What’s important is:
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not changing fundamental OS behavior behind users’ backs
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not changing decades-long behavior without explanation
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giving users a choice and voice, not assuming that whatever some Apple designer happens to personally prefer should be hard-coded and hidden from users, treating them like infants
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not #%*@$% confusing users about what is going to happen, creating unexpected, unpredictable or dysfunctional results
Those things are what’s important; those things are part and parcel are the original Macintosh principles of design, and those are the things we have lost in recent years as user interface ignoramuses have taken over “design” at Apple.
— Ric Ford on what modern Apple gets wrongLooks more like Two Piece to me
Official One Piece Oppai Mousepads.
BY ORDER !!!!
Found at a gas station in Morgan Hill on the way to work this morning:
Update for great justice: “LolNozzle iz inside ur gas tank, breakin pumps”
光線の発射はご遠慮下さい
(apparently from the store window of Asobit Chara City in Akihabara; I don’t know if they sell signs or stickers)
The Zen of Cooking...
A little something from The Random Recipe Generator:
Butter Crumble
Serves 1
You will need:
- 60g butter
- 70g kidney beans
Instructions:
- pre-heat the oven to 180 C
- eat the butter
- discard the kidney beans
- bake for 50 minutes and serve hot
Haiti
All I can do to help is send money, which I have. Fortunately, one of the few things the American government reliably does well is disaster relief.
I’ll refrain from partisan sniping, unless some jackass tries to use this as justification for passing the healthcare bill…
Update: this is what I’m talking about:
...Four large Coast Guard ships—a 210-foot Reliance-class cutter and three 270-foot medium Endurance-class cutters—left Miami today, bound for Haiti....
...A C-130 cargo airplane also flew into Haiti from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater in Florida....
...Next to arrive will be urban rescue teams from Florida, Virginia and California...
...The crew of the Comfort, one of the Navy's two 894-foot-long hospital ships, is now rushing to the ship, ported in Baltimore, to sail for Haiti.
The Navy hospital ship will be joined in Haiti by the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson. The carrier's crew of more than 3000 had been at sea for just hours, leaving Norfolk, Va., for its new home port in San Diego, when the call came to reroute to Haiti. The massive craft can launch helicopters loaded with supplies, make and deliver fresh water and, if need be, augment hospital space by pitching aid tents on its flight deck.
Doomed, I tell you, doomed
Found in the latest issue of Ansible, whilst hunting for Thoggisms:
- George Bowie, Radio Clyde presenter:
- "Which famous detective features in the Agatha Christie [sic] novel The Hound of the Baskervilles?"
- Contestant:
- "Is it Harry Potter?"
Spam that does not tempt
Some of the recent subject lines from my spam folder:
Meet and marry a gorgeous Russian queen.
Russian queens are waiting.
I can do for you is - what can not no girl!
Otoko-tachi no Yamato
Much thanks to the Duck for his review of this film, which led me to include the DVD in my latest order from Amazon Japan. I was able to find a set of soft-subs for it that seem to be reasonably accurate (and were apparently used to subtitle the bootleg DVDs that people were selling on Amazon US for a while). It’s a gorgeous, ugly, moving, and quite sad film, and Joe Hisiashi’s score suits the material perfectly.
The few non-Duck English reviews I’ve found come at it with an axe to grind, making them basically useless for evaluating the film. Oddly, they all seem to think that no one outside of Japan would be interested, which says more about them than it does about the film.
It’s not available on BluRay, but the image quality is still superb (Handbrake ripped it at 850x364). Sample screengrab below, from late in the film.
