well, that just happened.

"#!/bin/bash #script assumes you have LocateMe installed in /usr/local/bin and have a DropBox folder..."

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:46:10 -0400

“#!/bin/bash
#script assumes you have LocateMe installed in /usr/local/bin and have a DropBox folder in the default location (~/DropBox)
#get computer name
cname=$(echo `systemsetup -getcomputername` | awk -F “: ” ‘{print $2}’)
#create log file if it does not already exist
touch ~/Dropbox/$cname.location.log
#get lat/long from LocateMe
location=$(/usr/local/bin/LocateMe -f “{LAT} {LON}”)
#log file with result
echo `date`\ $location » ~/Dropbox/$cname.location.log
exit”

- Quick script to log your Mac laptop’s location to DropBox using LocateMe.

sirmitchell: I decided to write a letter to Congress today in...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:48:35 -0400

sirmitchell:

I decided to write a letter to Congress today in regards to CISPA.

Current Status.

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:10:17 -0400

Current Status.

Newt Gingrich bitten by a penguin - POLITICO.com

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:05:34 -0400

Newt Gingrich bitten by a penguin - POLITICO.com:

As if I needed another reason to love penguins.

Just came way to close to dropping my car keys in the locked Iron Mountain trash bin. Idiot.

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:08:22 -0400

Just came way to close to dropping my car keys in the locked Iron Mountain trash bin. Idiot.

archiemcphee: Our good friend Starheadboy recently put some...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:27:43 -0400

archiemcphee:

Our good friend Starheadboy recently put some wheatpaste pieces on the streets of Seattle depicting awesomely cute and rather thoughtful kitties frolicking in boxes while pleading the case for public art instead of advertising.

Exactly.

Over 10,000 notes on my photo! [pats self on back]

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:03:40 -0400

Over 10,000 notes on my photo! [pats self on back]

i-am-oregonian: this is amazingly pretty The last, low angle...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:45:08 -0400

i-am-oregonian:

this is amazingly pretty

The last, low angle shot is very nice.

Downtown and inner Southeast Portland, Oregon, as rendered by...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:40:54 -0400

Downtown and inner Southeast Portland, Oregon, as rendered by Stamen Maps watercolor tiles for OpenStreetMaps. (via ★)

nevver: “I went on to flickr and it was just thousands of pieces of shit, and I just couldn’t...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:29:00 -0400

nevver:

“I went on to flickr and it was just thousands of pieces of shit, and I just couldn’t believe it. And it’s just all conventional, it’s all cliches, it’s just one visual convention after another.”

— Stephen Shore

Stop taking yourself so seriously. Photography is supposed to be fucking fun.

You visited a decidedly consumer/amateur photo sight and weren’t impressed by the quality of work? Shocking. You know what? People enjoy capturing the images you so quickly dismiss as conventional cliches. They aren’t trying to impress you, and don’t give a fuck what you think - they are just enjoying themselves through photographic expression.

"Titled “Protecting Your Privacy in the Mobile Era,” the report consists entirely of the..."

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:03:28 -0400

“Titled “Protecting Your Privacy in the Mobile Era,” the report consists entirely of the five words “Don’t use a mobile phone.” This complements EFF’s 1991 report: “Don’t use electronic mail.””

- EFF Issues New Guidelines for Mobile Privacy

Ten ways to April Fool the Mac/iPhone user in your life

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:34:00 -0400

Friend’s MacBook doesn’t have a screensaver password? Know your wife’s iPhone unlock PIN? Alright good, here’s some suggestions for how best to abuse that trust:

1. Invert the screen. On their Mac type cmd+opt+control+8. On your mark’s iPhone/iPad go to Settings > General > Accessibility and set Triple-click Home to White/Black, then triple click the home button.

2. Get creative with text substitution. Navigate to Settings > General > Keyboard and add a new shortcut. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

3. Install OmniDazzle and enable Pixie Dust following their cursor.

4. The ol’ replace-the-desktop-with-a-fullscreen-screenshot gag. Remember to move their Dock. On their iOS device check out apps like LiquidDisplay.

5. Set their default search provider to Bing.

6. Set their keyboard layout to Dvorak.

7. SSH access? Go nuts with the say command. i.e. say -v alex “I’m sorry Dave”.

8. In addition to tip 1 above, Universal Access is chock full of little gems. Set their screen to flash when an alert occurs, turn on voiceover, crank up the contrast, or make their cursor huge.

9. Make some edits to their hosts file. Any day of the year I add an entry redirecting fox news to the Onion. Is your mark a Facebook drone? Maybe they should try out MySpace for today…

10. Discretely point your Apple remote at their machine and hold the Play/Pause button for a few seconds to sleep their machine.

Level Map of Portland, via Google’s 8-Bit maps for NES.

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:57:47 -0400

Level Map of Portland, via Google’s 8-Bit maps for NES.

Covered with lion pee in 3…2…

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:36:24 -0400

Covered with lion pee in 3…2…

Adobe (a French word for “shitty installer”) has...

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:57:00 -0400

Adobe (a French word for “shitty installer”) has begone Merlin entirely in the Photoshop CS6 beta. Apparently Merlin Lives! no more. Yes, it was the first thing I checked.

Air Display works with iPad Personal Hotspot

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:56:12 -0400

Despite the warning that you must enable wifi, Air Display running on a third generation iPad happily connects with my Mac via the iPad’s Personal Hotspot.

Photo

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 04:26:30 -0400

You know how most consumer type backup batteries have a set of...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:23:00 -0500

You know how most consumer type backup batteries have a set of surge protector only receptacles? Apparently the fucking sticker over them wasn’t clear enough for the asshole who setup this little baby rack at a design firm.

My 7 month old son would have done a better job setting up these folks’ server.

nikkianneportlandoregon: …

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:59:01 -0500

nikkianneportlandoregon:

…

"I’d love to stop and talk to you about your citizens initiative!"

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:54:39 -0500

“I’d love to stop and talk to you about your citizens initiative!”

- Never heard on Hawthorne (via neverheardinpdx)