iLife ’04 won’t allow one to install from CD to a machine that has a max rez of 800 x 600, such as an older iBook.

Install iPhoto 4 on an Unsupported Mac may provide information on how to get around this. I’m not familiar with Blogintosh, so I can’t make a contextual judgement about the site’s usual quality of information. I will follow up, though; the site sure looks inviting.

UPDATE: Everything went smoothly, and iPhoto had no difficulty launching and loading a large library of shared photos via Rendezvous.

John Kenn is the maintainer of the web site I was casting about for the other day.

Apple Discussions on iSight and iChat AV are my next big pile of research to wade through.

dung.swf is some sort of flash-based animated video starring what appear to be fly or tapeworm larva singing a song, apparently in praise of poop.

There are plentiful kanji Korean (?) titles. At times the chorines don poop-hats.

It’s not grotesque in a not-safe-for-work way. In fact, it’s practically kawaii. You may wish to be at a midpoint between meals, however.

Poupou would like a translation.

I had a couple of beers with a new friend and promised to dig up some links on the Dick Tracy watches recently developed by Microsoft. I’m particularly looking for a specific blog that I thought had trackbacked me on something. Thus far, I think my recollection was flawed.

Spotlight on SPOT is a dedicated blog that I bet he’s familiar with.

I think the site I was looking for is here. Paul Robichaux wrote about his SPOT watch here, here, and here.

I also mentioned the band Midnight Thunder Express, but today Karel let me know that they broke up, I guess. It was still a great show.

I myself have also been rooting around in search of certain other sites I know I’ve seen before on several topics. I have a good handle on iSight and iChat stuff, but I know I saw an excellent overview site when I was first researching it. I have no idea what it was called and naturally, I neglected to bookmark it.

The other topic I’m chasing (again) is iDVD theme construction, which is woefully underdocumented. Michael Braly linked to some tutorials back in April, 2003, but the links presented there, as I recall, provided instruction more on how to hack existing themes than on crafting them from scratch. Ah well, time’s up for today.

sheep at b3ta proffers an amazing thing.

Sheep Films is the creator’s site.

The image may appear to be broken at first.

Hm… look at the other anims on his member site! Fantastic!

Everything Burns points out that you might prefer to avoid microwaving your New Twenties.

Or perhaps you’d prefer to nuke them. At any rate, tin foil should probably have a place in your wallet next time you need to fly.

Albert Ayler: His Life and Music, by Jeff Schwartz.

This book is my attempt, as of 1992, to assemble the information available on the life of Albert Ayler. Since then, I have added a few things and attempted to correct errors. There have not been major updates. For example, relevant material from recent books on Paul Bley, Sun Ra, Perry Robinson, and Bill Dixon, has not been worked in.

Also, here is a discography.

I just got a note from Ross William Rader of Tucows noting that Tucows has bought Blogrolling from Jason DiFillippo, as many of you did as well.

BlogRolling – News has a note from Jason about the sale. Congrats!

The Stranger is running a thing on the PNW comics scene by me.

I’ll run my notes here later, probably next week. I spent part of a day on the phone talking to more or less everyone quoted in the article and transcribed a lot of what they had to say, which will be the body of what I run here, about 5,000 words.

The spot illo is by Dave Lasky, the sacred chief of Seattle comics today, if there was a secret society or something.

Hope you like the piece – it was a good old-fashioned rush job, and I tried to make it thoughtful. Let me know what you think!

How Catapults Married Sciences With Politics [NYT] reminds me of the card model trebuchet (instructions here).

“Hurl a grape 30 feet.”

It’s one of Fryer’s Kits which includes a lovely, complex clock.