new macbook

well, the old seventeen inch monster of a g4 powerbook has finally been replaced. in its stead i am using a beautiful, and tiny (!), macbook. apple’s built-in migration utility makes moving to a new machine about as painless as this process could be: you just plug in your old machine and let them sit […]

Cloaca – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In birds the cloaca is also referred to as the vent, and among falconers the word vent is also a verb meaning “to defecate.”Excretory systems with analogous purpose in certain invertebrates are also sometimes referred to as “cloacae”.One study has looked into birds that use their cloaca for cooling. Cloaca – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia […]

Links for 8/31/07

Fill-in-the-Blanks – Designing Interfaces WTF Mac Store on Flickr – Photo Sharing! ongoing · Pantone’s Missed Chance Yahoo! Search – Directory Search Holding a Program in One’s Head Flickr: easykill’s photos tagged with wedding BBspot – Windows Vista Upgrade Decision Flowchart You may not see my receipt. – a thaumaturgical compendium Cryptomundo.com » Civil War […]

well, that’s over

any time a band this underground and this terrific gets a post on frigging uncrate of all places, you know they’ve officially lost their “indie” status. sigh: New Wave by Against Me!Angry, ballsy, and loud — that’s how we like our rock. Produced and mixed by Butch Vig of Nevermind fame, New Wave by Against […]

fake steve jobs on Acer and Gateway

So when I said recently that we need a good merger I really didn’t mean something as boring and unimportant as this Acer-Gateway deal. See here. Honestly, this is one of those deals where it’s like going to a wedding where the two ugliest losers you know are getting hitched. You’re happy for them, I […]