From the monthly archives:

August 2004

Holla!

8/30/2004

Yeah, yeah! What what? This is probably what CompuServe had in mind when they invented the gif.

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Boot into Pong on Your Mac

8/30/2004

Yes, this is as stupid as it sounds. It worked as advertised on my Dual G4 Quicksilver Mac. Save this text file to your Mac’s root directory. Then, on reboot, hold down Command+Option+O+F

You’ll see some funky text on your screen… mine was super tiny.

Then, type:

boot hd:\ofpong.txt

This makes use of Apple’s Open Firmware (hence the O+F) and runs the Pong program (which is coded in Forth) by parsing the text file in your root directory. Hooray for the geeks that thought of this one!

Control+Z to quit, then type ‘bye’ and press RETURN to reboot back into your MacOS.

Get the text file and more info from here.

pong.gif

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Make the Starship Enterprise Out of a Floppy Disk!

August 30, 2004

This is amazing, and not only for the fact that someone thought this up. The real beauty is in the little pictures that accompany the instructions. They’re small, simple, and perfect!
My only complaint is that I don’t have floppies any more.
Make Your Own Starship Enterprise

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Dodge Darts

August 29, 2004

This is what happens when you spend hours tracing a Dodge Dart in Illustrator using the Pen Tool only to find out that it’s easier to use Photoshop. You can find out how I made this by reading the extended entry.

I took this picture here in LA on the set of an independent film, using [...]

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The Case of the Missing Twist Tool

August 9, 2004

Hey, what happened to the Twist Tool in Illustrator CS? You know. The one that interactively twists stars into pinwheels. I rarely use it. But the few times that I do, it proves invaluable.
It seems that the twist tool has been supplanted by the twirl tool, which behaves in a completely different way. I want [...]

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