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#!/bin/sh
while [ "$CONSCIOUS" = "yes" ];
do
slamHeadIntoWall();
done
tj on twitter.

Thinking I sorta liked it when you had to learn perl, apache, and html to smear the web with dumbassery. It was a modest barrier to entry.
Merlin Mann on twitter.

So Andrew, you’ve bought into the simplistic argument that reducing paper usage will save trees. Actually reducing paper usage is more likely to reduce the amount of trees grown. Most trees used to make paper are grown by private land owners. If the market for those trees goes sour those land owners won’t replant trees after they are harvested. They will divert the land to something more profitable — like growing houses. I know. I’m one of those private tree farmers
A comment at WLTC.

Every person engaged with nature, rather than profit, knows that a fully grown tree can generate more oxygen than any young tree.

tweaking someones Windows laptop. God it’s painful to use, it’s really hard after 12 mths of Apple serendipity

Duncan Riley on 02.05.2008.

Logging in to Windows already hurts after only 3 months of Apple and applications such as Twitterific, Coversutra and all the other bling for Mac. Let’s forget the super work orientated applications.

Fellow-Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured…

— Abraham Lincoln in his 2nd inaugural address. Found on iPod touch.