodring happy.

  4. Re:I do this already! on Windows Security Through Annoyances? · · Score: 1

    In Mac OS X I make all my windows semi-transparent and have seen my productivity soar!

  5. Re:So...... on Windows Security Through Annoyances? · · Score: 1

    Then obviously, geez, the lock icon should appear in the one piece of chrome that can't be disabled: the title bar. I mean, I'm a web designer, and I understand the need to get rid of all the excess browser chrome from time to time, but being able to spoof the lock icon is a brilliantly retarded security hole. Microsoft's workaround seems clumsy.

  6. Re:but woman are not logical on The First Steps Towards Asimov's Psychohistory? · · Score: 1

    please. look at this amazing legend.

  7. Re:Bizzaro world. on Former DoubleClick Exec Named Privacy Czar · · Score: 1

    No, he was like "Warm it up Chris," and I was all "Yo, I'm about to."

  8. Re:I'm not getting palladium - ever. on Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium · · Score: 1

    not if you SHOUT IT!!!

  9. Re:Missing Link on Windows Key Leak Threatens Mass Piracy · · Score: 1
    If it is true that every possible sequence of numbers exists within PI, then why not just take the sequence which corresponds to the cracked Win2003 installer binary?


    For that matter, why not just take the sequence which corresponds to the all-security-holes-patched source code of Windows 2003? or Windows 2004? Or the document detailing the time and place of your own death? But watch out for the infinite copies of false versions... [Props to J.L. Borges]
  10. American Science and Surplus on Favor Ideas for a Geeky Wedding? · · Score: 4, Informative

    A good browse on American Science and Surplus should find you geeky and weird things for low-cost.

  11. Re:backlit keyboard?? f'n cool on All-New PowerBooks, Web Browser Featured at Macworld · · Score: 1

    Um, the symbols on the keys do light up, from what I can tell from this movie here (QuickTime required)

  12. There's a thread on this at Mac Achaia on P2P Software for the Mac? · · Score: 3, Informative

    People are discussing this over at Ars Technica, here.

  13. Re:New Widgets on Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.2.3 · · Score: 1

    If you're using a theme, via Duality, the new widgets will fuck you up (i.e. the widgets will completely disappear in certain brushed metal apps like Address Book or iChat or iCal). A description and fix are available here.

  14. Customizing Chimera on Macworld Holds Battle of the Browsers · · Score: 2, Informative

    This article explains how to bookmark groups of tabs in Chimera. And this one tells you how to block images selectively by server. The more I use Chimera, the more I like it-- it's fast and stable, and it's nice to know that folks can expand upon its functionality easily. It seems like every day I learn about a new way to trick out Chimera.

  15. Re:So what? on RadioShack Stops Being Nosy · · Score: 1

    which is why when I call someplace and they say, "May I ask who's calling?" and I say "Yes," and then just wait... snapping them out of work-mode.

  16. Re:Foreign Literature? on Two Books from Haruki Murakami · · Score: 1

    Marguerite Duras is one of my favorite authors, but maybe you should check out this film she wrote before investing the time in reading her books. The film's called "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," and captures her writing style very well. and my favorite book by her is "Destroy, She Said" (don't know the French title, sorry). What I like about her's that she economically, poetically manages to capture intense emotions in a way that's decidedly non-cliche. "Destroy, She Said" is written at like a 3rd-grade French level yet manages to raise goosebumps. Most of her protagonists are insane, or have been.
    Also, Georges Battaille is one of the most radical, subversive writers I can imagine. "The Story of the Eye" and "Blue of Noon" are both wickedly politically transgressive while being hilarious *and* making my cock hard at the same time. (I know, it's a weird criteria for judging literature, but it's what I like)

  17. Re:First photo? Wild Turin Shroud theories... on World's First Photo · · Score: 1

    And veering off-topic, uber-famous painter David Hockney has been promulgating this theory that many Renaissance old masters (van Eyck, Caravaggio, da Vinci) were using optics to create their paintings, citing distortions in their paintings that'd only be present if they were projecting them onto the canvas, touching off a debate among art historians.

  18. It's All in the Noodles on Space Ramen! · · Score: 3, Funny

    Washington (April 18) -- In a major step to validate new technology for the X-33 Reusable Noodle Vehicle (RNV) Program, NASA will test samples of two advanced Nissin Top Ramen flavors on the Space Shuttle Columbia as it re-enters the atmosphere at the end of its current mission. Landing is currently scheduled for Saturday morning at the Kennedy Space Center, with two windows of opportunity - either 7:24 or 8:59 a.m Eastern Time.

    "NASA's RNV program is innovating new and better ways to protect space ramen from high temperatures experienced during reentry through the atmosphere," said Lori Garver, Executive Director of the National Space Society. "The new technology is being designed to dramatically reduce the time and cost of reconstituting between RNV flights."

    The Space Shuttle requires an army of personnel to inspect and replace damaged noodles after each mission. For the RNV program, NASA is working in partnership with private industry to create a new noodle protection system that is non-soggy and can be used repeatedly requiring minimal maintenance.

    The advanced spicy cod roe spaghetti flavor tested on the Shuttle orbiter will be flown on the vehicle's underbelly and near the rear engines where noodles regularly experience much damage. According to engineers, the new "kimchi" material is an order of magnitude better than the Shuttle's current flavor technology.

    "Developing a low-cost, low-maintenance noodle delivery system is one of the major goals of the RNV program," Garver said. "Engineers also are designing zero-gravity styrofoam cups that can be used repeatedly, and upgrading flavor packets so they don't have to be refilled after each flight."

    Nissin CNO Takeshi Otaka says, "The block of noodles suspended in the cup has a higher G-force towards the top of the nest. This allows the hot water [injected] to surround the whole noodle nest and loosen and rehydrate it rapidly. The vegetables stay atop the noodles, helping it to look appetizing and delicious. Because the block of noodles is flush against the inside surface of the cup, it inhibits noodle breakage and increases cup strength, therefore minimizing cup damage during re-entry."

  19. it's a plot on Space Ramen! · · Score: 1
  20. rebus on Apple's Response to Microsoft: Unix Ads? · · Score: 3, Funny

    the icons in the dock are spelling out "W XP ON X"

  21. Re:whoa on Microsoft Seeks Dismissal with 9 Dissenting States · · Score: 1

    look at it again. give it some time.
    wait for the gestalt.

    if you still don't get it, swivel your monitor 180 degrees.

  22. not to be utterly humorless on UCLA Adds Physics to Prat-falls · · Score: 1
    maybe it's just late, or maybe I'm pissed about being mistaken for gay one time too many, or maybe my feminism is rearing its head, but this quote is strinking me as being especially retarded:
    "You can tell from how someone is walking if they're effeminate or angry. How would you account for that in a physics-based system?" said Darren Hendler, technical director at Digital Domain Inc., a Los Angeles special effects studio.
    "effeminate or angry"? Guess he hasn't met too many pissed-off women.