Firefox Campus Edition and Firefox Flavors Revisited
Firefox is releasing a “Campus Edition” which bundles a number of back-to-school add-ons and extensions. Two included add-ons:
Zotero – plugin for research and notetaking
StumbleUpon – the popular bookmarking tool
This falls snugly into my idea of Firefox Flavors I’d written about in 2005 and again last July. A good idea or even better advertising? Maybe both.
Ronald Reagan on George W. Bush
UPDATE: too good to be true, I wish it was real
Direct quote from the just published REAGAN DIARIES.
‘A moment I’ve been dreading. George brought his ne’re-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I’ll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they’ll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work.’
[Emphasis mine]
On Giuliani
A great quote from a talkingpointsmemo.com reader on Rudy and terrorism:
“…had the Captain of the Titanic survived we probably wouldn’t have feted him as the go-to guy on iceberg defense.”
Tearing down Rove’s legacy
John Nichols of The Nation has a great write-up on the disaster that is Mr. Rove’s legacy.
Scarlett Johannson covering Tom Waits
Pitchfork: I'm sure you know Scarlett Johannson is recording an album of your songs?
Tom Waits: Well no, I read about it in the paper.
Pitchfork: No one consulted you beforehand?
Tom Waits: No, no. But, you know, more power to her.
Pitchfork: Are you excited to hear it?
Tom Waits: I don't know if I'm excited to hear it, but I'm curious. People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so ultra-personal that they can't possibly be interpreted by anyone else. I've seen her in movies. I don't know what she's going to do with the tunes. When you get a hold of somebody else's song, you make it your own. That's all you can do. And that usually requires a certain amount of tailoring. Cut the sleeves off, lay some buttons. Everybody does something different to a song, that's the tradition.