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Mac OS X Hints (Vol. 1).

Anyone want to play One Thousand
Blank White Cards?

A lovely detour through old typefaces and lithographs: the Industrial Art Gallery.

I received word today that the Slashdot
T-shirts will be available very soon from ThinkGeek. Check back soon, maybe even
tomorrow, and show your Slashdot
colors! (In so doing, you’ll help support a quality small business and
the bunch of upstanding people that operate it.)

Well, I finally went to the trouble of activating and updating all my
various brokerage accounts. I’ve sort of collected them like old
business cards, and I use them about as often as I use old business
cards, because they pretty much all have the same value. I don’t
participate in ESPP (been burned too many times), and any stock options
I’ve ever received are so far underwater that they’ve collapsed under
the submarine pressure.

And yet I have a couple of reasons to investigate these accounts now.
For one, my company is nearing a split with its parent company, and with
it will likely come some kind of hefty option grant. Considering that
we’re pretty much near a historical low in our stock price (it’s
actually been rising a little recently, which is fine, because I seem to
have acquired some options in the past couple years without really
trying) it may be a good time to consider exercising.

For another reason, you need look no further than this recent news item. Remember when
I said I’d been burned before on ESPP? Well, sometimes — in
very rare circumstances — a bad burn heals pretty
well…

Two years into President Bush’s term, the damage he has done to the
nation and the world is incalculable. On issue after issue, Bush does
what’s good for big corporations and right-wing extremists at the
expense of the public. The Wage
Slave Journal offers this scorecard to help
you keep track of all of the evil deeds Bush commits and, more
important, to provide a record for your perusal when November 2004 rolls
around. Be sure to bookmark this page; Bush keeps it full.