Of limited utility
But it’s been amusing me in the airport, so have if you want it:
Python script that’ll grab a random message from your Gmail account
If you have an account that’s all old archived mail, it’s probably more entertaining.
links for 2010-02-05
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In case you missed the relentless triple-speed apocalyptic hailstorm that is Krisiun, like I did.
links for 2010-02-03
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'In other words, Social Security in 1935 was a way bigger sellout, surrender, betrayal of the base, etc., than the Senate health-care bill comes anywhere near being in 2010. And it worked out pretty well.'
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Supposedly great wings! That don't involve deep frying.
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'The most exciting thing, to me, in this whole iPad business is the fact that, for the first time that I can remember, a more-or-less general computing device has done away with the file system, totally and completely.
It’s an obvious move, if you’ve been watching Apple and the consumer electronics industry for the last decade. And it’s a move that needed to be done.'
COPS was deep sometimes.
Thanks to this, I’m able to easily view and search some of my very old mbox-format email. Here’s one I just looked at from 2/15/03:
At the end of this segment on Cops in which this cop dresses up as a clown and solicits prostitution, this crack whore gets arrested. They keep the audio going on the bust while the camera follows one of the clown’s balloons floating off into the sky, alone.I bet the director was proud of that poignant Cops moment.
links for 2010-01-29
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Aha! I tried to put together a script that did this months ago, but Gmail kept ignoring 80% of the messages. This doesn't upload to Gmail, but it does upload to a Google Apps mail account, which is their Gmail for businesses.
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Music critics are largely worthless. Here's a great explanation of one of the weird games they play that make them so.
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KBR: she was asking for. If only KBR had unlimited campaign spending rights *before* that pesky Franken amendment.
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Adobe subtly sends the message that the iPad is an inferior jerkin'-it device.
links for 2010-01-28
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Rather nifty performance art. Makes me want a lightbox and some sand. Contains an unintentionally funny moment near the end when the orchestra starts playing Nothing Else Matters.
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'Because when Republicans allowed one major piece of legislation to pass, it fucking worked. Holy shit, that's got to have scared the fuck out of Republicans: what if the Congress enacts the major initiatives of the President and they work, like the stimulus? What if health care reform actually reforms the health care system? What if climate change legislation actually creates jobs? What if they are wrong? It's better for nothing to happen and then claim credit for stopping a train wreck before the train left the station.'
' It wasn't bad, it wasn't good, and it wasn't new. It's essentially what he told us at the Democratic Convention and on election night. He attempted to not piss anyone off.'
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Perspective on Democratic presidents' bad first years.
links for 2010-01-26
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Fox News attention can make a young Republican mad with power.
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?uestlove breaks down how music licensing for a late night TV show works.
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Wow. This is really going to happen. RIP, Van Damme.
links for 2010-01-25
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'But I'll sound like shithead towards Westerns right now, because I think one of the big differences you get between a Chinese and a Western team is that the Western team, it's not holistic; you get a bunch of individuals. And the individuals have their own agendas, and they have their own ideas about what the game should be, and they're very prone to running off and trying to prove something on their own. The John Wayne way of getting something done.
And so for that type of a team, process is looked at like the enemy, right? People see process as a barrier to doing the John Wayne style of making games and owning something and just going off and doing it.'
According to McGee, devotion to process is what lets them escape crunches.
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'They said, "We want you to work with Michael Crichton on this thing." And I signed on to it and I almost immediately started telling EA, "You've got to kill this thing. You can't make this game; it's really bad."'
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How Nate Quarry got blatantly ripped off. His sponsor pretty much just flat out didn't pay. These things are fascinating to me.
'I was to be paid a flat fee for wearing the shirt and get a cut of profits from sales as well. Specifically sales to my biggest sponsor and close friends at Nuvasive. After 4 months of broken promises I've had enough and am telling the story. Mostly I'll just quote emails sent from Noel, the owner. This is a direct cut and paste from Noel.'