Tag Archives: Raves

The Working Man's Typeface

By Josh | Published: December 4, 2008
From Monday’s Colbert Report. You’ve got to be really secure in your audience to make a typography joke: .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cOperation Humble KanyeColbert at ChristmasColbert Christmas DVDGreen ScreenBill O’Reilly Interview
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Not my usual poison…

By Josh | Published: December 5, 2006
There aren’t a lot of items in Raves that I would classify as haunting and terrifying, but this is an exception.1 I only knew one of my grandmothers, and only after she was slipping into dementia,2 so this has something of a personal connection to me. The painting on the right is William Utermohlen’s 1967 self-portrait from a series [...]
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Vice

By Josh | Published: April 8, 2006
I like to think I don’t have many of them, but this is one of them; you just don’t get the same thing from those places where the biggest thing on the sign out front is a dollar sign. Oh, look — it’s the “The $1 Car Wash”. Does $1 buy me more detergent or dirt [...]
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My New Favorite Text Editor

By Josh | Published: October 12, 2005
I know there are periods where I change my favorite text editor as often as most people change their underwear, but still. I like their take on tabbed editing (including what happens when you give their command-line script a list of files). There are a gazillion language-specific packages available (scripts, syntax, etc.), and you can slurp up a [...]
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Unsightly build-up

By Josh | Published: April 22, 2005
I just spent some time reading and purging the vast assortment of news items I’d stacked up in NetNewsWire tabs. This included a bunch of MacCentral items on CS2 and FCP5 et al, but in general was just a lot of miscellaneous…everything. All that being said, I’m proud to be able to say that the little “more tabs” chevron [...]
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KiWTF?

By Josh | Published: November 30, 2004
More and more, I’m seeing the Ki, Mi, etc. set of unit prefixes used, but with little mention of any sort of uniform interpretation of them. The question, if you don’t know, is about what these prefixes mean. In the computer world, the prefixes traditionally represented the sequence of values for (210)n, where n is greater than zero, [...]
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Public Service Announcement

By Josh | Published: November 12, 2004
I just wanted to say that Erwin is a fine, upstanding person, in spite of any claims I might have made to the contrary. Or might continue to make. On an ongoing basis. In IMs I send directly to him.
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Horizontal

By Josh | Published: September 20, 2004
One of my (few) Raves about the new Firefox, now that I’ve switched back, involved horizontal scrolling. Specifically, they bound it to something silly — history forward and history back. What can I say; install an alternate trackpad driver and you actually use horizontal scroll-wheel events to…uh…scroll. So, naturally I checked about:config for the relevant prefs, and quickly found [...]
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“The little things”

By Josh | Published: September 15, 2004
I haven’t checked, but this might be the first “Rave”. I wonder if I ever said I want to be a curmudgeon when I grow up. Oh, nevermind — I’m sure I did. Probably in the last couple of years. Anyway. I pulled down Firefox 1.0PR and installed on all my machines. I [...]
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Warm Fuzzy Feeling

By Josh | Published: May 13, 2004
I don’t know what it is. Child-like faith? Some twisted form of optimism rooted in minor failure? Whatever it is, I always get this feeling that there’s still hope for the world when someone makes an announcement and vastly underestimates the amount of bandwidth it will consume. movabletype.org, sixapart.com, typekey.com, and presumably the rest of their sites [...]
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