July 2009
29 posts
Could you use Spotlight instead of Quicksilver?
minimalmac:
“Keeping with the theme of using the software that comes with your Mac, I gave up using QuickSilver and other similar tools when Leopard came out. 10.5 made Spotlight much faster, and it now does 90% of what I was using third party launcher tools for.”
(Submitted by shauber)
I’m going to give this a shot for a week. I switched from Quicksilver to Google Quick Search to see...
WatchRobin’s Big Date
Bill Maher, New Rule: Not Everything in America... →
notesfromminneapolis:
Bill Maher,
How about this for a New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. It used to be that there were some services and institutions so vital to our nation that they were exempt from market pressures. Some things we just didn’t do for money. The United States always defined capitalism, but it didn’t used to define us. But now it’s becoming all that...
“It makes me wonder what people a hundred years from now will think of our...”
– Tim O’Reilly (via azspot, peterwknox, marco)
Where the heck is Etters? →
daryn:
On October 27, 2002, an article appeared on the front page of the Harrisburg Patriot News entitled “Where the Heck is Etters?” that describes how people live in a place and have listed on their driver’s licenses a place that is not on a map.
Working on local search, you see a lot of weird places. Today’s find was Etters, PA which is actually not a town, but rather the name of the post...
Moon Landings Faked! (on the surface of the moon... →
enemyswim:
Hilarious. Click pic for full story (totally worth it).
“Immediately after President Kennedy’s bold challenge to land an American on the moon before the end of the decade, NASA scientists and engineers began a crash program of assuming that the actual plausibility of landing on the moon was all but impossible. A program to create a hightly realistic simulated landing for public...
Sometimes I Hate E-mail
derusha:
There was a time when people who were angry about a minor error in one of my TV reports, they didn’t have a lot of options.
Complain to their spouse
Pick up the phone and call the newsroom
Write a letter
Today, with e-mail, viewers can send obnoxious notes without even thinking about it. For example, this note:
Hi Spelling is obviously no longer considered to be a part of good...
“[Minneapolis light rail usage is] already 20 percent ahead of what ridership was...”
– Hiawatha light rail marks five years; what’s next?
“As for what lines of argument Seifert might take with state Republican...”
– Potential Coleman GOP Rival: I Love Norm, “But He Lost To Al Franken, For Goodness’ Sake”
Meeting Ticker →
How much has that meeting cost so far?