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This could be the next Vice President of OUR COUNTRY? I'm speechless.

Watch for yourself, and decide how the Sarah Palin in the Republican National Convention compares to THIS Sarah Palin, only a few months ago!

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My FALL '08 TV Shows
Prison Break, Season 4 - Sep 1, 2008
The Shield, Season 7 - Sep 2, 2008
Bones, Season 4 - Sep 3, 2008
Entourage, Season 5 - Sep 7, 2008
True Blood, Season 1 - Sep 7, 2008
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Season 2 - Sep 8, 2008
Fringe, Season 1 - Sep 9, 2008
Californication, Season 2 - Sep 15, 2008
It's Always Sunny in PC, Season 4 - Thu, Sep 18, 2008
Heroes, Season 3 - Mon, Sep 22, 2008
How I Met Your Mother, Season 4 - Sep 22, 2008
The Mentalist, Season 1 - Sep 23, 2008
Family Guy, Season 7 - Sep 28, 2008
Dexter, Season 3 - Sep 28, 2008
The Unit, Season 4 - Sep 28, 2008
Life, Season 2 - Sep 29, 2008
Chuck, Season 2 - Sep 29, 2008
Dirty Sexy Money, Season 2 - Oct 1, 2008
Numb3rs, Season 5 - Oct 3, 2008
Doctor Who, Season 4 - Dec 25, 2008

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Mozilla has a VERY cool looking application/framework/plugin for Firefox. It's called Ubiquity, and you MUST watch the video. It takes a Quicksilver style approach (but with a more humanistic feel) to web mashups. You can quickly call up a contextual command window, and plot addresses in Google Maps, copy/paste the image (automagically) into an email. You're also able to use it to plot out addresses from Craigslist onto Google Maps. The list goes on and on, with things like: Posting to Social networking sites, looking up selected text in Wikipedia or dictionaries, translating text in the browser. With Ubiquity, you can easily do all of these things, within the context of the browser. You never have to leave the page you're in – and it easily helps you move through the sites required.

Think of it as a mashup of Spotlight (Mac OS X), Quicksilver (Mac OS X), and Yahoo Pipes all rolled into a simple interface that anyone can write additional commands and plugins for. There's also many ideas from the Flock Social Browser (based on Firefox), condensed to a lightweight plugin with heavyweight features.

You really need to watch the video to get a feel for it. It's really, really cool.

I have one BIG gripe about the new 2.0 software for my iPod Touch:
  SYNCING takes FOREVER!!!

Ugh! Often, when I want to sync my iPod, I also happen to be getting ready to walk out the door. Unfortunately Apple doesn't seem to understand this concept, because thanks to the new 2.0 software, iTunes has to BACKUP my iPod, then Sync my applications, then it gets around to syncing my music... and when all those things are done, then it sync my contacts, etc.

This is VERY aggravating. I don't have five minutes to stand around waiting. They need to allow it's users to temporarily disable any of the sync "features" on the fly.

http://www.boweryballroom.com/calendar/show/1674/
http://www.last.fm/event/649267

This month I will finally get to see The Walkmen perform live. I've loved this group for a long time, but I never had an opportunity to see them in FL. When I moved up here, I really thought I'd be going to see these guys regularly. They're a NYC band, and they used to play here all the time, but they rarely play around here anymore. Practically since I moved up here two years ago, they've been involved in lots of projects that keep them out of the city. One big reason is because they moved their studio, Marcata, from a cool location in Harlem to this farmhouse way up-state.

On Monday night, August 18, 2008, I will see them at The Bowery Ballroom in the Lower East Side. The Muslims are opening for them, as well as Frances. I'm actually looking forward to the opening acts too. Frances is good (they're from Brooklyn), and The Muslims (from SanDiego) sound like I might enjoy them as well.

I'll post photos/video and a review after the show.

I don't know if I thought this was funny because I identify with it (I use my Blackberry and iPod Touch this often) or if it's envy/jealousy because I don't have an iPhone yet. Regardless, it's pretty funny.

That's a screenshot of a funny FONT that I uploaded to my Flickr photostream today. (You can click on it to go to Flickr, to see it larger)

I stumbled upon this font today while sifting through my libraries. It looked like odd splotches initially, but closer inspection revealed so much more. This what I found after spreading out the tracking and zooming in to a larger size.

WTF!?!?!? This is from Linotype!
(btw, it's called "LinotypeFactsOfLife")

Also, sorry about the 1024 pixel max width. My monitor is 1920 wide, but I let my "Pro" designation lapse on Flickr – so it's only *displaying* 1024 for everything until I pay them again.

Here's a great application/tool I use on my Mac EVERY DAY.

It's called "Visor" and it provides a systemwide terminal window that is accessible via a hotkey. Triggering the hotkey causes a windowless/frameless terminal window to slide/roll down from the top of your screen, similar to games like Quake. I believe this concept actually started in Quake. I still remember using it in the original Quake -- and QuakeGL, TeamFortress, etc. Those were the good old days. The beginning of GOOD GL gameplay, and GOOD network game play.

I really need to figure out what's wrong with the reported time in each listning on my "Recently Listened" block on the left side of the page. I made the block to display my recently scrobbled tracks (songs I've played that were reported to Last.fm).