Musings of a Chicagoan

• Urban Legends Reference Pages: “Sir, I request that you bring me Cakes and Ale.”
  (tags: funny)
• Cool little movie of a hidden PowerShot feature.
  (tags: cool geekery)
• The Anti-Valentine Anthology
  “She loved blood spatter, Neil Young, and late-afternoon trysts.”
  (tags: funny seasonal reading)
• Camino Sends OS X a Valentine: Version 1.0
  “Extensions only exist because of the cross-platform UI layer upon which Firefox is built. It’s that same cross-platform UI layer that makes Firefox feel “wrong” on Mac OS X. Camino’s use of Cocoa for the user interface makes it fit in with the re
  (tags: interesting geekery mac)
• Grants.gov for Mac OS X: “In the interim, Grants.gov, in conjunction with NIH, has created a Citrix
  server solution that allows Mac OS X users to complete their application packages using Mac OS X.”
  Huzzah. (Not that I’m using it, necessarily, but, still, huzzah.)
  (tags: geekery mac government)
• Willie Nelson: “And there’s many a cowboy who don’t understand / the way that he feels for his brother.”
  (tags: cool music homosexuality goodideas)
• Shakespeare’s Sister talks about her first kiss with her beau — an interesting story, considering he emigrated here on a fiancee visa.
  “Sock feet on hardwood floors on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Curled up on the couch on a wintry day, under the same blanket, reading our own books. Hugging each other whenever we wanted. Going to the movies. Making dinner together in our kitchen, bumping hip
  (tags: powerful sweet reading)
• Shakespeare’s Sister: Hackett’s Out
  “He said he was outraged to learn that party leaders were calling his donors and asking them to stop giving and said he would not enter the Second District Congressional race.”
  (tags: sad politics hypocritical)
• Neocon bloggers’ response to Cheney shooting his friend? Circle the wagons.
  “If Cheney had been trout fishing and a companion had walked behind him as he started to cast, so that he inadvertently snagged his friend, resulting in a hospital visit, would we have seen this kind of frenzy?”
  (tags: politics neocon dumbass)
• “It’s ‘new content Tuesday’ in the iTunes Music Store, and this week season 1 of Saved by the Bell has been made available.”
  TUAW: “Screech on your iPod…isn’t that one of the signs of the apocalypse?”
  (tags: mac video funny as_hell)
• Boing Boing: Enormous blimp-like aircraft maker hopes to take flight in 2010
  I’ve seen the Hindenburg footage. Er, no, thank you. Airplane’ll do me.
  (tags: weird as_hell)
• Got $1,000? Why Not Try a Golden Opulence Sundae?
  “5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla and covered in 23K edible gold leaf, the sundae is drizzled with the world’s most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porceleana, and covered with chunks of rare Chuao chocol
  (tags: weird)
• A Valentine’s Day Tale
  A wonderful, entirely geek tale about how Rob met his sweetheart and proposed to her.
  (tags: mac geekery cool as_hell sweet)
• Don’t make this sheriff’s deputy angry, Mr. McGee. You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.
  (tags: interesting celebrity)

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