Brian Jepson’s Weblog

The Good Five Cent Cigar: Students set
fires, celebrate after first victory in 86 years. No arrests, no
injuries, all fires were put out quicky.

Eric
Zelman: “If you have any interest in Fortran on Mac OS X, this is an
essential seminar.”

Can this be for real? The BBC is
reporting that the Bush campaign has compiled “a 15-page so-called
‘caging list’ [that] lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in
predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville,
Florida”, apparently for the purposes of challenging these folks as they
vote.

These messages appear to have leaked via GeorgeWBush.org’s
(NOT the Bush campaign) dead letter office, a collection of messages
that arrived in their “catch-all mailbox.

(via vowe dot net).

Russell Beattie has a great
post that tells me where I can find the most caffeine. This may
explain why I can drink cup after cup of dark roasted coffee, and not
get one bit higher. I marked his post as “Keep New” in Bloglines for a while, and finally
moved it into my coffee
links on del.icio.us. I’ll keep checking on it since I know it will
be a magnet for interesting coffee suggestions.

The one I find most interesting is the suggestion
to check out Same Old
Grind.. They have some kind of cold brewing system that sounds
really neat. You cold-brew the coffee into a syrup and mix it with hot
water as needed. What grabs me is the claim that “it tastes like coffee
smells.”

If you check out those del.icio.us bookmarks, you may find evidence of
shopping for a new coffee maker in there. I decided to go with the Cuisinart.
Not only did it get a great review on Whole Latte Love, but Consumer
Reports gave it a top ranking (but not a best buy, since it’s about $50
north of most coffee makers).

ButtUgly:
“just before we arrive at the metro station, she asks me: ‘How do you
know so much about this shit?’”

Mac Geekery has a cool
post on how to modify an application to support a pasteAsPlainText
action. If you don’t mind an extra step when copying, you can add a shell script to your
Script Menu. Create a file in ~/Library/Scripts named
Plain Textify (or whatever you want to call it), make it
executable, and put the following in it:

#!/bin/sh
pbpaste | pbcopy

After you’ve copied something, select Plain Textify from the Scripts
menu, and then paste it as usual. pbpaste pastes the contents of the
clipboard (as plain text) to standard output, and pbcopy copies from
standard input.