If you’re running Mac OSX, you might be interested in a Register article about the real differences between Cocoa and Carbon and why rewriting the Finder isn’t necessarily a good idea.

It’s a horrible thing to contemplate, but I have to admit that I was morbidly curious about how she did it. I mean, I’m sure that by the age of five I would’ve known what it means to be “dead.” (I’ve got memories of nightmares as evidence.) Did she start with the young ones, or the old ones? And she did it one at a time? If Mom kept bringing my lifeless, wet siblings out of the bathroom wrapped in sheets, I’d be pretty damn freaked out. As it turns out, I was pretty much right. She evidently had to chase the eldest boy around the house. This is just so sad.

Sad day. John Lee Hooker (who I always think of singing outside the Soul Food Cafe in “The Blues Brothers”) and Carroll O’Connor (aka Archie Bunker) have passed away.

HA! Do you have a personal site? You should do the 2001.DESIGNER.SITE.CHKLST. It’ll analyze your design and tell you how much of a wanker you are. And it’s so funny (in a web design, nerdy kinda way) that I spewed Coke out my nose.

New feature!
You can now see the last five Google searches that led folks to web-goddess. They’re in a box down on the left after the poll. (Vote if you haven’t!) I’ve been watching my referrer logs and entering particularly good ones at Disturbing Search Requests for a while now, but I thought it might be fun to see them one-by-one as they come in. Kudos to Brigita for noticing before I even announced it!

I’m still laughing at the Date My Sister Project that Gael linked. I showed it to my sister, who responded that she wouldn’t mind if Snookums and I launch a similar initiative when she gets to London. Heh.

In U.K. theater news, Mark Ravenhill has a new play at the Royal National called “Mother Clap’s Molly House”. The play intertwines both a contemporary storyline and one set in a 1726 London “molly house” (gay meeting place). Sodomy is somehow involved. The religious right are, predictably, already up in arms. I saw Ravenhill’s first big production, “Shopping and F***king”, back in 1998. I wasn’t a big fan, but it wasn’t because of the anal sex or the toplessness. I just thought it was a sucky play. It should’ve been called “Shopping, F***king, and Ramen Noodles”, because that’s the vision of my generation that it presented. And no amount of loud music and neon lights can paper over juvenile, sucky writing. But anyway, I still don’t see any problem with nationally-funded theater doing avant garde productions. I’m probably going to try to see his new one, just as an act of support for the RNT.

A Korean theater hit called “Cookin'” is coming to the U.S. “The show… features the high-tempo slicing of four chefs who have an hour to prepare a glorious wedding banquet.” They do comedy and use their utensils as percussion implements. It’s like “The Iron Chef” meets “Tap Dogs”! They don’t mention who gets to eat the food at the end though. I would hope the audience does.

New Poll: In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve implemented a new database-driven polling system that allows me to save poll results. So starting from today, all polls will be archived here. For our first topic, I’ve chosen the age-old question of “Who’s better: Britney or Christina?”. Please register your answer (and reasoning!) over at the left.
 
Results from the old poll: The breakdown of Kaycee Nicole reactions among my site visitors was pretty much the same as it was among all Netizens. Most of us had heard of her site but never really gave it much thought, while only a few had mourned her and were bitter about the hoax. A few didn’t even think it qualified as a hoax, but rather as a form of “internet art”. And then there was my sister, who can never resist taking the bait of the joke response I always create just for her.

Can you place this quote?

Oh, he’s very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads–they all adore him. They think he’s a righteous dude.

Of course you can. Brigita found a great story about the enduring popularity of the film. The best part is that Edie McClurg, who played Grace, is quoted as saying that she wished they wouldn’t edit out her “dickhead” and replace it with “airhead” for TV. “I wish they’d just go back and play the real movie on cable,” she said. Ha!