Musings of a Chicagoan

• “Claim: Consumers’ buying only a few gallons of gas at a time will bring down the price of gasoline.”
  “Of all the harebrained schemes for lowering the price of gasoline we’ve received in recent years, this tortured egg analogy is one of more creative efforts.”
• Daring Fireball: Good Journalism
  “Instead, a window opened on the screen and strange commands ran as if the machine was under the control of someone — or something — else.’ ‘Or something’ — could it be gremlins? Or worse, poltergeists? Spooky.”
• “Craig Fields from Gun Owners of America hit the target right-on when he said, ‘Whenever you see people on the far left and far right joining together about something Congress is getting ready to do, it’s been my experience that what Congress is getting r
• Jon Stewart Defends Colbert’s Dinner Speech
  “‘We’ve never been prouder of him, but HOLY —-,’ Stewart added.”
• Guardian Unlimited | Science | Men should plan on parenthood by 40, new research reveals
  “The study showed that a woman younger than 30 was 25% less likely to conceive if her male partner was 40 or older than if he was of similar age.”
• The Museum of Useful Things: Measuring Tape Tape
  “This yellow and black measuring tape is used in the theatre and film industry to block off sets and stages.”
• MSN-Mainichi Daily News: Gun-shaped teddy bear crackers ready to liven up wedding receptions
  “A paint firm here is hoping to add color to wedding receptions in Japan with a new device it has jointly developed — a gun-shaped party cracker that shoots out a teddy bear.”
• Say goodbye to parts of Manhattan and south Florida when the ice sheet melts.
• Rumor: OS X Leopard To Have BitTorrent Client for iTunes Store - Gizmodo
  “‘Leopard’ will include a system-level ‘BitTorrent’ filesharing client that can be user-customized to ‘donate’ upstream Internet bandwidth for things like pushing Software Update packages to Leopard users, delivering iTunes Store content … “
• The Awful Forums - How to cool down your MacBook Pro: Before and After [w/pics & temps]
  “It just takes a slight misapplication of thermal grease on a MacBook Pro to make the temperatures skyrocket. After reapplying thermal grease properly, the fans actually turn on and keep the system much cooler.”
• Retrotastic: Apples vintage system alert sounds
  “Anyway, might as download all these alert sounds and bring your modern machine back to the good ol days.”
• CTA tattler: Lost in their iPod world
  “The two friends are happy enough, lost in their iPod world.”

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