überthings, inc.

As is my habit lately, I was flipping through the online version of the New York Times this morning, when I came across an article about the release of the matric results in South Africa. To my surprise, they focused on my old high school – Greenside – and included a quote from my old [...]

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Jason Santa Maria’s Best Band Names Ever list has just been topped by The Onion’s Worst Band Names Of ‘07.
I was chuckling the whole time, snorting and hooting at certain points and wondering just how many of these seemed like great ideas after staying up for three nights in a row on mushrooms, speed [...]

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236 – News – If They IM’d: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Condoleezza Rice
While the release of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran has put the Bush White House on the defensive, it’s provided endlessly glib “I-told-you-so’s” from the chief horsefly at the neocon’s family picnic: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The situation is so grave that President [...]

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iTunes is a fantastic media player that does almost everything I want, but when Raffel prodded me to check out Songbird, I knew this has the potential to be awesome. Here are some initial thoughts:

A couple of gripes I had, (because it’s always good to start with gripes):
Keyboard shortcuts absent – can’t select it [...]

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