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A suggestion is made to take that bullshit bingo thing to its online extreme: Use buzzwords of the online world for the bingo card and play the game using your online reading. Hm, that one was to tempting to pass on…
… just for me to discover that it would require serious work – and then remembering that actually the 'Pro' (read: non-light) version of NetNewsWire supposedly the script is completely useless, mindlessly stupid (allowing duplicates, not having the centre field, poor expression matching, just creating a filled out card without seeing whether you've won) and only moderately funny. It requires a Mac, the Pro version of NetNewsWire (30 day demo – $40 thereafter) and UnicodeChecker (free, but I think you would get away without it). I guess this is a 'laugh once and throw away' script, so I won't put any effort into removing its obvious flaws. Enjoy.
Elsewhere:
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Brent Simmons points to Apple's documentation on event-driven XML parsing. Looks like they're serious about easy-ish access to XML beyond property lists.
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Ars Technica review GarageBand in a suprisingly neutral way. Does that mean it's so good they don't have anything to complain about or so bad that they don't care?
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My flatmate's new iBook arrived. I was curious to see Garage Band in action and the worth of iPhoto 4. Unfortunately iLife 2004 wasn't pre-installed.
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Enjoy this comment on OSX, OSXI and the siblings of GarageBand.
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There's a whole site dedicated to compare OSX and Windows XP. Some interesting insights in there, perhaps, some things to disagree with &c. They don't mention that Windows in general and its looks in particular are an insult. As Steve Jobs himself may or may not have said:
The only problem with Microsoft is: they just have no taste.
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It's groundhog day today. And the beta of OmniWeb 5 is out. A few interesting ideas there, like workspaces or the drawer with previews instead of tabs.
February 2, 2004, 23:40
Comment by gummi: ¶
Well, I’m suitably impressed. Writing a script for the Punditster is beyond my skills — and the list I’ve compiled increases everyday.
For further automated inspiration you might want to check out R.Robot, which follows strict rules and is alot of fun.
February 3, 2004, 15:07
Comment by ssp: ¶
As I say, the script really isn’t sophisticated at all as can be seen in the example I link to.
If you have a Mac, just download the script, double click it and you can add further words at the top of the file (mingled with sufficient amounts of commas and curly brackets).
February 3, 2004, 23:37
