Links With Your Coffee - Monday
This week's edition of the Times Book Review features an essay that I wrote about the research system I've used for the past few years: a tool for exploring the couple thousand notes and quotations that I've assembled over the past decade -- along with the text of finished essays and books. I suspect there will be a number of you curious about the technical details, so I've put together a little overview here, along with some specific observations. For starters, though, go read the essay and then come back once you've got an overview.
Sixty Bottles of Beer in the Car Sixty Bottles of Beer take one down...
Red State Road Trip Day 4 via Truth Out
Comments
Apple is more an option for me right now than it ever has been--especially since Bill Gates' recent disgusting remarks on China's wonderful "new form of capitalism." Wouldn't it be great if we could outlaw unions and beat workers into submission, so that they'd work for a subsistence wage forever? That's apparently the Microsoft view of the world.
Ok, on the Apple thing.... First, I own a number of Macs. I own a functioning Classic II and a Color Classic that I personally upgraded w/a LC575 board. But that's all fun and games, like repairing toasters. In reality. Apple is a joke. Sure they're fun computers but only as long as they're cheap on eBay. iPod? I never met a person with any (gnostic) intelligence who even owned a Walkman (what goes around comes around, eh?) People who actually go out and pay retail for anything Apple are nothing more than... well, people who can afford to do so. But let's not get into a class-society-thing here. There is only ONE reason Apple hasn't failed completly: Microsoft. A portable mini-hard-drive for music downloads is supposed to be the wave of the future.
I tried to believe that Apple was special once but then Jobs returned to the company (yes, I own one of the sanctioned clones, too). To post something on this site (which seems to wave the flag of fairness in these troubled times) and then talk about a company that failed to do what Microsoft did, well... Yeah, let's evangelize the other guy just because he didn't make it in this cut-throat world. Apple sucks and the mini-mac (or whatever it's called) is too little, too late. (Oh, be gentle in your rebuttal.) thomas
Thomas: Fair enough man. I am just ticked at Gates after his gushing about China. In other ways Microsoft is a progressive company. I am increasingly dissatisfied with Windows, though.
More gasoline for the Mac-peecee debate:
Apple Edges Google In Branding Survey
Apple Computer, riding renewed name recognition from its iPod music player, has moved into first place in a poll of branding professionals.
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The top 5: 1. Apple 2. Google 3. Ikea 4. Starbucks 5. Al Jazeera