Ölbaum’s Delirium

That’s outrageous:

Release dates for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

UK, Australia

28 April 2005

USA, Canada

29 April 2005

Brazil, Latvia, Switzerland (Italian speaking region)

3 June 2005

Austria, Croatia, Germany, Switzerland (German speaking region)

9 June 2005

Denmark, Norway

12 August 2005

Belgium, France, Switzerland (French speaking region)

17 August 2005

The delay is probably due to the Frech translators but we already know they’ll do a terrible job¹ so why bother spending so much time on it?

(Source: IMDb)

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I'm pretty sure this is new in Safari 1.3: if you hold the Command key while clicking a form submit button, or type Command-Return in a form field, the form is submitted in a new tab. It's a great feature I've missed for a long time.

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When all else fails, just edit the binary. From Mac OS X Hints.

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Dave Hyatt posted a response to some Safari 1.3 comments:

(1) The feed URL dialog that tells you 10.4 must be installed to view RSS feeds is simply a bug and not part of a master plan for global domination.

Well, if there had been more than two feed: URLs on the whole Internet to test Safari with, I’m sure this bug wouldn’t have happened.

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Word of the day on April 12, 2005 by Cambridge Dictionary Online:

disembowel
to remove the stomach and bowels from a dead animal, or to kill a person in this way, especially in the past as a punishment.

I think we could have figured out on our own that it was not as a reward.

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Metric and that other thing graph paper in any shape you can think of, Cartesian, polar, logarithmic, …

via Michael Tsai

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Testing the new links category by linking to a friend’s site.

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Look at the image below and guess how a company can push the odds towards losing my business:

Answer: by sending me an advertisement written in German using Comic Sans.

Of course, Microchip is not risking much because its PIC microcontrollers are nifty little toys.

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