Monday, September 04, 2006
Cool Program the Really Gets At the Core of Distraction
It's call WriteRoom and not only does it take over the entire screen, but it drops ALL the extra stuff you have around to reduce distractions. Check it out...

I absolutely love it! I wonder with the new Parallels for the PC if I'll be able to run Mac programs...
Sunday, September 03, 2006
"Lorem ipsum" history
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Updated: The comments pointed out this site: Lipsum ... that's probably the most useful thing I've ever seen in a Digg comment.
Friday, September 01, 2006
Superman's Humble Beginnings
Thanks digg for finding this! Let me tell you, I thought it was so cool to read this first appearance of Superman. The interesting thing is how different it was from the standard legend:
- Krypton was dying from "old age"
- Superman grew up in an orphanage
- Superman is only described as "leaping", never as flying - and the comics all
- He is not described as impermeable, but that "nothing less than a bursting shell" can penetrate his skin
- There are scientific reasons (!!) given for how he's so strong
- His second crime stop ever described is domestic violence
- There is a science lesson embedded about closed circuits and electricity
- And, finally, it's only 15 pages long and there are 64 total pages in the book... wild!
Check it out! Plus, I LOVE those old-timey ads.
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The Throw Backs of All Throw Backs
This just in, Madonna is still hot. I thought she had lost a little too much weight, I liked her a bit better in the "Open Your Heart" / "Express Yourself" era, but still.
I love this song too: Hung Up
But the reason for this post is how funny I think it is that she's sampled an ABBA song that was released just a year before her first release ("Everybody") and just three years before her first album ("Madonna"). Her longevity is, in fact, so great that she has made it back to the point where society and popular culture has circled back and now finds the stuff she did at the start of her career in vogue again. She's going to be sampling her own songs soon. I love it!