#7: I can see where you're going. How about IPv4 to IPv6 switch then?

#73: Dreamweaver :D

#49: Precisely. IMO designers (web interface designers, to nitpick) should be privy to secret coder talk as well as know the reasonable limits of the technology.

Requirements for the job: Able to write a static XHTML page with proper PHP calls for CMS functions (build templates in other words), style it using CSS, validating both, bullet-proofing your baby against MS browsers. While dodging any idiocies the go-betweens (ad agencies, normally) throw your way.

"Make it blink, it'll drawn attention". Somedays you just need an afternoon drink after breaking the rules above because the client has an Insight.

#52: Simple, standard HTML is just what you want. Nothing more. The rest is handled by CSS, Ajax, whatnot.

Fortunately, today the semantic structure and content are pretty much separated from presentation. So whatever you client wants, your CMS can spit out standard (strict, if possible) XHTML and you know how to style it to specs. If you can't, you lost the job, if it's stupid or impossible, you tell the client so.

#4: Rushkoff, delightfully modern in realistic colour representation and a constructivistic layout to intrigue a young mind.

What do you mean retro? It's not backwards, that would be silly.

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3543627/Look_around_you_-_series_1

#37: uh, the guys breaking the ground at, you said it, Assembly.

#23: word.

(not the product but, u know, the expression)

WYWIWYG: What you want is what you get.

Except flash.

#10: Kyle, I meant to say I use Dreamweaver as my source editor - I've sort of forgotten there even is a WYSIWYG interface in DW.

Sketchpad, markers, post-its and coffee, that's where I work out the roughs. After a while you start slicing TV graphics and roadside billboards into DIVs and spans unconsciously.

#1: What do you mean "still doing that" ? I always thought WYSIWYG editors were a late-90s thing.

Hand-coding, abolutely. In Dreamweaver. With all kinds of AJAX trickery, PHP, Flash, whatever the WYSIWYG view is pretty useles anyhow.

Edit, ctrl-shift-U, alt-tab to 'fox, F5, ctrl-tab to IETab, F5, sigh, alt-tab, repeat.

"you must be signed in..." screw that.

You can get off on clone stamps and liquify tools without the babes anyway.

(#17) Avram, I was about to but you beat me to it. I've had DJ friends play tracks from CB OST to a full house of jazz afficionados, with very good results.

Student: "Master, tell me, what am I?"

Master: "Now, what would you do with an I?"

If you can't tell where the money comes in, its an april fools (on Apr 01) or a scam (other days).

#2: YMMV, I thought it was mostly painful then. Now I don't have the heart to watch.

At least on Vienna airport their metal detectors are adjusted to their most sensitive setting: A single titanium barbell was enough to set the damn thing off... making it whole process completely pointless (aside from its obvious authority-reinforcing purpose, of course).

What'd be the point of bashing emos anyhow? Personally I find emo kids extremely entertaining. The more they whine the harder I has lulz.

... I must say the rags are cool though.

Mr. Twig has kept me happy for the past decade, so I don't expect any low-res (and AFAIK region-blocked) stream to make up for it. 30 min after an episode airs there are 2k+ seeds, so I'm content to wait for 35 min longer than US audience.

#12: Second that - except my workmates learned every time they hear me giggling they sigh "just some geeky joke from BB we're not going to get so let's not bother this guy" :D

"Oh gnomes now eh?! It's all in me hedd, I say, it's all in me hedd!"

#13, #18: Been done, apparently. Alas, the video was not to be found on the interweb.

"Recently an examination of the shattering of Prince Rupert's Drops by the use of extremely high speed video (or so called "stop motion" techniques) [1] done by Dr. Srinivasan Chandrasekar at Purdue University has revealed that the "crack front" which is initiated at the tail end, propagates in a disintegrating drop within the tensile zone towards the drop's head at a very high velocity (~ 1450-1900 m/s, or up to ~4,200 miles per hour)."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert%27s_Drops)

Afficionados of recycled military fabrics might want to take a peek at:

http://www.globehope.com/

MilSpec sleeping bags turned into parkas, webbing into handbags, et cetera. Handmade designer stuff, not cheap but at least you'll never run into somebody wearing the same outfit! (disclaimer: my client's site)

A few years back I was discussing the most effective method of bombing my local shopping paradise (my solution: Claymores strung in ceiling struts) over a beer at a student bar. No, this wasn't a serious discussion, rather going through all kinds of evil scenarios just for the hell of it.

An hour later 7 people died in an explosion at a Helsinki mall (a homemade claymore went off in a crowd - probably by accident).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myyrmanni_bombing

Several people overheard our discussion. Had this happened in the US, I'd rather not imagine the consequences.

#31 > The USA used to be so cool, the land of the free and all that.

... somehow I think very little has changed - only now the gloves came off.

"Airport security is there for one reason only - to show you that they can fuck with you anytime they like. As long as you put you with it. As long as you put you with it. Which means... anytime they like."
(George Carlin, "Airport Security" ca. 1998)

The politics of fear has always been around. Moisture-soaked satan-worshipping bloodthirsty commie hippie pedophiles on drugs have kept imaginations running wild ever since somebody put 2 (media & partisan politics) and 2 (military & big business) together.

#21: Aphex Twin: Laughable Butane Bob

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zo3rkqezKMw

#21: agreed - although being lazy I often drip single cups like Isaac (#12).

However, drip machines have infiltrated every office, workshop, garage etc. so we'll just have to live with them (... until the revolution comes and All Shall Have Beverages To Their Needs anyway).

Indispensable drip machine survival tip (from old folks): Drip 1/2 l of vinegar (the strong kind, not salad-dressing balsamico!) every two weeks, followed by several tankfuls of clean water. Gone be mildew and calcium deposits.

#6: My sentiments exactly! Absolute clubwear... Add a mirror-plated face mask and kick-455 Sennheisers to the deal for the ultimate android DJ gear!

Congrats from the far thawing north as well, Cory! My bomb's still ticking at approx. 5196 hours, let u know when it goes off.

Posted on Jan 01 2009:
#1: Michael Mann makes a movie about teh interwebs. We can all torrent it now.

(provided our medication allows.)

But God loves you!

#12: I saved my week money for like an eternity... And some SOBWDBSAD stole them. :/ So I stole one. Big helluva box for a 89-year old to carry under a jacket, but I got away with it. :D

(SOBWDBSAD = Son of a bitch who deserves to be shot at dawn)

#5, my sentiment exactly. Doing a VJ gig I have a s***load of cables (along with anything the DJ/&live artists bring along) and buying a couple of meters of 1/2" dual-sided velcro saved mty day so many time. OT: for all the (prospective) VJs out there: _always_ have a couple of 2.5mm/6mm/RCA/XLR cables included in your kit. It'll be appreciated when the DJs forget their own, and it comes back to you in form of intoxicants. Have it good.

#2: I'm the last one to take a stand for the authoriton, but yes you are. I can't say I've been a good boy all my life (LMAO) but every time I've come into contact with law enforcement they've always been frustatingly polite, infuriatingly professional, with no slacking on their or the bystanders' security, yet they're always cool, detached in a way that tells you "This is our job, we don't need any shit" ... Which is exactly the attitude I can vouch for.

Considering the readership :P , I am flabbergasted at the notion of nobody calling this The Bong!

#2: I'm the last one to take a stand for the authoriton, but yes you are. I can't say I've been a good boy all my life (LMAO) but every time I've come into contact with law enforcement they've always been frustatingly polite, infuriatingly professional, with no slacking on their or the bystanders' security, yet they're always cool, detached in a way that tells you "This is our job, we don't need any shit" ... Which is exactly the attitude I can vouch for.

A while back I read about a much more Make:ish "indoor" (should be: underground) shooting gallery. Basically 25m of concrete sewage pipe (1m gauge) buried in your back yard with a target at one end and a shooting post/bunker/counterstrike squad HQ at the other. Couldn't find the link at the moment, but it's out there... if you're desperate enough to google for it.

Motisbeard (#6), simply because without one bunch of people telling others what's beautiful we'd be hanging motivational posters at MoMa and glittery unicorns at the Louvré. Disagreeing with the statement is a part of the process.

#8: At least governments are under democratic control (supposedly, yeah, I know) - corporations, esp. multinationals, are not.

Yet another symptom of the "free" market disease: It's not allowed to give something for common good if there a buck to be made out of it.

Solid natural fiber futon, no pillow, a number of thin blankets you can layer according to temp... Good for your back (forces your muscles to adapt), and you'd be left with enough dough to cover every wall of your bedroom with HD projectors with MacPros for a complete VR bedroom.

I'm happy to own one of the winning entries: Bubble Growth, by Jussi Härkönen (http://www.fractalartcontests.com/2007/showentry.php?entryid=372)

His prints are available at http://www.violetindustries.com/ . Cheaper than a blotter sheet of smilies, and lasts longer too!

Shameless bit of self-promotion: A short clip from last Friday's Gig at club Fluxee (Turku, Finland): Tervakello vs. VJ Interkosmos.

Udu drums, rainsticks, sax, flute, didgeridoo, sham drum, analog synths (and OpenTZT visuals).

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AFt6UsmUSeA