In which I spend some time installing and exploring the latest release of OS X. Short conclusion: It just works.

This is a good story, and it does two things relevant to my previous posts: 1. It illustrates how one might improve one's work by keeping an eye out for auspicious signs, and 2. It backs up my claim that "sometimes it's more important what you don't do than what you do." It also puts Art before Profits, and as a bonus, it comes with a pretty song that you can listen to...DIGITALLY!

Sports Illustrated poll suggests that Americans are more tolerant than many give them credit for

Digital Audio Essentials, O’Reilly’s “comprehensive guide to creating, recording, editing, and sharing music and other audio,” is out, and here’s a 20-page sample chapter you can put to use today.

It's just a joke that came to me. It's in a digital medium. Will this cost me my blog space? If so, that would be controversial. Then we would have a topic: The role of the new digital tools in the distribution of humor. But we'll have to discuss it elsewhere, I guess.

Perhaps a person is not truly a great writer if he understands the meaning of everything he writes. Perhaps one is not a truly great artist if he carefully constructed each and every one of his artistic ideas in his own mind. When something comes from the Human Mind, it can only be as great as a single Human Mind. Great Art needs to be bigger than that.

The Manifatso: In 1995, Team Fat signed this Declaration of Principles. It seems like a good way to launch a blog.

Tom's Hardware Guide has an article on In-Car Infotainment, including a detailed video of my Mac Mini installation into a Dodge Caravan (a MacMiniVan!).

Is President Bush participating in illegal file-sharing?

Two of my MP3 players have built-in FM radios, but the reception was so awful I never used them. Then I discovered a silly way to get a great signal.