Sex Sells, But Not for Tom Wolfe
Filed in Humor on December 14, 2004 at 9:24 pmTom Wolfe has won the coveted British prize for “bad sex in fiction.” The prize is awarded every year “to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel.” ‘Nuff said.
Credit for catching this jewel goes to News Is Crappy.
Gimp.app v2.0.6 Released
Filed in Freeware on at 3:59 pmGimp.app has been updated to v2.0.6. This update appears to update the actual Gimp application to v2.0.6 and there do not appear to be any other changes to the package itself. The changes in Gimp v2.0.6 are as follows:
“This is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.0 series. It fixes a couple [...]
A Popular Return
Filed in MacMerc on at 9:54 amI’d like to thank all those who made Routine Maintenance, which heralded the return of Power User Monday, number 12 (at this time) on the del.icio.us Popular list.
Blogroll Additions
Filed in General on at 12:27 amI have made some additions to My Blogroll. My apologies to those who were not included in the first run. Most of all, thank you for providing entertaining and educational content!
My Blogroll
Filed in General on December 13, 2004 at 9:43 amFor those who are curious or paranoid, my personal blogroll is now available via the My Blogroll link under the Personal category of the Links section (located in the sidebar).
Power User Monday: Routine Maintenance
Filed in MacMerc on December 12, 2004 at 2:43 pmDo you leave your Mac on all the time? Have you ever repaired your permissions? Is your Mac feeling a little sluggish since you got it? Today, I’d like to share with you a very important procedure for ensuring the continued well-being of your Apple Macintosh computer. It’s time to learn [...]
Spotlight: Current Mozilla Foundation Projects
Filed in Freeware, MacMerc on December 11, 2004 at 3:06 pmDo you find yourself wondering what the Mozilla Foundation is up to? Wondering how their current projects are? Well, in that case, it’s time for an opinionated review, which has once again been updated to reflect the current versions. This updated review covers Mozilla v1.7.3, Camino v0.8.2, Firefox v1.0, and Thunderbird v1.0. [...]
Favored Freeware: MenuMeters
Filed in Freeware on at 3:03 pmMenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. Although there are numerous other programs which do the same thing, none had quite the feature set I was looking for. Most were windows that sat in a corner or on the desktop, which are inevitably [...]
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