Solipsism Gradient

The J-Walk Blog, among other goodies, points at a site that turns any website into a screenplay. So guess what I did?

FADE IN.

INT. TRENDY CAFE

WINONA RYDER is lovelorn and sad. She is complaining to her best friend BROCKERHOFF.NET (SOLIPSISM GRADIENT) about the lovelorn and sad state of her life.

WINONA RYDER

Oh, BROCKERHOFF.NET (SOLIPSISM GRADIENT), do you think that I will ever find my true love? I am so lovelorn and sad. Surely, you, as my best friend, have some wisdom to offer

BROCKERHOFF.NET (SOLIPSISM GRADIENT)

Sorry, but to set everything up properly you must first run XRay once from an Administrator account.

WINONA RYDER

Yes, you said that from the very beginning, didn't you? Oh, if only I'd listened to you,BROCKERHOFF.NET (SOLIPSISM GRADIENT).

...

She shoots angrily again. LEONARDO DI CAPRIO comes running up.

LEONARDO DI CAPRIO

I must talk to you, WINONA RYDER. I can explain.

...

BROCKERHOFF.NET (SOLIPSISM GRADIENT)

This mode builds a smaller, faster program without debugging symbols and other encumbrances.

WEDDING GUESTS

Hear, hear.

BROCKERHOFF.NET (SOLIPSISM GRADIENT)

Well, all of this usually takes several hours and is extremely tiring.

Everybody laughs

LEONARDO DI CAPRIO and WINONA RYDER

Hahahahahaha!!!! Oh BROCKERHOFF.NET (SOLIPSISM GRADIENT). You are one of a kind.

THE END

Story of my life…

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X-Ray. Creativity. In Style. (OS X Panther)

Rainer’s not only decidedly got past that developer’s block.

Thankfully, Bruce Sterling’s weblog now has a RSS feed! And he’s linking to great stuff… I especially recommend Levitated.net (by Jared Tarbell & Lola Brine), which also ties in with my previous post about interactive webpages. I’m not into Flash, but if you are, there’s lots of interesting source code here.

According to Boing Boing, Bruce also points at the Perpetual Ocean gallery; I couldn’t find this reference, but it’s well worth a visit, too; especially the Digital Image Gallery.

In line with his tips for shareware authors that I mentioned recently, Brent Simmons points at Rogue Amoeba?s Good Ideas. A must read.

Der Schockwellenreiter graciously links to XRay… danke, Jörg!

While debugging buggy bugs (as my iChat status line says most of the time), I can’t resist reading my RSS feeds at least once a day. Lately several interesting interactive webpages have come to the notice of the people who are doing my web browsing for me, and the thing has reached a critical mass where I absolutely have to post this.

The Economists.

The Eyes Have It, Flower, Swarm, Swarm Plant, ah well, just look at the index of everything.

Programmable Smileys.

The Scribbler.

There were a few others, but I couldn’t find the URLs on short notice. I think all of these were found by the folks at Boing Boing and/or the peripatetic John Walkenbach.

Now, back to them bugs…

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Apple bites, frank views and a flower for my favourite feline

A “long and winding road of litigation”.

It’s been some time since I wrote about the World of Ends meme. Now Dave Pollard writes about how it might (or rather, will) apply to large corporations:

You know business is in trouble when it starts suing its customers. Bad sign. What has led to this terrible state, and what does it mean for the future of business?

…

What remains is the business ‘world of ends’ in Figure 3, no different from Figure 2 except that it has ‘imploded’, with the removal of the no-longer-necessary large corporation getting in the way of true, open, networked commerce. This is a world of entrepreneurs, perhaps even New Collaborative Enterprises, agile and responsive to customers, specialized but working as a network, no middle-man required.

Well worth reading. I’ve been remiss in not linking more to Dave’s articles, they’re always intriguing…