Paralipsis

I decided that my grifcat utility for controlling the Griffin Powermate wasn’t useful enough and so I modified it enabling you to tweak the LED’s brightness and pulsing display. For those of you who have a powermate under linux, there’s also a linux driver available which can be used with the linux event interface. […]

Donald A. Norman (of DOET/POET fame) has an excellent article titled Emotion & Design: Attractive things work better. In it he discusses the affect an object has and how that dictates our ability to interact with it in different situations. A must-read by anyone interested in design.
Affect therefore regulates how we solve problems […]

Cult of Mac had a recent entry about the Mac Compact Belgium site. The picture of the mac collection is quite awesome. I’m from California and whenever I see something like that all I can picture is lying there Skinner-like buried under an avalanche of computers. The picture (full size) is awesome […]

Griffin Technology makes a nifty device called the Griffin Powermate (Available at ThinkGeek). It’s essentiall a knob+button you put on your desktop. However, unless you have software that can take advantage of it, it’s basically a lighted paperweight. I got fed up not having an easy way to monitor/read this device […]

A new version of acdctl has been released which incorporates changes kindly sent in by Michael Hanselmann. The tool now directly supports one more display in the apple product line. Additionally it can now take in the vendor/product id on the command line to make it easier to test against unsupported displays.
If you […]

Ah, the joys of the internet. Every cause can now publish not only its propaganda, but also its art.
Behold, the tragically-anonymous poem Ode To My Husband’s Missing Foreskin. I guess the message is clear though. Click through (if you dare) to enjoy numerous bits of artwork interspersed with graphic photos […]

Here is how I configured Linux to record an Toslink/SPDIF audio source. It’s quite easy once you figure out what all the buttons do. I do not know if the Creative LiveDrive actually captures the digital stream or re-encodes it. I haven’t been able to find out one way or the other […]

So, I decided to bite the bullet and purchase the much vaunted World of Warcraft (WOW) by Blizzard. If you don’t know what WOW is, well then you’re probably living under a rock. Regardless, after purchasing the game, I created an account and used another installation to play my account for a few […]