“You know who would have done a great job covering such a stately Beltway funeral? Tim Russert.”

Ouch. The Onion stings!

My Next 2 T-Shirts

This is apparently going to be the Summer of Too Many Cotton Shirts, as I’m on the verge of ordering these two (thanks, Will!):

Dog Update From Mom

If one were to write a movie script about the dogs in my parents’ house, Grizzly would be the slow, dim-witted one while Corey would be the quick, smart, evil one. He’s the nice dog, she’s the mean dog. He just wants to be loved, she just wants to make trouble. But she’s still a dog, and she still protects her family and lies around a lot.

My mother illustrates Corey’s nature in a series of blog posts (and photographs) that you can see here, here and here.

Why is This Guy Famous?

I had never heard of this Spencer chap until I saw him on Letterman, and I’m still not entirely sure why anybody cares about him. i don’t like it when morons like Spencer prance their styled little bodies onto the chair next to him and start trying to banter. They’re not funny, despite what their insipid little clubkid friends always tell them.

Dave ably cuts him down to size in this video.

Stay Off My Side, Bill

Bill Maher has a new documentary coming out. It’s about religion. He’s an atheist, but he’s also a misogynist and a mean-spirited, holier-than-everybody snob. Bill and I agree at least on the first thing, so I find him slightly less intolerable when he’s talking about that particular subject. Even so, I don’t like the idea of watching his horribly stretched face and lizard-slick hair make fun of people in this movie. He’s easier to understand if you realize that he does not accept the idea that anything worthwhile exists between the east and west seaboard.

You can see him in all his gross douchebaggery in the trailer for his movie here.

Applicationize Your Websites

I first heard about this program on Lifehacker.com, but then it seemed like I was hearing about it everywhere. I figured I should try it, so I did. This functionality is going to be a part of the next version of Safari (Apple’s web browser), supposedly. But we have it now, with a program called Fluid.

In order to access a website, you have to open your web browser and navigate to the page you want. This is great for sites that you glance at or whatever, but that’s no longer convenient – there are a few sites that are meant to stay open all the time, like Facebook and Gmail. The interaction between your operating system and your website all has to go through a central arbiter, the web browser. Fluid breaks those sites out of that middleman and lets you and your operating system access them as separate entities.

You point this little application, Fluid, to the site you want to applicationize – Gmail, for instance. Lo and behold, you can alt-tab to it at your leisure. You can see it at work, in my little workspace.

The Japanese people continue to vex me: