Category Ramblings

Boring stuff. Mostly nonsense.

FoundItemClothing

Ok I guess these guys deserve a mention; founditemclothing sells t-shirts, like many other people out there do. But their shirts are quite far from those ye olde t-shirt online retailers sell. Their shirts are accurate reproductions of those worn by characters in cult movies and TV shows from the 1980s and 1990s. For example. you can get the shirts that Val Kilmer wore on the 1985 movie 'Real Genius' or a longsleeve shirt that 'The Dude' wore on Big Lebowski when visiting his synonymous millionaire, the skeleton shirt from 'This is Spinal Tap' and scores of others from movies like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Shaun of the Dead, Happy Gilmore, Brain Candy and shows like the A-Team along with many others. The quality of the shirts is excellent --- the shirts themselves are 'American Apparel' and the service is decent. Shirts cost about $22 (€16) and there is a $6.00 surcharge for international shipping. I am not affiliated in any way with this company. This is not a paid advertisement, but my personal opinion based on my custom with them.

Ο Prince, η μουσική και οι δισκογραφικές.

Μια από τις πιο επιφανείς περιπτώσεις καλλιτέχνη που ‘τα έβαλε’ με τις δισκογραφικές είναι αυτή του Prince. Στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1990 η Warner Bros., η δισκογραφική τότε εταιρία του εν λόγω καλλιτέχνη, είχε ήδη κατοχυρώσει το όνομα ‘Prince’ ως σήμα κατατεθέν και είχε τα δικαιώματα για όλη τη μουσική του καλλιτέχνη κάτω από […]

The death of SimCity

I still remember clearly the first time I saw SimCity run on a friend’s computer, back in 1990. It is hard to describe the feeling, but it was more or less one of the most impressive pieces of software I’d seen, not for what it was as a game, but for what it represented: a […]

'Leftovers' can be oh-so polished.

Yes, you guessed it. The most visible highlight of this year’s WWDC keynote is a brand spanking new web site for Apple.com. That’s it folks. Nothing to see here. Move along now. Or is it? More seriously, I bet the average Mac user is going to be baffled, still waiting for those über-features that were […]

Metropolis: Η Αθήνα

Στην Ελλάδα φαίνεται πως έχουμε ‘λύσει’ το πρόβλημα προ πολλού. Ενώ τα τελευταία χρόνια έχει παρατηρηθεί μια τάση επανεξέτασης της πολεοδόμησης και της συνύπαρξης ανθρώπινων καταυλισμών και φύσης στον δυτικό κόσμο, στην χώρα μας προχωρούμε στη ταχύτατη ανοικοδόμηση της Ανατολικής και Βόρειας Αττικής αλλά και της υπόλοιπης επικράτειας με τρόπο που δε διαφέρει σε τίποτα […]

Forthnet, η ελληνική Free;

Πριν από 6 μήνες έγραφα για τη παραπλανητική χρήση του Triple Play, που αποτελούσε βασικό θέμα της διαφημιστικής καμπάνιας της Forthnet. Η εν λόγω διαφήμιση έβαζε ‘λάδι στη φωτιά’, σε μια αγορά όπου η πρόσβαση στο διαδίκτυο παραμένει ίσως η προβληματικότερη στην Ευρώπη των 27 και τροχοπέδη για την ‘Κοινωνία της Πληροφορίας’, ή όπως θέλει […]

The Xcode Bugs

For reasons unbeknownst to me, Xcode has been seriously misbehaving lately. In most cases the problems had to do with its buggy parser/writer and required me to open the .xcodeproj files with TextMate and fix them. One example, that tortured me the other day, had to do with spurious compiler flags added there for no […]

Web 2.0? Try Web 1.01.

If it’s about the users, then it’s about independence, stupid. Name the four or five online services/web sites you use daily. I bet among others you’ll find Flickr, Yahoo!, Google, blogspot and wordpress.com (for those blogging/publishing online) in most peoples’ lists and in some, the most ridiculous of them all, Twitter. What’s wrong with all […]

Why I don't like Silverlight.

The short answer: because it comes from Microsoft and reeks of its aspirations of total domination monopoly. Because it excludes Linux even before it’s out. Because it doesn’t conform to Open Standards. The long answer: I recall only too well the web-hell of yesteryear when sites required Internet Explorer, when proprietary, temperamental Microsoft DHTML was […]