February 2008
59 posts
GCALDaemon - Sync Google Calendar with Apple iCal →
Until the GUI’d SpinningSync comes out, this looks to be the only option for two-way syncing between iCal and Google Calendar. A pity it’s so fiddly; creating appts and contacts in Mail.app is now so easy that I want to use iCal again, but GC on the go.
Virtual Drum Machines at Audio Playground →
A page full of Flash recreations of obscure vintage drum machines, often in startlingly lurid colour schemes.
Obsolete Skills →
List of skills that are no longer necessary to the modern-day human.
Unyverse →
“Medical checkup have early detection enable. Please take the medical checkup...”
– Very po-faced guidance from a clinic in Chuo-ku where I need to go and have early detection enable next week.
Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab →
Do not access if you have work to do. Flash game that allows you to design and fly planes made of paper, metal, styrofoam, etc. through a stunt course. Highly addictive.
Thought-controlled games by Christmas →
This is the future; here is your jetpack.
iPod robots controllable via Bluetooth cellphone →
VIRUS | TI SNOW →
Another temptation in the compact synth module arena, the Access Virus TI Snow. Have been wanting to try one of the family for a while because they show up as VST plugins in your DAW software.
Beelzebufo, the prehistoric, dino-kid-scoffing... →
Fascinating, and “Beelzebufo” is a tremendous name. The article’s appeal, unusually, is undiminished for the fact that I originally misread “prehistoric” in its title as “prosthetic”.
I·lusió » BeatPhone →
Feed fart
Sorry, I appear to have had an imported feed scramble on me (specifically, I ended up pulling in the Last.fm tracks of a Skid Row fan…shudder), resulting in about 40 posts with an even lower informational content than is the norm around here. Normal service now resumes.
“A Japanese cafe operator has sued a publisher after it got the lowest mark in a...”
– AFP: Japanese cafe chain sues over low guide rating: firm
Waldorf Blofeld →
Compact, inexpensive synth with, unusually, a decent screen rather than a two-line squinter.
The Continental Companion Cables →
Worldwide adapter cables for Apple charger blocks.
Olds want more grandkid exposure, bureaucratic... →
I heard this first on the radio last night and was baffled. The Emperor is bemoaning the fact that he and the Empress haven’t had much chance to see their granddaughter Aiko, and despite promises by the Crown Prince to the effect that he would try and bring her over more often, that apparently hasn’t happened. This has prompted a formal statement by the head of the Imperial Household...
Pipes Mashup Turns Google Maps into a Blogging... →
Killer Mashup Plots Your Schedule on a Google Map... →
Foreign-national school kids exempted from... →
Curious article in the Asahi Shimbun this morning about an exemption to be granted to high-school students who are foreign nationals from having their fingerprints/photos collected when they re-enter Japan — but only if they’re returning from a school trip overseas. The rationale apparently is that they may not have told their classmates that they’re not Japanese, and...
Logic and reason
My copy of Logic Studio just arrived, and while I haven’t installed it yet, I will say two things about it. One, heaviest damn piece of software ever. The box is big enough for my cat to sit in (regrettably, I can’t get him to stay still long enough for a photo) and contains two manuals that in size are Remembrance of Things Past with a side order of something long by Norman Mailer....
moderncat.com →
At last - a site selling cat accessories that won’t clash with your modern interior.
Bureau of Communication | Uncrate →
WatchVia Best Free Documentaries: someone has had the great goodness to put the whole of BBC documentary I, Samurai up on Google Video. My old mucker Patrick Dickinson, who directed it, is delighted at the publicity and I’m therefore happy to in turn give it a plug.
POWERSTICK :: fueled by Ecosol →
Mike Davidson - A Rookie Guide to Digital SLR... →
PlaceShout →
RedEnvelope - deluxe valet →
Filling in a lot of complex paperwork for a new job
MacBook Air
Until about ten minutes ago I had a MacBook Air on order. Two things made me cancel: one, I have a business trip that the ship date isn’t going to catch, and two, I can’t help thinking how much better value a MacBook Pro is for the minor extra outlay. Sure, the extra weight of the Pro will mean a certain amount of pain when I do need to schlep it around, but I’m not much of a...
WatchText-o-possum / Your Psycho Girlfriend - Boing Boing TV
WatchOsaka Police Use 2,240 Officers & 460 Patrol Cars to Catch One Car : Japan Probe
Watching The Golden Compass and pitying the guy who has to direct the second one and make everything make sense
“Nukaga: Yes, Sir. (pulling himself together) I see. So this week we think...”
– Urban Dirt - Times Online - WBLG: T’was the night before G7 and all through the house…
