iTunes Discards Half Star Ratings

iTunes displays half-star ratings, and stores all ratings from 0-100, not just the full star value. However, if you Get Info on a file, and go into the Options tab, you will lose any non full-star rating information that is stored for this track.

Game Show Host • Lo-Tel • Planet Of The Stereos ★★★

Searching Zen

I googled for HTMLify Applescript, wanting to find out some simple code for how to escape the text in an AppleScript string, so I can pass it as arguments to a URL. My site came up with the top link. I was hoping for a better solution to the one I had come up with!

Dr Karl uses a Mac!

Dr. Karl from Triple J uses a Mac. He talked about using Spotlight to index and search his files on his computer during the last 5 minutes of the February 23rd edition of his Radio segment.

Rating Podcasts

The iPod doesn’t allow for rating of a Podcast - I guess it assumes they are throwaway items, rather than worth keeping.

Bouncing breast simulator

Boing Boing: Bouncing breast simulator from sports-bra company Hope the title gotcha! Seriously, some site has a simulator of bouncing boobies during exercise - with and without various types of bras. You can dial in your breast size (I’ve forgotten mine!) and see it in action.

Creationist Nutcases

Radaractive: Darwin is Dead-The Carnival!!! Aargh! I could only read about two of the Creationist bullshit-filled comments, and my head nearly exploded. Hardly what I’d call Critical Thinking, chaps.

Replaceable Head Toothbrush

Boing Boing: Ridiculous product - toothbrush with replaceable bristle attachment I don’t see what is so ridiculous about it - I used to use a similar product about 5 years ago. It was great! I was really diappointed when Colgate discontinued them.

One-handed Canadians

BREITBART.COM - Young Canadians prefer ‘virtual sex’: survey Apparently, around 87% of young Canadians prefer online sex. I just think maybe they aren’t doing it properly offline.

"Rating is no stars" Playlist

I use a “Rating is no stars” playlist, but it seems to pick up the tracks rated 1-19 as well. I’m not surprised, in the light of my recent article on the relative play counts of various rated tracks.

New Line's XXX web game furore

Boing Boing: New Line’s XXX web game demands your gov’t. ID As pointed out, you can use G.W. Bush’s details. Or surely, you could use your parent’s ID details? Most kids know these details of their parents, don’t they?