a crank’s progress

received:
* dome tent (used a couple of times already, after some repairs)
* beat-up adult bicycle (a work in progress but soon to be in service)
* nine kid’s bicycles (donated to others)
* string trimmer (no charger, so I freecycled it myself)
* Apple Stylewriter II (oops, I was hoping this was a DC model so I could [...]

USATODAY.com - The GOP doesn’t reflect America:

I’ve often found that if I go down the list of “liberal” issues with people who say they’re Republican, they are quite liberal and not in sync with the Republicans who run the country. Most don’t want America to be the world’s police officer and prefer peace to war. [...]

So how long before someone finds a way to hang this on the wall or from an overhead?
Apple - iMac G5 - Design:

Welcome sleek simplicity into your home. Innovative engineering makes iMac G5 a beauty to behold and a beauty to use. Form truly follows function with all of the computer, including power supply [...]

The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Tunes, a Hard Drive and (Just Maybe) a Brain:

“Everyone was rocking out,” Mr. Angus said. “Then Elton comes on and kills it - it was like strike No. 1 against my manhood.”

I have been playing with Shuffle mode on my ‘Pod since I read this last [...]

Wired News: Next Windows Version: 2006 Target:

SEATTLE — Microsoft said on Friday it will ship the next version of Windows in 2006, but scaled back plans to include a new system for finding and storing information in its flagship operating system.

I should have known better than to worry about this. I don’t know enough about [...]

Nieman Watchdog > Ask This > What sort of ownership society?:

Economist Brad DeLong says that when Bush rolls out his plans for an “ownership society” this week, reporters should insist on details. Does he have any idea how he would actually accomplish any of these things? It’s the press corps’ job to find out.

Does it [...]

New York Daily News - Politics - Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: GOP has dol-fun with Dems:

LOOSE-TONGUED SPEAKER? Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - having already enraged some New Yorkers with his remarks about local office-holders’ “unseemly scramble” for federal money after 9/11 - yesterday opened a second front. On “Fox [...]

MJG’s Political Blog » Reflections:

I do admit, I talk a lot of trash. I went to Grab The Mic because it expressed/s good Kerry/liberal point of views, and started to post comments on that site to have a ’sort’ of rivalry between sites. However, instead of my trash talking rivalry idea, I got people personally [...]

: We rarely have the luxury of being able to act on certainties; you’d be a fool if, credibly informed that unless you had an operation to repair an aneurysm you had a 99 percent chance of dying within a week, you responded that you only act when you’re certain.

: And at the end of the piece he writes: “Schachte said he never has been contacted by or talked to anybody in the Bush-Cheney campaign or any Republican organization…. He’s also the new law partner of one of the guys running the Republican National Convention.