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40 CommentsI criticize because I love.
Yesterday, I discussed functional design with my better half (read: girlfriend) while driving home from IKEA. She uses Mac at work and mentioned how a new colleague who was used to The PC Way had trouble ejecting a disc on her new Intel Mac Pro Quad Xeon.
4 CommentsIn the just-aired episode of South Park, Hell on Earth 2006, recently deceased crocodile hunter Steve Irwin made an appearance. In the episode, he has gone to hell and attends Satan’s Halloween costume-party, the stingray that killed him still hanging from his chest. The full episode can be watched online.
Now I’m a die-hard fan of South Park and I mostly think creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s mocking of people and politics is deserved or at least well placed. This time, I’m undecided. Knowing their sick and twisted sense of humour, this might simply be their way of saying “joking is caring”.
What do you think? Is this the price of fame for Steve Irwin, or is it “too soon”?
12 CommentsWhen my Firefox starts, at home or at work, it loads my Google Personalized Homepage with my Google ToDo List, my Google Calendar, my Google Notebook and a preview of my Google Gmail. My bookmarks are syncronized using Google Browser Sync. Now I’m wondering what I did before Google. I wonder how long it’ll be ’till we all switch to GooOS.
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So, being an interface designer, interface developments in the operating systems interest me; differences between the operating systems especially. One such difference is the maximize window behaviour.
CommentSitting here with the morning coffee, waiting for the rhythm of the day to settle in, I’m reading in the newspaper. It says that Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the danish Prime Minister who unilaterally chose for Denmark to participate in the Iraq war, admits the invasion strategy had it’s faults and shortcomings.
It’s roughly 3? years since the war started, March 18th 2003. Like many others, I thought it would be a bad idea. Turns out we were right and the people we elected weren’t. How is it this happens more and more often? To date, the war has cost the lives of 5 Danes, 2804 Americans, $336,999,380,179 and maybe as much as 600.000 Iraqis. I’d say that’s bad planning.
9 CommentsI have discovered that people who use cellphones a lot tend to pick the most annoying ringtones of all. Be it plain rings that echo like tinnitus, or snippets of songs your neighbour listens to Thursday nights when you want to sleep. What is wrong with the picture? Shouldn’t users trained in the arts of telephony file down the corners of their habits with prolonged usage; learn the do’s and don’ts of telephonism?
I asked my colleague one day why he had chosen this jazz-track that sounds good when played at a bar, but just really, really fucking annoying when it explodes through the office. He answered: “isn’t it cool?”. No, it’s a ringtone! It’s not cool.
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This weekend I bought a black Nintendo DS Lite and a copy of New Super Mario Bros. This is a direct result of having tried one of the three others that co-workers invested in.
Comment CommentIf you develop Flash applications, you’ll know the need to debug the code. The internal debugger is, well, internal, and sometimes it’s necessary to be able to debug outside of Flash.
Enter log(). As an external/embedded alternative to Flash’s built-in trace() function, log() does exactly the same, but in a debug-window you drag onto the [...]
3 CommentsAccording to a recent study, more than 600,000 people in Iraq have been killed since the U.S. invaded in 2003 to lead Iraqis to peace and democracy.
That’s 20 times higher than the figure the White House has bandied about.
Many of the dead, say the team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists who conducted the study, would likely be alive today if the invasion had not occurred.
The researchers point the finger at post-Saddam violence as the cause of the deaths, according to news accounts.
Such a toll strikes home because the stunning number rivals Seattle’s population, 570,000.
But hey, oil prices just dropped, what, 30%?
8 CommentsBased on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite.
Style looks familiar? Frank Miller is also responsible for Sin City, which was filmed in the same way as 300 — that is, entirely against bluescreen.
CommentCo-developed with Titoonic. Design, CSS and templates for Greenpeace Amazon campaign.
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Al Gore used to be the next president of the United States of America. That is, until a court ruled in favor of the conservative choice.
In his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore presents undeniable research and facts that point to … well … the inconvenient truth that global warming is a clear and imminent threat.
The message of the movie is well understood and received by yours truly - everyone should see this movie for that reason alone. With regards to the movie, it’s scary in an all too realistic way, well-directed, well-cut and generally a very watchable movie. It is, however, a bit too simplistic in its message at times, hence “only” four hearts.
