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i read this article in the NYT today (it's been in several other papers, but this was the first story I'd seen where the story was developed ( Read more... )

five hours with OS X and I'm wondering how I used Windows for 10 years and didn't switch until now

it's amaaaazing.

everything is so well thought out!

and two-finger right-click is actually even more convenient than having the extra button

(shiny MBP C2D)

I've liked Obama for a long time. (OK, not nearly as long as Google or Harry Potter... but at least since 2003, and then a large jump in 2004 after his DNC speech ( Read more... )

a part of me is unbelievably gleeful at the prospect of taking the government back from the republicans who have done such an unbelievably shitty job of running the country. in about one week, that part of me is probably going to start crying with relief ( Read more... )

i've heard it so many times i'm terribly cynical about it now, but then someone like Jim Kim comes along (michael wrote an awesome entry about it, go check it out) and then it's all like ( Read more... )

if you dribble past five defenders, it isn’t called sheer prose
poets are the unacknowledged thingwaybobs

poetry is all the juicy bits in the juiciest order
poetry is jellied religion

prose goes scchhpludd
prose goes scchhpludd scchhpludd clomp clomp clomp

( source )

a case in point ( Read more... )

facebook updated its home page for logged-in users somewhere around 30 minutes ago (at 1am). it also updated its profile pages ( Read more... )

edit: i had some lj issues (entries never appearing on friend pages) so i'm reposting.

so i wrote this weeks ago a month ago but never published it b/c it seemed a little frivolous. well, today now i'm being backed up by the NYT (Throw Your Tweezers Away, full text available here) AND that story is was the most popular of the day-- so now at least ( Read more... )