Apple Legal and Fake Steve Jobs.

December 22, 2007 at 5:32 pm · Filed under General Tech, Ranting and Raving

So someone needs to get these dogs on a leash, and right quick. Daniel Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs has been threatened by Apple Legal regarding some posts he’s made on his site. They’ve even gone as far as to threaten him, Mafia style:

there’s a list of my assets with an estimated value for each and I suppose the implied threat that I stand to lose them. Which kinda scares the living shit out of me, to be honest, since they’ve got a pretty thorough list, which means they’ve been doing some research on this and the offer didn’t just come out of thin air. Their lists includes my home address, most recent assessed value of my house and all the information about my mortgage; a rental property that we own; my bank accounts and investment accounts, including the college funds for our kids, whose names are used; and our boat and two cars.

This.. well it saddens me. I really enjoy Apple’s products, but I will be damned if I use, recommend or sing praises of them on high, if they make the slightest twitch towards this guy. But who am I right? Well I’m one of a multitude of consumers that believe in Apple’s products, and if I’m pissed about this then I’m sure that the numerous gentle readers of Daniel Lyons (did I mention he’s the Senior Editor at FORBES???) will be quite… pissed about it.

Fuck Apple Legal, right in their stupid fucking faces.

Yo can read the story here, here and here. There’s also a follow up post here.

I hope he blackens a few eyes if they take him down.

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the goggles! they do nothing!

December 22, 2007 at 12:34 am · Filed under Audio, General Tech, Projects, Uncategorized

I’m having a hard time coming up with random titles for my posts. I’ll have to think of a creative way to generate new ones.

I’m working on a sort kludgy hack project thing. The basic gist of it is taking an old Toshiba E330 pda I found in a box, loading Apache on it (which in itself is a fun project), and then I’m going to hardwire the docking port to an external usb hard drive enclosure. I was sort of inspired by an imaginary product I saw on some design blog where some had mocked up an enclosure with an OLED screen, showing a WinDirStat sort of view of the drives contents. So, I figured that was pretty easy, until I discovered there’s no native PPC 2002 software for something like this. Hence the mention of Apache. I’m hoping I’ll be able to find a perl script, possibly something built in Javascript that does something similar. We’ll see. It doesn’t have any real purpose other than to just see if I can do it.

Here’s some stuff I stumbled across on the webs.

and listen to this stuff:

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Multifaceted Posting

December 13, 2007 at 10:11 pm · Filed under Audio, Geek Squad, General Tech, Personal, Projects

First up I’ve got some kickin’ vintage footage of the B-52’s in 1978 performing “Rock Lobster”. Thanks to Boing Boing for posting this. I’d embed it, but unfortunately it’s been disabled. You can see it here. Makes me miss playing music. They’ve got quite a few other videos of the B-52’s on there if you’re interested. I also dug up a great collection of other vintage stuff, like The Buzzcocks:

some Wall of Voodoo

and Joey Ramone covering “What a Wonderful World”

Egads, links abound. Just for the hell of it, read the Wikipedia article on CBGB’s

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