This is an amazing find! Stuff from the Park has posted a complete scan of a Disneyland Maintenance Department handbook from 1969. Since all of the images are on a single page, it’s not really suggested for the masochistic folks still on dial-up — but if you’ve got broadband and you’re as much of a Disney fan as I am, it’s totally worth a look.
Screw getting a Sonic Youth ringtone — I’ve totally got one that’s way more awesome than any two dollar song clip could ever hope to be…
So I’m letting the much buzzed Tangerine scan thru my Powerbook’s iTunes library (Don’t judge the Beyonce or Timberlake, okay?) so I can see how well it works at automagically building playlists based on BPM and beat intensity. From what I’ve read about it so far, it sounds promising — but we’ll see how well it works once I’ve had the chance to road test it by loading up the Shuffle for my evening walks.
The BarCamp wiki is great for coordinating planning and all, but I’ve got a theory that we can spread the word on BarCamp LA related events (monthly dinners, future BarCamps, etc.) better with a proper weblog. Check it out if you’ve got a second!
P.S. If you’re free the weekend of November 11th & 12th, swing on by the Little Radio Warehouse. The price (free) is right if nothing else… ;)
So I’ve been using the Firefox 2.0 betas (as well as the release candidates) for the past couple months as my primary browser at work and I have to say that I’ve really come to like it quite a bit. So much so that I’m actually considering getting rid of my beloved pimped out version of Safari.
Since I spend a lot of time in a browser, switching over can be a pretty monumental task — but at this point the built in spell-check and crash recovery as well as all the freaking extensions out there are really starting to make the hassle worth it.
Then again, I loved Flock too — but a built-in weblog editor and Flickr client, while quite novel, still weren’t enough to get me to switch. *shrug* Get back to me in a couple months and we’ll see where I stand, I guess…
While Songbird is straight up crashtastic on both my Dual G5 at work and my Powerbook at home, it really shows a lot of promise as far as media players go. Do yourself a favor and check out the screencast if you have a few minutes.
I’m looking forward to seeing this mature and not be so crashy. Hopefully that day will come sooner rather than later…
Leonard just tipped me off to a couple of really awesome new features on Upcoming:
Great work guys! I hope I didn’t steal anyone’s thunder by posting this here tho…
Realizing that I really don’t give that much of a shit about what Lindsay Lohan/Jeremy Piven/Paris Hilton/Andy Dick is up to now, I’ve dropped my old guilty pleasure Defamer from my feed reader and replaced it with Gawker’s new music blog Idolator.
After reading their manifesto it seems like a pretty fair trade to me.
Hey there all you crazy Bay Area kids!
My work is looking for a programmer for our fledgling satellite office up North. So if you’ve got what we’re looking for, you should totally go apply.