Geekable.comJeff's journal of Macintosh minutiae, political pontification, and annoying alliterationZebulon- November 30, 2007 Rufus Wainwright plays a brand-new song here on French radio. (Don't forget to buy his new CD and DVD next week! Support him so he keeps making wonderful music!)http://geekable.com/blog/2007/11/29/zebulon.html Unsane in the membrane- November 30, 2007 Allan Odgaard: Seems the infamous Logitech Control Center is back to wreak havoc. They released a 2.4 update on the 20th of November and a week later a mate error thread surfaced on the mailing list, I have received a dozen support emails about the problem, and if you look at the comments for LCC at VersionTracker or MacUpdate, youll find that a lot of users are reporting problems with this update. Wha-wha-whaaaa That's impossible! Logitech Control Center doesn't use Application Enhancer...http://geekable.com/blog/2007/11/29/unsane_in_the_membrane.html The real killer- November 30, 2007 This thrills my anagram-loving side: Similarly, anagram aficionados Francis Heaney and Guy Jacobson pointed out that similarly incriminating anagrams could be derived from Wallace's own book. When Harper's Magazine excerpted Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend, Heaney and Jacobson wrote in response that its first two sentences: This is my story of Jack the Ripper, the man behind Britain's worst unsolved murders. It is a story that points to the unlikeliest of suspects: a man who wrote...http://geekable.com/blog/2007/11/29/the_real_killer.html Intellectual cleanup on aisle seven- November 30, 2007 To Unnamed Coworker 1: This is not a valid argument for the existence of WMD stockpiles in 2003 pre-war Iraq: Let me ask you this... if Iraq got rid of their WMDs before the war, then where did they go It's been a while since college, but I don't think "If A then B. Therefore A." is a valid form of hypothetical syllogism. But then again, these are the best arguments for the existence of God, and most folks still think He exists. To Unnamed Coworker 2: While I commend you for finally...http://geekable.com/blog/2007/11/29/intellectual_cleanup_on_aisle_seven.html |