Category: random

19 Jul

No command-tab shortcut to move focus to next application in Mac OS X Screen Sharing

The shortcut I miss most when logging into a host via Apple OS X’s “Screen Sharing” is the ability to cycle through open applications with the click of two buttons (Command Tab).  Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t pass that or similar command-key combos onto the remote host.  What to do; especially once you’ve found that “Move focus [...]

29 May

Please do not heed the pink elephant

Think about anything but the pink elephant in the corner.  This is not the proverbial elephant, but his younger sister.  She’s a good deal smaller, but a smaller elephant is like a smaller tank.  Just how small can it get before it’s not really a tank?
So think about anything but Agnes, the pink elephant, who [...]

16 Apr

art and science have a baby

a baby bot
this definitely falls in the category of random acts of spreading joyfulness

02 Apr

mow the lawn

boingboing scores again!
TV commercial for a women’s razor: “Mow the lawn!” - Boing Boing.
oh yea foreign commercials rule.

24 Mar

some jokes

dirty jokes are universal
china can stop democracy and yet it can’t suppress some animation

23 Mar

ever clever

spammers can avoid any trap you set.
html that snuck past my filters after the link

08 Mar

beauty from destruction

art is my favorite lense for a reshaping of a tragedy.
Photos of Cherynobyl via BoingBoing
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

25 Feb

i want a k2

20 Feb

chain letters and forwards

every new technology will eventually devolve into … well, you know.
illustration by matt hamm

15 Feb

white winter hymnal

what a lovely way to wake up on a sunday morning. i grabbed my cup of coffee this morning and started working through my rss feeds and found not only another capitol hill blog but, from that blog found this stop-motion animation video for a Fleet Foxes song, white winter hymnal.  stunning and for [...]