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Christopher Hitchens

December 15, 2011

Christopher Hitchens died tonight (CBS News) from the cancer that he knew would kill him. He was one of the greatest active writers in the English language, and certainly his writing has been consistently provocative, both topically and stylistically. Since most people writing about him now will mention the subject matters he covered, I’ll add [...]

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So You Decided to Buy a Mac?

November 27, 2011

Congratulations on buying your first Mac. I’m going to give you some tips about how to make your Mac experience awesome. Best IM program for Mac: Adium. Best web browser for Mac: no clear winner. Firefox is still the most extensible, and Chrome is the fastest. For a long time I mostly used Safari because [...]

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Steve Jobs is Really Dead This Time

October 29, 2011

And then Steve Jobs was dead. And there was an outpouring of grief from a sad and sentimental world, stoked by the forces of sappy weepiness, sure, but also surprisingly genuine. The expected backlash came fast, but it was shallow: Steve Jobs didn’t donate to charity (actually, we don’t know if he did or didn’t, [...]

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Steve Jobs

September 9, 2011

Twitter is going crazy with unconfirmed reports that Steve Jobs is dead. What’s Trending posted it and then deleted the tweet. It’s not ranking in some basic Google searches or on Google News. I’d be interested to see if it does rank soon. Update: What’s Trending says the reports are “completely unconfirmed.” How about somebody [...]

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Get Called Borat; Get Money

September 1, 2011

Apparently it’s so terrible and mean and discriminating to call someone “Borat” that doing so entitles the recipient of said abuse to £2250: A Polish engineer who was called Borat at work has been awarded £2,250 compensation after a tribunal ruled the nickname was racist. Henceforth, everyone I know may please call me “Borat.”

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