Jarrett House NorthSecond verse, same as the first.

Running winexe on the Mac – Mac OS X Hints Open source command line tool for executing shell commands on a Windows box from a *nix (or Mac OS X) host. (tags: macosx)

Obama: The catastrophe president – How the World Works – Salon.com The intersection between policy, economics, the deficit fight, and global warming just got real. (tags: politics obama)

H-P’s One-Year Plan – WSJ.com How to commit corporate suicide. Hopefully they can turn it around. (tags: hp business) Steve: Who’s Going to Protect Us From Cheap and Mediocre Now? | Monday Note Nice salute to Steve Jobs from Jean-Louis Gassée. (tags: stevejobs) What Not to Do in a Debt Crisis : The New Yorker [...]

Taken at 6 am this morning. Gonna be a long day.

Well, here we are again, in the middle of a storm. So far, knock wood, it’s been a lot of rain and very little wind, but this will be the day that Massachusetts really gets it. So I threw together some music to weather the hurricane by. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – Bob Dylan (The [...]

End of summer is happy mix time. Now that I’m putting out only two mixes a year, it seems like one is downbeat and the other is happy. Lots of fun tunes in here, including a rare Shannon Worrell track that I had to pull off a 17 year old cassette tape. Moonlight In Glory [...]

Hurricane Tracker – NYTimes.com Killer interactive visualization of the path of Irene. (tags: nytimes hurricane) You’re the ones – Marc Hedlund’s blog Important lesson in leadership from Steve Jobs. (tags: stevejobs apple) Daring Fireball: Resigned John Gruber points out that last night’s announcement is inevitable and has been heavily foreshadowed. That doesn’t make it less [...]

Strategy, Innovation and the Need for Experiments — On Product Management I’d argue that the willingness to experiment is not only at risk in large corporations. (tags: business strategy) Scripting News: Huntsman is becoming a blogger, etc Interesting discussion of how a blogging perspective, or at least a willingness to call bullshit, would really help [...]

Symbolic Violence Beats Lava Lamps All To Pieces Yet another reason to work at Veracode. Here, if a web developer breaks the build, thy just get a rubber chicken in their cube. (tags: humor development) Arthur Rimbaud’s Brief Career : The New Yorker Interesting overview of Rimbaud; would be interesting to check out the Ashbery [...]

Ah, late August. The temperatures are still high (well, high by Boston standards, anyway–growing up, 83° was more like a warm fall afternoon) but you can tell summer is getting to be a little long in the tooth. For starters, the tomatoes are starting to come in. We only have a handful of tomatoes on [...]

What they’re “protecting” us from – Anil Dash “So, who is this man? He’s the anchor baby of an activist Arab muslim who came to the U.S. on a student visa and had a child out of wedlock. He’s a non-Christian, arugula-eating, drug-using follower of unabashedly old-fashioned liberal teachings from the hippies and folk music [...]

I got a digital download the other day from the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. It contained what I’ve jokingly been calling my Historian’s Christmas present–high resolution scans of ten artifacts from the Glee Club’s archives, which have been donated to Special Collections over the years and have therefore been less [...]

Memetic tees – Sprawl I dig the Tessier-Ashpool IT Department tshirt; I just wish the fonts weren’t so cheesy. (tags: williamgibson)

David Byrne’s fake iPhone apps – Boing Boing I want the Invisible Me app. (tags: humor davidbyrne iphone) Origins of the debt showdown – The Washington Post Laying bare the deliberate calculations that led the GOP to force the US to the brink of default and an unprecedented downgrade in its creditworthiness. (tags: economy politics)

Cook Salmon Sous-Vide in Your Kitchen Sink for No-Fuss, Healthy Eats Much more sensible than cooking the fish in the dishwasher. (tags: cucina)