Midnight Cheese

According to Sitening, 150 people were lined up at the Green Hills Apple store around 2:30 this afternoon. They have photos of the event.

Update: It also looks like various companies are giving away products to those standing in line.

I’ve been using Wakoopa for a few weeks now, and to look at how much time I’ve spent on certain applications is starting to get scary. Seven hours manipulating code in Text Wrangler is crazy. Which is nothing compared to my Safari time. And that’s only time tracked at work!

Pownce will be the Twitter killer and Leah Culver will be the next big web-celeb. And in the process they might actually help Adobe’s AIR gain some traction.

Not far from work there’s a bar called El Dos de Oros that I’ve passed by many times in the mornings. This week the Nashville Scene’s cover story is a detailed look into this place described as the only true unsegregated place in town. With men, women, and transvestites of all ages and races, I think the Scene may be right. The article is worth a read if you’re at all familiar with that part of town.

Sunday I spectated at the Tennessee Region SCCA Solo 2 event at the Nashville Super Speedway. They featured a very wide range of participating cars, including a few Vettes, which up until then I had never seen any Corvette driver show off their power. Most Corvette owners are very reserved when you see them rolling down the interstate.

I think my brother and I will check out the next event in July. Hopefully after that I might have the nerve to run my car. It looks like some serious fun.

Here’s a link to my Flickr photo set from the event.

Playing with Google Street View around Miami I found my high school bus stop, the canal we went fishing out of countless times, my middle school, and the pizza place we ate at almost every day for off-campus lunch at South Miami High.

It’s 89 degrees in the office today which makes getting things done less than easy. As a result, here are a few things that have caught my eye today.

The new WebKit inspector is all over the place and a very fine inspector it is. Lots of visual goodness in terms of loading time and file size. Not to mention the excellent CSS browser.

I’ve been trying to use Last.FM, but I must just not understand it. I open the player, search for tags, press play, and nothing happens. I keep getting ‘There’s not enough content to play… blah blah blah.’ I must be doing something wrong. I want to like it and use it, but it mocks me.

On the way to work this morning I caught The Polyphonic Spree doing a cover of Nirvana’s Lithium. At first I just said, “OMG, no… Why?” but once the chorus hit, I couldn’t get enough. (Not surprisingly, this has been my reaction with their original songs as well.) I suggest giving it a listen.

The Imagination Network was one of the earliest pre mainstreem internet online communities where people could come together to chat, play games, and post to message boards. DOS based, INN (originally developed by the fine folks at Sierra) boasted one of the first MMORPGs, email, and was very family oriented. Started in the early 90s, it was eventually acquired by AOL and shutdown in 1995.

12 years later, a group of folks have begun a resurrection of INN that lets users run the original client software in nearly all its glory. This team has managed to reverse engineer the client software to determine the original network protocol. Some features still are not functional, but the game-play and software interaction is exactly as it was back in the day. Sound and all. 

INN users were very passionate about the network and the community that supported it. INN was my first experience with an online community and something I’ll always miss. This resurrection will make a lot of former INNers very happy!

Below are screenshots from active game-play running on the INN Revival servers. You can download INN and learn more about the project at INN Revival.