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Steve Jobs' Macworld Keynotes, 1998-2008 108

Posted by timothy from the should-have-employed-a-turtleneck-cannon dept.
Ian Lamont writes "The Industry Standard has put together a collection of video highlights from Steve Jobs' Macworld keynotes since his return to Apple in the late 1990s. It's interesting to watch. Jobs was basically able to turn tech product demonstrations into convincing consumer spectacles that made even the simplest product feature — such as the handle on the clamshell iBook — seem innovative and utterly desirable. And while his appearance changed greatly over the years (compare his 1998 iMac demonstration with his "iPod Mini" keynote in 2004, when he was reportedly trying to treat cancer with a special diet), his enthusiasm never waned. Of course, he may make appearances at Apple's WWDC or other events, but a Macworld expo with Phil Schiller headlining just won't be the same."

Comment Re:Congrats on completing it and submitting it (Score 1) 6

by asparagus (#25992173) Attached to: feature

Thanks. I've made a few short films but decided to push myself a bit further, was a lot more work/time than I expected. You can always spend more time in the outline stage.

I made a trailer in the style that you're talking about once but never released it. But yeah, always hard to drum up support/interest.

Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 6

by asparagus (#25956069) Attached to: feature

The vast majority of the time getting by is the wiser course of action. But for the occasions where I manage to identify mistakes or better yet solve them, I have the illusion of progress. Hard to deny though that it would certainly be easier to not worry. Each to his own, I suppose.
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Journal Journal: feature 6

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Spent the last couple of years making my first feature. Shot/wrote/edited/etc it myself on a shoe-string budget. Sent it off to a few film festivals not expecting much. The response thus far has matched my expectations. Hard to compete with people who have a thousand dollars for every one of mine.
Biotech

Submission + - Chernobyl Mushrooms Feeding on Radiation

Submitted by cowtamer
cowtamer writes: According to a National Geographic Article certain fungi can use ionizing radiation to perform "radiosynthesis" using the pigment melanin (the same one in our skin that protects us from UV radiation). It is speculated that this might be useful on long space voyages where energy from the Sun is not readily available.
Privacy

Submission + - FIOS customer names/addys in public ARIN database (squirrelfish.org)

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Tom Haines
Tom Haines writes: "Anyone with a verizon fios business account w/ static IPs will love to know that their account name and address are in the ARIN database associated with their IP address(es). maybe it's just me, but as a residential customer who only signed up for the biz service to get static IPs, this sucks. I didn't want my home address linked with my IPs. Not to mention, you can query ARIN using the term "FTTP" and get back a list of fios customers, including addresses. Hooray verizon!"
Television

Submission + - DVD Equivalent of FreeDB/CDDB 1

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MightyE
MightyE writes: "I have an extensive collection of DVD's of television show seasons. It is ultimately dangerous to the disks to always be swapping them around, in and out of DVD drives, and general abuse arising from not always taking as good of care of them as I ought. I've bought a series of large capacity hard drives, set up a MD device (RAID) and have been using DVD::Rip to back up my DVD's to this space. (And boy is this so much more convenient when I want to watch a certain episode than it is to read many DVD cases looking for which disk an episode is on). I'm finding it's slow going though, and one thing that could speed this up dramatically is if there was an online DVD database similar to what FreeDB and CDDB are for audio disks. Is there such a thing? If not, may I recommend someone start one? Since I'm ripping my DVD's, I'd be happy to contribute my own data to it!"
Education

Submission + - Ocean Floor Crust Wound to Be Explored

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "A group of scientists are disembarking right now to study an open gash in the ocean floor where earth's mantle lays exposed without any crust covering it. The scientists describe these as similar to stretch marks that a person might experience on their skin from a growth spurt. Either that or the mantle was never covered by the crust and just has always been like this. From the article, "Regardless of how they formed, the exposed mantle provides scientists with a rare opportunity to study the Earth's rocky innards. Many attempts to drill deep into the planet barely get past the crust.""
Google

Google De-indexes Talk.Origins, Won't Say Why UPDATED 575

Posted by kdawson from the honest-webmasters-go-fish dept.
J. J. Ramsey writes "Talk.Origins is an archive with thousands of pages exposing creationist pseudoscience. Rather mysteriously, Google pulled the plug on its search engine, giving only the vague reason: 'No pages from your site are currently included in Google's index due to violations of the webmaster guidelines.' This was apparently triggered by a recent cracking of the site that added 'hidden links to non-topical sites,' but Google won't say just what the violations were. Talk.Origins webmaster Wesley R. Elsberry believes that this Google policy harms honest webmasters." From the article: "My mission, whether I liked it or not, was to find and fix whatever problem the [Talk.Origins Archive] might have, with no guidance as to what the problem was and nothing at all about where to start looking... I was extremely lucky. The damage to my site was limited and in the first place that I happened to look. Other honest webmasters might not be so lucky. They may have to undertake an arduous process of vetting pages, essentially having to second-guess the mind of the cracker in trying to locate a problem that Google knows the exact location of." Thanks to an alert reader who sent in Matt's blog posting about how Google handles hacked sites.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Onward and upward... 4

Journal by asparagus

The Believer.

15" AlBook = pure goodness. I did the math and decided that the price/size ratio on the 250GB hard drive made it the best buy. And then went and splurged on the 320. Whatever. Mine's bigger. ;-)

Going to enter my first film festival next week. Mostly finished cutting corn, staring planting next year's wheat crop. Good times.
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Journal Journal: Bling bling! 5

Journal by asparagus

or something.

Now, if Apple'd just release a bloody 15" update so I can replace my dying pismo.
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Journal Journal: Content! 4

Journal by asparagus

I've been a little lazy as of late. Offically gradumacated. Took a trip through Montana and most of her neighbor states. Worked on a cattle ranch for a few days. Greyhounded it to Washington/Oregon for a Fourth of July party.

So, without further ado: The Hole. (Sorenson, sorry.)

Comments/flames always welcome. Color correction and some other tweaks are still waiting, but it's about as edited as it's gonna be.

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