People have been asking and I have been promising, so here it is:
the "how the kottke.org micropatron fund drive went" post. And then we
shall never speak of it again until, maybe, next February.
(Oh, a quick note about the gift giveaway. I have distributed all
the gifts, so if I contacted you about winning one and you wrote back,
whatever gift you received should be on its way to you shortly, either
via email or snail mail. If you haven't received anything or don't
received anything in the next week or so, drop me an email and I'll
follow up with the lackabout that's in charge of distributing your
particular gift. Thanks!)
Instead of just droning on for many paragraphs about the fund
drive, how much I made, the lessons learned, etc., I'm going to
show you this graph that sums up the whole thing...and then I'm going
to drone on for many paragraphs about the fund drive, how much I made,
the lessons learned, etc. etc.
Note: This "graph" is not actually from the data and is not to
scale. But the general trends and zones are fairly accurate. Plus,
it's kinda purty with the blue there.
(And before we get going, I'd again like to thank everyone who has
contributed to the site so far. I really appreciate it.)
So that's how much money came in over the three week fund drive
period. As you can see, there was a rush at the beginning (over half
of the total amount came in during the first 48 hours), followed by a
small-but-steady stream of contributions until the end of the drive.
The curve blasted through the "I have to move back in with my parents"
barrier within the first few hours and exceeded the point at which I
could each something besides ramen noodles for every meal sometime
during the second day.
The most I got from any one individual was $500, with a couple more
people giving $200 or more. The majority of people gave the suggested
amount of $30, which demonstrates the power of suggestion but leaves
me wondering what people would have "priced" the site at had they been
given no suggested amount. (My guess from the responses is that $30
was artifically high, but not too far off as an average. But that's
just a guess.) Four people contributed two cents or less, either as a
joke ("here's my two cents") or as the equivalent of leaving your
waiter a penny tip for crappy service, but since PayPal takes the
first 30 cents of any payment, I didn't see any of it. Two people
handed me their contributions in person at SXSW and it was fun to able
to thank them in the flesh.
And a bunch of people gave $1-5 each, usually accompanied by a very
nice note that said something like they wished they could afford more
because they really wanted to support me but money was tight or they
were in college or grad school or something like that. Those were my
favorite contributions to receive because it shows that there are
people out there who value media and think about what kinds of media
they want to support financially, even though they may not be able to
afford it. And that they chose to support kottke.org makes me feel
good about my efforts here. (And also nervous because I feel the need
to really kick some ass to put their scarce dollars to good use.)
As I mentioned in my initial post
about all this, my goal was to make "about 1/3 to 1/2 of my former
yearly salary to support my efforts here for a year" and I very nearly
reached that goal, although not quite as you can see from the graph.
But it's close enough that I'm not going to worry too much about it
and I won't need to supplement my income with any freelance work,
which means I can focus on the site full-time, something I'm very
pleased about. I probably could have made more had I pushed harder or
guilted people into giving a little more to "put me over the top".
Near the end of the drive, a friend commented to me that he was
impressed at how restrained I had been in not pimping the fund drive
out to the max. A better salesman than I could have made a lot more, I
think...maybe even double. (Then again, a better salesman would
probably do the whole site differently and I'm not sure it would be
quite the same, you know?) But I knew that the regular kottke.org
readers would read what I had to say about why their contribution was
important to me and the site, consider what it meant to them, and then
make a decision...no coercion necessary.
And finally, the answer to the $64,000 question: is this a
sustainable business model for independent media on the Web? The short
answer is probably no, with a few caveats. I did make enough to
support myself for a year, but I'm already worried about next year (if
I decide to ask for contributions again at that point) because there's
going to be the inevitable drop-off in year-over-year contributions. I
think several people who contributed this time around did so as an
experiment or as "back payment" for the previous 6-7 years of content
and may not be so likely to contribute next time. And some are going
to decide it's not worth it to them to keep up their
"subscription".
Some who didn't contribute may look at the site's performance over
the next year and decide to contribute the second time around, but all
things remaining equal, I think the overall amount of contributions
for the second year will be 1/2 to 2/3 the first year's amount.
However, now that I'm focusing on the site full-time, the traffic will
probably increase over the next year, which will add to the pool of
available contributors, but it would probably need to increase quite a
bit to make up the difference.
Looking at the numbers, less than 1/3 of a percent of my current
average monthly unique visitors contributed to kottke.org...that's
less than 1 in 300. I expected more than that, but I think it's
difficult to "sell" media in an environment where people are
increasingly not paying directly for media. Most media is bought for
viewers/readers by advertisers, making it either free or much cheaper
than it would be. We pay for cable (and most of us are paying for a
ton of channels we don't even watch), but NBC is free and they support
themselves by advertising to their viewers. Magazines are heavily
ad-supported...an issue of Vogue or Wired would probably be $30 if
they didn't run ads. Most of the commerical media on the Web is free
and supported by banner and text ads. Many movies are subsidized by
marketing tie-ins and cross-promotions and movie theatres make their
money by getting people into the theatre to munch on popcorn &
candy and view the ever-growing amount of ads they show you before the
previews (more ads!) start. And those smaller movies that you love
because they don't suck like the big Hollywood films? They wouldn't
even be made if they weren't subsidized by the Shrek 2s of the world
bringing hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide. Plus, when Coke
runs an ad on TV or in a magazine, you may not be paying a lot for
that show or magazine, but you're probably paying a lot more for that
can of Coke.
But anyway, it's all indirect so people don't think too much about
it, and so it's difficult, I think, to get people to support media
directly (myself included...I certainly don't want to pay $30 an issue
for Wired). Difficult, but certainly not impossible.
So and but anyhoo, where does that leave the folks who want to do
reader/viewer supported media? Can you actually blog for a living and
not plaster ads all over your site? Here are a few suggestions from
what I've learned so far:
1. Consider advertising. No, really. If you're ok with the
trade-offs involved, it's easier, more stable, and more lucrative.
There's a reason media is heavily supported by ads.
2. Think community (or cult of personality). The more investment
people have in a site, the more they will be willing to pay for it.
There are a lot of people who have been reading kottke.org for a long
time (thanks!) and are probably fairly invested in it, but compare
that to any of the popular political sites or knitting sites or other
topic or event-based sites that intensely involve their readers
(through various means) and make them feel as though they are part of
a group. kottke.org doesn't have much of a community associated with
it or a rabid following and I don't polarize people the way some of
the political blogs do, so my "earning power" is limited, but that's
not what the site is about. But if you site is about community and/or
getting people rallied around a cause or something, you're going to
have an easier time raising funds.
3. Be committed to growing traffic. That's not one of my top
priorities here[1], but if your primary goal is making money,
increasing traffic is the best way to do that. (How? Posting more
often is the easiest way. If you can, get Slashdotted...that'll get
you more traffic that the front page of the New York Times.) If you're
doing something like subscriptions or contributions, you've always got
to replace the people that you're going to lose for whatever
reason.
4. Keep costs low. Duh. I guess what I mean by this is because you
can run most types of blogs from anywhere, if you live in Brazil, the
Czech Republic, Malaysia, or India, you're going to have an easier
time supporting yourself than if you live in a big city in the US...as
long as you have reliable high speed internet access. Bad news for
Americans, Japanese, Europeans, and those who live in other places
with a high cost of living...unless you're in high school and still
living on your parent's dime.
And that's about it for now...that's more than I wanted to write,
but once I get rambling... If anyone is interested, the contribution form is
still available for use and will be available for the next few
months, but I just won't be bothering you about it.
[1] Are you getting the sense that I don't treat this site as a
business too much? Good, because I don't. Most of that stuff I wrote
above (traffic, the "price" of the site, conversion rates, etc.)
doesn't factor into how I think about the site at all. The fund drive
was, for me, a fairly uncomfortable undertaking that I would have
liked to avoid if I didn't need to support myself financially with it.
The day that kottke.org becomes a real business that focuses on profit
first (instead of the pseudo-business labor-of-love it is now) is the
day the site will probably start to suck[2]. Instead, I'm going to do
my best in setting a course I think is favorable for the site and hope
that there's a way to support myself with it along the way.
[2] The wiseacres in the back will no doubt exclaim at this point,
"start to suck? Ha, you're long past that!"
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Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow the Paths of the Dead
Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow the Paths of the Dead04/07/2005 10:24 PM Did The Wizard
of Oz inspire Lord of the Rings? "The first film
version of L. Frank Baumβs The Wizard of Oz was released in the
summer of 1939, less than a month before World War II officially
began. Though started as early as 1937, The Lord of the Rings was
largely composed during the war years, but not published until
somewhat later. Therefore, it is by no means impossible that J.R.R.
Tolkien saw the magnificent MGM movie before he wrote most of his
magnum opus. Could Oz have influenced his tale somehow, consciously or
unconsciously?"
I'm a Kottke.org micropatron
I'm a Kottke.org micropatron03/14/2005 05:58 PM On Tuesday, Jason Kottke announced that he was devoting himself
full-time to working on maintaining his weblog, and asking for his
readers to support him financially so he could do so. There was, of
course, a lot of attention and a lot of discussion, since Jason is
arguably the most...
Well, we're a week and a half into the three-week "fund drive" (if
you're just tuning in, start here)
and it's time for a shout-out to the kind people and companies who
have contributed gifts for some lucky kottke.org micropatrons (contribute $30+ and you
have a chance). If you haven't looked at the
list in awhile, you'll notice some additions.
I chose the gift contributors fairly carefully. With one or two
exceptions, most of the list is comprised of either
friends/acquaintances of mine who are supportive of what I'm doing,
companies that have an interest in blogs and blogging, products I've
used, or people who have gone or are going out on a limb to do
something entreprenurial in their lives (selling photography,
software, soap, books, etc...labors of love and commerce). I have a
special place in my heart for the latter group because they're in a
boat similar to mine and it makes me happy than I can help get the
word out about their projects.
I've begun the process of informing the winners of the micropatron
gifts via email. So if you contributed $30 or more during the fund
drive, watch the email address you have listed at PayPal for an email in the next
couple of days.
# How Are We Going to Get These Dogs Back In?
# Bust an Additional Move
# Seriously, Eileen, Come On
# I Will Now Pass the Dutchie Back to You and Thank You for Passing It
to Me Originally Because I Really Enjoyed the Dutchie
# Whoomp! There It Continues to Be
# "As My Eyes Became Accustomed to Her Science, My Sight
Was Restored"
# "Baby Lost 20 Pounds of Back (on Atkins)"
# "I Am No Longer Too Sexy for My Ten-Year-Old Shirt"
# and of course, "100 Luftballoons"
Link. But wait! Francis
says Kittenpants
blog has still more followups to followups to followup song titles.
(Thanks, Siege, and
thanks, Snoodle!).
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Good things, bad things
Good things, bad things03/06/2004 02:03 AM Good thing: to have surge protection on your computer array.
Bad thing: kick accidentally the surge protection thingy so that the
wall socket becomes loose, and have a big, catastrophic power failure.
Good thing: to be able to read your blogs while eating breakfast
Bad thing: to drop a bun in your cereal, and have milk splashed all
across your laptop
Good thing: iTunes for Windows
Bad thing: Windows
Good thing: actually having sunlight in the mornings.
Bad thing: the mornings.
Good thing: upcoming go
-tournament (http://takapotku.suomigo.net -
feel free to come by and say hi!) next weekend.
Bad thing: not sleeping enough before the weekend.
Jack Valenti says stupid things -- really, really stupid things
Jack Valenti says stupid things -- really, really stupid things08/03/2004 07:46 PM Tim Wu has rounded up some of the dumbest things that Jack Valenti
said -- and he's found some real howlers, things that make Jack's
infamous condemnation of the VCR ("the Boston Stranger of the American
film industry") look like a walk in the park.
On the nascent cable industry, in 1974
"[Cable will become] a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and
fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners
of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong
and unfair."
On the dangers on media concentration, 1984 Op-Ed
"Will a democratic society allow just three corporate entities to
wield unprecedented dominion over television, the most decisive voice
in the land? There are now only three national networks .... There
will never be more than three national networks."
On the public domain, 1995
"A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its
life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it
becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does
the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?"
New web ads follow users06/13/2004 06:18 PM NEWS.com.au,Australia-6 minutes ago ... PricewaterhouseCoopers study.
Much of the growth came from keyword ads that Google, Yahoo! and
others deliver alongside regular search results. Such ...
Follow up on Nofollow02/01/2005 09:26 PM Rogers Cadenhead: This sounds good, though it officially abandons the
pretense that Google's search algorithm is tailored to the linking
behavior of Web users, rather than the other way around. The lines
between us and them is blurry. Everything is
intertwingled.
Whether we admitted it before or not. My urls contain dashes instead
of
underscores because google likes them better. My <title>s
are meaningful for similar reasons. In return, I get a more traffic
from
Google.
New Web Ads Follow Visitors Around06/13/2004 06:18 PM WJLA,DC-1 hour ago ... study. Much of the growth came from keyword ads
that Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and others deliver alongside regular
search results. ...
Follow-Through (Forbes.com)
Follow-Through (Forbes.com)08/19/2004 06:28 PM Forbes.com - Last year's FORBES E-Gang (see p. 144 for this year's
group) featured five luminaries in the field of wireless
communication. Two of our picks have left their jobs, while three are
steaming ahead.
Follow the Rhinos
Follow the Rhinos08/19/2004 11:08 PM Follow the Rhinos
Weblog tracking two white Rhinos as they travel next month to the
Phoenix Zoo. Nice looking site (via CSS Vault). In related news,
poachers have killed about half of the world's population of wild
white rhinos in the last year (more
here).
Follow-up on the 10 Habits
Follow-up on the 10 Habits02/26/2003 03:46 AM I'm really surprised at how widespread the reaction to my Top 10
Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers post has been. It has been turned
into a survey, translated to Spanish and Japanese and commented on
elsewhere. Many, many of folks...
A CNET Follow-Up
A CNET Follow-Up01/22/2004 02:09 AM While I'm pleased with the reception of the piece, in some cases I
feel my message was clouded, so I wanted to take a moment to clarify a
few things so that I'm not misunderstood. By Alan Graham (O'Reilly
Network via MyAppleMenu)
SmartPhone Follow-up
SmartPhone Follow-up03/08/2004 11:25 PM My first month with the MPx-200 was not as satisfying as the first 24
hours, entirely due to battery life....
XBRL follow-up
XBRL follow-up05/10/2004 10:10 AM
Following last week's critique
of XBRL, I had an interesting email exchange with David Vun
Kannon, a manager in KPMG's financial services practice and one of the
editors of the XBRL spec. The dialogue went far beyond what
InfoWorld's letters column could ever accommodate, so with David's
permission, I'm reproducing it here.
...
Follow Your Passions
Follow Your Passions12/19/2004 03:05 PM Great profile of our VP of Business Development, Rick Klau, who has
followed his passions throughout his career....
Backpack Follow-up
Backpack Follow-up06/29/2004 12:47 AM Got an e-mail today from a fellow Dell 8600 and Tumi Briefpack owner
asking if I'd ever decided on a...
Survey Says: Way to Follow IPO
Survey Says: Way to Follow IPO04/08/2005 03:41 PM Greenfield Online has been very busy this year, making three key
acquisitions.
Follow the Leader12/06/2002 07:00 AM John Kerry is running for President. The press corps doesn't like him.
So some liberal website are following how a crap personal attack news
story
Soon, Marketing Will Follow You
Soon, Marketing Will Follow You12/16/2003 05:34 AM Ads that follow people around and morph themselves based on
computerized demographic profiles aren't the stuff of science fiction
anymore. A few researchers work to bring the era of omnipresent
marketing closer to reality. By Daniel Terdiman.
Who Needs Many Friends: Follow-Up
Who Needs Many Friends: Follow-Up04/09/2004 04:01 PM I have posted a while ago about iChat's "Feedbag Error 17" message
that iChat gives me when I try to...
win2vnc follow-up
win2vnc follow-up05/12/2004 04:03 AM Last month I exchanged some e-mails with Feico de Boer, the author of
the patched version of win2vnc I've been...
Follow the money
Follow the money06/17/2005 03:21 PM Blog: Thirty-three years ago today (where did the time fly) Frank
Wills, a janitor at the Watergate complex in Washington D.C.,...
Follow the Vanishing Check
Follow the Vanishing Check03/26/2005 12:04 AM Banks and retailers are making major decisions about how to allocate
resources as customers move away from checks in favor of credit cards
and online payments. Grok Description matches for Micropatron follow-up report: how things went GrokA matches for Micropatron follow-up report: how things went
JFormDesigner 1.0.3 (Default branch)
JFormDesigner 1.0.3 (Default branch)04/10/2005 12:35 PM
JFormDesigner is a WYSIWYG GUI designer for Swing
user interfaces. It is easy and intuitive to use
and provides a lot of powerful features.
JFormDesigner fully supports JGoodies FormLayout,
TableLayout, GridBagLayout, and other standard
layout managers. The advanced GridBagLayout
support allows the specification of horizontal and
vertical gaps (as in TableLayout), which makes
designing a form with consistent gaps using
GridBagLayout much easier.
MD5 crack
MD5 crack07/07/2004 04:43 AM MD5 cracking in seconds .. this site is for you
TV on crack03/22/2005 04:44 PM Is A&E's "Intervention" the most exploitative reality show ever, or a
necessarily brutal snapshot of the perils of addiction?
Cryptographers have discovered a way to hack Bluetooth-enabled
devices even when security features are switched on. The discovery may
make it even easier for hackers to eavesdrop on conversations and
charge their own calls to someone else's cellphone.
"Our attack makes it possible to crack every communication between
two Bluetooth devices, and not only if it is the first communication
between those devices," says Shaked.
Check out the time required to pull this off:
They show that once an attacker has forced two devices to pair,
they can work out the link key in just 0.06 seconds on a Pentium
IV-enabled computer, and 0.3 seconds on a Pentium-III. "This is not
just a theoretical break, it's practical," says Schneier.
Dave
Winer and Evan
Williams commented that the people who shout the loudest are often
the ones who have no basis for their anger. I'm reminded of this fact
by an email I received this morning. Here's a quote:
"Fix your piece of s--- program! I upgraded to
FeedDemon 1.10 and it crashes with 'Win32 device error.' Did you even
test this s---?"
I've actually received a number of emails (and one forum post)
about this bug, but I have no plans to fix it. Why? Because the
error message only appears if you upgrade a cracked
version of FeedDemon 1.0. This is a deliberate error
message that FeedDemon 1.10 displays when it detects that you upgraded
from a specific cracked version of FeedDemon 1.0.
That's right, people who use a pirated version of
FeedDemon are emailing me for support. It never ceases to amaze me
when people not only steal from me, but also expect me to spend my
time answering their questions. And more often than not, the email
I've received about this problem reads like something a drunk teenager
would write.
I've written
about piracy befor
e and I'm not planning to start another lengthy rant. But I do
have a request for those who have justified their use of cracked
versions of my work: don't ask for support. I
support my family with sales of my software, and my life is affected -
dramatically - by the existence of cracks. Please, if you're using a
pirated version of my software, don't expect me to help you.
Alcohol is the new crack!01/02/2005 11:10 PM βN
ot only is it illegal, but it's becoming increasingly dangerous,β
Leggio said of underage drinking. How dangerous? Well apparently
dangerous enough that one affluent Kansas City community has decided
that it is best to have police spy on teens during high school
basketball games. Oh it gets better, apparently a carload of teens is
enough for a Lenexa cop to follow you! So the parents should be up in
arms right? Nope, they encourage the police, even calling them
("she told dispatchers that when she called home to check on her
son, it sounded like a party was going on"). Yet surprisingly,
despite this almost police-state like mentality against drinking, atti
tudes are slow to change.
Kernel crack11/07/2003 05:31 AM CNET Asia Nov 7 2003 4:44AM ET
First Crack in the Wall?
First Crack in the Wall?03/22/2005 03:15 PM This is the first announced change in the status quo since IBM
announced the sale of their entire line of laptops to the Chinese firm
Lenovo. As with some other people, I’m still awainting
experience to tell us if it’s a good or bad thing. Lenovo will
slightly modify the “IBM ThinkPad” brand in the relatively
near future, said Lenovo CEO-designate Stephen Ward on Monday at PC
Forum, which is taking place here this week….
Congress Set to Crack Down on Spyware06/28/2004 12:18 AM The collective mind of congress is rapidly turning to the fall
elections, but some issues are pressing enough to warrant continued
attention, among them spyware.
MasterCard Looks to Crack Down on Phishing
MasterCard Looks to Crack Down on Phishing06/22/2004 10:35 AM MasterCard is teaming up with digital fraud protection company
NameProtect to help shut down online scams.
Fifteen of us gathered last night for a screening of the 1992 Tim
Robbins political satire Bo
b Roberts. This mockumentary of a folksinging conservative
Wall Street trader turned politician has held up surprisingly
well. In the background of the movie, President Bush is in the
White House and American troops are about to invade Iraq. Gore
Vidal does a great job playing a Ted Kennedy-style career
senator. The songs are fun but sadly the soundtrack has never
been made available.
My favorite part of the movie is when Bob Roberts closes a letter
to a 7-year-old girl in Vermont with the admonition "Don't do crack;
it's a ghetto drug."
This is the perfect movie for an election-year party.
Crack My Knuckles - by Rob Manuel
Crack My Knuckles - by Rob Manuel05/11/2004 07:54 AM § ¨§§ ¨§ §ͺ§ § ͺ ¨! ( ͺ § §) ..
knuckle cracking simulator .. Crack my
knuckles
AutoZone developer says SCO is on crack03/06/2004 01:54 AM SCO Group sued AutoZone (full text of the complaint) for having used
their libraries when they migrated to Linux. They don't have any
evidence, but rather just say "they did it too fast, so they must have
gotten help from IBM and stolen our code". (Note, it didn't have
anything to do with the Linux code). The lead developer at AutoZone at
the time of the migration writes on Groklaw that the SCO claims is a
pile of %$%#$. They...
Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ?03/11/2003 01:22 AM Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ?
Now I know that the Slashdot audience isn't all that reliable at best.
Yes we all read it but we rarely trust it. Still I'd expect a little
better than this:
The Object Prevalence concept, developed by the Prevayler team, and
implemented in Java, C#, Smalltalk, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby and
Delphi, can be a great a solution to this mess. The concept is pretty
simple: keep all the objects in RAM and serialize the commands that
change those objects, optionally saving the whole system to disk every
now and then (late at night, for example). [_Go_]
Now that's a cool concept. So I did the natural thing and went and
looked for the code. Since I'm a php-head, I figured that I'd look
there to start. Nope! According to SourceForge, "This project has
not released any files". Well I can get by in Perl so I thought "Ok,
not my preference but ok". Nope. Well I think Python is neat and
people I respect a lot like it. Additionally Guido has just plain
guts to make the decision he did regarding mandatory indentation.
Break conventions is hard so I figured I'd look at the Python version.
Nope! Well once upon a midnight dreary, ... (bag the mock Poe), I
did a lot of Pascal. Nope! It turns out that only the C# and Ruby
versions exist. I couldn't get the Smalltalk page to come up so I
don't have a clue there.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying anything about the concept but just
pointing out that this posting is essentially wrong on many of the
major details. And, sadly, it doesn't really surprise me at all.
100 years of solitude -- on crack01/22/2004 04:56 AM Latin America's McOndo literary movement drags the butterflies of
magical realism into Burger King. With Jorge Franco's narco-saga
"Rosario Tijeras," it may have found its first masterpiece.
A crack in DeLay's armor04/11/2005 10:36 AM Robert Novak's protestations notwithstanding, a Republican congressman
says it's time for the House majority leader to resign.
Ex-Crack Addict Gives $10K to Art Gallery (AP)
Ex-Crack Addict Gives $10K to Art Gallery (AP)07/22/2004 07:39 AM AP - A former burglar, alcoholic and crack addict has donated
$10,000 to the art gallery where he had panhandled for years after
inheriting $187,000 from his long-estranged mother.
Dvorak: I'm smoking crack
Dvorak: I'm smoking crack03/21/2003 01:36 PM Apple to
switch to Intel processors, at least according to John Dvorak in a
brief article over at PC Magazine. No mention in the article of the
massive amount of effort required to re-write every piece of
mac-compatible software for x86 architecture, or the unlikeliness of
developers to be willing to do so having just optimized for OSX, but
then, this piece seems to be mostly just bold, unsupported
predictions.
crack found in foam
crack found in foam04/07/2005 05:15 AM Usatoday.com - Wed Apr 6, 08:59 pm GMT
Madredeus On Crack: A Naifa09/14/2004 01:54 AM As God Is My Cleaning Lady:
Crypto-Fado For Bohemian Pagan Popsters. They can't play their
classical Fado guitars very well; they have a punky drummer and the
Fado singer not only smiles pouts and shakes her hips, but actually
seems to enjoy herself! What's become of this country? Are
they mad? Reckless, certainly. They call themselves A Naifa
and what they've done is taken a massive, ice-crunching Waring Pro
blender to all the sacred potions, fruits and flavours of Portuguese
traditional music and poured out a vulgar, shameless, disrespectful
and utterly delicious shambles of a Pop cocktail. Heresy in
old Lisbon? I nearly choked on my 30-year-old aguardente
velha, but then realized I was dancing merrily and had already
spilt most of it anyway. [Probably not fun for those
unfamiliar with the Fado. QuickTime required.]
3D holograms to crack forgeries
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signatures and other handwritten documents.
Micropatron follow-up report: how things went
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JFormDesigner is a WYSIWYG GUI designer for Swing
user interfaces. It is easy and intuitive to use
and provides a lot of powerful features.
JFormDesigner fully supports JGoodies FormLayout,
TableLayout, GridBagLayout, and other standard
layout managers. The advanced GridBagLayout
support allows the specification of horizontal and
vertical gaps (as in TableLayout), which makes
designing a form with consistent gaps using
GridBagLayout much easier.