Sunday Morning Shards #11
Ariana Huffington on why we lost the election (via Barking Moose).
“How my Dad was Brainwashed into Voting Republican in 2004” (Not about Irv Smokler).
Neal Pollack is fed up with novelists who dabble in politics (via Bookslut).
The Artful Manager is a mighty cool blog on the business of managing arts organizations. Published by the good people of Arts Journal.
A midwestern professor rationalizes obsessive book collecting. Pretty convincing (via Tara).
I’d like to give a name to the practice of reading blogs about one’s home town when one lives far away. Maybe “expatria-blogging?” Anyway, lately I’ve been keeping abreast on all things Ann Arbor by reading Good Speed Update.
Jimmy Breslin is retiring.
My friend Chris has a new book out this week called . Blurbed by Jim Hightower and Jeremy Rifkin, it looks to get my lefty blood boiling. Check it. Great cover, eh?
A primer on Web Comics.
Delicious Library arrives tomorrow. I can’t wait!
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I just downloaded Delicious Library and it’s pretty dang sharp. I need to futz with it some more to figure out how to make it do what I really want it to do, but at the moment I’m utterly enthralled. Have you gotten a chance to play with it yet?
I just downloaded Delicious Library and it’s pretty dang sharp. I need to futz with it some more to figure out how to make it do what I really want it to do, but at the moment I’m utterly enthralled. Have you gotten a chance to play with it yet?
Just grabbed Delicious Library myself, and it is in deed pretty impressive. A few things are nagging at me, though; first off, there doesn’t seem to be any way to spit data back out from the library once it’s in – I want to be able to generate an HTML page of my library. Also, there’s something a bit dodgy about the fact that it’s hard-coded with the “deliciousmons-20” amazon associates tag – if I’m paying them $40 for the software, I want the opton of kicking the associates commissions on my purchases to whomever I choose, ya know?
Just grabbed Delicious Library myself, and it is in deed pretty impressive. A few things are nagging at me, though; first off, there doesn’t seem to be any way to spit data back out from the library once it’s in – I want to be able to generate an HTML page of my library. Also, there’s something a bit dodgy about the fact that it’s hard-coded with the “deliciousmons-20” amazon associates tag – if I’m paying them $40 for the software, I want the opton of kicking the associates commissions on my purchases to whomever I choose, ya know?
Josh, scuttlebutt has it that DL actually saves its data as an XML file, which one could theoretically then manipulate in all sorts of interesting ways, but I have yet to actually test this theory. I’m with you, though — I want to be able to write an essay in the “notes” section of an entry, click a few buttons and have it appear in a section of my weblog. Not entirely certain how to set about doing this, though.
Josh, scuttlebutt has it that DL actually saves its data as an XML file, which one could theoretically then manipulate in all sorts of interesting ways, but I have yet to actually test this theory. I’m with you, though — I want to be able to write an essay in the “notes” section of an entry, click a few buttons and have it appear in a section of my weblog. Not entirely certain how to set about doing this, though.