Nothing and Some More

Reading Ali G and the Oscars, (skip the Oscars, go to the Ali G part if you're in a hurry), I learned a new word: Proteophobia fear of a mixed planet (remember Fear of a Black Planet right ?)

[...] critical knowledge of one’s own culture and society can only arise from a carefully-cultivated degree of estrangement.

Les lettres persanes de Montesquieu

I too like girls with glasses. And the moment when she removes her glasses is a pure pleasure: it means immninent contact.
Tha Weissblog points to Glasses Fetish

Return to sender

Like any legendary figure, Salinger provides a means by which we can connect as a culture. Private as reading his books may be, experiencing his writing is something we hold in common. He is one man, essentially gone, but also Salinger is all of us.

More on JD Salinger via Emmanuel

Warblogs or Freeblogs?

BeBlog points to XWT. I wonder how hard it would be to have jXUL working as an applet (in IE) and using the native XUL engine in Mozilla.

Mac Keyboard Shortcuts (via Dive into Mark). There is also Hidden command of the Mac

Mark also investigates OPML

And transMenus is a nice javascript to do popup menu and collapsibleMenu. Works with Moz, not with IE. (via Protocol7)

And what is a survey ?