Archive for April 2009

Nate Sr.: You hang on to your pain like it means some­thing. Like it’s worth some­thing. Well, let me tell you — it’s not worth shit. Let it go! Infi­nite pos­si­bil­i­ties, and all he can do is whine.
David: Well, what am I sup­posed to do?
Nate Sr.: What do you think? You can do *any­thing* you lucky bas­tard — you’re alive! What’s a lit­tle pain com­pared to that?
David: It can’t be that sim­ple.
Nate Sr.: What if it is?

Lost in Space

Incred­i­ble and par­tially cor­rob­o­rated story about two Ital­ian broth­ers who in the six­ties, with a lot of imag­i­na­tion and a lit­tle bit of tech­nique man­aged to tap into Amer­i­can and Russ­ian cos­mo­nauts com­mu­ni­ca­tions. While some of it seems a bit far fetched, if the Soviet Union man­aged to cover the deaths of 120 engi­neers for 30 years, they’ll prob­a­bly ok with with­hold­ing proof of their mistakes.

A cou­ple of Hedi Sli­mane pho­tos from Coachella. The rest are pretty amaz­ing too.

Sav­ing changes to Tid­dly­wiki using Webkit browsers

To be able to save changes under any browser (or app) that uses Webkit to Tid­dly­wiki:

Save this java file to the same direc­tory as the tid­dly­wiki file(s) (mine was /Sites/).

Then, cre­ate a new file con­tain­ing the fol­low­ing code (again, assum­ing your tid­dly­wiki files are on /Sites/):


grant codeBase "file:${user.home}/Sites/*"
{ permission java.io.FilePermission "${user.home}/Sites/*", "read,write"; };


Save this file to your home direc­tory (typ­i­cally ~/Users/YourName) and name it .java.policy

After all this is done, quit Safari. You should be able to save all changes now.

High­wa­ter

Looks promiss­ing, and the Edward Nor­ton nar­ra­tion is part of it.

File under: best surf mag­a­zine cov­ers in a while.

Watch­ing Tiago Pires surf against Mick Fan­ning in R2, a cyn­i­cal viewer might have got­ten the impres­sion that the judges decided the out­come of this heat before it began. Match-​​ups like this are like a col­or­ing book: the out­line and shape of the result is there on the page for every­one to see, includ­ing the judges. All the surfers have to do is catch a cou­ple set waves that hint at inher­ent respec­tive tal­ents – hand the judges the right color crayons. They’ll fill in the expected pic­ture from there. So for Tiago to win heats against world champs, he was to do more than make it close. He has to dec­i­mate Fan­ning. Tiago caught the big­ger waves, com­mit­ted to his gouges, and scored per­haps the hol­low­est bar­rel of the event. And like fel­low Euro Tim Boal, he lost anyway.

Lewis Samuels is a caus­tic, loud­mouth, “hey-​​look-​​at-​​me!” kind of surf writer. But here he is noth­ing but right.

Some­times Col­lege Humor is pure gold. I laughed so hard my abs hurt.

Caught this on The Girl ™‘s usb drive yes­ter­day. Pesky lit­tle things.

I’m gonna put a sock in my mouth now!

~ C.J. Hob­good, leav­ing the com­men­ta­tors booth after Tiago “Saca” Pires’ more than dubi­ous loss fac­ing local hero Mick Fan­ning at the Bells WCT