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QOTD: Where is this quote from?
"The earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer mind parents…and it is evident that the end of the world is approaching fast."-Assyrian Tablet engraved in 2800 B.C.
I found this in Neil Degrasse Tyson's essay "Paths to Discovery" which appears in the 1998 book "The Columbia History of the 20th CenturyWhile ( Read more... ) -
QOTD: Is Colgate Wisp a government spin-off?
Pardon me, I don't watch TV, so I'm just now learning about Colgate "Wisp," which has apparently been around for a few years. These are plastic toothpicks on steroids. At one end is the pick, and at the other end resides a tiny plastic brush with a "freshness bead" implanted in it. (more detailsAnyway, awhile back I heard about a guy who was trying ( Read more... ) -
ASOD: Resize and Reposition Hulu Pop-out Window
Pretty straightforward. This should port pretty well to various setups. Adjust the x variable to change the absolute size. Now that I think about it, I could have made it proportional to the screen size. Part of the reason for this, though, is that flash doesn't scale particularly well, it depends on how much performance you want out of your ( Read more... ) -
ASOD: The 23,401 Names for Gaddafi
The inspiration for this comes from Muammar Gaddafi's Wikipedia page, which has a nifty diagram of all the possible transliterations of his Arabic name, along with common versions used by mass media outlets. The first part of the script interprets the diagram to generate 20 random combinations and sends them to the Mac's text-to-speech engine one ( Read more... ) -
QOTD: Why am I losing so much water?
This makes me think maybe I should take a physics course ( Read more... ) -
ASOD: Word Count
Counts all the words in all open TextEdit documents and prints them neatly to result. The handler is there so I can count words in the main section of some document, apart from its front and back matter. Sorry if it doesn't render the diamond correctly, on macs the key is Option+Shift+V for a diamond: ◊. You would need two diamonds to use this ( Read more... ) -
ASOD: Date Calculation
This is pathetically simple, but I might develop it into something more useful.
{(current date) - (1 * weeks), (current date) - (4 * weeks)} -
ASOD: Deadpan Delivery
This is an hilarious idea for an AppleScript that I came up with while slightly drunk over the weekend. It uses UI Events to grab subtitles in real-time from a playing DVD. It then sends the titles, line-by-line, to the Mac's text-to-speech engine. The idea is that you mute the audio from the movie, and just watch while letting TTS handle all the ( Read more... ) -
IOTD: Public Relations for Fruits and Vegetables
Every time I see a headline splashing deaths due to vegetables, the underlying message seems to be "don't trust farmers to feed you, trust giant corporations. Here, have a box of saltines, they won't kill you!" Well, they might not kill you overnight, but I guarantee they will kill you eventually. That's the problem. We see a story about some ( Read more... )
