Ever since I saw the treadmill desk at Book of Joe, I have wanted to set my office up with a treadmill. In preparation for a big computer parts yard sale at my house, I decided after cleaning out my office that there was more than enough room to incorporate the treadmill. So here it is:
More pics after the jump.
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The good folks over at Parents TV sent me an email asking for my help. They wanted me to be aware that there was some indecency on America’s Next Top Model which is apparently shown on TV (who knew?). I did not want to just use their form letter to send my complaint so I personalized my response. Maybe you could copy and paste my version and send your complaint to the FCC as well.
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th St, S.W.
Complaints and Political Programming Branch
Enforcement Division, Mass Media Bureau
Washington, DC 20554
This is a formal Applause of indecency on broadcast television. My compliments concerns the PROGRAM ON:
NETWORK: CW
PROGRAM TITLE: America's Next Top Model
BROADCAST DATE: March 26, 2008
BROADCAST TIMES: 8:00 PM ET/PT, 7:00 PM CT/MT
Documentation of the material on which my email is based is provided below. Please understand that I wholly approve of this type of material on TV and you will notice that there have been no ill effects from the broadcast of this material. Please focus on more important matters like the niche special interests that try to control what is on TV.
Documentation --------------
Would-be model Anya poses on a bed in the nude for a photo shoot. She is shown on screen posing in the nude at length with her breasts, crotch, and buttocks exposed but partially pixilated or barely obscured by a bed sheet or her arm.
End Documentation --------------
Sincerely,
I don’t much care about your politics, but you have to admit, that Barack Obama is one pretty motherfucker:
If I see one more $#(&%#^ with a Yellow “Support Our Troops” ribbon on their gas guzzling, environment destroying SUV, why I just might….sing them a song:
Computer sentience is so close now. Ten years until the singularity.
This commercial had me laughing all day.
“I met a man on the bus today. I shook his hand.
He’ll never see his family again.”
One of the things I missed when I moved from Linux to Mac OSX was the ability to display Flickr photo feeds as the background of my monitor desktop. Dave Winer fixed part of the equation for me by setting up FlickrFan which allowed me to grab Flickr feeds and bring them to my computer. Assigning the pictures for use as a screen saver or archiving is trivial but what I really wanted was to have the pictures displayed as my desktop background while I worked. Here is how I did it:
Once you have setup the screen saver you want in the Mac System Preferences you need to create two small scripts. The first script called RunScreenSaver (or whatever you wish) contains this simple code.
#!/bin/bash
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app
/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &>/dev/null & echo $!
Make sure the /System/…/ScreenSaverEngine path is all one line above. Wordpress wants to break it apart for formatting reasons.
The second script called KillScreenSaver (or whatever you wish) contains this simple code.
#!/bin/bash
killall ScreenSaverEngine
Be sure to make both script files executable by typing this in your terminal.app:
chmod a+x RunScreenSaver
chmod a+x KillScreenSaver
Or you can simply download both scripts.
When you want the background running, run the first script by double clicking it in the finder and when you want to stop the background run the second script by double clicking it in the finder. Of course, you can also run each script from the terminal.app:
./RunScreenSaver
./KillScreenSaver
Update:
Dave Winer over at Scripting News did a quick video of this effect:
I created a Summerboard theme around the Star Trek LCARS interface. This theme is based on the original iPhone theme by Kevin Rohrman (kevin@themonsterjam.com).
The iCARS theme includes a wallpaper you can put in /Library/Wallpaper to set the lock screen. This theme requires that you load and order your applications very specifically. You must read the details after the jump or you will not get this theme to look like anything but a jumbled mess.
The First Screen
I created a Summerboard theme around David Lanham’s free Somatic Icon Set available at the Iconfactory. The Somatic Summerboard Theme can be downloaded and used on your iPod Touch or iPhone. There are 93 application icons in the theme plus 73 extra icons and 5 wallpapers:
