Archive for July, 2004

Fahrenheit 9/11 on Cuban primetime TV

Saturday, July 31st, 2004

“I don’t agree with the copyright laws and I don’t have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they’re not trying to make a profit off my labour. I would oppose that,” Michael Moore said. Castro heard.
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Flash for content

Friday, July 30th, 2004

Do it quick and get it over and done with. This and this. Illustration has no purpose.
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And today’s bizarre teaser

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

Headlined “Behind closed doors, nine out of ten does the same thing”, this email campaign teaser on Hygoform’s website is a sure attention grabber. Hygoform sells toilet hygiene products.
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Can you see through HTML code?

Monday, July 26th, 2004

There are days when you wish you could see through HTML code. The comments. The block dimensions. The target URL for every link. The ditten. The datten. Well, now you can. The Web developer extension for Mozilla and Firefox is the most usable toolbar since the one with the Back and Forward buttons.

Web developer extension

Gemal.dk: Extensions I use

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Why Skype is not about cheap telephony

Sunday, July 25th, 2004

When you find yourself alone in your flat without a fixed phone line and no clue of the whereabouts of your mobile phone, you not only find yourself in times of trouble (and no, Mother Mary is not around), you are as far away from a two-hour search as kissing is to intimacy, too.

That’s where SkypeOut helps you out.

I know. I owe the Skype people a ten-piece of Danish Krone. Sort of.

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Socialarbejder med pistol eller folkeskolelærer, det er da et let valg

Sunday, July 25th, 2004

Vi skal have meget mere politi, mange flere betjente, i meget færre biler, og Jylland er ved at være tom. På hvervesiden blivpolitibetjent.dk udtaler et dusin politielever sig om deres tanker om at få pistol og en helt speciel ekstra arm.

Den brune hjemmeside har taget de vigtigste kommentarer. Og de er ægte nok. Husk at de skal læses med jysk dialekt på den indre stemme.

Tina sad ellers i et job, hun ikke var meget for at forlade. Men hun gjorde det. Efter en åbenbaring af den slags, man kun oplever på en mørk, mørk landevej i det uendeligt store Jylland. Hun fortæller:

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Misprinted type

Friday, July 23rd, 2004


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Probably the loudest MP3 player

Friday, July 23rd, 2004

- Yeah, I love it, and it plays real loud, too!

Brian was right when he told me about the right area of the iPod’s volume indicator. Until now, none of us knew exactly why he was.

Jobs’ influence was sometimes idiosyncratic. For example, the iPod is louder than most MP3 players because Jobs is partly deaf

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Yeh, Brian. It’s loud. Your 5 Gb first generation iPod is damn loud. And free as in Pinoccio without the nose.

“There was no discussion of (digital rights management),” Knauss said. “Their belief was DRM would hurt sales when they rolled out the music store. They specifically wanted no DRM in the original iPod.”

Ben Knauss tells the story of the iPod to Wired. He backed out just before the launch of what would be the world’s most famous MP3 player. He wasn’t confident with the success. He is contracting for Microsoft now. And talks to hungry Wired reporters. Why?

Inside Look at Birth of the IPod

Newsweek: iPod Nation

Wired, 2001: Apple’s ‘Breakthrough’ iPod

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Jodie Foster stars accidental Photoshop illusion

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

See her? Is her document window horizontal or not?

(Omg, omg, omg this is so crazy) Again. ‘C’ is for crazy. S is for the ‘s’ word.

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It’s a balance/balance situation

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

When your skull hosts an anime inner-voice uzi shootout performed by around 100-billion brain cell phones conducting massive conference calls just to talk nonsense and play the all-new, all-fun verbal edition of Dance Dance Revolution your fuel cells needs fluids, because it’s dry and soaking all at once, and you drink a bit of the old coca and bathe those ears in rock.

It’s a balance/balance situation. Hung over brains need balance/balance situations. Clear-cut directions. And rock music does just that. It’s like a neuron-transmitting Mapquest or, even better, that java version on Map24 with a thick, red line and a huge, spastically dancing You Are Here, constantly rotating, creating lean, fat motion blur beyond any future version of Photoshop. Groupies are starting to appear backstage. And that’s a quote, not a fact.

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Parallel universe discovered. Finilli!

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004

Did you know? It’s official. It’s a fact. No more discussin’ and provin’. There’s a parallel universe in which the inhabitants only have one vowel. The vowel is ‘i’ as in “I am” and “I want”, and Gid kniws it is an ego-centric one. Or, as some experts would mumble, a highly evolved and obviously social one, since everyone is everywhere. Or none of the above. Please cast your vote before Sindii.

What I’m trying to say

They have an internet just like us, heck, even a supposed-to-be-Google killer from Microsoft. Or, as they put it, a sippisid-ti-bi-Giigli killer frim Micrisift.

Search the Intirnit for Denmark, Microsoft and George Bush

Go here if you’re lost.

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Illustrationen der ikke var plads til

Monday, July 19th, 2004

Forklaringen fik jeg over en frokost. Tak, Claus.
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We’ve got a Google GIF banner

Thursday, July 15th, 2004

Finally. After months of waiting, it’s here. The Adsense image banner. I’ll be hunting for a ‘disable that’ checkbox, be right there.
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OMG, AMG, what’ve you done?

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

Timeouts. Misrenderings. 200+ validation errors. IE-only compatibility. Premature production stage.

Nightmare has a new name: “The brand new allmusic.com

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Messenger knows local jazz bands

Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

Experience how picky your Messenger is, just paste the festival programme.

Copenhagen Jazz Festival

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