US govt to own half of General Motors

via Atrios

pope is on youtube

via huff post.

we have a black president

and his official portrait is a digital image.

a taste sensation

take
1. one (1) fantale
2. two (2) squares of cadbury fruit-and-nut
3. eat simultaneously
4. don't faint from pure delight

arriving in california this weekend

also more importantly, ma soeur

Rudd's two voices strategy

Maybe Rudd is going for the double act -- every issue will have at least two strong voices speaking -- Rudd and Gillard on leadership, Albanese and Garrett on environment, a pack of em on treasury/ finance/ sensibleness...

dilettante or all rounder -- (lint, not dilettante)

poor man's high castle

link is to ursula le guin's review; via wiki article, via the timber

super savvy flikr bossr rokrs

also from the fireball -- this is where it's at

froomkin on bullshit

site via the fireball -- looks good

21st century econecessity or not -- to examine

we'll always be together

the tasman sea can't keep us apart

long pig

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
daring fireball

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs

aronofsky's latest
and the comic book

the war on persia

don't know my face

this kind of disconnect of interelated systmes is what I will be working on. some time soon.

on flow

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