Nothing To See Here

A little Jay-Z with your Beatles, sir?

Yes please.

I finally used some of the extra free time I’ve found myself with to import archives from the past couple of years (with comments). I seem to only have archives dating back to December 2001, which either means the others are lost forever or I put them somewhere that I don’t remember. In any event, you now have an extra large amount of archives for your reading enjoyment. I’m going to try and get the rest of the live photos up as well.

I love Maureen Dowd.

That this is going on in small pockets doesn’t matter as much as the fact that it’s going on at all. What’s more, people are getting away with it, which means that pharmacists who are considering not filling a birth control prescription are getting more support. This is incredible:

[P]harmacists should not be forced to choose
between their consciences and their livelihoods," says Matt Sande of
Pro-Life Wisconsin. "They should not be compelled to become parties to
abortion."

How about consumers should not have to be concerned about whether their pharmacist is pro-life or not?

"The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved."

Hows about you stick with singing, Mr. Ashcroft.

The oh-so-compassionate Bush adminstration would like it known that they will not stand for anyone dying with an ounce of dignity. If I’m on my death bed, someone is gonna give me something to go peacefully.

JE$U$!

If you are using any other browser, you’re an idiot. Firefox rules.

Note: If you have trouble with the Mozilla site, here’s a link to the 1.0 directory on their FTP site.

I don’t think they are related (perhaps someone in-the-know can chime in), but two fairly new (and delicious) technologies have made my life a little easier as of late. del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It’s somewhat difficult to explain, but essentially it keeps track of your bookmarks and displays information about who else bookmarks the same things, which you may or may not care about. You can tag each bookmark with keywords as you make them, which comes in really handy when you are looking for something. You can also share them with other people. I have so many bookmarks, that I had to do something different. Out of all the bookmarks I keep within Firefox, I only visit a handful of them on a regular basis. I don’t see much of a reason to keep bookmarks the way that most web browsers do it, especially since I have so many. If I ever want to find something, it’s really difficult. del.icio.us allows me to keep everything on a web site, which is accessible no matter where I am (assuming I have internet connectivity).

Delicious Library is a new program for Mac OS X. I had read about it a while ago, but this afternoon I saw reviews on O’Grady’s PowerPage and Ars Technica. In short, the program allows you to catalog your music, movies, video games and books. You can use your iSight as a barcode scanner to scan the barcodes on the back of your favorite media. It pulls information from Amazon and allows you to fill in the blanks with you own information as well. In a matter of 10 minutes I decided to purchase the program and in about 40 minutes I had scanned in over 200 CDs. I have been wanting to catalog my CDs for a while, and it looks like I will be working on that.

Lisa posted some clips from The Daily Show’s post-election coverage. As usual, good stuff.