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the all powerful dick

Here's one thing that's abundantly clear about the current administration: no one has the stones political capital to tell the Vice President to put down the goddamn gun until January of 2009.

verbiage

File under "the web creates unlimited column inches" and "where oh where have the editors gone" and "Q: How much do we love living in the first world? A: This much":  The Washington Post does 746 words on Hillary's cleavage, and Tidbits does 2,200 on something called SafeSleep.  ("Look, it's 2007 and I'm a Mac user; if I can't put my brand new computer to sleep and into its bag in less than 10 seconds, something is seriously wrong." Emphasis mine.)

slow news day

Worth reading.

housing shortage

File under irony: Berkeley Tree Sitters Accused of Vandalizing Trees.  "University of California officials are investigating whether tree-sitting protesters cut off the tops of trees on the Berkeley campus to give themselves more space."

you're doing it wrong

Jon Gruber on the reason 99% of email users will not live up to the Official Daring Fireball expectations for appropriate use of electronic mail:  "The fundamental source of poor email style is the practice of quoting the entire message you’re replying to."  I used to care about things like this.  Then I stopped caring...right around the time I stopped caring about whether people sent me email in plain text. Life's been a lot simpler ever since.

my iphone is doing it!

With apologies to Merlin, the top five reasons this cartoon makes me want to throw up a little.

1. Wife badgering husband.
2. Wife badgering husband about mowing the lawn.
3. Jeans in a hammock?  Plaid shirt?
4. The way the iPhone joke was inserted into a scenario that is just dying for a New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption contest.  (Except Radosh would have to change the contest to the Time Magazine Cartoon of the Week Anti-Caption contest.  Which would make the contest a lot less fun for everyone involved.)
5. The fact that one prominent blogger friend of mine who shall remain nameless (he told me this off the record) sees the cartoon as a form of insider commentary on a particular popular technology columnist.  I'll admit, though, that he was probably being "ironic."  Which is very un-iPhone, if you ask me.

rich kid

Valleywag: Rich kid gets declined at the iPhone counter.