Doh! The kitten thing was just a joke!
Next they will be telling us there is no real science behind the new viewing procedures at YouTube!!
April 1st
Interweb
The Revolution Run Around – Guess the number
I have been messing around with the Revolution software which is generally pretty neat but occasionally deeply frustrating – which is not necessarily a bad thing. It is based on Apple’s old [W:Hypercard] so I had some inkling of how it would/should work but the documentation (as is often the way with such things) can leave you wandering around in a circle, so close and yet so far, but the support forums are very, erm, supportive so I did manage to put together (and finish!) a (very) simple guess the number game to see how it all fits together.
The Revolution software does generate versions of your creations for some other non-Mac computers but I do not know if they actually work (the alternate versions not the other computers 😉 )
Download the Linux version or the Mac OS X Version or the Windows version.
Perhaps I need a separate page to document my explorations…
Waits to Buckley via Groucho
Barry recently posted about the publication of the book about [W:Tom Waits] that he and Sharleena – these are not their real names 😉 had illustrated. This inspired me to see what Spotify had to offer in the Tom Waits section. Quite a lot apparently. There was a suitably eclectic selection featured in the Tom Waits’ Jukebox including a track from the [W:Lord Buckley] album A Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat which Frank Zappa released on his [W:Straight Records] label. Thanks to the wonder of the Interweb we can enjoy Lord Buckley and [W:Groucho Marx] sparring together. Splendid.
Safari 4
The new Safari 4 beta refused to launch for me. Plug-ins are the usual suspects with browser failures. I was using the wonderfully useful Glims and a quick search of the Interweb revealed a couple of lines to paste into the Terminal….
sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Glims/
sudo rm -rf /Library/InputManagers/Glims/
A quick Restart and Safari 4 is working – this very post is coming from it 🙂
If you need to get back to version 3 there is an Uninstaller on the Safari 4 [W:.dmg] which will put you back to where you were.
Glims Updated: 25th Feb
A new version of Glims is now available.
Not that we didn’t know something was cooking at Apple but we didn’t expect it to be released so fast. We apologize for any problems we may have caused and hope you keep enjoying our plugin.
Indeed we shall.
Spinning around in the Spotify catalogue
Whilst enjoying the wonderfulness that is Spotify one can come across the occasional cataloguing anomaly. Clicking on an artist’s name offers a brief biography and a list of Similar Artists. Normally this is a great way to explore but….
Clicking the minimalist composer [W:Steve Reich] gives you the New Orleans jazz band leader [W:George Lewis (clarinetist)] as a Similar Artist. Perhaps I am missing something but I do not really see the connection. That George Lewis should not be confused with this [W:George Lewis (trombonist)] who can be found on the Nine To Get Ready album but clicking his name linked with the album takes you back to the other George Lewis :-\
The Leaves were a 1960’s band who recorded “Hey Joe”
which [W:Frank Zappa] parodied in Flower Punk and [W:Jimi Hendrix] later reworked.
Spotify has the right biography….
But the wrong [W:Leaves (Icelandic band)] music. Or vice versa.
:-\
The Spotify blog keeps you well informed and a recent listing of new additions (yes I am the kind of person who scrolls through them all 😉 ) included the [W:Sun Ra] Second Star To The Right album (a favourite of mine). Searching Sun Ra fails to find it. But searching for the album’s title does find it. Apparently it is by Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra which is obviously why searching for Sun Ra fails to find it :-\