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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Linkdump for September 6th

by Rob Friesel

White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism at washingtonpost.com — this not totally surprising but it is disappointing because we need Jones' message (re marrying our environmental and economic needs) (tagged: politics news environment ) OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard How to install Java 1.4 and/or 1.5 if needed. (tagged: java […]

a note about Java and OS X 10.6

by Rob Friesel

Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) is here, and that’s plenty exciting. All the refinements–in the UI and under the good–are getting their due play ^^Either in the marketing literature or in blog posts circulating “discovered” improvements.^^^. One of those refinements: all of Java’s roads lead to 64-bit Java SE 6 ^^Which is to say, when […]

Nights at the Circus

by Rob Friesel

When I read Angela Carter, I imagine her as the literary grandmother to someone like Kelly Link ^^Or: “…as the literary more-demure-but-less-forgiving sister to Kathy Acker“?^^^.  There’s an eccentric tone of fantasy, an unabashed outlandishness and roguish word-play; a challenge runs through the narrative as a thread, sometimes cleverly concealed at the seams and sometimes […]