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Check out this panoramic view of the world from the new space station. Worth several times a thousand words.more…

There’s a new script on my scripts page. I used it to write this news item. It posts the current text from TextEdit as a News Item. It’s called TextEdit2ManilaNews. Enjoy.
Also, there have been updates to my first script, TextEdit2Blog, and to ManilaHandler. Performance improvements in TextEdit2Blog, and made it dependent on ManilaHandler. And [...]

OK, so I feel less bad for having referred to Bush’s speeches about going to war in Afghanistan as ‘The Rhetoric of Failure‘ now that I’ve read Safire’s editorial in the Times today. I’ve talked with a lot of people about the PATRIOT act that got ramrodded through Congress and about the suspension of [...]

My friend Pam just sent me this link. I’m appalled, but not so appalled that I’m not sharing it with you. And Pam, just exactly why did you think I should show this to my Mom??

More comments from Pam on the Vermonty.com link:
“Those guys were on the Today show yesterday and their site had so many hits afterwards that the site crashed several times, they are on a bigger server now. The calendar is very tasteful, and they use all the proceeds to fix up their community center. They [...]

Got this list in an email from our friends at the Wine Bottega (who still don’t have a Web site; hmm, maybe I should do something about that). It’s excerpted from Wallpaper magazine:
Buying Wine
There’s one golden rule when purchasing wine: buy it by the box. No, we’re not talking about wine in a box [...]

Currently playing song: “Feel the Pain” by Dinosaur Jr. on Without a Sound.

Hi all. Looking back over the last few days, I’m pretty happy with the format change experiment. I’m updating more frequently and it’s easier to go and pull all related stories together (I used to have to update the topic pages by hand, and probably will continue to have to do so a [...]