Random Blog of the Week #8
With all the craziness of the 500th post and endless celebration that followed that involved not one, but two hookers some coke and a strange visit from Pat O’Brien, I completely forgot about the “Random Blog Of The Week”. For that, I apologize.
This week’s belated Random Blog of the Week is…I Hate Horses
This guy really hates horses. Thats pretty much all you need to know. Here’s a sample:
Look, this is a website about horses and how much we hate them. They are gross and stupid and disgusting and smell like shit. There are flies all over them and they make dumb noises. HORSES ARE TERRIBLE!!!
I am shaking right now because I hate horses so much. I hate them the way that fat people hate diets, the way that lazy people hate work, the way that Jewish people hate Hitler, the way black people hate white people. I REALLY HATE THEM!!
AHHHHHHHHHH!
If you’re reading this and you don’t hate horses, you better get the fuck out of here! This website is not for you!!! Only retards and poor people love horses. SHUT UP!
I’m going to go break some horse’s leg, then shoot it to put it out of its – and my – misery!!!
A Note-Taking Extension for Thunderbird Found (kinda)
A while back I bitched about wanting a Thunderbird extension that would let me take notes on individual emails so that I could track what work I did related to the email requests I get in my inbox.
Well, some guy named Frank DiLecce must be an avid reader of hyb.com because 2 weeks later there’s “Message Notes”. It adds a panel to the bottom of Thunderbird with ‘Add Note’ and ‘Edit Note’ buttons. Click ‘Add Note’ and a javascriptish one-line text entry box appears and you type your notes. It saves your note in a textfile in your profile folder – it all works pretty well.
“Message Notes” is currently in pre-pre-alpha so usability and extended functionality is understandablly limited. You can resize the note panel, but not move it away from the bottom of the screen (Hey Frank: lemme put the panel on the left or right side of the message body window – thx). The hide / show notes button in the header field is nice – good job thinking of that one.
Frank must be a faithful reader to get on my request so quick and I imagine he’s working hard to get that next version out on the interweb. thanks frank!
The 501st Post
I just realized that Hell Yeah Bitch! .com has just reached 500 posts (This being the 501st.) What does this mean? Nothing I guess. It does mean that somehow this website has managed to capture my attention for over 2 years and now 500 posts. It means even less when you think that this is just the beginning. In recent months the growth of the readership and external links and comments have never been higher. Hell, its not even just me working on this anymore. The addition of Dan to the the crew has helped me focus on other things than “Oh crap I have to think of something to write about today.” I’m trying to plan other things and projects that will give Hell Yeah Bitch! .com some more exclusive content and make this site get even more traffic and attention.
So 500 posts really doesn’t mean that much in the big picture. Hopefully soon we’ll see 1000 and 2000 numbered posts come and go.
…sweet jesus, I just hope I’ve gotten a project or idea off the ground and to the web by then.
Crazy gallery of album covers mildly entertains
As I was flipping through Boing Boing just now I saw this article which covers many creepy and unintentionally funny christian songs about how horrible abortion is and so forth. After the pain of me knowing about the Lil’ Markie song for a few days now and not writing up a peice about it or submitting it to BoingBoing subsided , I read further and saw a link to a crazy gallery full of album covers…along with, of course, more crazy-ass evangelical christian music.
The music is worth a listen once so you can proudly say “I never want to hear that f*ucked up song again.”, and the gallery of cover art is a fun thing to flip through until you hear your boss coming up behind you.
Links:
Lil Markie song
Cover art gallery
Little Marcy (more crazy music)
MSN bans firefox right clicking
Surprise, surprise! Microsoft is acting like a big pussy again today. This time they are crying about Firefox use on their crappy web portal MSN.com (no link, on purpose). If after a long night of sniffing glue in your basement, you decide to visit MSN.com with firefox and you would like to read one of their insightful articles about how Jessica Alba’s hair is a different color in a different tab when you right-click on the link it won’t bring up the right-click menu, it will just send you to that article in your main browser window. To sum up: Microsoft put a javascript function that blocks right-clicking on their page in firefox. If you wish to right-click on anything on MSN.com, you need to go fire up Internet Explorer or, oddly enough, Safari.
Well this can just not stand. So if you are sniffing glue again tonight and will probably be visiting MSN.com later with firefox, then go install adblock and set it to block this javascript on MSN: http://hp.msn.com/scr/home/msnmoz1021.js
Thanks to Phillip Torrone over at the Make Blog for not only finding this problem, but also providing a fix; Leaving me to do very little work.
A movie production suite on the cheap
The crew over at the site MEMAP.ORG were inspired by a recent MacMerc article about home, cheap, movie studios and decided to improve it. What they came up with was a nice list of cheap (read: free) software that can do amazing things.
Cinepaint, Blender, and Jahshska are all amazing free programs that one could use to turn a “home office” into a “home-office / movie post-production house”.
Of course, when they mention its all free to set this up, they are factoring out the cost of a high-end PC or Mac to get all this going smoothly to begin with, not to mention tons of HD space, oh and don’t forget the camera!…but other than that its free.
iTunes meets Podcasting
Apple has finally unveiled their latest update to iTunes. iTunes 4.9‘ only real new feature is its integrated support for podcasts (Don’t know what podcasting is? Click on the last link and Apple will be glad to tell you.)
I’ve already downloaded the new iTunes on my work PC and its not bad. Podcasts are directly integrated into iTunes just as you would think Apple would do it: Very smoothly. But the question is does anyone care? For those that are very serious podcast listners, and there are plenty of them out there, iTunes’ upgrade might not be enough power and have enough features for them. For me? I really only listen to the occasional podcast so this is great. Being able to deal with all of that in one application is what I was looking for. We’ll have to wait and see if Apple tries to make this into more of a business model that just the current model which is just making you pass through their store to get to the ‘casts.
Hollywood wins Internet piracy battle
This sucks.
“One who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright … is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties using the device, regardless of the device’s lawful uses,” Justice David Souter wrote in the ruling.
What will come of this ruling. Will Tivo get sued if someone hacks it to pull the TV show off and put in on the internet? Will BitTorrent be sued? This could be the start of a lot of crappiness.
Discuss.
Link: CNN | Hollywood wins Internet piracy battle
Blogging Gnomedex
Now that I have been linked to Chris Pirillo for the forseeable future because I coined the term “The Pirillo Effect” I thought it would be great if I could go to Gnomedex. I can’t though, it turns out you need money and time. I sadly, at the moment, have neither. So whats a guy like me to do? I’ll read blogginggnomedex.com thats what!
To be honest, its a little boring right now. But maybe it will get better once the conference starts.