stumbled across this “duh” of a hack to allow up/downgrading (depending on your perspective) of a more premium version of windows 7 to a less premium version.  why would you do this? if you were running a beta or rc version of windows 7 you can “upgrade” to a retail edition without wiping the system. […]

Ho Ho Ho!  Merry Non-Denominational Winter Holiday! As we teased last week, here’s the full archive of all 50 light textures that we’ve posted in two parts (you can check out previews of part one here, and part two here).  But, because you waited patiently and were such good little boys and girls, we bundled […]

this theme is one that i ran on a fake news site that was part of a RPG erin and i were running over the summer based on a novel we were/are working on.  the name of the news site was The Harbinger and it specialized in reporting news relevant to the vampire/werewolf underworld.  the […]

for a long time i’ve been looking for a green hosting solution for all of our sites and the sites that we maintain.  with the wordpress 2.9 update, i discovered my blog suddenly had an out of memory error.  memory issues on 1and1 is something that have been known and blogged/posted about for a long time. […]

Continuing the light texture pack we started last week, here’s the 2nd half of the light textures we shot. As with our other texture packs, all images are high resolution JPGs. You can click the thumbnails below for a resized version. All our textures are released under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Share-Alike license. Click […]

with the latest s3quence mix, i finally fixed stuff up to officially podcast teh s3quence.  i had attempted it once before, but the enclosures were getting all messed up from my download permalinks, so that’s been cleared up thanks, in part, to spiral web consulting‘s podcasting plugin.  it’s not in the itunes store (they actually […]

even scrooges occasionally listen to christmas music.  it’s just that our taste in christmas music is occasionally a bit twisted.  every year i make a playlist for the holidays.  here’s the latest incarnation with some of the staples that hang around year after year. 01 john lennon, happy christmas (war is over) 02 the pretenders, […]

via YouTube – Ex-Microsoft employee remembers the last sound he heard at Microsoft: Bing!.

if you were wondering wtf happened to twitter last night (and, like me, you use a client as opposed to logging into the actual site, so rather than seeing the screen above, you just saw an API timeout error), twitter was hacked.  mashable’s got the digs here and here. now, sure, we should be up in arms […]

This cute holiday blogger template is called Let It Snow because it’s covered in snowflakes and because I have found myself singing that song waaay too many times around the house lately. It’s blue and white, a little bit scrapbook and a little bit gift wrap, and quite charming for the holidays, or just the […]

Inspired by this Wired How-To guide on camera toss photos, and it being that time of year with the Christmas tree all decorated with lights, I thought it would be fun to experiment with the idea, and also make some cool textures for backgrounds for holiday cards or wallpapers.  Such is the story behind this […]

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax To Tour Together | Billboard.com. i have one thing to say about this (besides what i tweeted, which was repeating @mmmaiko‘s comment of um, isn’t this like 20 years late?) Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich is quoted saying: Who would have thought that more than 25 years after its inception, thrash metal’s […]