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New Tool Reveals Internet Passwords |
A Russian software company today released a password cracking tool that instantly reveals cached passwords to Web sites in Microsoft Internet Explorer, mailbox and identity passwords in all versions of Microsoft Outlook Express, Outlook, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail.
Beijing starts gating, locking poor villages
The government calls it “sealed management.” China’s capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the clock, in a throwback to an older style of control.
[From Beijing starts gating, locking poor villages – World news – Asia-Pacific – China – msnbc.com]
Pitchfork: Listen: New Ariel Pink With Added Pizzazz: “Hot Body Rub”
A few weeks back, we hit you with “In the Heat of the Night” from lo-fi pop weirdo Ariel Pink’s new collaborative EP with Dallas avant-jazz outfit Added Pizzazz (or Yells at Eels, for those Dallas avant-jazz die-hards out there). The EP is out now via Free Dope and Fucking in the Streets and is only available for purchase during Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti’s current tour. Take a listen to another cut from the collection, “Hot Body Rub”, right now.
“Hot Body Rub” is the extended cut of the sax-led jam of the same name that kicks off the BNM’d Before Today, featuring more saxophone action– and weird grunting, of course. Have a listen over at We All Want Someone to Shout For.
[From Pitchfork: Listen: New Ariel Pink With Added Pizzazz: “Hot Body Rub”]
How to merge pdf files with preview in Leopard | Macintosh How To
Leopard and Snow Leopard have the ability to edit pdf files, move pages around, and even merge two pdf documents together. It’s built right in. In OS X combining pdf documents is now easy and you don’t need a third party program to do it! Here is how to join two or more pdf files together into one.
[From How to merge pdf files with preview in Leopard | Macintosh How To]
MacRabbit – CSSEdit – Web 2.0 in Style
Style Sheets, easy and quick
Design beautiful, innovative and fast-loading web sites… with a beautiful, innovative and fast app. CSSEdit’s intuitive approach to style sheets and powerful previewing features will make you deliver awesome standards-based sites in no time!
Everyone is welcome: CSS newbies and power usersBecause of CSSEdit’s unique focus on style sheets, it offers a wide range of features for any level of expertise. Starting out? Selector Builder and advanced visual editors will gradually help you understand CSS instead of dumbing you down.
For anyone well-versed in CSS, the Live Preview and intelligent source environment are invaluable tools to get your website or application styled in a fraction of the time it took before. Add powerful X-Ray web page inspection, and you’ve got an unbeatable CSS debugging suite.
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One iPhone, Two Different Numbers, Courtesy Of Toktumi’s Line2 App [Review] | Cult of Mac
Hollow Man
Today is a good time as any to scare your friends. And here’s a new trick on how to get a few good screams. You simply need the fence you would normally use around your house. This should be easy to shape and stand up on its own. Now simply follow the pictures, shaping is the easy part. Whenever on a picnic, fishing or hiking, you can place your ghost in the forest and wait for the effect!
[From Hollow Man | Vision02]
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List of Crayola crayon colors – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crayola crayons have come in a multitude of different colors since their introduction in 1903. By 1905 Binney & Smith’s Crayola crayon product line had reached 30 different colors.[1] In 1958 the number of colors increased to 64. Eight fluorescent colors were introduced in 1972, increasing the total number of colors to 72. In 1990 the total increased to 80 colors with the introduction of 16 new colors and the discontinuation of eight colors. The number of available colors was increased to 96 in 1993 and to 120 in 1998, though with thirteen crayons being retired along the way, the grand total of colors is 133[2]. Along with the regular packs of crayons, there have been many specialty sets, including Silver Swirls[3], Gem Tones[4], Pearl Brite[5], Metallic FX[6], Magic Scent[7], Silly Scents[8], and more.
Colors have been renamed through the years. In 1958, Prussian Blue was renamed Midnight Blue. The color known as Flesh was renamed Peach in 1962, partially in response to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Indian Red was renamed Chestnut in 1999 due to concern that some children thought the crayon color represented the skin color of Native Americans.[2] According to the company, however, the name originally referred to a reddish-brown pigment from India that is used in artists’ oil paint.[2] In the past, some crayons have been temporarily renamed, such as the 2004 State-Your-Color Contest[9] crayons and the 8 Kids’ Choice Colors in the 2008 50th anniversary 64-count box.[10]
[From List of Crayola crayon colors – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
DO NOT Bring Up False Documents When Anthony Weiner Is In The House!
An Interview With Wu Yu-Ying – Designer of the Breathing Chair » CONTEMPORIST
An Interview With Wu Yu-Ying – Designer of the Breathing Chair
Posted by Dave on May 21st, 2010
The Red Dot Awards have featured an interview they’ve done with Wu Yu-Ying, designer of Breathing, a perforated foam chair that transforms its shape according to the body of the sitter.
[From An Interview With Wu Yu-Ying – Designer of the Breathing Chair » CONTEMPORIST]
dmvA: blob VB3
belgian architectural firm dmvA designed ‘blob VB3’, a mobile unit for the office of
xfactoragencies as an extension to the ‘house’. the space – egg house consists of a bathroom,
kitchen, lighting, a bed and several niches for storage. the nose can be opened automatically
and functions as a kind of porch. it easily transportable and can also be used as an office,
guestroom or garden house.[From dmvA: blob VB3]
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‘Treme,’ ‘The Real World,’ and the New New Orleans – Newsweek
HBO’s ‘Treme’ and MTV’s latest iteration of ‘The Real World,’ debuting Wednesday, both concern themselves with recovery in the Big Easy. Why neither has the healing touch.
[From ‘Treme,’ ‘The Real World,’ and the New New Orleans – Newsweek]
The Anti-Lesbian Drug – Newsweek
The controversy over using female hormones as part of prenatal care isn’t quite as shocking as the headlines suggest, but it does raise important questions about ethics, gender, and sexuality.
Lord Browne and BP Oil Spill Outrage – The Daily Beast
The U.K. government has appointed former BP chief Lord Browne as its new efficiency czar. Tom Bower on the extraordinary insult of promoting the man who bears huge responsibility for the Gulf oil crisis.
[From Lord Browne and BP Oil Spill Outrage – The Daily Beast]
An Unexpected Apple Ally: Porn Industry to Drop Flash | ConceivablyTech
It may seem that Steve Jobs is on a lonely crusade against Adobe’s Flash format with the rest of the industry simply waiting who this battle will turn out. While Adobe is rallying support for Flash, Apple receives support from a rather unexpected ally, the adult film industry. The founder of Digital Playground, one of the porn heavyweights in the U.S., told ConceivablyTech that it will abandon Flash as soon as the desktop browsers fully support HTML 5. We also learned that 3D is just not there yet and that online movie streaming is unlikely to replace Blu-ray discs anytime soon.
[From An Unexpected Apple Ally: Porn Industry to Drop Flash | ConceivablyTech]
25 Vegetarian and Vegan Meals from 2009
25 Vegetarian and Vegan Meals from 2009
The Kitchn’s Best Recipes of 2009
Curiosities: Price Tag Fails
Some of these might be innocent mistakes, but I imagine most of them are the result of bored workers.
[From Curiosities: Price Tag Fails]
Viacom Loses To YouTube In Landmark Copyright Case
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in New York sided with Google Inc. in a $1 billion copyright lawsuit filed by media company Viacom Inc. over YouTube videos, saying the service promptly removed illegal materials as required under federal law.
Wednesday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in the closely watched case further affirmed the protections offered to online service providers under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The 1998 law offers immunity when service providers promptly remove illegal materials submitted by users once they are notified of a violation.
How Time and Life magazines helped turn America on to LSD. – By Jack Shafer – Slate Magazine
Alan Brinkley’s comprehensive new biography of Time magazine co-founder Henry R. Luce, The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, has but one flaw. Then again, this “shortcoming” has more to do with my obsessions than it does with any inadequacy on Brinkley’s part. My idiosyncratic complaint: Brinkley doesn’t spend near enough space on the proselytizing enthusiasm the mogul and his wife, Clare Boothe Luce, had for LSD and how that enthusiasm bled into Luce’s Time and Life.
[From How Time and Life magazines helped turn America on to LSD. – By Jack Shafer – Slate Magazine]
MacDailyNews – Blodget: The odds are increasing that Microsoft’s business will just completely collapse
“Don’t mean to be alarmist, but the odds are increasing that Microsoft’s business will just completely collapse,” Henry Blodget writes for Business Insider. “The market still thinks Microsoft’s long-term prospects are pretty good, though. The stock is trading at a respectable 14X P/E. The company has cash flow gushing out of its ears. The consensus is that Microsoft will keep growing, just more slowly. But the odds are increasing that even this will prove to be wishful thinking.”
Ariel Pink… Now With Added Pizzazz | Line Out | The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
Last year, Ariel Pink cut a record titled Trick or Treat with shape-shifting psychedelic savants Vas Deferens Organization under the moniker Shits & Giggles. It probably slipped under your radar, but it’s worth digging for if you want to get a taste of Señor Pink’s weirder, more hallucinogenic inclinations.
Now the pairing yields another release, the Ariel Pink With Added Pizzazz 12″ EP (out July 9 on Free Dope and Fucking in the Streets Records, but only obtainable during Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti summer tour, which hits Seattle July 13 at Neumos). You can sample a sliver of that collaboration with the song “In the Heat of the NIght” here. The record was produced by VDO, which guarantees it a bizarre, hyperreal sheen. (By the way, scoop up anything you can find by VDO and their satellite projects like Sound, Jalopy, and Muz, especially if you dig the artists on the Nurse With Wound list.)
Track listing and recording details below.
01 In the Heat of the Night
02 Vapor Trailer
03 Hot Body Rub
04 19
05 I M NN7Ariel Pink-Vocals, Casio Digital Guitar, Farfisa
Jim Lehnert-Soprano, Alto and Baritone Sax, Trombone, Farfisa
Dennis Gonzaléz-Trumpet
Aaron Gonzaléz-Upright & Electric Bass, Bowed cymbals
Stefan Gonzaléz-Drums, Vibes, Percussion
Guest Musician: Tamara Cauble-Violin, Backing vocal
Eric Lumbleau-Backing Vocal [Lumbleau is also a contributor to the phenomenal rare-music blog Mutant Sounds]Production, Engineering and Sound Design By Vas Deferens Organization
Recorded at Klearlight Studios, Dallas, Texas, February 2010
Mastered by Udi Koomran, Tel Aviv[From Ariel Pink… Now With Added Pizzazz | Line Out | The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper]
Pitchfork: Ariel Pink Announces New EP
Ariel Pink just released his latest album with his Haunted Graffiti backing band (the BNM’d Before Today) but the notoriously prolific lo-fi hero has another new release in the can already.
On July 9 via the label Free Dope and Fucking in the Streets, Pink will put out a self-titled collaborative 12″ EP with avant-jazzers Added Pizzazz (who were featured on Before Today’s opening cut, “Hot Body Rub”). The EP was recorded in Texas earlier this year and mastered all the way in Tel Aviv (cross-continental!). You can listen to the EP’s lead track, “In the Heat of the Night”, above, and peep the tracklist below.
Ariel Pink With Added Pizzazz:
01 In the Heat of the Night
02 Vapor Trailer
03 Hot Body Rub
04 19
05 IM NN7
Udi Koomran: Ariel Pink with added Pizzazz
Ariel Pink interview – Hear – ThreeThousand
AP: Yeah yeah. All the stuff that we hear nowadays, dripping with emotion and sincerity – it’s all a fucking joke, man. I mean for me, this is Broadway, this is like, ‘I’m takin’ it to New Yawk!’ (both laugh) It’s added pizzazz.
