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Viva, Fox, and the Democrats

Was just checking out Fox Indonesia’s website and read the profile of its big guns.

I can say most people who pay attention to these things would know about it already but if you haven’t, check out the profiles. Yes, Fox Indonesia is run by the Mallarangeng brothers, probably the biggest family name in Indonesian politics right now.

Andi is the President’s spokesperson and senior consultant in the company, Rizal pretended to run for president but now bats for the (Indonesian) Democrats, and less publicly known Choel is the CEO.

This firm that advises the Democrats has a CEO who runs a news portal that is part of a media group that happens to be partially owned by the Star TV network which is part of a media empire better known as Fox.

Am I stretching it? 😀

If it’s all too serious for ya, check out this page. By the way, Jasmine Valentine kind of looks like this guy.

update: One Google search later revealed Rizal also runs the group’s news portal as President Commissioner. ‘Scuse me for forgetting this 6 month old tidbit.

Tumblr is most satisfying if you can give up a bit of the self-hosting/self-built motivations. It’s hard for programmers. (Even was for me.)

Reward: you don’t have to build it or maintain it or upgrade it yourself, and you get features that self-hosted/built platforms can’t offer.

Marco Arment

Flash CS4 even breaks its web safe palette

adobegripes:

As if the Flash CS4 colour palette could get any worse… the crappy “web safe” colours are not even correct. I’d say I was shocked but really there are so many UI fuckups in that version that nothing surprises me anymore and I haven’t even started on that font menu which is horrendous.

Thanks Aldorr and Tim

Flash CS4 even breaks its web safe palette

marco:

Normally I’d take the extra 30 seconds to pixelate someone’s last name and personal email address, but I don’t think someone who would send this email to a stranger about a free web service will mind.

Most of the emails I get are very nice, but occasionally one slips through that makes me question what, exactly, convinced someone that writing and sending it would be productive.

(For whatever it’s worth, here are my browser stats from the month before I started displaying the not-supporting-IE message.)

The story behind the end title sequence of Wall•E

Interview with the guys who did WALL•E’s end title images

These images are the real ending to the movie. The epilogue, if you will, told across artistic styles that span across the ages

via daring fireball

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Father and Child

Conversation between a father and his child.

Child: “Dad, is God a man or a woman?”
Father: “hmmm… God is both a man and a woman”
Child: “ So is God black or white?”
Father: “hmmm… God is both black and white”
Son: “I knew it! I knew all along God is Michael Jackson! So this is what Nietsche meant when he said God is dead”

via @gueriza

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