December 2004 Archives

I'm loving this new mac application called Clutter. It lets' you play around with CD covers a lot -- throw them around on your desktop as if they were actually there.

Of course, if you're a mac user -- you are hereby required to use Quicksilver. It's better than cheese, it's mightier than a snowcone. You must have it now -- look into my eyes -- you muuuust have it now.

If you're a fan of floating out in space and watching the world in realtime, then get OSXPlanet. It lets you see the clouds, the volcanoes, the storms, the sattelites and the shadow of night as they all rotate around the Earth in real time.

Ok -- shoo -- go get those... come back later for more.

So, you want to be smart and you work on the assumption that reading snippets of noise on the Internet is going to make it happen. Well, that's not the way to go -- however, it is possible to use the Internet to find the resources that will make you recognizably well-read and learned in polite society.

In an ongoing attempt to add something to the ever fading mindspace that is the American public, I give you a single link. It contains the perfect list of books as determined by the OCLC (you'll just have to look it up at the site - c'mon, exercise your brain).

This list is the "best" books as shown by Libraries in 84 countries around the world, determined by "purchase vote" -- and I'm here to tell you that reading them will make you smarter -- it will help you grow a brain.

Yep -- I rebuilt the blog. Decided that the old site was just ugly... plain old ugly.

So this new look is going to stay for a while -- then I'll modify it SLOWLY and carefully.

Enjoy.