“Most of us, of course, think we know what a depression looks like. Open a history book and the images will be familiar: mobs at banks and lines at soup kitchens, stockbrokers in suits selling apples on the street, families piled with all their belongings into jalopies. Families scrimp on coffee and flour and sugar, rinsing off tinfoil to reuse it and re-mending their pants and dresses. A desperate government mobilizes legions of the unemployed to build bridges and airports, to blaze trails in national forests, to put on traveling plays and paint social-realist murals.

Today, however, whatever a depression would look like, that’s not it. We are separated from the 1930s by decades of profound economic, technological, and political change, and a modern landscape of scarcity would reflect that.

What, then, would we see instead? And how would we even know a depression had started?”
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A very interesting read…

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“I know it is absurd to debate the rules of a reality that does not exist, but this genuinely irks me. You cannot kill a vampire with an MDF stake; werewolves can’t fly; zombies do not run. It’s a misconception, a bastardisation that diminishes a classic movie monster. The best phantasmagoria uses reality to render the inconceivable conceivable. The speedy zombie seems implausible to me, even within the fantastic realm it inhabits. A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.”
– Simon Pegg, The Guardian

I think it quite added to things like 28 Days Later, and the Resident Evil movies wouldn’t have been quite as action-movie as they were, but I have to agree. Bring back slow zombies!

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Microsoft has only just decided that the official name for Windows 7 is going to be “Windows 7″, and is already calling it something else.

“So we decided to ship the Windows 7 code as Windows 6.1 - which is what you will see in the actual version of the product in cmd.exe or computer properties.”
– Mike Nash, The Windows Blog 

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That was a bit weird.

I just ran into an unusual instance of Internet Explorer “doing things right” where Firefox is the non-compliant browser.

That doesn’t happen often. More here…

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The bus driver this morning had gone through that energy efficient driving course that lots of bus companies are doing lately. Top speed? 15 mph or so for all of 10 seconds. Did it make and difference to my journey time? Actually, no. It seems to work, in London at least.

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Minnie Ripperton, Deadmau5, and Soulwax in one DJ set? It could only be the next installment of the Unadopted Podcast, bubbling up and building until your ears almost pop. Get stuck in, turn it up loud, close your eyes, dance like an idiot, and don’t miss the incredible ending!

1. Röyksopp - Remind Me (DLake Remix v2)
2. The Ting Tings - That’s Not My Name (Doctor Werewolf Bmore Mix)
3. Minnie Ripperton vs Bambabounce - Loving You (DJ Yoda’s FabricLive.39 Bonus Beats Mix)
4. Soulwax - Miserable Girl (Nite Version)
5. Deadmau5 - Not Exactly
6. Justice - Phantom Pt2 (Soulwax Remix)

Listen now over at http://unadopted.co.uk/podcast/. If you haven’t already set it up, click the “Subscribe” link on the right-hand-side when you get there to get the podcast automatically delivered right into your iTunes or RSS reader whenever I release a new session!

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A lot’s changed recently, and as a result I’ve had to neglect a few things lately, this site being one of them.

The biggest change is that I’ve moved to London for the next year or so to work for Thomson Reuters, in Canary Wharf, which is turning out to be nothing short of awesome.

The dust is finally starting to settle, and I have internets and things back, so it’s time to stop neglecting this and the Unadopted Podcast.

More soon!

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The Unadopted Podcast does guitars! I was getting nostalgic for a time before the likes of Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, The Arctic Monkeys and all that dodgy chav-indie/cry-me-a-river-emo-bollocks. A time when you could go to a indie/rock night and you’d hear song after song after song of awesomeness. Did everyone forget about this stuff? Stick this in your noisemaker, and it’ll all come flooding back!

1. Queens Of The Stone Age - Little Sister
2. Hundred Reasons - What Thought Did
3. Idlewild - A Modern Way Of Letting Go
4. Nine Black Alps - Not Everyone
5. Vex Red - Itch
6. Hell Is For Heroes - You Drove Me To It
7. Kinesis - Billboard Beauty
8. OK Go - Get Over It
9. Ash - Burn Baby Burn
10. Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
11. The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So
12. The Strokes - Juicebox
13. Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors
14. Rival Schools - Used For Glue
15. The Music - The People
16. Muse - Futurism

Listen now over at http://unadopted.co.uk/podcast/. If you haven’t already set it up, click the “Subscribe” link on the right-hand-side when you get there to get the podcast automatically delivered right into your iTunes or RSS reader whenever I release a new session!

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Dear Lazyweb:

iSync has decided to stop opening for me. Syncing from the iSync menu doesn’t work either.

iSync appears and disappears in the Dock before it even gets a chance to bounce. Nothing in the console, and it doesn’t fire up CrashReporter to send a report to Apple.

Trashing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iSync.plist didn’t fix it.

Making it run under Rosetta didn’t fix it either.

I’m running OS X 10.5.2 and iSync.app 3.0 on a MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo).

Halp?

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