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a really catchy tune

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here’s a fun link: worst web design of 2005. lots of links to sites with monumentally bad design.

and i thought my site had problems.

my favorite is this one: the association of international glaucoma societies. you can even download their “glaucoma hymn”, which has to be heard to be believed.

or don’t download it, because it’s one of those annoying sites that automatically plays music in the background when you go there, so you’ll hear it anyway if you click on the link.

the “glaucoma hymn” is definitely going onto my ipod.

screwed by gates?

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bad, bad news on this front:

microsoft windows vista will not support efi booting (intel-based macs only support booting via efi)

the new intel macs use efi to boot, and expectations were that vista would support efi to facilitate dual-booting of windows and os x. microsoft has decided to stick to their old bios scheme with 32-bit versions of vista. they may support it on the 64-bit version of vista, though they haven’t confirmed it.

the way i read this, that means that users of the new intel macs (which have a 32-bit chip) won’t be able to easily boot vista any more than they are currently able to boot xp.
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quick takes

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things i found funny at gawker today: this craigslist posting, their obsession with johnny weir, and frank bruni blogs about hooters. gawker is a great site, if a bit new-york-insidey.

i completely agree with their assessment of johnny weir, though. if i were gorgeous, famous, rich, single, and twenty years younger, i might just give him a call.

my main occupation today–looking forward to the long weekend. you have a good one now. and be careful out there.

needless viral hysteria

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much has been made of the fact that there are no viruses for the mac, in contrast with windows which has approximately 108*2 to the power of 5 viruses.

but all over the mac internets today is the story of the first mac “virus”.

relax. the virus score is still windows three million, mac 0. or, depending on your definition of what constitutes a virus, windows three million, mac 1.

but it’s an eye opening experience, reading about this. and i’ve learned a lot.
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going gluten-free

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kirk is. i’m not going gluten-free, except that i kind of am, just by virtue of inhabiting space with him.

turns out that, ironically enough for someone who bakes constantly, he is allergic, or whatever, to gluten. the stuff that’s in wheat and oats and i don’t know what all else that holds it all together.

he hasn’t had any gluten for two weeks, and feels much better for it.
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news in brief

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from an article on saddam hussein’s forced attendance at his trial:

“degradation and shame upon you, raouf,” saddam yelled. later, he called the investigating judges “homosexuals.”

saddam, you wacky gay-basher/closeted homosexual you.

from an article on show dogs braving the new york blizzard conditions:

…the 1969 blizzard created even more havoc. that was the year the esteemed walter goodman was seen carrying his prize skye terrier from [madison square] garden while his mother trudged behind.

when someone chided goodman about paying more attention to his dog than his mom, he supposedly said: “i’m not showing my mother.”

proving once again that you should never piss off a queen holding a small dog.

my cat pd

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i recently added the “cast of characters” to the sidebar of the site–it’s basically a bunch of my cell phone pictures linked to various pages and blogs on my site.

i put up a picture of my cat pd–she’s the lovely black and white cat.

but with no story about pd to link it to, i linked the picture to a story about another cat.

my dead cat jeff. i know. tacky. so kirk has been after me to write a story about pd, so that her picture will not be linked to a weepy story about my dead cat.

here it is.
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