Quartz City

Peeking inside a Beverly Blvd. furniture store…

Hanging out in Los Angeles today and was completely surprised and pleased to see that my old haunt Silver Lake Coffee has free wi-fi net access. Really free too, no stupid limited proxy service or anything. Anyway, everyone should visit, drink coffee, buy a muffin and bathe in the 802.11b.

Silver Lake Coffee
2388 N. Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90039
(323) 913-0388
coffeeinfo@aol.com

Will posted some new tracks over on his web site. Check ‘em out, especially “Sky Blue Feeling”.

This clip totally made my evening and erases the shame of being a Tin Machine song. (warning, it’s Windows Media Player format)

OK, this is like the saddest thing ever (goes to hang head in shame)

“well, you’re dead, you just ain’t buried… yet“

quiz created by neondisease
Which David Bowie single are you?

MetaFilter links to a complete collection of Doc Savage pulp magazine covers. The abstract ones from 1947 and 1948 are particularly groovy.

The release of Safari is interpreting my style sheet here differently, so I’m tweaking around the settings. Expect chaos.

MacWhispers writes their dream scenario for WWDC keynote…

1. Steve comes out and immediately begins recapping… millions of iTunes downloads… new iPods have carried sales above 1 Million units… iLife, Switch, and retail have been huge successes in recruiting consumer buyers… but…

2. Things have been a little sluggish in the pro market, he admits… something, believe it or not, Apple is aware of, and has been working on… Let me show you a video…

3. Lights dim… familiar music theme starts… and, surprisingly, a very familiar TV commercial grows into motion on the gigantic screen: the Snail commercial from 1998!

4. Lights come up. Steve says, “You know, I really enjoyed those days, didn’t you? Well, after five years of struggle, I have some good news for all of you, today: Those days are back.”

5. Panther. The first fully 64-bit enabled consumer desktop operating system. Enjoy!

6. What good would a 64-bit operating system be without 64-bit hardware?

7. Introducing the new PPC 970 powered Power Mac G5 and Powerbook G5. Single processor versions available today from the Apple online store. Dual PowerMacs coming in July.

8. One ungodly lovefest/demo follows where Panther is run in all its screaming glory on a dual 2Ghz PPC 970 Power Mac G5… concluding with the biggest smiling Phil Schiller we’ve ever seen running the Photoshop bakeoff of all bakeoffs: the 2.0GHz Dually kicking the butt of a top of the line 3.2Ghz P4 Dell… by a factor of over 2 to 1… **scalding** the Pentium system… Then, just for giggles, Steve suggests that people might want to see the same test with the now available single processor Power Mac. So, Phil runs it again with the single processor G5 and, though it’s a lot closer than with the dually, that PowerMac wins the bakeoff as well, by a convincing margin of about 20%.

9. Steve says he has one more thing he wants to show before closing… the new Power Mac TV commercial. Down go the lights. Up comes the coolest remake of the Snail commercial you’ve ever imagined… “Our apologies to the Pentium 4… but, the Power Macintosh G5…”

Pretty much what my dream keynote would be. We’ll find out here in a couple hours.

Gulfstream points out this handy hack.

Turns out that the “E-Mail This Article” feature of NY Times stories works with articles older than a week (that you otherwise have to pay for). So, if you get a page which links to for-fee Times articles, run this nytimes emailer bookmarklet on the original page, then select the link again. (The bookmarklet converts links to pages to links to “Email This Article” pages, which you can then use to get the article sent to you.)

(Also, if you select the “Send abstract and link to full coverage” option, you might get a link that works forever.)

I’ve always maintained that what happened in the weeks and months after the Iraq invasion would be more important than what happened during the war. Ned points out a STRATFOR article on the ongoing occupation that raises the important questions not many folks are asking (though answers are readily and quickly handed out).