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★ Notes and Observations Regarding Apple’s Announcements From ‘The Beat Goes On’ Special Event, Which, Inexplicably, I Didn’t Bother to Publish Two Weeks Ago When They Were Relevant:

160 GB is more storage than many personal computers offer. Fill it up with typical MP3 or AAC audio, and it would take three months to listen to it all. The appeal though, is that you can just sync your entire library every time you connect with iTunes, without worrying about specifying a certain subset to carry on your iPod.

for one thing, my music collection is starting to run my out of hard drive space on my laptop, at close to 40 Gb: my iPod is a 10Gb. It does happen that I look for something I don’t have on there.

Imagine being able to back up the laptop to the iPod, as well as carry 100 Gb of music around.

• Right Wing Watch: Why Should God Bless America? 
  They say that no man can know the mind of god, except as he reveals it. These folks seem to be unaware of that idea. I’m also reminded of Luke 18:9-14.
  (tags: religion values culture politics hypocrisy)
• Lying in the name of God
  more god-botherers who are willing to abandon all principle to further their agenda.
  (tags: religion values culture hypocrisy)

Quote of the Day:

“It is beyond my ability or purpose here to describe a world where a true market system could have developed without such state intervention. A world in which peasants had held onto their land and property was widely distributed, capital was freely available to laborers through mutual banks, productive technology was freely available in every country without patents, and every people was free to develop locally without colonial robbery, is beyond our imagination. But it would have been a world of decentralized, small-scale production for local use, owned and controlled by those who did the work—as different from our world as day from night, or freedom from slavery.”
— Kevin Carson, The Iron Fist Behind The Invisible Hand

I just gave away two old 35mm enlargers that were cluttering things up and now I get to uncrate and figure out how an Omega DII works.

This is what it should look like. It doesn’t now, as the baseboard didn’t come with it. I told the seller to leave it out as I didn’t see any reason why I needed to have that shipped as well.

According to Harry Taylor, this is the precursor to the best enlarger ever made and a solid workhorse in its own right.

Jef Mallett:

“Mach-S, the speed at which stress can’t keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.”

on education and Western Civ:

it is an observable fact that our society values knowledge solely as a way of making money, and with the cost of a college education (and of the service of loans for it) through the roof, it’s a wonder anyone in the United States reads Shakespeare anymore except to mine quotes for his Chamber of Commerce speech.

• Actually: A Rant, An Announcement, and a Plea
  another satisfied MovableType user — erm, no. I have no idea why people have kept using MT: works great for Daring Fireball (no comments) but why bother upgrading? MT2 did all you need for that.
  (tags: movabletype wordpress markets customerservice software design)

from a comment on New shelves:

I’ve found that if I have a place for a thing, it’ll tend to go there. If I don’t have a place for a thing, it’ll go anywhere there’s space, and I may never find it again.

These crush the original iPod ear buds like a rotten grape. They are a little heavier and nowhere near as elegant, but you’ll get much better sound (real bass!!1!) at lower volumes (better battery performance?). And they come with a whole suite of in-ear fittings to make sure they work for you, none of this “one size fits all” jive.

Deal of the Day: Shure E2c Sound Isolating Earphones:

List Price: $99.99
Deal Price: $39.99 You Save: $60.00 (60%)

Shure’s E2c in-ear headphones are tiny, lightweight, and designed to sonically outperform most ear-bud-style headphones. With high-energy drivers in distinctive enclosures, the E2c produces high-quality sound with excellent isolation from background noise. Expires Sep 18, 2007