From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Keys to the Kingdom

February 25, 2009 Reading
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My Kindle arrived yesterday. First impressions were not quite up to the technolust I feel when opening a box “Designed by Apple in California,” but pretty darned good. Amazon has done a nice job with the packaging and merchandising here. I particularly appreciate that the Kindle arrives already linked to my Amazon account. It literally [...]

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La Maison en Petits Cubes

February 23, 2009 Technology

You can watch Kunio Katô’s Oscar-winning short, La Maison en Petits Cubes online:

It really is lovely.

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Cooking: humanity’s ‘killer app’”?

February 22, 2009 Food

As reported in The Economist, Harvard’s Richard Wrangham has a theory that “cooking and other forms of preparing food are humanity’s ‘killer app’”:
Cooking is a human universal. No society is without it. No one other than a few faddists tries to survive on raw food alone. And the consumption of a cooked meal in the [...]

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Good perspective on the Kindle

February 20, 2009 Reading

Molly Wood nicely expresses some of the same thoughts I’ve had on the Kindle (which is now due to arrive in just 5 days!):
I’m not going to argue that the Kindle is any kind of a bargain. It’s an expensive device that performs limited functions. if you’re not passionate about its value proposition—reading books, magazines, [...]

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Batch-adding ISBNs in Delicious Library

February 17, 2009 Technology

If you are ever looking to get a whole mess of ISBNs into Delicious Library (say, for example, from a different book database), and have DL2 freshly slurp all the books’ info from the web, you should use this Applescript. It saved me Lotsa Work™.
(I tend to prefer Bruji Software’s Bookpedia over Delicious Library from [...]

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Spotted in the wild

February 14, 2009 Elsewhere

My thanks to my friend @drdrang for using a screenshot of Commonplace Cartography in his post about his experience with NetNewsWire.

I stopped using NNW in favor of Google Reader awhile ago, myself—in large part because I didn’t care for the iPhone application. The desktop implementation is still the best on the Mac.

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Magazines

February 14, 2009 Reading

When you consider that a fairly hefty slice of the success of my company still depends on the health of print media, it’s a little alarming to note that I’m actually surprised by just how many print magazines we still receive here in the Morrow household.
Magazines have been an easy place to cut spending iver [...]

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Wrong on 1,000 Levels

February 14, 2009 This Made Me Smile

I can’t remember where I first so this, but this might just win the Internet.
The Meme Generation – You can shave the baby..

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The new new Pepsi logo

February 12, 2009 This Made Me Smile

This is so funny.
(via DF)

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Tweetfight

February 12, 2009 This Made Me Smile

Wanna see how quickly things can get really screwy on Twitter? Here’s a fun little exchange between @aprildunford and @sirdavid, during which National Post reporter David George-Cosh gets pwned and implodes. Read it all here.
I think it’s particularly amusing that @sirdavid has now protected his updates. Probably a better idea to just mind what you [...]

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