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iOS 4 Degrades Photos

Like millions of other sheeple, today I upgraded to , graciously provided by our benevolent overlords at Apple.

One problem I noticed is that after the upgrade, when I tried setting the wallpaper, all of the pictures I had had turned into their thumbnails, i.e., they were small grainy pictures. I could blow them up to full-screen size, but of course they lost a lot of resolution and generally looked like crap.

The fix turned out to be pretty easy: in iTunes→your iPod→Photos, uncheck the box that says “Sync Photos from”, and apply to delete all photos. Then check the box again and reapply. Evidently the pictures are still stored on the desktop, in glorious full resolution and everything. This reuploads them to the iPod.

Friday Playlist, World Cup Edition
  1. Colourbox – The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme
  2. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Africa Suite
  3. The Alan Parsons Project – Games People Play
  4. Peter Gabriel – Games Without Frontiers
  5. Tack>>head – The Game
  6. Queen – We Are the Champions
  7. Mojo Nixon – Not as Much as Football
  8. AC/DC – Big Balls
  9. Concerto No. 5 for Vuvuzela
Online Poll

Online polls are:

  • A reliable gauge of public opinion
  • Useless
  • PZ Myers
  • CmdrTaco
  • No
  • Needs more options
Sunday Playlist: Countdown
  1. Never Comes the Day, The Moody Blues
  2. Forever and a Day, The Offspring
  3. One Hundred Years, The Cure
  4. Sixteen Years, Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
  5. Eleven Years, New Model Army
  6. A Thousand Days, The Offspring
  7. A Thousand Hours, The Cure
  8. One Week, Barenaked Ladies
  9. 7 Days, Assemblage 23
  10. In Only Seven Days, Queen
  11. Six Days, The Dead Milkmen
  12. One of These Days, Pink Floyd
  13. The Day Before, Conflict
  14. Another Day, The Cure
  15. One Small Day, Ultravox
  16. Twenty Four Hours, Joy Division
  17. This Is the Day, The The
  18. Twenty Four Minutes from Tulse Hill, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
  19. Fifteen Minutes, Gravity Kills
  20. Five Minutes, Opposition
  21. Four Minutes, Roger Waters
  22. Two Minute Warning, Depeche Mode
  23. A Minute or Two, Mike Tabacco
  24. 88 Seconds in Greensboro, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  25. One More Minute, “Weird Al” Yankovic
  26. Seventeen Seconds, The Cure
  27. Sixteen Seconds to Choose, ABC
  28. Seconds, U2
  29. Any Second Now, Depeche Mode
  30. This Is the Day… This Is the Hour… This Is This!, Pop Will Eat Itself
Q&A Playlist
  • Are You Ready Eddy? – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Ready an’ Willin – Whitesnake
  • Are You Receiving Me? – XTC
  • Talking Loud and Clear – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  • So What Happens Now? – Art of Noise
  • We All Stand – New Order
  • What Time Is It? – Spin Doctors
  • 10:15 Saturday Night – The Cure
  • Where are the Prawns? – The Soft Boys
  • Down by the Sea – Men At Work
  • When Will I Awake? – Razed in Black
  • Wake Up (It’s 1984) – Oingo Boingo
  • Who’s Joe? – New Order
  • Just Call Me Joe – Sinead O’Connor
  • In the Flesh? – Pink Floyd
  • In the Flesh – Pink Floyd
  • You Know I Love You, Don’t You? – Howard Jones
  • I Believe – Tears for Fears
  • Why Don’t We Do It In the Road? – The Beatles
  • Because – The Beatles
  • Where Did Our Love Go? – Soft Cell
  • We Don’t Talk Anymore – Cliff Richard
  • Do You Want to Break Up? – Eurythmics
  • The Reason I Broke Up With You Is A Million Reasons You Psychotic Wang – Caustic
  • Who Was In My Room Last Night? – Butthole Surfers
  • Just A Girl – No Doubt
  • Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now? – The Wedding Present
  • Don’t Ask Me Why – Eurythmics
  • Do You Like Boys? – Freezepop
  • I Like Boys – Missing Persons
  • How Rapid? – Art of Noise
  • 125 MPH – New Model Army
  • Who’s That Girl ? – Eurythmics
  • Pauline – The Durutti Column
  • How Long? – Eurythmics
  • Seventeen Seconds – The Cure
  • Do You Like My Wang? – Freezepop
  • In A Manner of Speaking – Tuxedomoon
  • Was ist das rock’n’roll? – H.F. Thiéfaine
  • Sex, Money, Freaks – Cabaret Voltaire
  • Fun with Drugs – Velvet Acid Christ
  • Where’s the Money? – Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit
  • In the Car – Barenaked Ladies
  • Going Somewhere? – Laurie Anderson
  • They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Ha! – Napoleon Bonaparte XIV
  • What Do I Get? – The Buzzcocks
  • Ten Turntables and a Slide Trombone – DJ Madson
  • What Do You Know? – KMFDM
  • Gravitational Constant: G=6.67×108cm3gm-1sec-2 – Type O Negative
  • Why Must I Be Sad? – They Might Be Giants
  • Bela Lugosi’s Dead – Bauhaus
  • Who’s Laughing Now? – Skinny Puppy
  • That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore – The Smiths
  • Is That All? – U2
  • All of This and Nothing – The Psychedelic Furs
I Get Spam

I just saw this go by in the spam report.

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I love the way that although it’s all over the map, as though written by a random sentence generator, it nonetheless manages to teeter on the edge of intelligibility.

Or maybe I’m just easily amused.

Wednesday Playlist: Travel Edition

For a friend who’s flying off to a vacation in the Caribbean today:

  1. Viva! Sea-Tac, Robyn Hitchcock
  2. Music for Airports, Brian Eno
  3. Aéroplanes, Serge Gainsbourg
  4. The Night Flight from Houston, Laurie Anderson
  5. Jetstream, New Order
  6. Learning to Fly, Pink Floyd
  7. Fly Like An Eagle, Steve Miller Band
  8. Listen Over the Ocean, The Violet Eves
  9. The Beach, New Order
  10. Caribbean Blue, Enya
  11. Puerto Pollo, Michael Land
  12. Vacation, Freezepop
Pointless Playlist

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, but here’s a morsel until I can
post something more substantive:

  1. Faithless, Scritti Politti
  2. Fearless, VNV Nation
  3. Helpless, X Marks the Pedwalk
  4. Ruthless, Cabaret Voltaire
  5. Speechless, Laurie Anderson
  6. Useless, Depeche Mode
  7. Nevertheless, The Rutles
Foreign Word O’ the Day

The English language desperately needs the word “Backpfeifengesicht“,
meaning “a face badly in need of a fist”.

(from Cracked.com, item #7.)

PS: Yeah, I know UD says “slapped” instead of “fist”, but what the hell do they know?

Hello, Playlist!

Because I haven’t done one in a while, and because I still have some
DJ cred to demolish.

  • Say Hello, Laurie Anderson
  • Hello City, Barenaked Ladies
  • Hello Radio, They Might Be Giants
  • Hello, Hooray, Alice Cooper
  • Greetings From A Dead Man, Eurythmics
  • Greetings to the New Brunette, Billy Bragg
  • Hello, I Am Your Heart, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
  • Hello, I Love You, The Doors
  • Chamber of Hellos, Wire Train
  • Hello, Goodbye, The Beatles
  • Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, Soft Cell
  • Goodbye, Gravity Kills
  • Goodbye to the Village, Killing Joke
  • Goodbye Blue Sky, Pink Floyd
  • Sigh’s Smell of Farewell, Cocteau Twins
  • Adios, KMFDM
  • Adieu, Sweet Bahnhof, The Nits
  • Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, Led Zeppelin
  • 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Simon and Garfunkel
  • Bye Bye Love, The Cars
  • Leave in Silence, Depeche Mode
  • Leave Me Alone, New Order
  • Hello Again, The Cars
  • P.S. Goodbye, The Chameleons