Day: November 5, 2004

Konfabulator for Windows? Uh, It’s Called DesktopX

Slashdot had an article today about the Konfabulator folks getting closer to finishing their port of their software to Windows? But why?

Windows users who really care about customizing everything and adding Konfabulator-style widgets are already using Stardock’s WindowsBlinds and/or DesktopX (in fact a lot of Stardock fans get pissed off at articles claiming that Konfabulator is unique and imply that sort of functionality is only available on Macs — espeically since DesktopX was out about three years before Konfabulator).

Maybe they know something I don’t, but porting Konfabulator to Windows seems like a major waste of time and resources given the rather large following that Windows Blinds/Desktop X has.

Lovecraft Filking

Finished watching Trekkies 2 last night for the fifth time in two days, and was Googling for more information about one of the Star Trek theme bands they featured, when I ran across Terence Chua’s filk site.

Chua has written some of the coolest songs ever as far as I’m concerned, especially his Cthulhu-themed filk songs. Anyone who would write a Lovecraftian filk song to the tune of Abba’s “Fernando”, like Chua’s Do You Hear the Pipes, Cthulhu? (MP3) does, deserves a record contract in my opinion. Chua’s Lovecraftian parody of “Banned from Argo”, Banned from Arkham, is also hilarious.

And even his non-filk songs, such as Terrorists At My Homework (MP3) demonstrates an awesome twisted genius.

Khhhaaaannnn!