Raymond Brigleb

mrgan:

A suggestion for Mac OS X Lion: since the team is trying to integrate the menubar into the desktop a bit more, to make it less prominent - the translucent menubar was an attempt at just this - why not go all the way and make it black? This way, it’ll blend into the bezel of (most) new Macs. Black menus are already all over iLife ’11, and it would be another step toward unifying the look of iOS and Mac OS.

Yes, this change would break many Mac apps if they didn’t update to support it. Apple’s no stranger to that, though.

Love it! Do it, Apple!!!

newyorker:

nprfreshair:

Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz on Glenn Beck: “Glenn Beck is trying to give [viewers] a version of American history that is supposedly hidden. Supposedly, all we historians — left, right and center — have been doing for the past 100 years is to keep true American history from you. And that true American history is what Glenn Beck is teaching. … It’s a version of history that is beyond skewed. … But of course, that’s what Beck expects us to say. He lives in a kind of Alice in Wonderland world, where if people who actually know the history say what he’s teaching is junk, he says, ‘That’s because you’re trying to hide the truth.’ “

Thanks for posting, Mel. Everyone should also join Wilentz’s live-chat at 1 P.M. E.T. today. Ask him your questions about the Tea Party, its roots, and its current supporters.

A Brocken spectre is the apparently enormous and magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds opposite the sun.

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Zoë at Hopworks, in the Sunlight

It’s remarkable how much I love reading the New Yorker on the iPad. Last week was the first issue released on the iPad as well as in print. And while it’s only slightly cheaper than the newsstand edition - and I could get it, I’m sure, a lot cheaper via subscription - the iPad features are really neat.

They include videos of some of the things they’re talking about. It has a really nice layout, with all the little extras of the print edition like the cartoons. And more. I found myself reading it “cover to cover” over the weekend.

I never do that!!

I would say it’s an overwhelming success, as far as I’m concerned. They’ve taken what’s best about their print edition, and brought it to the iPad. Great job.

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Little Zoë Rae.