The most useful OS X utility on my machine has been LaunchBar, an application launcher that makes switching between apps and launching new apps very fast and convenient.
That's changed. Today, I downloaded QuickSilver, a beta app that does everything that LaunchBar does -- but more stylishly, faster and more intuitively -- and also includes a clipboard manager that lets me store the contents of the last 9 copy operations. It's also savvy to your iPhoto albums, your iTunes playlists, your addresss book and your Documents folder. I'm in love.
(Thanks, Jeff!)
My RSS reader of choice, Shrook, went 2.0 this morning. After five or six hours of using it (couldn't sleep, friggin' jetlag), I am in love. This is the best UI overhaul I've ever seen (the old UI was pretty good too), a completely unexpected redesign that nevertheless managed to make this app that I use all day, every day, into something five times more useful and stable than it had been the day before. I like this punctuated equilibrium stuff.
Yesterday's iPhoto update is another example: all of a sudden, iPhoto's gone from being an app that was just useful enough to put up with its ultra-shitty performance to something I just keep running in the background all the time, with 10,000 photos on tap.
BoingBoing reader Neil writes,
The BoingBoing entry about the Post-It notes prank reminded me of one we pulled at work several years ago around Easter. Instead of Post-It notes we used Marshmallow Peeps. Lots and lots of Marshallow Peeps.
[snip from website:]"We did mail Just Born, manufacturers of Peeps, but sadly they never got back to us. The peeps wound up staying in the office for about two years, through at least two occupant changes. Even six months after they were up we had people coming by and eating them off the ceiling. Ugh."
Article about Japanese schoolgirl subculture.
An Elegant Gothic Lolita, EGL or Gothic Lolita for short, is a Japanese teen or young adult who dresses in amazingly elaborate Gothic looking babydoll costumes. On the weekends these women walk the streets of Tokyo and Osaka and fill Yoyogi Park and Harajuku neighborhood where they pose for tourist’s pictures and sit around looking pretty. They are beautiful, glamorous, doll-like manifestations of their favorite Visual Rock stars.Link
[Boing Boing]
So, some friends went to see The Passion of the Christ yesterday. Due to the graphic violence, they walked out. They had intended to see Starsky & Hutch.
Multnomah County is the first in Oregon to allow same-sex marriage, joining an intense national debate.
This weekend, I spent most of my time knitting while watching movies I rented: Blue Car (disappointing ending), American Splendor (thumbs up!), Dummy (so-so, but I'm an Adrien Brody fan), and Capturing the Friedmans (still need to watch). I am dying to see Spellbound, but all the copies are always gone when I go to the video store.