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This is so weird! The buttons I made for my OS X
10.1/10.2 visual comparison have started showing up on
various
web forums as witty riposte. Look, ma, I’m meta!

Excellent user interface design. If you’re the user
interface specialist Donald Norman, I suppose you’d say the fly affords
being peed on.

Tim
Minear: Firefly is not dead. Not yet. Joss and us’ns are working
on a new angle, the details of which I cannot get into just yet. Also,
I’m finishing editing my last episode. I think it’s gonna be good. And
“Trash” is lots of fun and we’re finishing “Heart Of Gold.” So some day,
at the very least, ya’ll get for certain three more hours of us.

Brian Eno’s article
in Time has been getting some coverage across the web today. There’s
too much in there that’s worth quoting, and my
<blockquote> key is worn out, so just go read it
already.

Well, OK, one quote. But not the same “Bush recently declared
that the U.S. was ‘the single surviving model of human progress'”
remark:

This narrowing of the American mind is exacerbated by the withdrawal of
the left from active politics. Virtually ignored by the media, the left
has further marginalized itself by a retreat into introspective cultural
criticism. […] Political discourse is now dominated by moralizing,
like George W. Bush’s promotion of American “family values” abroad, and
dissent is unpatriotic. “You’re either with us or against us” is the
kind of cant you’d expect from a zealous mullah, not an American
President.

Victor Garber, who plays Sidney’s double-agent father, Jack, told
reporters last week, “There are some big changes coming up in the next
few weeks. The Super Bowl episode is like starting over. It’s almost
like a pilot episode.” Salon, on the coming
changes to Alias to make it easier to follow — and get hooked
on.

On Saturday, the Public Interest
Registry takes control of .org from VeriSign. Note that this is
not the open-source community organization behind spread the dot; instead, PIR is run
by ISOC, which is a consortium of large
companies (Sun, Microsoft, etc.).