October 2008
50 posts
3 tags
Manchasm by Future of the Left, playing Friday...
3 tags
Lōc’ed After Dark by Tone Lōc
4 tags
OK, looks like I got a little excited when I posted about the new album from Regurgitator’s Quan Yeomans. Apparently this has been out for weeks.
Guess I’m out of touch.
1 tag
MTV Music →
Music videos on demand.
1 tag
5 tags
Dogs' Future in the Hands of State Parliament →
Probably a little melodramatic, but still worrying for Dogs supporters.
Depending on who you asked yesterday the Western Bulldogs were facing extinction, or maybe just adding a little political grandstand to the facilities at the redeveloped Whitten Oval.
Victoria’s Parliament will today vote on a motion from Greens member Colleen Hartland to overturn the State Government’s...
4 tags
Quan of Regurgitator to Drop Solo Album "The...
Just happened to log into MySpace for the first time since forever last night to see this tidbit:
Quan is a short extract from a love letter, an Amateur (from the latin ‘Amator’-‘Lover’, from Amare ‘to love’) ineptly following the natural course of things since forever.
Apparently a photon that begins it’s life in the centre of the sun spends...
2 tags
Ten's 24-Hour Sports Channel in April '09 →
Ooops, looks like I mucked this one up a little. Ten’s all-sports channel is to debut in April, not November.
1 tag
The Grammar of Fun (The New Yorker) →
Profile of Cliff Bleszinski, design director at Epic Games. Some quotes:
Ten feet away was a red Hummer H3. Nearby was a Lotus Elise, and next to it a pumpkin-orange Porsche. Many of the cars had personalized plates: “PS3CODER” (a reference to Sony’s PlayStation3), “EPICBOY,” “GRSOFWAR.”
⋮
Bleszinski drove into Epic’s parking lot in a red Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, the top down...
4 tags
KAMIKAZE 108 (酉年mix) by Teriyaki Boyz.
2 tags
Channel Ten to Launch 24-Hour Sports Channel →
Apparently Channel Ten have been buying up the rights to sporting events in Monaco last week in order to fill a free-to-air 24-hour sports channel, to be launched next month in April next year.
In recent times, they’ve acquired the rights to the IPL (Twenty20 cricket), swimming, the NFL (U.S. football), MLB (U.S. baseball) and the NBA (U.S. basketball). Added to their existing rights to...
3 tags
Converting a color to grayscale →
I’ve looked for this formula, on average, once a year for the past five or so years. It’s useful for determining what colour text to display over a colour: if y > 0.5, display white; otherwise, display black.
Hopefully by posting it here, I’ll be able to find it a bit easier next time.
// y = luminance
// r, g and b = the red, green and blue components of
// a colour
y =...
1 tag
Internet Filtering
Family First Senator Steve Fielding wants hardcore pornography and fetish material blocked under the Government’s plans to filter the internet, sparking renewed fears the censorship could be expanded well beyond “illegal material”.
Net filters may block porn and gambling sites (The Age)
I was going to go on a rant about internet filters, which aren’t only offensive...
2 tags
Kangaroo Meat
Turns out it’s not farmed, but hunted.
Markets for meat and skins are limited and are adequately supplied from the existing rangeland harvest (i.e. kangaroo hunting). Farmed kangaroos could not compete successfully in these circumstances because of high costs associated with establishing and operating a kangaroo farming enterprise.
The feasibility of farming kangaroos by NC Shepherd
...
1 tag
1 tag
Ideas? →
From Paul Graham, one of the partners in venture capital firm Y Combinator:
If we’ve learned one thing from funding so many startups, it’s that they succeed or fail based on the qualities of the founders.
Now I’m not going to claim I know more about what makes a company successful or not than this guy, but surely ideas have more than a little impact on the success or...
4 tags
Twitter Buzz Widget →
Sick! I’m a published author … kinda.
3 tags
htmlspecialchars in JavaScript
Simple function for HTML-encoding characters (i.e. transforming characters such as <, > and & into HTML entities):
function htmlspecialchars(s)
{
var temp = document.createElement('div');
temp.appendChild(document.createTextNode(s));
return temp.innerHTML;
}
Inspired by the PHP function of the same name.
2 tags
“Look Who’s Toxic start well with a flurry of fast and frantic songs about...”
– Inpress review of Spod’s Superfrienz CD Launch
1 tag
3 tags
Deception by Blackalicious. People need to respect...
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
“A supporter of Republican presidential candidate John McCain and running mate...”
– You called our daughter what? (Brisbane Times)
2 tags
Just 4.13% of Web’s Code is Valid →
I’m surprised it’s that high.
1 tag
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia →
Fear of the number 666.
2 tags
Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And... →
The Onion gets all Nostradamus on us (via Kev on Twitter).
3 tags
“Socceroos World Cup qualifying matches will return to free-to-air television in...”
– Socceroos games to return to free-to-air TV (The Age)
4 tags
Richmond to seal deal with United sponsor →
The gist:
RICHMOND is poised to share the same jumper sponsor as the world’s biggest sporting club, Manchester United.
The Tigers are set to announce a lucrative deal with global insurance and financial services giant AIG (American International Group).
⋮
The arrangement was struck despite AIG being hit by the credit squeeze, requiring an $85 million bailout by the US...
2 tags
3 tags
3 tags
While My Qatar Gently Weeps →
Four-Nil? Fuck yeah. Shame it wasn’t on free-to-air. Already got June 17 next year pencilled in to my diary.
Headline stolen from The Four Diegos on SEN.
Register as an Organ Donor. →
Do it.
2 tags
“The terms that comprise the axis of bulldust are mission statement, core values...”
– Sorry, mate, you just don’t synergise with our core values (Catherine Deveny, The Age)
3 tags
4 tags
Results of AFL Trade Week →
Disappointed the Dogs couldn’t get a deal done for a power forward, but glad we got a decent pick for Farren Ray.
2 tags
“There are few women in the ranks of computer programmers, and pitifully few that...”
– Famous Programmers From Adleman to Zimmermann
2 tags
4 tags
3 tags
Newstopia Season 3 →
It’s back! New episodes are shown at 10:05 each Wednesday on SBS, then available for streaming from the web site.
2 tags
Grandstand: Aussie bowlers tamed in Hyderabad →
Australia’s bowling attack struggled to make any impression against the BCCI President’s XI on the opening day of their four-day tour match in Hyderabad on Thursday.
⋮
Tasmanian off spinner Jason Krejza, set to make his Test debut next week, was taken to the cleaners during his 20 overs, having returned the figures of 0 for 123.
Krejza’s performance is a...
2 tags
2 tags
As Credit Crisis Spiraled, Alarm Led to Action →
Looks like a good description of what’s going on in the US at the moment.
As my old man will attest, I’ve got little idea when it comes to the machinations of anything to do with money (other than knowing it can be used to buy beer, food and accommodation), but things like this always remind me of a time I spoke with a financial adviser at one of these new-fangled ethical investment...
2 tags
We’re Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister
2 tags
“In a stunning reversal of their long-stated reluctance to take it, members of...”
– Members Of Twisted Sister Now Willing To Take It (The Onion)
September 2008
4 posts
1 tag
Band Bios
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me…
Tribal beats and subtle beautiful melodies weave amongst contorting Technicolor drone-scapes while preaching distorted-vocals scream for dear hope herself… Fuck Buttons straddle you between the wall of sound that lies between the beginning of destruction and the end of birth. This grand noise will fondle you into a state of immersed euphoria.
...