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Thursday, December 22, 2005
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The scroll wheel on my Mighty Mouse seems to have stopped working over the weekend. It's amazing how quickly one becomes dependant on interface enhancements that seemed like minor improvements when you first encountered them. Using a mouse wheel to vertically scroll through windows struck me as a nice enough idea when I first started using a Logictech mouse a few years ago. But now that it has stopped working on my Apple mouse, I feel as though I'm sitting at my computer with one arm tied behind my back. It's almost physically painful, reaching over to hit the arrow keys to scroll down a window.
(Via stevenberlinjohnson.com.)
Love the Mighty Mouse, but this is an annoyance of the thing. Hold it upside down, and roll the ball like crazy in different directions. It seems to shake things loose. BTW, I haven't mentioned it, but this mouse is great. The little BB rolls side to side and diagonally, so you can scroll windows with, say, big pictures in them, in all directions. Quickly addictive. I've been meaning to try it on my XP machine to see if it works there.
9:53:13 PM 
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Wow, I've only seen one of these top 10 movies this year, and I saw a lot of movies. the one I saw Syriana, Ebert's #2, and it was a pretty great movie. I liked a lot of movies on the rest of the list: Downfall, Good Night, and Good Luck, North Country. I haven't checked closely, but it seems like some were from last year. I need to start keeping a checkable journal of the movies I see.
9:49:40 PM
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From MSNBC six days ago:Mr Bush, in an effort to force passage of the bill, warned on Friday he would veto any temporary extension of the [Patriot] act. From AP today: (White House-AP) December 22, 2005 - The White House is hailing the Senate's vote to extend the Patriot Act for six months, a day after vowing President Bush wouldn't accept a short-term extension. Press Secretary Scott McClellan calls Wednesday night's Senate vote "an important victory for the American people." Questions: Does this administration realize how stupid this makes them look? At a time when its credibility is crumbling on all fronts, was it really a good idea to defiantly declare intention to veto in the first place? Have they always been this transparently blatant, or is this a new level of doofus blatancy achievement? What has happened to the fearsome slick message machine we've come to know and loathe? Scariest question of all: Is it possible anyone is taken in by this?
(Via Daily Kos.)
9:41:24 PM
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What part of this isn't clear?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Now I guess I'm just missing the part where it says "unless the president thinks you're a bad guy," or "unless you're talking to the wrong people," or "unless we're in an undeclared war." Why aren't the so-called strict constructionists talking about presidential activisim in re-writing the Constitution?
9:39:02 PM
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Adam Engst:
To all good things there must come an end, and it is with some sadness that I officially retire the Info-Mac Network. Nominally, I’ve been president of the non-profit volunteer organization since incorporating it in 2000, but in reality I’ve been only one of many volunteers who have helped keep Info-Mac running over the years. But over the past year or so, it’s become clear both that Info-Mac has outlived most of its utility and that it’s not worth investing yet more time, effort, and money in keeping it going longer.
This will probably affect most people about as much as the official end of Mac IE, which is to say not very much. But let’s remember how great Info-Mac, like IE 5, was in its day. In 1992,
Alex Reed introduced me to MacTCP, Fetch, and the archive, that’s how I really discovered the world of Mac software.
(Via Michael Tsai's Weblog.)
9:08:25 PM
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Forty years ago, Bob Dylan performed verbally at a remarkable press conference at KQED in San Francisco. It's an amazing, remarkable thing to watch. Blair Miller's done a lot of research into it, watched it numerous times (as have I), and created a very nice presentation on it at the Dylan Pool. Check it out.
9:01:45 AM
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