I’ll Scream Your Tweets Episode 2

via YouTube – I’ll Scream Your Tweets Episode 2.

If anything, at least he’s getting a good bout of exercise hiking up that mountain to scream people’s tweets.

Hello there, Mr Kernel Panic.

Note that I’m testing posting from iPhone functionality via Posterous.

Fingers crossed this works.

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via Post to your blog using email « WordPress Codex.

FAIL!

I’ll just have to use a Posterous, then. Or the official WordPress iPhone app.

Cinnamon Chasers – Luv Deluxe (Official Music Video)

Luv Deluxe by Cinnamon Chasers

Album: A Million Miles From Home

**Shot entirely on the Canon 5D Mark II w/ a custom face mounted rig — Canon Lenses used: 14mm (f2.8) & 24mm (f1.4)**

via Cinnamon Chasers – Luv Deluxe (Official Music Video) on Vimeo.

Absoloutely incredibly epic.

Far too epic for words.

Yu-Gi-Oh – The Abridged Series Episode 21 (Count the memes!)

The abridged series was created by LittleKuriboh The anime Yu-Gi-Oh! was created by Kazuki Takahashi, and censored by 4Kids

via YouTube – Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series episode 21.

Count the memes!

Couple of my personal faves:

  1. BSG intro (0:00)
  2. Dialup modem sounds (0:51)
  3. Beta-testing (3:05)
  4. Shampoo – Trouble (3:30)
  5. “Their ruler is a transvestite!” (4:12)
  6. Ocarina of Time (5:11)
  7. “I’m going to right click on it and select Empty recycle bin.” (5:37)
  8. Dragon Ball Z reference (6:47)
  9. “This loot system sucks!” (7:05)
  10. Kiba’s laugh timed to the Gorillaz – Feel Good (7:45)

Just. Plain. Awesome.

Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple!

Extracts taken from Apple’s Keynote address in September 2009. Note: No cuts are repeated. Done with iMovie09, which is really awesome…

via YouTube – Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple.

I’m no psycho-analyst, but after seeing a couple of similar videos from past Stevenotes one would think that such hint-dropping is all part of the reality-distortion field. Doesn’t it flow that somehow saying all those words subconsciously makes the people watching the video (and indeed, present at the keynote) associate such words with the Apple image, and indeed the brand?

No? Maybe I’m reading too much into this.

How to get along with geeks: A seven-point guide

#2 You’re in the Windows or Mac camp

There’s no room for indifference when it comes to being a Mac fan or a Windows defendant. To be less biased about it, you need to be in one camp or the other. And this isn’t a battle waged only by die-hard Mac fanbois and girls – both Apple and Microsoft have run million-dollar campaigns based around the meme. (See the YouTube clip above.) It is still possible to be a Windows fan and own an iPhone, just make sure you bitch about its poor battery life. And often.

via How to get along with geeks: A seven-point guide | Article | The Punch.

Palm Pre: Two Months In

  • Copy and Paste – oh the irony. The iPhone now has superb copy and paste support, and it turns out that the Pre’s copy and paste is completely useless – time and time again I need to copy something from an email, web page, or text message. And I can’t! Also, the few times I can, only serves to show how awkward Palms copy and paste command/gestures are.
  • via Palm Pre: Two Months In « random($foo).

    Some would have preferred waiting for a better implementation.

    What’s the use of features if they suck incredible amounts of arse, rendering them practically useless?

    Beethoven’s 5th as a graphical score animation

    Each colour represents one instrument in this representation of Beethoven’s Fifth.

    via YouTube – Beethoven 5th Symphony (No. 5, graphical score animation, allegro).

    An XKCD book? I’d buy that.

    There’s an XKCD book!

    [...]

    A portion of the profits go toward build a school in Laos, via the charity Room to Read. There’s a possibility we’ll get to name the school; I wanted to name it ‘the xkcd school’ because of how confused it would make the kids who are trying to learn English phonetics, but I think they’re vetoing that idea.

    via Book! « xkcd.

    The Potion Factory have failed to deliver an iPhone client for The Hit List.

    Not a moment too soon? Sad to say it — I do like the app — but it’s months and months too late. The pace of progress has been so glacial that it’s impossible to have faith in its future development; I can’t let myself become dependent on an app without that.

    via the comments in TUAW’s “Potion Factory seeking beta testers for The Hit List iPhone”.

    Also another favourite:

    Is that a joke? after all this time of waiting… and it’s not even in beta? he hasn’t update the desktop program for quite a while saying he was working on the iphone app, and only now it’s ready for beta…

    To further add insult to injury, The Potion Factory (the guys behind The Hit List) say that beta invites are open until September 21. FOR. TEN. PLACES.

    I’m currently undecided as to how I should apply…

    Dear Potion Factory,

    So, how do I use The Hit List?

    Put simply, I don’t.

    And why would I, when any software development can only be described as “glacial”, the beta invites are frankly, a joke, and there’s not even a leaked screenshot to show for any progress that may or may not have been made?

    Sure, I can understand that you’re a one-man team. If you’re willing to make such a great application and then pretty much stall any development, don’t promise things without delivering. Last Google Group interaction was months ago. The iPhone app promise has been out there for at least as long as THL Mac has been out there, and yet there’s nothing to show?

    I now use Things on my iPhone, and am seriously considering switching to Things on the Mac as well, and I’m sure that there are countless others like me who have done the same.

    It’s one thing to promise. As I’ve found out, it’s entirely another to deliver – underpromise and overdeliver is the name of the game, and you’ve clearly failed. First mistake was promising an iPhone app. Second was not delivering said iPhone app within a reasonable time frame.

    I’m sorry, but for a getting things done client, you clearly don’t.