Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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Start the (com)Motion.

Ho-lee… In a special Sunday announcement today, Apple whipped the sheet off of Final Cut Pro HD, Shake 3.5, a beta for something new called Xsan (Storage Area Network), and – here’s the cool part – Motion, a new product which seems to be a direct shot across the bow of Adobe After Effects. Now, […]

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Who knew?

Hey, whoa – the woman behind Wonkette is hot! Check out the story on her in today’s Times,

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So ready for a weekend.

Am having one of those days when the work is piled as high as my ears and none of it looks very inviting. After a couple very large holes were blown in my week (taxes, my main computer breaking down and having to be lobotomized and then hauled into the shop, and finally blowing a […]

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More on Presidential behavior.

One of the preeminent philosophers of our time, Peter Singer, has a new book coming up called The President of Good and Evil: Taking George Bush Seriously. The British newspaper The Guardian has just interviewed him about it. I don’t know if I’d read the book or not – it sounds like it would just […]

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The fiscal philosophy of building a library.

Wow. The new Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is

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Sending a shout out to Laura!

Okay, so she may or may not ever get around to reading this, but I wanted to share this with y’all because it’s so cool. My friend Laura Thomas was just accepted into the JET program for next year, so she’s going to be headed over across the pond this summer! Wow. I’ve never been […]

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Harry Potter the way it’s meant to be: as a holiday movie.

So I’m not that annoyed about Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban being released on June 4 – I mean, it’s kind of cool that we won’t have to wait until the winter to see the next one – but I still think of the HP movies as something best enjoyed around the holidays. […]

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On the other hand…

Ask and ye shall receive: from The New York Times,

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Why the President got C’s in college.

Anyone with a college education who watched the President’s news conference last night – heck, anyone with any education – should now understand why the President got such lousy grades at Yale. Whenever he was presented with a question, he yabbered on for a minute or two, repeating the same things he’d already said (“Before […]

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I AM David Duchovny!

Oh, this is too much fun. And eerily accurate! You are 46% geek You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate […]

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