Benny Ling’s Bling

But dig, they’re basically like part Dingo, part Wolf, throw in some Okapi or Tiger in the mix and if I’m doing my math correctly, adds up to 100% FUCKING EPIC. If mankind weren’t such assholes and erased these beautiful creatures from our existence than maybe I can at LEAST check one out in a zoo but alas the moment is gone. Tasmanian Tiger, I hardly knew ye.

via YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF.

via The Joy of Tech comic… There is only one Snow Leopard..

Snow Leopard.

You’ll probably get my thoughts later in the week, but for now -

Damn.

• Deciding how best to dig myself out of this hole that has resulted from a heap of Uni work and a little too much procrastination. #
• Confuzzled as to why my iPhone battery has displayed 100% ever since this morning.
  I wonder how long this'll last. #
• So apparently it got moved forward (again) – now they're saying that Snow Leopard will be released *tomorrow*. You heard it here first! #
• Just received what seems to be a chain Facebook chat along the lines of "post this to 4939 other people, etc etc". EPIC WTF! =/ #
• RT @neg2led: snow leopard: http://bit.ly/OWXMZ #
• Geez, this Apple prediction thing isn't all it's cut out to be. =/
  DON'T TASE ME BRO! DONT TASE ME! #
• This. Is. Obesity!!! http://twitpic.com/fasgt #
• So.
  11 months after buying my iPhone, and with over $2200 worth of credit to my name, Telstra have _finally_ sorted my billing issues. #
• Huge, mad props to @BigpondTeam who managed to succeed where 7-8 months of outsourced call centres had failed. You guys rock! #
• Snow Leopard ETA: 10 minutes.
  Go Mr TNT courier, gooooo!!! #
• I can haz Snow Leopard? http://twitpic.com/fi4is #
• So it looks like my @todayscatch Vmoda Vibe Duo's have failed with the "sound out of one ear" issue like @wmyeoh's did. FFS. #
• Teh kitteh likez teh warmz. http://twitpic.com/fk06b #
• Would love nothing more than to be geeking out to Snow Leopard, but instead have a HUUUGE day tonight. That's what she said. #fb #
• Oi @tweet_post, why do you load a blank page after I connect with FB Connect? Because I changed my Twitter handle? Hmm? #
• follow @AppleReviews to win a copy of Things for Mac by @culturedcode http://tinyurl.com/nwwh8r #
• Gah, I'm such a Twitter whore. Apologies for that chaps, engaging stealth mode now… #
• Waiting for Dad. He's gone to buy some fish, and I've got my epic PC in the back of the car. #
• THE APPLE STORE IS DOWN! #applestoredown
  (hat-tip to @Tragesty) #
• Want a OWC Express 2.5" SATA enclosure (http://bit.ly/3HceU4), but USB only + $30 shipping from the US hurt! Any other suggestions? #
• Apple Store is back up. Father's day promos? Meh, @neg2led. #
• So it turns out that the iPhone simulator on Mac isn't nearly as good as I thought it was. This puts a kink in my money-making plans. #

• Hauling my laptop around for the first time in months. Makes my bag significantly heavier, but just call me the roadwarrior, k? #
• Absoloutely loving Things for iPhone. As far as I'm concerned, @thehitlist for iPhone can die in a fire, but I'm still using it on the Mac. #
• Freaking out because Rihanna's SOS played on my iPhone on shuffle, which just happened to be playing on the bus' radio as well! o.O #fb #
• I've got it on good authority that Snow Leopard will cost AUD $158. As is always the case with these things, you heard it here first #
• Heads up lads, Jumping URL is free for a little while longer. You'd be nuts not to grab it: http://bit.ly/q7Pd8 #
• Spotted in the Computing and Info Systems building at UTas:
  http://twitpic.com/ebqm8 #
• Whoa, a @JumpingURL bookmarklet for Safari users? Thanks @woodnathan! See http://bit.ly/35d0cj for more. @MATT1604 #
• Cursing at the #OCAU mods – this time, they've seemingly closed a thread for no apparent reason! WTF?! #
• <ul>
  <li>!</li>
  <ul>
  <li>something</li>
  </ul>
  <br />
  </ul>
  …that's legal HTML, right?
  IT DOES NOT VALIDATE. #
• It's not even 7:30am and already everything is going wrong – Mac KP'd, Jabber won't connect to MSN, argh! #

A cake for a huge Star Wars geek’s 40th. Rum and Raisin Chocolate cake, 3×6 inch cakes and 1×5 inch carved. All accents are gumpaste or fondant.

“utini!” is the only legible word said by the Jawa in Star Wars and everybody at the party knew exactly what it was.

Geeks and Nerds Rule

via Jawa Cake on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

Jawa, folks.

Not Java.

via The Billion Dollar Gram | Information Is Beautiful.

Click to embiggen, and you’ll find out that the internet porn industry is worth $97 billion dollars. At least, I think it’s a billion. Could possibly be a million. Or something.

In any case, $97 billion dollars is bigger than Facebook (at a paltry $15 billion), the video games industry ($32 billion), Bill Gates ($46 billion), bigger than enough food to feed every child in the world for a year ($54 billion), even bigger than China’s defence budget ($60 billion)!

Surprising, no?

I Never knew traffic could change a person. I-gun does wonders for stress!!!

via YouTube – IGun Traffic Rampage (original).

I play Left 4 Dead waaaay too much. It deserves a vid. Please ignore the lag spikes and such, i rushed this out over 2 days and didn’t really have time to fix up all the bugs. The GTA4 machinima i talked about a while back is impossible now unfortunatly, my trainers don’t work for it any more.

via YouTube – What a Wonderful L4D.

Source unknown.

If you know of it/where this awesome pic came from, shout out!

The awesome Radi8 Youth team giving a helping hand at Hobart’s Relay for Life event in 2009.

via Radi8 Youth at Relay For Life 2009 on Vimeo.

What I will say about this app, however, is that it is absolutely awesome. Often, while surfing the ‘net, I run out of time to take a look at everything before heading out to school, or going out for dinner, etc. Using Jumping URL, I can simply beam over a few websites and check them out on-the-go. It also works in the opposite direction, which I find very handy. With this app, I can simply copy the address of a website I’d like to look at, paste it into the application (by tapping (P)) and use it as a sort of cross-platform bookmarking system. When I get home, I can whip open the application, tap “Beam” on one of the websites and go to http://www.jumpingurl.com/ (or use the fetch feature included in the Firefox extension) on my computer, instantly getting redirected to the site I’m beaming from my iPhone.

[...]

Overall, this application could easily surpass a perfect 10 rating. It is extremely handy and came out of nowhere. Despite the developer’s original intention for it to be used with YouTube videos, this can come in handy when you come across an interesting article that you don’t have time to read, or would like to view later on your iPhone, for example. On the other side, it can also be useful for those times that you get linked to a flash-based website while you are on your iPhone, in which case you just copy the URL into the application and beam it over when you have access to a flash-enabled computer.

via Jumping URL iPhone App Review – POST1604.

I was one of the lucky few to receive a promocode from Matt (because I’m a cheapskate, lulz), and what can I say, Jumping URL just blows me away.

It’s that awesome – pushing or beaming URLs to and from your iPhone to your Mac or PC. The way it does it is so completely simple, so completely awesome, and like Matt said in his full review (hit up the link), seemingly came out of nowhere.

It’s one of those apps that make you stop and think – “hey, why didn’t I think of that?”, and yet it’s almost flawless in execution and damn, IT JUST WORKS, and brilliantly at that!

This is definitely an app I’ll be showing all my friends. I really can’t get over how easy and simple it is. I know I sound like a raving fanboy here, but it’s just so incredible.

As always, I do have one suggestion – with push notifications, this app would be *perfect*. Imagine it now – push a URL from Firefox on your Mac, you get a notification on your iPhone, and you slide to open the URL in Mobile Safari – that would be très awesome, no?

For $1.19, it’s a steal. You’d be nuts not to grab this on the App Store.

Seriously – it’s that good.

• Review of those free @todayscatch speakers a while back: 4xAA make me cry, and sound quality is trash.
  My Apple USB speakers sound better. #
• Stumbling across a bizzare iMovie 09 bug – adding a cross dissolve between clips in project actually *decreases* total project time? WTF? #
• Go go gadget movie export! #
• http://bit.ly/jQrZ6
  Paging @urusaipoppu to thread. If your recent blog post is anything to go by, you'll love this. ^_^ #
• Bah, so there's no such thing as unmetered P2P.
  It was fun while it lasted, then, now it's all just a PIPE dream. #
• Watched Boston Legal in memory of Graham Coleman, aka Silvdreamer on #MTAU. He used to love Denny Crane – RIP, dude. #
• Didn't realised I passed 2000 tweets yesterday. At least it was geeky: http://twitter.com/bennyling/status/3223807446 #
• Scored an invite to Google Voice. Now, where's my Wave invite dammit! #
• Ninjas can't catch you… http://bit.ly/19ajd9 #
• 2nd gen Drobo for AU $689 from MacFixit isn't bad. I'm mighty tempted, but @neg2led would kill me. #
• Calculating the total cost of my iPhone apps thanks to App Store Expense Monitor. http://wetfish.de/
  $317.82 includes promo codes and sales. #
• Trying to get quotes for shipping a 11KG package to fracking WA (6236).
  Courier recommendations, anyone? #
• Finished Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2. I feel gooood. #
• Drinking some Nesquik to counteract the effects of that nap-that-turned-into-a-short-sleep I had. You remember that stuff, right? #
• #winMBP @taptaptap is giving away a $5999 ColorWare STEALTH MacBook Pro to celebrate launching Convert for iPhone! http://taptaptap.com/+PVv #
• I'm in your Macs, fixin' your computerz #
• Playing AC/DC's Highway to Hell on repeat. It's been going for over 2 hours now and not one of my coworkers wants to kill me… Yet. #
• Absolutely lamenting the loss of my stellar 59 days uptime – had to force shutdown my Macbook because wasn't doing anything #
• Buying Things for iPhone as I *think* I need a GTD app. Here's hoping that it's a good standalone client until @thehitlist comes out #
• Being careful about what I post, where. I wouldn't want to end up like that Facebook chick who lost her job now, would I? #
• Uploading video to Vimeo. Lots of love for it's Youtube-smashing feature called "not limited to 10 minutes long without a Director account". #
• Hanging out for the new @geoDefense Swarm, as well as #L4D2 and Snow Leopard. These next two months will be *great*. ^_^ #
• Talking about myself in the third person on a website for Uni. That's okay when you're doing a profile page, right? #
• Struggling to comprehend our new TV guide now that we have GO! and OneHD. Thank goodness for @icetv! #