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are the google ads in the pbs new, or did I miss something?

regardless, they're um... yeah. no comment...

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electro suggestions

just checkin out some electro stuff. anyone have any suggestions on who to look for?

i kinda like ladytron and fischerspooner, but wouldn't mind some direction, I'm lost. =)

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rant

IE is the biggest pile of dogshit.

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Falling asleep at your desk

You know you do it.

I just did, until I fell off a big rock in my dream and twitched myself awake, much to the delight of a co-worker.

What do you do on those says when you can't manage to keep the eyes open? I'm about caffeinated out, so that's no good.

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speaking a fake language

Someone earlier was requesting audio samples of someone speaking in a gibberish language and it got me thinking... What does your native language sound like when spoken in gibberish?

I've heard people try to mimic Chinese, Spanish, Italian, etc.., but never English. I've always wondered what it would sound like if someone spoke gibberish English (especially if English was their second language).

I'm in no way trying to offend anyone or poke fun at any language in particular, just curious and kinda fascinated.

Here's an English speaker, speaking fake Chinese, Spanish, Italian, etc...

And some response videos speaking fake English:



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Microsoft PowerPoint

Why can't you just go fuck yourself? Nobody likes you.

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Blu-ray Players

Been looking at various reviews on the web, but curious if anyone out there has any suggestions on players?

Should I wait until the profile 2 players are out? Should I go with a standalone, or a PS3? What features do you think are critical?

Sorry for the barrage of questions and thanks :)

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Steve Austin...

...astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.

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I think Jacob Nielsen

is a cunt.

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proud dad

http://www.alien109.com/aidan.ht…

sorry. I'll only spam the board with my kid once... promise. =)

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Investment Advice

If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00. With Enron, you would have $16.50 left. With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left.

If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00.

Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

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What lights me up...

The love of my life:
http://www.alien109.com/aidan_fi…

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Adrenalin adventure ideas

So my bro is turning 40 soon and I want to plan something kick butt to do. My problem is that it can't be too expensive, require lots of travel or upfront training (due to time restraints) and it's gotta involve the risk of serious injury or death :)

Ideas I've already shot down...

1. skydiving - been there, done that.
2. racing school - too expensive
3. ride in a fighter jet - too expensive
4. bungee, zipline, etc. - after skydiving, these seem too tame.
5. zorbing - can't find places close and seems kinda boring.

Anyone got any ideas?

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Flash player 8

So, are drop shadows and bevels coming back?

Looks like some kick butt stuff. Rendering is fast, but how come I feel like the new effects are going to be way over used? =)

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Is it time to drop Netscape 4.x?

Just curious how many folks out there are no longer supporting netscape 4.x. in their sites. Statistically it's almost gone, but still is in use.

Anyone still have people reporting bugs to them from it? What do you tell them?

I'm developing interfaces for various web applications that call for some advanced features and can't avoid the breakage. For the most part is hasn't been a problem, I just need some facts and stuff to back up the decision for when a customer complains.

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Verdana VS Arial

I make no claims for typographic skills, but personally I hate Arial for aliased type on the web. I think it just plain looks like shit. WTF do people use it? I don't think Helvietica looks much better.

It's not that I'm a huge fan of Verdana's characters, but it is so much more readable. It was designed for small aliased display (no?)

I dunno. Opinions?

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Greasemonkey last post script

Wrote this for myself, 'cause I'm lazy, but figured I'd share since I ended up using it quite often. The script adds a "Last Post" button to the top pagination area when there is more than one page in a thread. Clicking the button will take you to the last page and auto scroll to the last post. The auto scroll is a bit dodgy sometimes.

http://www.alien109.com/junk/images/last_post.gif

http://userscripts.org/scripts/s…

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cmyk blacks

is it better to use a 100% K black or build one (100% K 30% C)?

It would be for copy and small area artwork printed on 130# smooth white cover.

It's been years since I've sent something to the printers and I'm paranoid I'm gonna fuck the job up...

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ugh...

Just got back from Mexico on Monday. Was sick with Montezuma's Revenge for a week while there. Got better for the last two days, and got it again before I left. Now I'm full on sick again.

WTF!

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Illustrator won't save eps

Trying to save an illustrator file as an illustrator eps. worked for a bunch of files, but one keeps giving me a "Can't save the illustration. There isn't enough memory." error.

The other files that saved fine were much larger and more complex, yet saved fine.

I've tried quitting, restarting (just incase there was some memory leak) I tried flattening and expanding all the artwork. I even tried creating a new document and pasting in the stuff... nothing works.

Anyone run into anything similair?

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