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Interesting looking blog on using your Mac without too much clutter. Something I try to do, so I'm going to keep an eye on this one.
Finally, Microsoft creates a clean, modern look that competes with Apple’s finely designed Mac OS X Leopard.
I'm looking forward to checking out Windows 7. I'm one of the eight people on the planet who like Vista, so, I guess I'll like anything ;)
But the rumor — which has come up at Congressional town-hall-style meetings this week in spite of an avalanche of reports laying out why it was false — was not born of anonymous e-mailers, partisan bloggers or stealthy cyberconspiracy theorists.
Rather, it has a far more mainstream provenance, openly emanating months ago from many of the same pundits and conservative media outlets that were central in defeating President Bill Clinton’s health care proposals 16 years ago, including the editorial board of The Washington Times, the American Spectator magazine and Betsy McCaughey, whose 1994 health care critique made her a star of the conservative movement (and ultimately, New York’s lieutenant governor).
What? But this is grassroots-fucking-dumbshit-douchbaggery! How dare it be orchestrated by people who....
what's that? Oh, right, right, I forgot. It's theater, not democracy.
It's really sad that because a couple thousand people stand to lose a couple thousand million dollars, they'll make shit up instead of try and come up with logical arguments against the reform (and trust me, logical arguments exist).
Funny as the theater is, we should probably be having real discussions about health care in this country. Kind of sad that we can't.
As of yesterday, FriendFeed is now part of Facebook. Very smart acquisition on Facebook's part, but I worry that I'll lose an open service that I've come to like.
Notice the overuse of the color red, and the phrase "so-called?"
Yep. No subtle manipulation or suggestion there. None at all.
What's interesting about these sales is that they follow a torrent (pun intended) of pirated downloads from a leaked version of the game prior to release. Rather than lamenting the piracy, EA execs suggested that internally, they shifted the viewpoint to seeing the leaked version as an "extended demo." The reason behind this was the sheer volume of additional content exclusive to registered users that didn't ship on the retail disk.
Fascinating approach to digital piracy.
This is a fascinating concept. I really need to pay more attention to Kevin Kelly; how do we conceptualize the internet? how do we "map" it, so we can navigate it successfully?
I've been trying to think of how I do this for the past half hour. I think for me the internet is just a giant bucket, and I send in little seeker-bots to do my bidding and find me information.
This guy takes my kind of photography. If you're not following DDOI, you should be.
There’s no question that retailers sell tens of millions of cheap Windows laptops every year. But no one with a pair of eyes thinks such machines are of comparable quality to Apple MacBooks. Even without turning the machines on, anyone can see the difference in design and build quality. In fact, you don’t even need eyes — just pick them up and see which one squeaks. Apple is selling more MacBooks every quarter. Microsoft thinks it is sitting pretty because Best Buy has a 17-inch Dell for $650.
What Gruber highlights here ( http://daringfireball.net/2009/07/microsofts_long_slow_decline ), which is of course something that Microsoft knows but won't say publicly, is that the majority of the people buying PCs right now are the people who can't afford to buy Macs.
I also get a chuckle out of hearing the "but the screen is bigger" thing from the bargain hunter PC ads. I just moved from a 15" MacBook Pro to the 13-ish-inch MacBook Air. Love it. A 17" screen on a 15lb laptop is a curse, not a blessing.
