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I’ve been using del.icio.us for most of my quick links these days, but the various items marinating in my inbox at home seem to deserve a bit more attention, if not full individual posts. ### Magnets keep misbehaving collars in line – I’m still a button collar guy, most of the time, but I’m intrigued. [...]

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In Design Observer, Michael Bierut shares The Mysterious Power of Context, which muses on logo design and fonts, with a larger eye on brand identity. He cites Paul Rand (new to me) in a few sentences which reminds me that some decisions are just not that important in the long run. In the world of [...]

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The often-useful Hawk Wings delivers a useful tip: A Mail.app rule fix for image spam. Just applied at home (email address constant for nearly 10 years = on every list imaginable), and we’ll see.

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I’d read The New Yorker article on Wikipedia (thanks, Laura), and last night I read The Atlantic article on same. Looking at my cluttered home inbox, I found my wikipedia contrail, a meme I’m a few weeks late on. I typed “en.wikipedia.org/wiki/” into my browser and looked to see what came up as autocomplete options–this [...]

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Ever since I read about Clearwire a month ago, when the company raised $900 million (!), I’ve been laughing silently at the name of the company. (Yes, I have a strange sense of humor.) The company bills itself as a “Wireless Broadband Internet Service Provider” which makes one wonder about the, ahem, wire in their [...]

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I simply must read more Carl Hiaasen. Just plain damn fun. Skinny Dip (2004) has his usual mix of violence, corruption, sex, and just oddness — all set in South Florida, where something drives people crazy (the heat?). The plight of the Everglades plays a starring role, without ever slowing the story down. Hiaasen almost [...]

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I’ve read a few of Patricia Cornwell’s novels about Dr. Kay Scarpetta, most recently The Last Precinct. From an airport book exchange, I picked up Blow Fly (2003), as a big paperback to fill some time on the plane a couple of weeks ago. Blow Fly did the job quite well, and I left the [...]

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For a book published in 1966, and with a low profile, there are no neutral places to link. So, I’ll skip that step as I try and catch up with the reading I was able to do over the past fortnight. Alan Moorehead’s The Fatal Impact, An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific [...]

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