I'm getting pretty damned tired of Firefox for OS X, with it's constant freezing and hiccuping, and lack of integration with the Tiger shell. on top of that, the latest security update borked all of my plugins. thus, I'm starting a project that I'm dubbing the OS X Browser War. yeah, Macworld, MacAddict and countless other sites have done it, but not to this scale I think. so far, the browsers I've downloaded successfully are Firefox, Netscape, Camino, Shiira and Opera, and I'm working on getting Internet Explorer and Mozilla to go along with the inhouse fave Safari. over the next two weeks I'll get up close and personal with each browser, and present my findings.
this'll be some nerdy fun!
now playing on iTunes: Hootie 'She Crawls Away'
Labels: mac, site
on Valentines Day.
I'm sitting by myself, drinking.
is that bad?
now playing on iTunes/iPod: silence
Labels: drunk, personal
so yesterday, the Quest
reopened. you know what that means: the PMB show booked for the 25th at the Ascot is finally a sure thing. I was worried for a while there, because the Entry, Fineline, and 3 Degrees were all booked for that night, so there would be no place to move the show to if it did get shut out. so big sigh of relief there.
also finally saw 'Waiting...' tonight. pretty humorous. but why, in every comedy now, does there have to be some poor schmuck that reminds me of me? this fact was overshadowed by Ryan Reynolds, who is fast becoming one of my favorite actors. outside of Mandy Moore of course!
I turn 26 in like, a week and a half. and the countdown begins...
now playing on iTunes: Guster 'Homecoming King'
Labels: local, media, personal
I don't really have too much to say about
mICHELLE's profile, other than it's absolutely amazing. okay, first of all, she's 23. that's what she
says. I mean, she looks to be about 40. and she appears to be married to David Wells. second, where the useless 'extended network' badge is supposed to be? yeah, it's replaced by a big 'fuck you'. literally! then, to top it off, in her 'heroes' section, she has posted a gif of a pot leaf on a road sign. CLASSY.
now playing on iTunes: Chris Rice 'Smile'
Labels: web2.0
*graphic as in, I show you pictures and comment on them, not that I show you nasty shit ad wait for a reactionso, now that I'm finished with my painting project, here are a couple of things that have been in the back of my head this week:
1) Halliburton went to my website for some reason. here's the proof:
now what does this mean, exactly? I'm not exactly sure. but if the government or its contracted cronies in the private sector are sniffing around, that gives me some cause for worry. but then, if they're using IE6 on Windows, maybe I shouldn't worry quite so much.
2) Matt McConaughey movies are now so generic that they don't even bother using unique posters. cookie-cutter rocoms now apparently equal cookie-cutter posters. check out the callout posters for
'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days' (2003) and
'Failure to Launch' (2005) and tell me there aren't crazy similarities. just for added measure though, here they are, side by side:
so sad :( but hey, at least the 'Failure' poster team fixed all the random baseline problems in the '10 Days' poster.
3) stop redesigning your site, ESPN seriously. up there with Page3, 'Cold Pizza' and Stephen A. Smith, the biennial redesign of ESPN.com has got to be one of the worst ideas Disney has come up with. example: I loved the design they took on just after 2001, and grew very attached to it. here is a screenshot showing that wonderful design (Twins picture intentional):
see? simple yet bold, and effective, with minimal use of Flash graphics. FLAWLESS. but of course, like the late-90s SportsCenter, that means it wasn't destined to last. cue the pug-fugly, Flash-overloaded designs of 2004 and 2006, respectively:
big ups on them for using the Helvetica typeface in the latest incarnation. but guys,
please don't capitalize 'the' anymore. it makes my penis sad.
that's it for now. actual insight to come to the site over the weekend
now playing on iTunes: DMB '#41'
Labels: internet, media, personal, site
