A new play and edits to two others. These are part of my “10 10 Minute Plays” project that I am in the midst of (currently just wrote 3 pages of play number four, tentatively titled “The Giant’s Head). One of the points to these plays is to write highly imaginative plays requiring a great …
Technorati Tags: writer’s strike, capitalism, fairness, new media
A cold New York night. December. The line snaked city blocks. Feet cold. Bodies bushing and the smell of naked greed permeates the air: West 14th Street Apple Store Opening, December 7, 2007 The odds (percentages? probabilities? I’m a little fuzzy on the differences between the terms) were good to win something expensive like a …
Smell that french fry aroma . . . Biodiesel Takes to the SkyBecause Piety does NOT equal Morality . . . Preacher Refusing to Answer Questions in Senate Investigationand Mitt’s Pious BullshitBecause Wil Wheaton makes fun of Wesley Crusher–and does it with genuine love and talent . . . “Wheee! I’m in Starfleet!”I’m going …
Seeing as I have been posting about my new operating system, I think this video is entirely appropriate:
Via SF Signal
(Update: oh, and by the way, Donny Osmond = freakin’ brilliant!)
Technorati Tags: donny osmond, nerdy, seth green, weird al, youtube
Hmm, any wonder why so many people in so many places see the US as an arrogant, lawless, and rogue nation?
US says it has right to kidnap British citizens – Times Online : AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States. A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.
(via BoingBoing)
Technorati Tags: united states, rendition, kidnapping, lawlessness
Leopard has lots of new, cool, nifty new things. And, I will admit it here and now, the shelf on the dock is not nearly as bad as I thought. I have tweaked mine to be a bit darker, however, by using one of the downloads from LeopardDocks.com. However, there are some things missing. Namely, …
So far so good. I did a clone of my drive with SuperDuper, booted from it to ensure it was working, then did an “archive & install” of Leopard. Other than a few programs needing updating, a few Mail add-ons getting broken (which I expected) everything has gone smoothly and all my programs seem to be working well. Shutting down is really fast with the new OS, while booting up doesn’t seem as fast as I might have expected. Some programs definitely open faster, other’s don’t seem to be all that effected (Pages seems rather slow to open, which surprises me).
A few quibbles with how Leopard handles my Airport Extreme shared drives, and I’ll probably be tweaking the dock, but overall things seem good with the new install.
Technorati Tags: leopard, os x, operating system
Technorati Tags: cat
The more I find out about bottled water and the environmental and human costs that producing bottled water incur, the more I am convinced that we – and by “we” I mean “I” – need to make some changes. Tonight I attended a meeting of my food coop and one of the items up for …