It'll Never Fly » software http://wqoq.com Clever... not good, but clever. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:50:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3-beta1-18972 Linklog for Sep 29 to Oct 06 http://wqoq.com/2008/10/10/linklog-for-sep-29-to-oct-06/ http://wqoq.com/2008/10/10/linklog-for-sep-29-to-oct-06/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:02:05 +0000 Bob http://wqoq.com/2008/10/10/linklog-for-sep-29-to-oct-06/

Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.

Dressler still making an impact

A September 2008 article about Weston Dressler and the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

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DrawIt

Looks like an interesting and cost-effective alternative to Adobe Illustrator.

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Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.

Who Altered British TV? ‘Who’ Indeed

“And he has done it with mainstream programs that are immensely popular. In the last three and a half years he has built “Doctor Who,” “Torchwood” and another spinoff, “The Sarah Jane Adventures,” into Britain’s most successful homegrown drama franchise.”

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YouTube – ParticleMen’s Channel

No way! No one ever told me TMBG had their own YouTube account!

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Collectorz.com Movie Collector Features

Looks like this might be the DVD cataloguing software I’ve been looking for for the Mac to replace my beloved CATVids on Windows.

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Labour Day Classics: Winnipeg-Saskatchewan

The history of the Labour Day Classic between Saskatchewan and Winnipeg since 1950.

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In Defense of Hulk

An actual positive review of Ang Lee’s Hulk. Other than the “panel-effect” editing, which I liked, I agree with it completely.

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Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.

Rainer Brockerhoff :: Quay

Quay extends the Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Dock to show extended popup menus for most Dock items, including applications, stacks and URLs. Quay also allows you to make folder proxy icons with easily customized icons.

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tms [fernLightning]

Allows basic cvs style operations on Time Machine volumes.

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  • Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
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  • Fixes the problems with the new Apple keyboards and the Dashboard and Exposé keys.
  • App for geotagging your photos.
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  • it allows you to copy songs from any Mac iPod to any Mac running OS X 10.2 or higher (including Panther)
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  • UnPlugged is an application to notify when the power cord of the Mac is unplugged or plugged in. Notifications are done using Growl, or with a Alertwindow, when Growl is not installed.
  • I love watching these what I call quackumentaries.
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    So here are the search strings that were used by said users’ browsers to reach my site from January 2005 on (in rough chronological order). Where a search phrase has been repeated, I’ve placed a multiplier modifier at the end of each line to represent how many times. There’s a bit of a common thread going here, and might also lead you to realize how such adware may have been installed in the first place. Ashlee Simpson screensaver anyone? The IPs have been hidden to protect the incompetent.

    * used rolex wanted
    * PDV-0700K (x2)
    * ps2 hdd winnipeg
    * crash bash
    * heroscape pieces
    * swoosh swoosh sound
    * bestbuy.ca
    * “never fly”
    * leaf collection hose
    * fly games
    * penial implants images (x5)
    * redd skull comics
    * hands in my pockets spoof (x3)
    * jeopardy snl scenes
    * CJME
    * fly with leaf blowers
    * scrollable comments (x2)
    * “guy fawkes costume”
    * amazing race
    * Korean girls
    * clever firefly quotes
    * haircut skateboarder
    * humour old 80′s stories
    * fly rider game (x4)
    * o.c.disorders
    * saber rider
    * humour of accountant
    * wqiki
    * list of cooking shows of the 80′s
    * 80′s sci fi toys
    * savings in egypt in the 80′s
    * 80′s weird songs list
    * hentai girl with bandaid
    * where can i watch free cartoons from the 80′s

    I’m not sure which is more shocking: that my site is considered that much of a haven for photos of penial implants, or the types of search queries that will eventually lead to this post now that I’ve collected everything in one place.

    That’s just the search phrases from the people “infected” with FunWeb stuff, which is a much smaller slice of the pie that represents my overall set of visitors. The other search phrases are far more boring (but maybe I’ll give the same treatment to those some day).

    And if you happen to recognize some of those search queries as your own, you might want to try running Ad-Aware and some other kinds of anti-virus and anti-spyware software on your computer. And get your Windows Updates up to date. And stop clicking “Yes” and “Allow” to everything that pops up. Actually, just stop clicking anywhere on a pop-up. Forget that, install a pop-up blocker. Better yet, get one of your kids to do it. Scratch that, just stop clicking… period. Don’t even turn your computer on.

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  • Search Flickr by user name, interestingness, photoset, group, etc… and get back an array of thumbnails matching your search.
  • Another tool providing a similar Flickr search function.
  • Commercial software for building beautiful looking posters from your own photos.
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  • Enhances the video returned from a video capture device (i.e. a webcam like the iSight)
  • Steve Jobs vs. DRM
  • A powerful, flexible toolkit for Ruby for scraping web pages.
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