“She danced like one of those things they put outside of carwashes, the tubes with faces and arms attached to a fan. She had no mystery, no allure, no skill, no art, and her lunatic visage was so off-putting you were heartened by a sudden new-found certainty: an entire culture had realized that keeping your tongue extended like a basset hound with heat stroke was unbecoming, and unlikely to be repeated except as a sarcastic reference in Instagram selfies.”
— James Lileks reviews Miley CyrusEditing: it's not just for dead trees
Latest headline on Slashdot:
Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP
Took me a moment to parse that the way they intended…
"This. Is. My. BROOMSTICK!"
#!/bin/bash
cd deferred
find . -type f | split
for i in xa*; do
for j in $(cat $i); do
echo -n "$j " #literal tab
postcat $j | awk '
/^From: / {f=$0}
/^To: / {t=$0}
/^Subject: / {s=$0}
END {printf("%s\t%s\t%s\n",f,t,s)}'
done >> /tmp/jfoo
done
Open in Excel, sort to taste, cleanup as needed, save for later use...
Hello!Project Telepathy Project
Ai says, “OMGWTFBBQ! ROFLMAO! Can you believe this? They forgot to put feathers on my hat!”
Hello!Project Telepathy Project
Reina asks, “God, why can’t I get that Duran Duran song out of my head?”
Page 3 gets it right (NSFW!)
I give the folks at Page 3 abuse when they deliver horrible pin-ups, so it’s only fair that I praise them when they get it right. Warm skin tones? Check. Flattering pose? Check. Model alive and aware? Check. Proper lighting? Check. Lingerie that works with her curves rather than against them? Check.
Pretty girl wearing very little? Check. Not safe for work? Check.
Beauty School Dropout...
From Costumes, Inc., we have this little gem:
"Go Grease Lightening with costumes from Grease."
Dear Apple,
[update: don’t ask me how the kanji open-quote got turned into an accented a; it’s an ecto/MovableType thing that happens occasionally]
Unlike Windows (any version), Mac OS X correctly keeps track of keyboard layouts, even going so far as to ask the user about possibly non-standard layouts. Except in the Kotoeri input method, where it insists that all keyboards share the same layout, so that my English external keyboard is assumed to have the same layout as my laptop’s built-in Japanese keyboard, forcing me to guess where you hid the ‘「’ key (blackslash, by the way).
[filed as problem# 6770720] [updated 4/15 and marked as a duplicate of bug# 5647954]
You're gonna need stitches...
Found in a photo-tour of an abandoned love hotel in Japan:
"Young people looking to sew their wild oats..."
[as a side note, I’m always amazed at the sheer volume of material left behind in abandoned buildings and towns in Japan, even after their locations have become common knowledge]
