Matt’s added onboard jabber/iChat support to MeFi! Crap! I will no longer accomplish a single personal goal.
Sacco
Eric at Fanta points out a new Joe Sacco piece published online by the Guardian as an 8-page PDF .
End of the day
Brian Chin posts to his P-I Buzzworthy blog, announcing that the online version of the P-I is abandoning their staged, time-based publication strategy (“dayparting”) after two years.
Sing it!
The Greatest Bus Driver in the World weighs in with the kind of blistering hometown critique that warms the cockles of my heart. I see your sucky Frisco, and I raise you by one Puget Sound! There’s nothing I love more than this kind of thing.
FREE AS IN BEER
Spence most kinely points out that a Seattle Public Library card entitles the bearer to free online access to certain tech books. Sweet!
WIUX
A hearty quack of welcome to WIUX. Wakka wakka wakka!
FWIW, I just had one of those sublime Apple experiences that constitute the technology world’s crack equivalent: I stumbled across our Airport Express for the first time since unlimbering our reciever/amplifer and thought, what the hell, might as well plug it in to see what happens. The led on the plug turned green, and I fired up iTunes with a stream from, as it happens, my parents’ classical station, the North Carolina-based WCPE, flipped the amp over to aux, and was rewarded with the magnolia-toned accent of the announcer welcoming a station in Bay City, Michigan. Easiest post-move technology experience yet.
Let’s hope the printer sharing is as sweet.
Geordie or Cylon?
MyVu personal media viewer, on show at MacWorld SF and slated to ship in March. For your video iPod.
Much more attractive, although these things are relative, than the single-eye version from a Seattle manufacturer I mocked earlier this month.
Hikikomori
Shutting Themselves In – New York Times. Young Japanese men retreat to bedrooms for years a time.
I can relate. Mom! Can I have some more ramen?
the pain
Tom has apparently conclusively established as fact what”s long been suspected: exercise is bad for you. Be sure to let us know what hospital you end up in, Tom!
Skepticism
Unsanity.org provides some shielding against the effects of the reality distortion field (via Manuel). Some valuable skepticism, but aslo some silly carping about New Things such as the built-in iSight and the remote. The writer’s analysis concludes that the new intelMacs were likely rushed into production and chalks up some of the downgraded features on the new machines to that. Sounds about right to me. I’m still considering flipping the current axe for one of the new machines. Better list on eBay soon, though. 😉