A Pith Productions’ Oscar Pool 2004, virtually representing the opinion of the blogosphere.
Except, alas, it seems to be gone from my DNS at least, for pity’s sake. No pings, ‘unknown host.’ Hopefully you’ll have better luck than I. Anybody got an IP address for it?
(Here’s a web-based toolset, if you care.)
Andy Inahtko runs his picks and promises to blog the ceremony from the comfort of his couch.
Don’t forget the MPAA’s official site.
I’m off to make dinner.
So, by now we all know that the end of the world was barely averted recently when an asteroid just missed the planet.
Shortly thereafter, I found it peculiar to read a story whose central metaphor for the loss of a child is asteroidal impact and variations thereof.
The story was posted online February 23. The actual events took place in mid-Jaunary, and resulted in a conference on developing a procedure for alerting the authorities.
Therefore it’s possible, maybe even probable, that the story was selected in awareness of the conference and possibly the catalyst for the story’s publication date.
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!
Everybody is either stunned or entertained by Quiznos’ adoption of the spongmonkeys, it seems. The truly amazing thing to me is just what a well-kept secret Joel Veitch’s work apparently has remained these past couple years. Those of us fortunate enough to be exposed to the beloved earworm in its’ primary incarnation are unsurprised by the hubbub, though.
I’ll remind the reader that lyrics and chords are to be found, as well.
In the comments over at Dear God Damn Diary, where B2 is hosting a windows-media capture of the Quiznos ad, reasonable speculation has erupted over what dada-flash masterwork is destined to next burst forth upon the world.
The current frontrunner would appear to be, naturally enough, the works of j. picking in the form of either Weebl and Bob or (my pony in this race) Badgers.
It’s interesting, and I think probably not coincidental, that both weebl and spongmonkey are (in my mind anyway) associated with the hugely entertaining b3ta.
Any others out there? I’m sure by now if I had resurrected the Ken Goldstein Project I’d have a shot. I do have a brief clip of Ken singing the Hampsterdance song over the phone. It does leads one’s mind in a certain direction…
Irregular Orbit: Narthex – A Small Story From the Days of Punk [via Boing Boing – Mark’s been active lately and it’s a good thing].
“Here is our amazingly obscure story, because all of these little stories added up to a remarkable era — everyone who participated should be telling their own first-hand stories.”
Amen to that.
Here are a couple of mine: the Tussin Up archive and Modock, both posted quite a while ago. Must reactivate guestbooks!
The Modock website includes Mp3s and video. The Tussin Up site presents browsable scans of every page of every issue of the late Steve Millen‘s amazing ‘zine.
Other archival audio including a live set by the Walking Ruins may be found here. Eric White’s Walking Ruins video archive is here.
A pointer post to yesterday’s USB printing plea, now resolved.
If your USB-shared HP printer is misbehaving under Mac OS X by not providing all options to all clients on the network, make sure the drivers on all the machines are the same version.
1. Download the updated printer drivers from HP.
2. Install the drivers on all the machines in the network, servers and clients, to ensure the same version is deployed. HP notes that differing versions of drivers can cause problems in printing in networked environments.
3. On each machine, delete and re-add the printer in Print Center to be certain that the installation process zapped old prefs and settings.
Kudos to Manuel for prompting me to think this through systematically, leading to my decision to read the readme. D’oh.
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!
OK, you non-Mac users, move along. Nothing to see here. You remaining ten folks, limber up your noggins, ‘cuz I’m asking for some help.
Without going into brain-stunning detail, I have a small home network. On my primary server unit, an inkjet printer, the HP 970Cxi, is configured to be available to the network via OS X’s USB printer sharing. It works well for all machines.
However, the HP offers a cool feature that I use when printing locally by default, two-sided printing. On only one of the networked machines does this option appear when printing to the remote queue.
On my main desktop machine, the option is not available in the remote dialogs, but if I plug the printer directly into that machine, the option becomes available.
My main machine is using 10.3.x, the server is under 10.2.x (8, I think), and the other machines that use the service are also under 10.2.x.
I’m digging around at Apple, and my instinct tells me that for some reason, the desktop machine is using two different printer drivers when it should be using the same one for both instances.
Any experience, insight, or opinions out there?
UPDATE: Goodness! MacSurfer linked to this in their headlines. So… Let me add some info resources.
I did find a thread on the Apple Discussions website, not about the disappearing two-sided printer option under USB printer sharing specifically, but about the disappearing option under HP printer drivers. I was unable to use the thread to develop a resolution, however.
Regrettably, Apple deletes old discussion threads after an unreasonably short period – three months – so the utility of the link and the data there is quite llimited.
The gist of the thread is to install the updated HP drivers, and to always work through the ‘Page Format…” dialog when printing. However, not everyone finds that the update respects the two-sided option.
I did install the updated driver, and it did not provide the two-sided option when revising the settings for the remote printer.
UPDATE II: A comment from Manuel led to some thinking, and a patient readthrough of the HP driver readme led to the resolution. HP mentions that version differences between drivers could cause unexpected printer results. So I gingerly installed the updated drivers on the server, and voila, I have access to the 2-sided printing and ink-throttling features again. Thanks, Manny, and thanks Internet!
Your local public library carries a wide selection of videos, DVDs, and audio CDs.
In this excellent Metafilter post, Quartermass reports that Smile!, the legendary lost Beach Boys album intended to challenge the Beatles for the world-studio-wizard championship, will finally be released, and that in support of this event, Brian Wilson performed the entire album live last Friday.
This is very, very cool.