a crank’s progress

macosxhints.com - A fix for Safari 3 beta crashes on PDF links:
Safari 3 Beta kept crashing on PDF links for me. I found and removed an old Adobe PDF viewer plug-in, and all is well again. Use the Finder’s search feature to locate AdobePDFViewer.plugin (it should probably be found in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/), and delete it. [...]

A SOVEREIGN FOR SOUL-DELAY:
Yesterday morning I walked around the corner to Neils Yard Dairy and bought myself 200g. of the Montgomery’s unpasteurized cheddar.
Asked for it by name. The clerk, in a proper cheeseman’s cap, wrapped my interestingly discoloured wedge in that special white paper they use, glossy on the inside, folding it [...]

I think I liked it better when September meant new models from the car manufacturers and new TV schedules.
Informed Comment Global Affairs: Post Labor Day Product Rollout: War with Iran (Cross-posted at DailyKos)!:
Today I received a message from a friend who has excellent connections in Washington and whose information has often been prescient. According [...]

I Shed A Tear:
I’m sure I speak for the majority of Americans when I say that I don’t know how Tony Snow managed to survive on a mere $168,000 a year for so long. The suffering, it’s heartbreaking.
Why am I [leaving] — because I ran out of money. A lot of people at home [...]

Yet More Prius iPhone Blogging!:
How does one rack up a high score playing Prius: The Videogame?
The instinctive strategy is to try to minimize the percentage of the time the gasoline engine is on.
But that cannot be right.
More to the point, when will we see the first fatal accident that can be attributed to nerds paying [...]

MORNING RANT:
Our wretched private healthcare system has turned us into a nation of spiteful and small-minded misanthropes.

Nation & World | Richard Jewell, falsely linked to ‘96 blast, dies at 44 | Seattle Times Newspaper
this was a crummy story and the Atlanta papers should have cleared it up long ago: I hope they pay for their role in this at the upcoming trial.
(tags: journamalism media values)

Restaurants | Those pickles are from when? [...]

beaTunes ~ build better playlists:
What started out as a BPM detection tool for DJs, runners and dancers, has become one of the finest iTunes™ library management tools around.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute
One of those guys I need to know more about. The geodesic dome, fly-eye dome, dymaxion car, all fascinate: maybe this is the place to learn more, at last.