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I’ve reached the point where I won’t use more than one web browser on a regular basis, and that has led to some switching in the last year or so.

why? because i find the idea of running more than one app that does the same thing, due to one having some feature/support the other one doesn’t have, to be deeply offensive. given OS X’s profound appetite for memory[5], even moreso.

I’m assuming each step of this switch is driven in part by JavaScript being great/marginal/incomplete on various platforms, but it’s not in my nature to know precisely why I’m making the move, just whether I’ve stopped moving, or not.

In the age of del.icio.us and outsourcing all of my mail and calender functions to Google, moving around between browsers isn’t such a big deal… except for the fact that I need to keep doing it.

What I’d ideally like to be using: Safari
Because: Integrated RSS, fast, the shiny Apple logo on it, et al.
But it doesn’t: Work with Gcal

I also wouldn’t mind: Camino
Because: It puts Safari’s speed/crack-gnomes to shame, imo. It’s very fast and very basic.
But it doesn’t: Support job’s web portal.

What I am using: Firefox
Because: It works with g*, my bank, my preferred pr0n sites, and now my company’s web/collab/community portal
But it doesn’t: Respond very fast. Feels as bloated as I am.
Forces me to: Use Google Lab’s G-reader or whatever it’s called for news, which isn’t a bad thing. g-readermachino’s sharing functions need some work.

We’ll see how many more shifts I make before 10.5.

[5] Ok… all applications, on all OSes, are hungry for memory.

Reservoir Dogs in 30 seconds with bunnies reminiscent of life in hell. (Flash, brilliant, profane)

The rest are available here.

Thanks to Steve T.

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In the year 9000, with the benefit of tremendous hindsight, the reasoning behind the introduction of the U2 iPod gen 2 will be as possible to explain as it is now.

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Stuff On My Cat + Snakes On A Plane = The Ultimate Strategic Alliance

Gold. From Neil.

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Um, duh.

“[Plaitiff Amaani Lyle] was fired after four months on the job, allegedly because she could not transcribe meetings fast enough or capture the flavor of the meetings.”

Also, because she was working on a comedy series and apparently lacked a sense of humor, and the understanding that if something is funny and sort of racy[1] when you see it on American network television, it started out 1,000x racier (and therefore 1,000x funnier) when it was in the creative stage, before it was whittled down to something that a majority of viewers can understand and networks can accept and still shill Lexuses (Lexi? Lexusi?)

Also, because she was working on a series involving “writers” without understanding that all writers (especially comedy writers) are alcoholic degenerates, God bless them. If that lack of knowledge is not a fireable offense, it should be.

[1] Although I considered Friends neither of these things, I’m told many people did, which is why Jennifer Aniston is one of our finest actors.

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This season, SNL is just hanging on. That’s saying something, considering I’m a relatively non-discerning longtime fan.

However, I have to hope that some newly untapped writing genius is getting the final slot of each show (or T.Fey is taking things to the outer limit), as evidenced by “Mr. Willoughby” and others. I know that’s not the way the SNL writing process really works, but if you need evidence of recent/repeated end-of-show brilliance, look no further than this dumb-dumb.(right-click to save)

These are fun, and you should try them.

Thanks to KNerhood and co for this one.

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Juan over here made me aware of MarsEdit, a sort of WYSIWYG-ish blog editor that I’m using to create this post. While I can’t say I’m really feeling the power, I can say I’m sorta feelin the power… of it.

OS X only at the moment, but the rest of you can continue to enjoy the standard sub-standard web interfaces to Wordpress and others.

Spell-checking alone is worth the $25.

Not quite sure how to set categories. Maybe that will become apparent soon, later, in the year 9000, or never… ok, soon, in this case. Click “options” and go.

A blow up of the action here, for fun. Bigger, also for fun.

For my next trick, plugging MarsEdit into my ITToolbox Blog, given that the update interface for Movable Type is slightly less enjoyable than an anal probe.

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In an episode with high expectations to feature skits starring Scarlett Johansen’s exposed breasts… this episode didn’t let down. Unfortunately, most of these skits weren’t that funny.

Save one, the last skit of the episode. I must be a closeted Jane Austin fan.

Mr. Willoughby has two suits of clothes…

The video.

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