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star trek fan tv

I knew at some point I had read some Wired article about Star Trek fan-produced TV shows, and that I had bookmarked some stuff... somewhere.

It turned out that I had bookmarked it in Firefox, in an old account, now stored on my backup drive. Stupid bookmarks. Can never find them when you need them.

I also searched for the article on the Wired site, which turned up nothing.
I had to Google to find it on the Wired site.
I don't even know why sites have their own search engines, they never work.

Anyway:

Wired - To Boldly Go Where No Fan Has Gone Before

New Voyages is the highest-profile effort, but there are lots of others, including Starship Exeter.

Wikipedia of course has a definitive list:

Star Trek, fan-made productions (in section "Fan Films")

As a side note, I suppose it's worth mentioning Star Trek: The Animated Series since a lot of people don't know about it. It was a regular TV show and had most of the original characters doing the voices. I haven't actually seen any of them. posted by Richard at 22:54 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)

iCal is suckical

I know I'm not supposed to step outside the Mac reality distortion field but J. Christman, what was Steve thinking with this thing? The user interface is shite. It doesn't make any sense. Things I should be able to drag I can't drag, things that should have sliders and increment jiggers and such don't, augh.

Oh wait, I forgot, Steve doesn't care about user interface usability.

All he cares about is whether it looks pretty when you gaze at it. posted by Richard at 18:36 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)

warning: sacrilicious



from an old The Onion posted by Richard at 07:35 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)

kong king

This movie should bear a large red label:

WARNIN!  GIANT BUGS!

Also, Naomi Watts is pretty. posted by Richard at 19:38 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)

link your photos to a map

I'm intersted in ways to automatically link photos to a map or to a location in Google Earth. With a digital camera and a GPS, you can get software to do this automatically. I just did up a page on this kind of georeferencing for digital images:

http://www.akerman.ca/geocode-photos.html posted by Richard at 21:35 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)

PowerBook: no iWork for you

I accidentally clicked on Pages today and I discovered that the onboard iWork '05 suite is a trial, not a license. The PowerBook also came with iWork '06 trial CDs.

Once again, it is clear that Steve Jobs can't imagine anyone actually using their computer for any sort of productivity. AppleWorks: poof, gone. iWork: you must pay.

Well, Steve, I didn't want to use your stupid Keynote thing anyway.
Everyone else on the planet uses crusty PowerPoint.

You know Steve, after I pay $2000+ for a Mac laptop from Apple, you'd think you might want to nickle and dime me out of Apple software. Well, that's what I'd think, anyway. posted by Richard at 08:35 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)