tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40015532011-04-21T14:41:20.196-04:00From <a href="http://www.ambivi.com">Sterling Ambivalence</a>, a scratch blog for posts not yet ready for the public or for Livejournal readers. The home for ideas not fully formed and fleshed out, and for links just needing a home.Weshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13104747221324987815noreply@blogger.comBlogger511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001553.post-4566342941382419562007-11-02T19:20:00.001-04:002007-11-02T19:20:23.566-04:00

The UFO Open is back!

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I don't know which is more sad; The post itself, alleging Ratatouille is a misogynistic attack on female chefs, or the ensuing debate in the comments where too many people allege Brad Bird is an Objectivist dick.

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Another commercial using a different stanza from the song.

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I like this hip hop version of the old theme from The Jeffersons "Moving on Up". The commercials are for Mercedes Benz, and according to comments on YouTube, performed by Cheri Dennis.

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I mentioned Courage the Cowardly Dog several posts/months back. In particular, the episode, Remembrance of Courage Past which was -- if I'm not mistaken -- the last episode of the show (paired with Perfect) , both shown and planned as such. In Remembrance, we learn through flashback the tragic story of how Courage came to be an orphaned dog, to be found and saved by Muriel. I mention it now, as

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Interestingly, it says that one of my blogs cannot be moved... the FAQ wasn't helpful as it was too vague to provide any actual information. My guess is that Aaron Barnhart's old TVBarn blog (which used to be powered by Blogger, before it got incorporated into the main Kansas City Star's website, and the main blogging backend managed by SixApart's Typepad service) is the blog of mine that is

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That means two of my main weblogs are down with it -- Sterling Ambivalence and Sterling Ambivalence's The Occasional Blargh are down with it (In addition to a lot of blogs on a lot of commercial and personal sites that I read -- since Six Apart bills itself as a professional blogging service).Oddly enough, this page is not meant to be read by anyone other than me -- it was mostly a dumping ground

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...because I continue to try to use Linux, when lesser (or perhaps saner) mortals would give up and go with Windows or OS X.The Fedora Core 6 guide...

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I added a donate button to the left side of this weblog. Why? Apparently all blogs must have tip jars. Even those never updated...

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Macworld Boston 1997-The Microsoft DealRemember when Apple asked Microsoft for a bailout... Microsoft invested a bit of money in Apple (things were very dire for Apple at the time)... Here is Steve Jobs' announcement of the deal. The crowd is very mad at this...The awkwardness level increases exponetially when Bill Gates appears via satellite.

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Aliens attack DC, film at 11pmHere's a funny variation of the famous Gannett Death Star open used for WUSA in the late 80s... rather than opening to news, it is a UFO invasion of the USA...UPDATE: Sadly, this video is no longer available...UPDATE II: The clip is back. I think this one will last.

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Toronto Globe and Mail: Laptops have been really hot lately!These numbers from the article strike me ---[L]aptop companies have recalled more than 150,000 batteries since Jan. 1, 2005. Hewlett-Packard recalled 15,700 of them in April alone. Dell retrieved 22,000 batteries in December and Apple recalled about 120,000 batteries in 2005.Empahsis mine...Dell and HP are in the top 5 computer sellers..

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American Bust - Spanish Commercial for Breast CreamOne of the more absurd commercials to air on Spanish TV. This commercial is a frequent mainstain of late-night Telemundo. Basically it is a cream that allegedly increases the size of women's breasts. Notice the very large, baggy shirt the girl wears at the beginning to hide that she already had large breasts before discovering the cream.(Sadly,

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Remembrance of Courage PastOne of the great shows to be showcased on Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Cartoon" campaign was John Dilworth's Courage the Cowardly Dog. Courage began life as a one-shot short, The Chicken from Outer Space, where a meek little dog who is tormented and mistreated rises to protect his caretaker from a alien chicken. It was popular enough to spawn a 52 episode series, noteable

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Cat vs MacA kitten vs a computer. Who will win. (Originally uploaded to Vimeo)

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All in 3D!!!OK... one more. It contains all of the blasts from the past -- cheesy monster movies, 3D glasses (awww... even the pup has one)!, People's Drug, Classy 95 (WCLY 95.5), and of course this was all on TV 20!

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WDCA Letter to President ReaganWow... Before Adult Swim became famous for setting out to have a dialog with its viewers, DC's own channel 20 was sending a get well soon note to one of its most famous TV viewer.(Testing to see how exactly YouTube links work in Blogger)

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Fox is not too happy about losing its UPN affliation throughout much of the country. Immediately after the announcement, WDCA in Washington yanked the UPN logo from its station graphic. Later it replaced it with this DCA20 graphic.

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type:sudo fdisk -lto see where Linux considers your Windows partition to be. Look for the HPFS/NTFS entry. as (note the title) Windows XP generally formats your drive as NTFS.next, make a folder (directory) somewhere on your Linux system to serve as a gateway to your Windows partition (a mount point). A good one would be /media/windows. Most Linux distributions today mount removable drives in the

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...or charge money to be able to change the default templates for blogs! These are two simply ways to start to fight blogspam, Google.

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Battling Google, Microsoft Changes How it Builds Software

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...because the official Linux HowTo doesn't cover any Fedora versions following 1 (and depressingly, the instructions change with each revision, and not in the direction of easier).LinuxQuestions ForumThis is how to enable DVD playback using yum1. Login as root2. Open Terminal as enter the following: code:rpm --import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY 3. Open Gedit or any other text

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The Comic Book Periodic Table of Elements

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The hardest to believe part of the piece... DB sells bibles.Under the Iron: Drunkenbatman Drunkenblog

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For those of you who are interested in how cartoonists evolve, here is a study on how the main characters of Penny Arcade progressed.

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This is a fraction of a conversation I had over IM tonight.(23:08:20) DavenportIAS: Once upon a time, I could call Cartoon Network the Bravo or the A&E or IFC of Cartoon Networks, but it's decided to become KidsWB cable.(23:11:37) DavenportIAS: once upon a time, CN treated cartoons more like Turner Classic Movies treated movies. They did stuff such as try to classify the 100 greatest cartoon

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And the Baltimore Comic Con is scheduled for September 17 and 18th.

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You know, if you do a search on Google for Adam Hughes looking for the comic book artist, you won't get his official website from the first thirty links.* Thus why I am posting this link (which I keep forgetting to every day, until now). He's a scheduled guest to a Baltimore comic book convention this fall, and I don't want to forget it. Also, in continuing the Wonder Woman theme, he's the cover

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The Planet fanboardsThere seems to be many more fan illustrations throughout the forums there.

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Joel Thingvall's WW Gallery (many contributors)Al Rio's WW art.

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Tips and reviews for using the OS X Tiger Search Utility.MacInTouchNEW as of May 23rd: Advanced Spotlight tipsScribeNT

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Chris Pirillo: Windows enthusiast. Bought an iMac. Otherwise, he's a smart guy.Erik J. Barzeski: Gun nut. Mac nut. Continues to obnoxiously replace his homepage with an illustration of an orange. But at least he appreciates beautiful things.

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Why is Sober so successful?Here's the analysis!And how they're trying to thwart anti-virus & anti-malware utilities.

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In the hundreds of thousands of posts web loggers have logged about Apple, it's damn difficult to find actual useful and interesting information. More often than not, it's kindergarten-stle taunts against Microsoft or folks who use Windows PCs, or near delusive hope that the white knight Apple will topple the Microsoft-Intel kingdom. But if you dig hard, you can find useful information. Search

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This here is a scratch blog. It is just a dumping place for links I found, but I don't feel like wrapping around paragraphs and paragraphs of explanation, opinion, background or further information. In other words, it's a web log in its barest form. Yet, I have discovered Blogger is occassionally unreliable. Understand, it's huge and it is the favored home for "zombie-blogs", web logs produced

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All you've never wanted to know about color when it comes to digital devices.

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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Mauris vitae metus. Vestibulum vel ante. Donec condimentum, ante vel ultrices dignissim, velit nulla sagittis dolor, eu sagittis urna sem fringilla risus. Ut leo. Morbi pharetra quam eget magna. Vestibulum et elit non ipsum aliquam aliquam. Integer sollicitudin molestie wisi. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et

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Your Linguistic Profile:60% General American English30% Yankee5% Dixie5% Upper Midwestern0% MidwesternWhat Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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I can only hope that the changes described here are still going to be in Longhorn. It's only a start... The Registry -- which appeared in Windows 3.1 with its only jobs being to link those three-letter DOS filename extensions to specific programs, and to tell Windows where OLE & DDE enabled programs were -- has become a huge monster. Actually one of the Windows' Registry's faults (probably the

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(found object via Scoble)Updated with corrected link. (April 18th)

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Interesting, though kinda macabre.

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Computing through glass... or is it an aquarium?

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The Tyson's Corner Apple Store.

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Since Blogger is now hosting pics for free, I may turn this weblog into my arts log... Though I'm just as lazy with my art as I am with updating this site.

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To think... if I had used this site more often, or had an accurate email address in here, I'd have a GMail account by now.

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Wow, I still have a page here... if you're looking for something on a day-to-day basis, I write over here at LiveJournal. I got this code from when they used Blogger to update TVBarn.

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Some things defy comment. This is from Yahoo News- France. As I don't speak French, I had to mumble through a Babelfish translation of this. If it's accurate, We don't want to comment. Original link -- http://fr.news.yahoo.com/031022/202/3gkyi.html Les militaires israéliens héritent des caleçons des soldats américains JERUSALEM (AFP) - Les militaires israéliens seront équipés pour l'hiver de

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For reading later -- How Green is BP?

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Have you ever started a site just because you thought the name was cool? Well, here it is, "I'm Doing This 'Til Tuesday," which probably signals what type of committment I will make to this site.

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