Another how-to is up over at Mac|Life. This time it’s about rendering all your browsing bookmarks eminently portable. May you find it useful, thorough, and indeed, pleasurable.
New(ish) Reviews
Oh, hi there. Here’s a piping-hot selection of iPhone App reviews I did for Mac|Life:
Please feel free to pop over, check them out, and comment. Comments closed here to, y’know, facilitate that.
New Review: SOCOM Confrontation
The new SOCOM came out and it was a disaster. A week later, it was pretty good. Check out a review and re-review of SOCOM Confrontation over at 1UP. Please enjoy.
New How-To: iTunes Smart Playlists
I’ve just had a new how-to go live over at Mac|Life; this one’s about getting the most from iTunes’ smart playlists. As an added bonus for fans of late-’80s Cleveland cover bands, I’ve included a special treat in the first screen shot. See if you can find it.
Oh, but if you do, drop a comment there, not here, if you wouldn’t mind. It makes my editors happy. And I do like to keep my editors happy.
Purple Nation
Ladies and gentlemen, can we please put the fucking ridiculous red-state-versus-blue-state bullshit to rest now? No group can be characterized by the sort of sweeping terms used in politics lately, least of all a completely arbitrary group based on geography (as California progressives have learned to their dismay with the passing of Prop 8). Tuesday’s election was significant for lots of reasons, but one of my biggest reliefs was to see President-elect Obama winning states that have traditionally been thought of as Republican strongholds. What better evidence do we need that people don’t slot neatly into political categories?
The traditional electoral results maps look like this (or, at least, are likely to once NC and MO are finally called):
But when you look at it county-by-county, using a continuum of red to blue to reflect the proportions of votes for each candidate, it’s a very different picture: Continue reading “Purple Nation”