New licensing terms for Movable Type have been announced, and they’re much more reasonable. Good on ’em. I still can’t see paying more than $20 for a piece of software myself these days (unless it’s an operating system), but this should make some folks happy.
Month: June 2004 (page 5 of 10)
Coolest. Bike. Ever. A guy named Joshua Kinberg has put together the coolest bike ever: it sprays chalk words on the sidewalk behind you as you ride. It’s controlled by a PowerBook with a roaming wireless network, so people can send in messages as the bike is moving! Check out this video footage. He’s planning to ride it through New York during the Republican National Convention spraying anti-Bush slogans as part of the Bikes Against Bush protest.
Slang City Songs: Translations of Popular Songs from Slang to Standard English. Very funny. My favorite so far is Sk8ter Boi, which helpfully explains that a punk is “a young troublemaker who reacts against authority.”
Another Hogwarts Scarf!
As you can see, I’ve just finished an old-school Ravenclaw scarf as a commission for a nice Aussie girl named Kat. (Kat went with the “blue and bronze” color scheme from the book as opposed to the “blue and silver” from the movie.) The Snook was kind enough to model for me (as usual). It was knitted with Cleckheaton Country 8-ply 100% wool. Somehow my gauge was off from the last one I did, which resulted in a slightly skinner yet longer scarf. The dimensions on this one were 6″ wide by 76″ long (not counting fringe). That should keep Kat pretty warm throughout this winter!
Stay tuned for a revamp of my Harry Potter Scarves page with more pictures and descriptions.
Holy crap. A meteor the size of a house crashed in southern New South Wales last night. That’s, like, an hour from Sydney! Weird stuff is always happening here.
The Snook sent me two of the funniest links I’ve ever seen on the Internet: “I believe you have my stapler” and “What’s new, Khan?” Be sure and have your volume turned up. Then be prepared to have people stare at you as you scream with laughter.
South Park underwear gnomes as a lesson for investors. Man, not a single website I worked on during the dotcom boom had a Phase 2. Maybe that’s why they’re all gone!
Hee! Dendy Films (which is an Australian chain of arthouse cinemas) is offering free tickets to Super Size Me to any McDonald’s employee. That cracks me up. On a related note, Macca’s has become rattled enough about the film’s reception Down Under to start airing commercials defending themselves.
Somehow the other night the Snook and I got to talking about Coca-Cola (I think I was regretting my Pepsi iPod contest obsession) and he suddenly started telling me this crazy story about how a bored factory worker from Indiana designed the distinctive bottle shape to mimic the leaves of either a kola nut or a coca leaf, but he messed up and turned the wrong page in the encycloped and ended up basing it on the cacao bean instead. He’s always telling me crazy things like this. “You’re so making that up,” I said. Turns out he wasn’t. How crazy is that?
Cat Photos. The last refuge of the bored blogger. Let’s just say it’s been an extremely boring week on the Internet for me, folks. From left to right here you’ve got: “Kitten in a Box”; “A Geek and his Cat”; and “Kitten in the Sink.” If I can’t keep you entertained, I can at least help you meet your daily cuteness quotient.
