Who the hell can say that Apple is not THE SHIT?

— Cocoa
— Quartz
— Stylish industrial design.
— Best tech support in the business. They treat you WELL!

Go to the library with my puny little iBook and chicks come talk to me.
OVER a freaking computer!!!

You can run all kinds of free software thru Fink.
You can run Windows thru Virtual PC (Dog slow, but it works).

They include X11, Developer tools, all kinds of pretty things . Read the rest of this entry »

U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton’s ruling came in one of three lawsuits challenging the legislation President Bush signed last year.

She agreed with abortion rights activists that a woman’s right to choose is paramount, and that is therefore ‘irrelevant’ whether a fetus suffers pain, as abortion foes contend.

Jesus, can you hear the shit hitting that particular fan right now. “Irrelevant.” We all wince at that one.

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“What I don’t know is how muslims manage to live in this country given the climate of hysteria”

by AnwerB

“Well, what I did when the FBI called me and asked me to come in for questioning is call a lawyer. They called me in the middle of the day at my office, knew everything about me and started asking questions about my brother, family, etc. They then told me that I could come into their office for questioning … or if more convenient, they would come to my office and question me there.

After asking them what they wanted, they finally told me that with the upcoming war in Iraq (this was about a year ago,) they wanted to know if I had any knowledge about weapons of mass destruction (really, I’m not joking.)

I told them that I was three at the time I had left.”

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Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.

While quoting Dave Barry is always an exercise in sheer comic bliss, here he has put his finger on something eternal, something existential, something irritatingly true.

And that is, other people are so terribly, awfully … other. Read the rest of this entry »