Thursday, 1
The Future...
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Monday, 5
Making Tiger Meow Louder
Mac OS Tiger has been out for four months now, but how much do we really know about the cagey cat? This third encarnation of the System Feline is packed with so many minute functionality improvements that one could go years without ever discovering them. Enter the good folks over at Macworld who are hard at work sifting through all the obscure innards of this dense beast to hand pick the most relevant, if not immediately apparent, functionalities. The first installment focuses on System Settings, and gosh-darn-it, they actually are hella good tips. The dictionary thing is by far my favorite, but feel free to be original and pick your own.
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Choose Your Words Wisely....
... you know, especially in headlines and stuff. (Thanks Kamal)
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Tuesday, 6
Getaway to Gaza
Now that the invaders are out, the Palestinian Authority is turning their efforts to soften the image of The Gaza Strip in the world's eye. It sounds to me like the ultimate branding challenge, which is not to say it'll be impossible. Just look at Croatia.
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Wednesday, 7
Speaking of Manicured National Images...
FEMA is being accused of censorship after it "requested" that the media refrain from taking and/or broadcasting images of the bodies which now float scattered in the sewage and chemical infested waters that blanket New Orleans. This government entity claims its actions are driven by a desire to treat those who perished and their families with dignity and respect, but truly the only dignity at risk is that of Bush and crew. As anybody'll tell you, the sight of thousands of preventable casualties in the streets of a major American city is just no good for those in the lucrative business of war.
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Techno Lust Wednesday
Let me switch editorial gears and actually thank the good folks at FEMA for their wise crisis media management approach, otherwise I fear my attention would have been diverted from today's momentous techno-lust Apple-branded consumerism extravaganza. Earlier today Steve Jobs presented the world with the much anticipated unveiling of the iPod & mobile phone hybrid. The Motorola ROKR (as widely predicted and extensively reported) is here; however, despite—or as a result of—being hyped in the rumor circuit for more months that I wish to count, the unfashionably late arrival of the iPhone was no match to the Kool-Aid man style splash made by the real star of the day. Meet the iPod Nano.
So tiny! So thin! So new! So Apple! It really makes carrying a clunky hard-drive-yielding 4th Generation iPod feel like the cruelest of medieval tortures. Do yourself a favor and get one immediately, lest you run the risk of being publicly ridiculed by the Nano wielding iMobs reportedly gathering outside Apple stores and Cingular outlets in all major cities and surrounding affluent suburbs.
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Friday, 9
Search:
I know these are a big played out, but they still tickle my geeky funny bone. Interestingly, the second item is Michael Moore's website. Is there a partisan goggle-bomb war in the works? (Thanks Hunksten)
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Saturday, 10
The House Made of Straw (and the Storm That Blew It to Shreds)
Polly Toynbee's article in The Guardian speaking about the ugly American reality exposed by Katrina:
it took Hurricane Katrina to expose the real emptiness under the US carapace. No wonder governing Iraq was far beyond the competence of a nation so feebly governed within its own borders. How does a state where half the voters don't believe in government, run anything well? A nation ideologically and constitutionally committed to non-government is bound to crumble at the core. Rome had no doubts about governance.
Amen sister!
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Thursday, 15
oh, Pink Stripe-y Socks
How saucy you make me feel!
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Presidents Also Potty
Must be really hard, what with all the long important meetings and stuff. Thank God for Condi!
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Tuesday, 27
Isla del Encanto
Just got back from Puerto Rico. Words will follow, images will do for now.
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Friday, 30
Colo(u)rspeak
Some of you may already get A Word a Day emails— I do, but lately they have a way of getting promptly tossed from my email pile while still unread; however, this week's theme caught my eye as it may prove particularly suited for impressing dumb clients during design presentations or partaking of intellectualized conversations about fashion with pretentious friends.
I'm particularly fond of fuscous, especially the way it's so bitch'ly delivered in the pronunciation sample. Here are this week's offerings (and a couple of bonus ones while we're at it):
monday: filemot (FIL-mot)
· noun, adjective: the color of a dead or faded leaf: dull brown or yellowish brown.
tuesday: incarnadine (in-KAHR-nuh-dyn)
· adjective: flesh-colored; blood-red.
· noun: an incarnadine color.
· verb tr.: to make incarnadine.
wednesday: fuscous (FUS-kuhs)
· adjective: of a brownish-gray color; dusky.
thursday: glaucous (GLO-kuhs)
· adjective: 1. of a grayish or bluish green or white color. 2. covered with a powdery coating of such colors, as on grapes, plums, etc.
friday: taupe (toap, rhymes with rope)
· noun: a brownish gray, similar to the color of moleskin.
BONUS
chartreuse (shahr-TROOZ, -TROOS)
· noun: 1. a light, yellowish green. 2. an aromatic, usually yellow or green liqueur, originally made by Carthusian monks in Grenoble, France.
· adjective: having a light, yellowish green color.
puce (pyoos)
· noun: a deep red to dark grayish purple.
testaceous (teh-STAY-shuhs)
· adjective: 1. having a hard shell or shell-like outer covering. Composed of a shell or shell-like material. 2. having the reddish-brown or brownish-yellow hue of bricks.
tawny (TAW-nee)
· noun: a light brown to brownish orange.
cerulean (seh-ROO-lee-ahn)
· adjective: azure; sky-blue.
Audio files are the propert of Wordsmith.org
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