Tumblelink December 23, 2005
Alistair Cooke’s bones ‘stolen’ …body snatchers allegedly surgically removed his bones and sold them for more than $7,000 (£4,000) to a company supplying parts for use in dental implants and various orthopaedic procedures. Bloody hell.
« »Tumbletip December 20, 2005
Move windows in OS X without changing focus: hold down the Command key, then drag the titlebar of an unfocused window. (Nicked from Projectionist: A tumblelog)
« »Tumblelink December 19, 2005
MAN DATES GAL ON INTERNET FOR SIX MONTHS — AND IT TURNS OUT SHE’S HIS MOTHER!
« »Tumblelink December 17, 2005
Prince videos at VH1, including Te Amo Corazon, the new single, video directed by Salma Hayek. In other news, Prince just signed a deal with Universal, who will be releasing new album 3121 next year.
« »Tumbletip December 15, 2005
If you unmount your external hard drive from time to time, rather than unplugging it and plugging it in again, you can do something like this: when the drive is mounted, do disktool -l and make a note of the number of your drive (probably something like disk1s9), then, when you need to mount it again, just do disktool -m disk1s9. (Probably very obvious, but I didn’t know about disktool until just now…)
Tumblelink December 14, 2005
This is a test of posting via the Atom Actions plugin for Quicksilver. And it worked. Almost. Sadly Atom Actions will insert a post into Movable Type, but won’t rebuild the site, nor can one set a category for the post. So I probably won’t be using it here, though it might come in handy in future.
« »Tumblelink December 14, 2005
The Infancy Gospel of St. Thomas, a wacky, zany, roustabout account of Jesus Christ’s childhood! (More texts are available on the Early Christian Writings site.)
# christianity, gospel, religion, texts
Tumblephoto December 13, 2005
Ian Dury and the blockheads, by uground1 (better known as Andy Rosen).
« »Tumblelink December 9, 2005
The London Review of Breakfasts is a wonderfully-written diary of breakfasts eaten and enjoyed. (My favourite place to breakfast in London is Maggie’s Cafe, next to Lewisham train station – there’s nothing spectacular about the food, and the coffee should be avoided at all costs, but the staff and regular customers are a bunch of lovely loons who will have you laughing into your bubble and squeak. The Workers’ Cafe on Upper Street, Islington comes a close second, this time for eavesdropping on old gents trading tales of strikes and marches.)
« »Tumblephoto December 8, 2005
Cathy Wilkes Installation, Selective Memory, SNGOMA #7, by Mot.
The Selective Memory show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is one part mince, one part brilliant, and one part truly great. This is a little detail from the truly great part.
« »Tumblelink December 8, 2005
Snö is a useless application that makes snow fall over your desktop. Snö is the Swedish name for Snow. (It is also a pretty screensaver).
« »Tumblelink December 7, 2005
3121.COM – Prince’s next project, just a teaser page at the moment. See also, the cryptic splash page at the NPG Music Club.
« »Tumblephoto December 7, 2005
russiantattoo-d, uploaded by Mot. More tattoos, and a review of the book from whence they come.
# culture, prison, russia, tattoos
Tumblequote December 4, 2005
…both Christians and trusting Jews over-literalize biblical text, read metaphors as though they are facts, maybe don’t know how to read, even when they are celebrated scholars, they really have no idea what reading is all about. — Harold Bloom
# christianity, judaism, religion
Tumbletip December 4, 2005
sips is a handy image-manipulation command line thingy. For example, to rotate an image 90° clockwise, open up the Terminal and type sips -r 90 thenameofyourfile.jpg. Much quicker than opening up a proper graphics application (and much better than using Preview, which I tend to do, only to kick myself when I remember it alters the EXIF orientation tag for the file, not the file itself). Meta-tip for non command liners: type sips --help for, um, help using sips.
# images, manipulation, rotate
Tumblequote December 3, 2005
In 1985 we borrowed an 808 from Marshall Jefferson for 20 bucks and DJed with it for six months. Kids loved that shit! When we went to a party we had a bagful of records, a bagful of cassettes and the 808. When “Move Your Body” came out it used a 707 because we had his 808. — Tyree Cooper gives good factoid, during a Detroit techno colloquium.
« »Tumblelink December 2, 2005
“China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795″, Royal Academy, London — a passionate review by Dan Hill. If your read this and don’t want to see the exhibit as soon as is humanly possible, I’ll eat my hat.
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