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12:29 pm

Dan Jurafsky posted a fascinating article on the origin of ceviche and fish and chips. At least I think it is fascinating.

11:29 am - Cage

Nicholas Cage decorates his house like a weird old man.

10:21 pm - Dip

Thank you for confirming so many stereotypes about the south all at once!

11:10 pm - Douche

This is the douchiest douche thing I have ever seen.  I feel bad that we live in a world where actors have to debase themselves by acting in things like this to make a living.

10:14 am - 9/11

This is the first September 11 since '01 that I haven't been in New York, the first that I haven't attended a memorial. Odd, but I suppose things do change.

11:00 pm - Map

Anyone who can hand-draw a map this well deserves to be elected:

10:00 am - Hodgman

I've had this link on my desktop for months.  Just got around to watching it.  John Hodgman at the Radio and TV Correspondents' Dinner:

Brilliant.

09:16 pm - Help

If someone could explain this to me, I'd much appreciate it.

08:47 pm - Pre

I've been interested Palm's Pre since it was announced. Bold move, creating a new mobile OS, and a great team designing it and the new hardware. Inexplicably, Palm chose to partner with Sprint as the exclusive U.S. carrier.

I (finally) played with a Pre for a while this weekend. What a great little phone! Palm is absolutely insane to 1) stick with Sprint and its loser network and 2) not have a GSM version out. I'd gladly pay full price for an unlocked GMS Pre.

02:33 pm - LP

Wow. Les Paul, RIP.

11:56 am - Bon Iver

02:51 pm - Explorers

"This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl,' said A. J. Lowenthal, a sheriff’s deputy here in Imperial County, whose life clock, he says, is set around the Explorers events he helps run. "It fits right in with the honor and bravery of the Boy Scouts." [via The New York Times]

Yea. That is fucked up.

08:33 pm - Art

"This corner says that the Chelsea gallery scene will be gone within a year with the exception of half a dozen megaspaces, feeder galleriess for Fashionland and ClubLand. It is weird right now to see vast swathes of Chelsea territory which resemble the bad parts of Staten Island dotted by visually claustrophobic Frank Gehry buildings and their spawn. When everyone who still has cash is dancing in the High Line sky and staring into each other's wealthy windows, then the junkies and whores can seize the streets below. As for art galleries, a free experience, a civilizing calm, the formerly stable tiller of the Chelsea boat, they are fast becoming a memory, and a vague one at that." [via artnet]

09:29 pm - iPhone Devs

A nice crash start in iPhone development.

07:51 am - Cleanup

This weekend I conducted a big address book cleanup, attempting to eliminate duplicates and stale entries as well as to consolidate one address book between two computers, GMail, and three mobile phones.

There is a chance that I inadvertently deleted someone or dropped off an IM buddy list (particularly on troublesome services like Google Talk).  If that is the case, let me know.

10:00 pm - App of the Year

Kick ass demo:



There is incredible creativity in the iPhone space.

08:01 pm - Phones

The last four phone booths in Manhattan.

07:58 pm - Phones

<a href="http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=852">The last four phone booths in Manhattan.</a>

11:47 am - Advice

From Bruce Mau:

Don’t be cool.
Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.

11:15 am - Rolling up of Sleeves

At least Sarah Palin's attorney [PDF] can write a memo within the bounds of English grammar.

But "rolling up his sleeves?" When will Americans tire of this folksy bullshit?