Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt

You’re getting a cheap mac link tonight: iMac Relaxation Station. It’s just a bit of over-compensation for the lack of a cool swingy arm on the new iMacs.

iPod of the day: an armored iPod

I went to the Apple Store after work today (it’s within walking distance) and lusted over the iPod Shuffles. They were out of the $100 version, or I might have achieved infinite coolness right then and there. I can’t see paying $150 for something smaller than a pack of gum, though.

Instead I got the boxed version of CandyBar 2, because the only thing prettier than a Mac is a prettier Mac.

iPod of the day: The iPod Stereoscope.

The management apologizes for the lack of blog. I haven’t been up to anything exciting–just fending off the latest rage of trackback spam. It’s all 0n1ine p0ker stuff so far, but because of the way trackback works, the Amazing Anti-Spam Checkbox isn’t stopping it. Instead it goes straight into moderation and I get umpteen notices about it.

Sigh.

Update: Phil Ringnalda is ready to give up on TrackBack altogether.

More cool mac links, of the miniature variety:

• The Little Mac replaces the Big Mac: Mac mini colocation
• The Little Browser that Could: podSites
• Content for the Little Browser that Could: style master CSS podGuide

Take a look at this pretty picture from NiXLOG. Now there’s a mac for everyone, even the cheapskates.

…my rock. I wasn’t watching my Firefox RSS feeds yesterday, and I totally missed the new Mac mini and iPod Shuffle. I had heard the rumors from Think Secret, though, so I wasn’t shocked by the headless iMac.

The anti-spam checkbox seems to be working well, so I’ll give out the geeky instructions now. As mentioned earlier, this method was taken from This Chick. Since it does exactly what it appears to do, I’m not giving anything away by revealing the inner workings to the spammers. (The incest spammers already have it figured out.)

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Here’s another Mac link dump. They’ve been piling up on my desktop.

• 43 Folders- More Moleskine Hacks - this isn’t actually a Mac link, but I have a Moleskine now that serves as my mac-away-from-the-mac.
• I got 101 problems but Apple ain’t one: 90% Crud on the history of Saving the Mac from Itself
• A neat new way to launch QS
• A Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X
• DeskDoodle 1.1 - I tried this, but it was a bit flaky for my tastes.
• Yasu system maintenance software from Jim Mitchell Designs - Software
• Replacing System Graphics [MacGeekery]
• PerversionTracker reviews Faith Converter 1.2 (home page) - offensively funny.
• Tutorial- DVD Ripping and Ripping Redux from the Cult of Mac: more on ripping, for the criminally—I mean, educationally inclined.
• The Cult of Mac on shutting up QuickTime
• Those crazy Newton folks strike again!
• The True Story of Audion
• Introduction to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines
• I’d never do this, but apparently you can use Finder labels to find stuff [macosxhints]
• Use Apple’s screen saver images as desktop pictures [macosxhints]
• StevenF puts CandyBar in a Box
• And one last link for crazy people who want to run both PHP4 and PHP5 on their macs.

I’m saddened to report that the hentai spammers have already bypassed the anti-spam checkbox. As a consequence, commenters will no longer be able to say “incest” with impunity. Dirty words will once again be moderated.

Here’s hoping the viagra folks aren’t as quick on the uptake.

Quote of the Day: “Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in a James Bond movie.” — Dennis Miller (via /.)

Slashdot confirms the LJ buyout rumors, and starts more about LJ banner ads for all. Here’s the official announcement from LJ.

And I have no WP spam yet! I was thinking of adding a second checkbox if the new one wasn’t enough, but it’s looking good so far.