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Jan's Tumble
Pownce is gone, but I have to put all that virtual trash somewhere. Thus I declare this my new virtual waste dumb.
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» Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
THE FLIP SIDE OF TRAVIS BICKLE’S COIN
by Richard Retyi
Bringing Out the Dead offers one of the bleakest views of New York City in a movie not featuring Snake Plissken. Director Martin Scorsese is at an interesting point in his career. Both his parents are recently deceased (his father…
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“ Vom Eise befreit sind Strom und Bäche, Durch des Frühlings holden, belebenden Blick, Im Tale grünet Hoffnungs-Glück; Der alte Winter, in seiner Schwäche, Zog sich in rauhe Berge zurück. Von dorther sendet er, fliehend, nur Ohnmächtige Schauer körnigen Eises In Streifen über die grünende Flur; Aber die Sonne duldet kein Weißes, Überall regt sich Bildung und Streben, Alles will sie mit Farben beleben; Doch an Blumen fehlts im Revier, Sie nimmt geputzte Menschen dafür. Kehre dich um, von diesen Höhen Nach der Stadt zurückzusehen. Aus dem hohlen finstren Tor Dringt ein buntes Gewimmel hervor. Jeder sonnt sich heute so gern. Sie feiern die Auferstehung des Herrn, Denn sie sind selber auferstanden, Aus niedriger Häuser dumpfen Gemächern, Aus Handwerks- und Gewerbesbanden, Aus dem Druck von Giebeln und Dächern, Aus der Straßen quetschender Enge, Aus der Kirchen ehrwürdiger Nacht Sind sie alle ans Licht gebracht. Sieh nur, sieh! wie behend sich die Menge Durch die Gärten und Felder zerschlägt, Wie der Fluß, in Breit’ und Länge, So manchen lustigen Nachen bewegt, Und bis zum Sinken überladen, Entfernt sich dieser letzte Kahn. Selbst von des Berges fernen Pfaden Blinken uns farbige Kleider an. Ich höre schon des Dorfs Getümmel, Hier ist des Volkes wahrer Himmel, Zufrieden jauchzet groß und klein: Hier bin ich Mensch, hier darf ich’s sein.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust, Der Tragödie erster Teil
Faust, Der Tragödie erster Teil
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LT’s electric slide
the more i watch this, the more i want that gold shirt with the dinosaur on it.
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Stacks Overlays
Update #3: The link for the original icons has changed again. Grab them here. (Thanks Tim)
Update #2: The original links for the icons are down, so grab them at the new link here.
Update: Apparently the drawer icon zip files have now been updated to be pre-modified by touch, so all you should need to do now is drop them in the folder of the stack you want the drawer to represent. Optica Optima have also made some more drawer icons for us, including drawers for System, iDisk, AirDisk, Fonts, Aliases, Favourites and a bunch of others. Check them out here and download them here.
Stacks is pretty much Leopard’s only non-eyecandy change to the dock, and it had the potential to be pretty handy, but the fact that the icon representing the stack is whatever the top file in the folder happens to be really ruins it (for me at least). However, if you haven’t yet given up on stacks and thrown them off your dock, there is a solution: overlaying stacks icons.
In essence, these are just small-ish semi-transparent icons that are permanently our top icon. This picture explains it best (before & after):
Original post & creators of icons: here (Japanese, hence my post)
Download link: here
Now, to get the icons to stay on top of our stacks is a little tricky. First we obviously need to put the icons into the stacks folder(s). We could name the icon 0.app and sort by name to keep them up top, but this isn’t really practical for the Downloads stack, so we’re going to change the access modified date using the unix command touch. So open up Terminal and follow this example, replacing the location and name of the icon where neccessary.
cd ~/Downloadstouch -mt 202001010101.01 " Downloads "This will change the date modified of the icon to 1st January, 2020. Obviously you’ll need to change ” Downloads ” to whatever the folder/icon is named. The example is with the downloads stack but you can do it for any of them. Now just make sure your stack is sorting by date modified (ctrl-click/right-click the stack and Sort by:). Repeat for other stacks and enjoy.
For stacks like Documents and Applications, it’s better to sort by name. The icon folders come with spaces in the beginning so they should be on top when sorted by name automatically.
All credit for these icons goes to Optica-Optima.
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