More where this came from... check the video pages again. This gem is hidden in the game files of the film made by afore-mentioned company. Unlike the previous clip, this one is much harder to find elsewhere, at least the last instance of it was removed from the popular website brought to you by the letter Y.

And this site will make more sense after you've watched it.

Andy Ihnatko's 3000-word admission about his relationship with Fake Steve. Including this genuine* confession:

I also murdered a balloon vendor near the Central Park Reservoir back in ’92, so I suppose it all comes out even, just. [Local authorities, you know where to contact us. —Ed.]

Read it all here

_{(* as in Windows Genuine Advantage )}

Dec 2006: 58% of iPod user thinking of switching to Zune
July 2007: 70% of Zune owners will switch to iPod, iPhone

Looks like Zune user aren't very happy, interestingly there are 22% of loyal Zune users who aren't switching because of their "dislike of Apple".

My tool of trade for the last few years, Sibelius, is finally running natively on intel Macs with the release of Version 5. After using Sibelius 3 and 4 on windows, I found the Mac version of Sibelius 4 (which I'm using right now) to be painfully slow running with rosetta on intel Macs. Now the universal binary should be a huge performance improvement.

Finale, the main competitor of Sibelius, has already gone universal earlier in Dec. 2006. I dislike ugly things, especially ugly GUI and hard-to-use programs, so although both are standard notation programs, I never got into Finale (it has this 90s amateurish look to it with all the aqua orbs and faux-metal).

Besides the transition to UB, there are a few interesting things among the new features introduced. The new Panorama view let you view the score without the limitation of pages, which is what I always wanted. Often you want an overview of the whole score and having to worry about page layouts and spacing is very cumbersome. This seems to be something Finale had for a while and Sibelius should definitely have from the start. Apple's Garageband has something similar in its editor, but it isn't really a notation app, and doesn't output any scores.

The new idea hub to collect motifs and musical ideas and the support for VST/Audio Units are cool, but for Intel Mac user like me the universal binary is probably the biggest improvement.

More at What's new in Sibelius 5

testing, ^_^ :O 8)

oh, and by the way, to answer Vikki's question about anonymous questions, the test page is up: Ask Ivy (PHP page running on filefest mirror).

From a small unnamed company where people sit and draw fancy moving pictures on paper and on screen, here's a great piece of comedy. Please check the new Timeopics section for embedded goodness.

Note: This post is intentionally removed of useful information for unspeakable reasons. Meanwhile, the reason this is tagged Apple is left as an exercise to the reader.

Forget about Leopard, Tiger already have a time machine, the search results rightly shows files from the future. (some file names are obscured to protect the innocent)

Here's another one:

It's very peculiar that we have a ten year old sticky shipped with OS X Tiger in 2006.

1997 was a pivotal year in Apple's history, NeXT was acquired by Apple in Feburary 1997 along with Jobs' return. At the 1997 Macworld conference, which is in August, announcement was made of the Microsoft deal and the new board (The Mac Observer: July, 1997 Archive). However, the first version of OS X is released two years later, Server 1.0, which is the old Platinum interface on top of the OPENSTEP operating system from NeXT; and the consumer version, 10.0, another two years later in 2001 after a public beta. The developers probably wrote the sticky just days before the Macworld, and in the early stage of building os x on top of OPENSTEP.

Interestingly, the classic Mac OS 8 was released just three days before the sticky, on July 26th 1997.

Having no access to an iPhone, with the help of iPhoney you can still spot some interesting custom widgets on iPhone version of Apple.com.
First, on the custom trailer page that every one knows about:

The same widgets are seen on iTunes page and Mac page as well, as an aid to the unusual horizontal scroll bars:

It is still not clear if this widget is part of the iPhone-only version of Apple.com, or that it is actually part of Safari 3's webkit engine. While I suspect it is the former, it would be really cool if this is done by iPhone-Safari on-the-fly for scroll bars on regular webpages.

Mr. Prime, I am going to remind you again: Your policy with GEICO only reimburses you for accidents that occur while you are engaged in the reasonable use of your truck and trailer. As I told you when you originally purchased the policy, GEICO does not offer Megatron coverage, Starscream coverage, Soundwave coverage, Decepticon coverage, or Energon-blast coverage. Those are just not the types of damages we would expect from reasonable use.

More at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (Via DaringFireball)