A new format to go with new aggregation system. Not that anyone gives a shit. Anyway… reads!
I finally got fed up with TweetDeck a few weeks ago (and anything Adobe Air-based) and managed to snag a free copy of Socialite during a day-long promotion. It’s still a little rough around the edges (relaunch requires me to sign into Facebook each time, the occasional crash and Google Reader bogs the whole party down), but the Twitter and Facebook integration is the best I’ve experience with a native Mac app and I’ve ported in my Tumblr followers as an RSS feed – eliminating an additional browser window and condensing all the social network cruft into one place. These oddly colored words provide instructions on getting the RSS feed from Tumblr. More Socialite details here.
The Best Magazine Articles Ever
The last week’s worth of reads. Yeah, it’s a bit much.
Another quick turnaround review.
2,000 words in under two hours. And it reads like it too.
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Porsche Le Mans 1970 Dashboard. Based on the P’6612. One please.
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Monday Reads:
“It occurred to me, as I sat there watching an interracial couple banging, that jacking off in a hotel room was not unlike the larger experience of campaign reporting. You watch two performers. You kind of like it when one of them gets humiliated. You know they’re professionals, so you don’t feel much sympathy for them. You wish you could participate, but instead you watch with a hidden envy and feel vaguely ashamed for watching. You think you could probably do as good a job or better. You sometimes get a glimpse, intentionally or not, of society’s hidden desires and fears. You watch the porn week after week, the scenes almost always the same, none of them too memorable. The best ones get sent around the Internet.” — Michael Hastings – Hack, GQ (October 2008)
This week’s shorter-form reads:
Sir Stirling Moss’ steering wheel from his 1962 crash at Goodwood.
Nissan MID4: Mid-mounted V6, all-wheel drive, four-wheel steering. Stillborn in ‘87.