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| Wednesday, November 28, 2001 |
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A 3-button salute with the invisible hand 
| | I wanted to buy a 3-button mouse to do Unix stuff on a Mac running OS X. So I looked up "3-button mouse OS X" on Google, got a link to Macsales.com, where I bought an XLR-8 mouse that works just fine for $19.95. That was Monday. It arrived today. The total with freight, $24.74. |
| | I'd never heard of Macsales (aka OWC or Other World Computing) or OLR before. But I'm glad to recommend them now. |
| | By the way, OS X has been up for about 18 days now, the uptime command tells me. That doesn't suck. In fact, I'm having a hard time finding anything that sucks. |
Steve speaks
| | "We're baffled that a settlement imposed against Microsoft for breaking the law should allow, even encourage, them to unfairly make inroads into education--one of the few markets left where they don't have monopoly," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said yesterday, it says here. |
Brush?
| | I suppose if Bush were to follow in FDR's footsteps, he could have signed an executive order authorizing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to round up Muslim Americans and force them into detention camps. |
| | He also invites the big guy to blog, which I think is a great idea. I wonder what he'd call it? |
| | (Unrelated: does anybody know how to link to an individual post on Andrew's blog? I can't figger it out.) |
Politics as Unusual
| | Some items from here and there: |
| | - Jim McGee of the Washington Post says Ashcroft anti-terrorist program is weakening long-term FBI effectiveness for short-term effects that haven't proven out.
- Maureen Dowd of the New York Times says the liberal pulse is insufficiently raised by the Ashcroft-led anti-terrorist moves that reduce civil liberties.
- And Ashcroft has reluctantly offered some accounting of the 641 people placed in custody since September 11.
- Also in the Times, Bill Safire blasts President Bush for assuming "distatorial powers."
- Dawn, a English language Pakistani newspaper, reports that Noam Chomsky has been stirring things up a bit there. Here's a story about his lecture (sponsored by Dawn). Here's a brief interview in the same paper. And here's some push-back by Inigo Thomas in Slate.
- More here in the Columbia Newsblaster.
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Jab on
| | Several posts have been tacked onto my Jabber piece over at the LJ site. Couple of blog items too, here and here. But the best responses so far have come by email. I'm hoping the authors will post those too. |
| | Later... Bill Kearney responded with this post here. Interesting metaphor in there, too. Check it out. |
Getting what you don't pay for
| | It seems that the "executive editor" over at clickz feels my articles as of late have been "off topic." Now, her picture aside, and the fact that I'm not being paid one fucking red cent for this gig being irrelevant, I would just love it to death if everyone would get off their asses and tell her that I'm the *only* one at ClickZ of any interest (outside of Usborne, that is). Her email is: mailto:rli-@internet.com |
It isn't whether you tie or lose, it's how you blow the game
| | The problem is that most companies don't get fresh, relevant, creative or silly when they get desperate. They get mean and conservative. They retreat to what they perceive as safe ground.... |
| | ... there's no shortage of examples: Blue Mountain Arts moving from a funky and personal site to a typical Browsable Taxonomy of Sentiment. Ford backing off its pledge to provide every employee with a free computer and an almost-free Net connection. ThirdVoice reinventing itself a supplier of third-party links (and then completely de-inventing itself in April of this year). Zaplet moving from providing way cool mail applets to the public to becoming a boring "enterprise software and services company." Gator moving from helpful sidekick to obnoxious, rude betrayer. Just about every company when it hits the 150-employee mark, and again when it nears $100M in revenues. |
| | Then he conspires with his readers to come up with a better metaphor: jump the slug. |
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