One user wrote: “From what I can tell it looks like every Zune 30 on the planet has suddenly crashed. Is this a virus? A glitch? A time bomb? A disgruntled Microsoft employee? Planned obsolescence to make us buy a new one? Or just a terrorist plot to drive the free world crazy?”
via The Day [...]
Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it. “Barack The Magic Negro” and Palm Beach aryanists are just the more bizarre manifestations of a party that has wallowed for so long in the privileges of its [...]
“When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old Macs and other stuff. I said, ‘Get it away!’ and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford. If you look backward in this business, you’ll be crushed. You have to look forward.”
via 25 Years [...]
I use TextMate for just about everything: Skytap Virtual Lab, processing random text files, storing notes and thoughts…you name it. I just heard about the new “TextMate killer” for the Mac from the creators of CSSEdit and gave it a try. The app, Espresso is super-pretty, but seemingly limited at the moment. Here’s an example.
Opening [...]
Every year around this time, I start thinking that I need to do some cleanup on my personal website. It kinda-sorta happens eventually, but it seems to trickle in over the course of December, January, February and March, culminating in April when I’m sick of having three separate designs scattered about my website. Sigh, here [...]
Vanity Fair has an oral history of the Bush 43 years up online.
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I just finished installing Windows 7 Beta 1 into a VM on my Mac, and I find it to not only be inoffensive, but actually quite nice! Well worth the hour or two necessary to get it up and running, especially if you’re using Vista
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The Boston Globe has a retrospective of the best 120 photos of 2008 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) up on Boston.com. I highly recommend looking at all of them, but if you don’t have the time, here are my favorites:
Lighting above a volcano
Space shuttle Discovery lifts off
Ski jumping in Czech Republic
An equestrian take on [...]
It snowed here in Seattle starting in the wee hours of the morning. I woke up from a thunderclap around 5:30AM, and then heard another one a few minutes later. We’ve only received a couple inches, but that’s still enough to tank the whole city. Check out how well the bus I take to and [...]
From Thomas Hawk:
It works like this: if you use Flickr, go to the sixth page of your photostream and pick the sixth picture there, then post it to your blog.
Far be it from me to not follow a meme:
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