September 2009
11 posts
“In any Open or Save dialog in Snow Leopard, simply press Shift-Command-Period to...”
– See hidden files in Snow Leopard’s Open and Save dialogs | Mac OS X | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld
“owning people’s identities online”
– How Facebook tried to put a shine on $9.5m privacy suit | Technology | guardian.co.uk
The phase seems terrifying to me.
Posterous Auto-Post unable to authenticate Tumblr....
Good news. I have just solved the problem of not being able to authenticate my Tumblr account for auto-posting from Posterous. My Tumblr password started and finished in angle brackets e.g. <my-password> When I changed my password to not include the angle brackets, the Posterous Auto-Post setup worked first time and I used my Tumblr custom domain name in the process. Sent from my iPhone ...
“publish a set of indicators on the sustainability of our economies”
– When it comes to life, love and true happiness, Sarkozy is leading the way | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer
Get rid of GDP as a measure.
“Of course, some people like subscription and ad-based systems. Hillbillies...”
– Macworld The Macalope Weekly: Money, money, money | iPod | MacUser
How Americans Spend Their Day - Interactive...
via nytimes.com
Amazing interactive graphic showing how Americans spend their day. Click the nytimes link above to see the whole thing.
“In its heyday, the Radio 1 Sunday evening Top 40 countdown constituted the...”
– Nicely observed. More hub than p2p but the same desire for music.
Charlie Brooker | What links Lord Mandelson, Damien Hirst and the music industry? | Comment is free | The Guardian
“before breakfast TV, early risers had the Open University and Ceefax set to...”
– The end of an era — Ceefax is no more.
Oh no! They’ve taken my beloved Ceefax | Culture | The Guardian
“the Marx Brothers in All Quiet on the Western Front”
– How the Primary Writer on M*A*S*H conceived the show.
Larry Gelbart | US comedy writer | Obituary | Culture | The Guardian
Sound archive of the British Library goes... →
The recordings go back more than 100 years. The British Library site:
http://sounds.bl.uk/