Okay, so Kevin and I have been talking about putting together a collaborative blog of some kind, primarily as a way to cut down on the link-spam we forward each other and others.

Of course, the primary problem was finding a name. After literally weeks of discussion, we settled on a procedure, by which we each [...]

This is absolutely brilliant. I want one.

The comments here, while interesting, tend to indicate a genetic relationship where almost certainly we’re looking at sociolinguistic convergent evolution.

The Commonwealth Club, which I had never actually heard of until recently—when they started an advertising campaign on AC Transit buses with people saying, “I asked Yahoo’s Jerry Yang what name came in second,” or “I asked Jordan’s Queen Noor some question about the middle east.”

But now I see they have a podcast, and suddenly [...]

My Lifehacker comment on CP Notebook
Tom Morris’s comment
My objections

Most outliners have crappy UIs.

Crappy enough to distract me from what I’m doing, or just off-putting enough to slow me down. A good example of this is the very popular OmniOutliner, which just turns me the hell off. The spartan aspect of the OPML editor [...]

Just saw the trailer for Brick. Preliminary conclusions:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be in high school for the rest of his life
Is that Claire from Lost? Apparently.
Also, that other girl, who seems eerily familiar. IMDB tells me that’s Laynie from Everwood, god help us.

Also, the movie looks surprisingly good.

There’s a piece by Joan Ryan in today’s Chronicle (it just happened to be sitting on the table next to me) about the “puzzle of male suicide.” Basically, it consists of being surprised that men commit more suicides than women. Of course, it also acknowledges (eventually) that girls attempt suicide more often than men; it’s [...]