“He just stood there and watched them beat the crap out of me!
Even a dog has got the brains to come to his master’s defense! Bite’em! Claw’em! Piss on ‘em! Anything for fuck’s sake!
Brawny grunt: Jesus, boss, you don’t look too good.
Another original thinker. ” — Bob Hoskins, racketeer and shylock in the movie “unleashed” also featuring Jet Li as “Danny” the kid raised as a dog.
NY Times broke the story; Microsoft is pushing their release of Windows Vista a couple of weeks further along, however, this is a technique the company has done before.
Vista was originally slated for release in 2004 as “Blackcomb” but later rebranded as Longhorn after being unveiled in the summer of 2005. Blackcomb has since become the successor to Vista and codenamed “Vienna”; Set for release in 2010, it is doubtfull to expect this release by then judging the current copland-esque track-record, the 500-billion cap be damned.
This protraction of development of the Vista product puts the light on the management and their handling of the Product. Other companies, most notably Apple and the now long dead company Be Inc released early seeds to the public and worked their way up from the well and into smooth products — albeit Apple still has issues like the usability of the finder and the multiple faces of their user interface.
Sadly this delay makes the product hit the market after the holiday sales market, which is one of the key events of the year for any company.
I’ve seen multiple posts by employee blogs confirming the new launch date but I’m still doubting it, seeing is believing as my dear grandmother used to say.
edit:
aha, they posted beta2 of vista for download on the web, and of course som fan-boys put up a torrent that got shut down by the Microsoft gorillas^H^H^H^H^Hlawyers.
“A vicious black swan has an additional elusive property: its very
unexpectedness helps create the conditions for it to occur. Had a terrorist
attack been a conceivable risk on Sept. 10, 2001, it would likely not have
happened.”
barring hindsight bias some thinktanks make the case that the Abqaiq incident will cause further trickle effects.
The terrorist cells of today operate in a much more decentralized way, ideology is shared while modes of execution differ. we should expect al qaeda to disrupt the middle east oil supply lines and refineries in a more effective way. this means that what we can expect are smaller and less difficult attacks on minor refinieries and pipes adding up to greater effects that in turn will add up to the effect of a full scale decimation of Abqaiq.
more here
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no this isn’t about bad splatter horror.
To many’s dislike, the bodymod and tattoo cultures have gone mainstream but like any fine popart there’s been an influx of culture and art preservators who want to exhibit the art on the museum floors.
One of these exhibitions is taking place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, it explores the viewpoints of bodymodification, how it relates as a disguise, a metaphore. and how some use it to record time’s passed by.
technorati tags: tattoo, museum, exhibitions
And beckon the dark…
Fred Eerdekens is a Belgian artist who creates sculptures that magically distorts light and shadows to manipulate it into beautiful shapes.
He’s held exhibitions at the spencer brownstone gallery in their Armory show floor.
The basis of his sculptures are forms distorting light and shadows to create texts and other shapes as seen below.
via.
technorati tags: art, fineart, sculpture, lightmanipulation, light, shadows
Back when I started writing slash fiction and erotic novelettas — no I will not give away my nom de plum. – I found myself in quite a quandry. I couldn’t find any decent writers applications for the mac, or windows for that matter.
What I ended up doing was to use Emacs — a despickable cli programmers editor — and whenever my editor wanted a copy i’d just open it in textedit and choose ‘print as pdf’ from the menu. Although it worked it was quite tedious, as you can imagine.
I eventually tried using a couple of applescripts together with barebonesoft’s BBedit, which to me felt awkward and very os9-ish. I dropped it for emacs.
Now I did however find this recently, it’s a plugin bundle for textmate made by Oliver Taylor, works quite charmingly and i’ve begun to insert my drafts into the subversion server already. Granted I could be doing all of the versioning and comparing with any editor, but Textmate is built for this in mind, I can diff document drafts and compare; without the need for umptyten tools.
technorati tags: texmate, osx, emacs, writing, textmate, subversion
The Boston Globe’s online edition is running an article about inked bluecollar workers and their impressions of how they’re treated at work.
Insanely interesting article and lovely artwork.
technorati tags: ink, tattoo, bluecollar
Walther Nazi on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
aside from the viciousness of the logo owners, i never would’ve thought a nazi could do intriguing ornamental patterns.
However, it fits their style. imprinting art on something used for death.
Swedish Prisons have always been the first refuge of easternblock gangsters who are lucky enough to score a room in our five-star accomodations, always vacant since the guests have such an easy time to get outside the gates.
technorati tags: sweden, prison, idiocy, incompetence
Microsofts identity guru Kim Cameron with coat draped around his head and using an apple ibook, tools of the trade or sun tzu style subterfuge? 
technorati tags: apple, microsoft, identityguru, identity, credibility
First post on the new blog.
