Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Triptrop: jason@kottke.org
- Breaking – NH Governor Lynch to sign marriage equality bill – with additional religious protections: Pam Spaulding
- New Hampshire Set to Approve Same-Sex Marriage: By ABBY GOODNOUGH
- Fox News pumps Tea Party 2.0.: Ryan Powers
- This is your pilot speaking. Now, about that holding pattern… – From this morning’s Google service problem.
- Device Remover is an Absurdly Powerful Device Manager [Downloads] – This sounds both very cool and a great way to frell up your system!
- Casual Fridays: We don’t get what a song is ‘about’ without being told (updated w/answers to quiz) – I feel this way about poetry sometimes. Regardless, I don’t listen to classical music to get those sorts of images poked into my head — I listen to it because I enjoy it. I see these sorts of themes more as “inspired by” than “depictions of.” With the exception, perhaps, of that barking dog in Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” (Summer?).
- No More Excuses, Grandpa: Gmail Now Imports Mail *and* Contacts from Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL [Gmail] – This is pretty cool — but doesn’t address the issue of loading up large disk-based client message stores (e.g., Thunderbird).
- Thinking Again About Those Photos – And Obama’s Rope-A-Dope Ways | By Andrew Sullivan – I’m hoping it’s as clever as this.
- News briefs: Dollhouse not dead, Up at Cannes – “I’m not dead yet!” “You’re not foolin’ anyone!”
- AR-Sen: GOP candidate calls Schumer “that Jew”: Jed Lewison
- Incredibly Strange Landscapes Created By Humans [Aerial Photography] – Ooooh … very cool.
- “God Dammit To Hell” – Thu, 14 May 2009 – Yeah, there are days I wish …
- Kindle owners start to lose text-to-speech on purchased books — how do DRM-free Kindle books work?: Cory Doctorow
- RIAA/MPAA hit men private enforcement site indexed by Google – Heh.
- Release The Photos: hilzoy
- Everything Old… – I have a full set of mint Empire glasses, accrued from winning lunchtime register sales contests when I was working at BK. I plan to finance Katherine’s college education with them, someday.
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I remember having my mother listen to the desert music from Star Wars and tell me what it made her think of. It reminded her of a barren arctic wasteland, which was pretty close to a barren desert wasteland. I decided that John Williams got the feeling across.
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I still have an excuse: nothing imports contacts from Forte Agent!
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I have TWO full sets of Star Wars glasses from all three movies! I was disappointed to see that they had not become priceless in the decades since I bought them.
Dude, you’re harshing my college financing plans.