It is hard to title this post...

... without being trite and calling it "Smell-o-vision". Oh well. "Smell-o-vision" it is then. (from Cronaca).

Why Steve Jobs is a success

He "gets it" in an intuitive way that committees of other people cannot.

I normally don't like to do such a direct ripoff of someone else's post, but in this case I can't add anything. From Newsweek, via Daring Fireball: Steve Jobs is asked if he's worried about the Zune.

“In a word, no. I’ve seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you’ve gone through all that, the girl’s got up and left! You’re much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you’re connected with about two feet of headphone cable.”

Peddling books for Stalin

From time to time I'll be peddling books here (either books that I'm selling through Red Chili Merchandise, my book-selling enterprise, or from some other source if it's a book I'm really interested in.) In the interests of full disclosure, I have a financial interest in this. So if you're not interested in having me get money from any books you buy through this site, don't buy them through this site :-)

I grew up in the world where we were still worried about Communism and the Cold War, and had heard vague condemnations of Stalin as the most evil communist leader anyone had ever heard of, but I never knew a lot of detail. "Stalin" by Edvard Radzinsky changed all that for me. I couldn't put it down. It really filled in a relatively blank spot in my historical knowledge. It is, I should warn, Mr. Radzinsky's interpretation, but it was pretty convincing to me. He was there. I wasn't.

Aha

This graphic indicates very clearly what happened when Cory Lidle's plane crashed in New York.

Disaster

This site shows disasters and emergencies throughout the world. I am just mesmerized by this.

A tree rat

I know this is from the Cute Overload site, but

This is not cute.

That is target practice.

RSS support

I don't know if I mentioned it earlier, but the Western Syndicate still has RSS support even after it moved over to Blogger. The new link is: http://beta.blogger.com/feeds/5378030372268226397/posts/full?alt=rss . To get an Atom feed, use the link at the bottom of the page.

What you might hear if you call my house

SorryWeAreNotInterestedInTakingPoliticalCallsGoodbye*CLICK*

This can't be good

Am I supposed to feel guilty if I go for several days without updating this site?

Coming to Safari

Safari remains my favorite web browser. Here is some new information about the new features that are coming in Safari 3.0, in Mac OS X Leopard early next year. (AppleInsider)