I heard this morning about the President’s Nobel Peace Price. It was followed by laughter, and the running joke of the morning: “I thought I was reading The Onion” people said. The incredulousness is deep on both the left and the right. Mr. Obama...
Topics: Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, The Annals of Protest

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Last week I installed and then de-installed BusyCal, a new and hotly touted iCal replacement.It was the product of the development team that created David Pogue’s favorite calendar, Now Up-to-Date, and I thought it promising since there really is not...
Topics: BusyCal, iCal, Pogue, Productivity, WriteRoom

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When I was young, civil disobedience was the tool of choice of the left. Now it has become the tool of the right. In August conservatives filled town halls. Today they filled the Washington Mall.While the right is not really comfortable, yet, with the...
Topics: civil disobedience, federal monarchy, FeedomWorks, Obama, Protests, Senator Jim DeMint, tea party, The Annals of Protest

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I've posted a complete outline of my FIle System Based Info Manager on my web site. It's the tool I use to manage all my writing, notes, reference material, bibliographies, and records. It's based on Alex Payne's architecture ideas,...
Topics: Alex Payne, Architecture, Bean, Being a Writer, DEVONThink, Journler, Markdown, OmniOutliner, Productivity, Scrivener, Skim, Web 2.0, WriteRoom, Writing

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Sharon Mesmer is on the short list for the next Brooklyn Poet Laureate to succeed Ken Siegelman.It really isn’t a contest is it? She has to get the nod.In a story Gene Kuntzman did for the The Brooklyn Paper he wrote: "Mesmer will get the vote of.
Topics: Alan Ginsberg, Around Town, flarf, Gene Kuntzman, Poetry, Sharon Mesmer, The New School, Writing

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