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Flock and del.icio.us

So I spent about four weeks using Flock, a web browser with built in del.icio.us, blog, and Flickr integration, as well as a news reader. The whole idea intrigued me a great deal. After all, I do almost all of my web browsing now via RSS, and the ability to post links to the blog and bring in photos from Flickr (which I want to do more of when I upgrade my cell phone) all from the convenience of one interface was too much to pass up.

I'm sorry to report that Flock kind of sucks.

It's sluggish. Sites look poor in Mozilla-based browsers (Firefox) when compared to WebKit (Safari). The blog functionality worked 30% of the time. The keyword interface for posting to del.icio.us was, at the very least, annoying—unpredictable and difficult to use.

Flock is an excellent idea, and I'm glad someone is building it. But it has a long way to go.

However, Flock did teach me something — del.icio.us rocks. I set up a del.icio.us account just to feed the links section in the sidebar nearly a year-and-a-half ago. In the past month, I've become hooked. I'm finding that I post more stuff using del.icio.us than I ever did on the blog. I usually just want to share a link, so why not just share links?

You'll notice in the right-hand column the more prominent del.icio.us links list. Mine is there, as well as Kelly, who may perhaps be persuaded to use it.

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Ann Richards 1933–2006

Moment of silence for a very popular Democratic governor who lost to a guy you probably have heard of.





























(Thanks, Walsh.)

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The Path to Propaganda

Yeah, I watched it.

While there are much better authorities to consult about the specific inaccuracies in the film, I'm reserving judgement until I watch part two. I felt that what was trumped up as ineptitude was for the sake of drama, not defamation. Two references in the script by FBI agents, one to how the US doesn't torture and one about how the US doesn't spy on its own citizens, actually read as slaps to our current administration.

Yes, I'm probably wrong. Yes, I'm probably too nice. All the evidence points to "The Path to 9/11" being an Orwellian attempt to rewrite history and intensify nationalism. Hell, those two references I mentioned above were probably attempts to take those arguments about the Bush administration out of the public discussion.

We'll see how they depict the "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" memo, and then I'll tell you what I think.

Tonight, yeah, I'm gonna watch it.

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'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin 1962–2006

Crikey! But seriously, the man was quite the conservationist and environmentalist, and no one can argue that this tragedy should never have befallen such a personality.

Moment of silence for The Crocodile Hunter.