Michael Hanscom

Enthusiastic ambivert. Geeky, liberal, friendly, curious, hopepunk; trying to be a good person. (he/him)

Declaration of Independence from OS 9

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Seeing as how I honestly can’t remember the last time I had to run a Classic (pre-OS X) application on my box, the Declaration of Indepence from OS 9 is right up my alley.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that Classic and OSX are not created equal, that they are drastically different in so many ways, that among these are file sharing, system crashes, software compatibility, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, we should banish Classic from our computers.

(via Brent Simmons)

Guilty pleasures

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It’s a silly, stupid, overplayed song — but I’ve gotta admit, I still enjoy it, and I’d love to hear The Rednex ‘Cotton-Eye Joe’ performed live, with a real band (banjo, fiddle, harmonica, and all).

Just a random thought for the day. ;)

Dollars don't equal votes

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Mr. Bush raised 3 million Dollars today with a 2000 dollar a plate Dinner which most Americans can’t even think about being able to afford.

Gov. Howard Dean raised 756,000 dollars today (as of 10:30pm EST) with each contribution averaging 66.00 dollars.

Let’s do the math

3,000,000/2000 = 1,500 people

756,000/66.00 = 11,454.5 people

Don’t ever be discouraged by dollars. Dollars don’t equal votes.

We did make history. Politics will never be the same.

— Michael (not me) in the comments on Blog for America.

1602

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I’m not a huge comic book geek, but I do enjoy reading them from time to time. The only two series that have really ever caught my eye have been the original black-and-white issues of The Tick, and Neil Gaiman‘s Sandman series. The Sandman series prompted me to seek out more of Neil Gaiman’s writing, and he’s become one author that I tend to keep an eye out for. Understandable, then, that this information caught my eye today:

1602 is an 8-issue mini, set in a Marvel Universe in which, for reasons which will take a while to uncover, the whole Marvel Universe is starting to occur 500 years early: Sir Nicholas Fury is head of the Queen’s Intelligence, Dr Stephen Strange is her court physician (and magician), the Inquisition is torturing “witchbreed“, many of whom have taken sanctuary in England under the wing of Carlos Javier, and now a mysterious treasure — which may be a weapon of some kind — is being sent from Jerusalem to England by the last of the Templars. Something that may save the world, or destroy it, which has already attracted the attention of such people as Count Otto Von Doom (known as “The Handsome”)…[so] Nicholas Fury sends his top agent, a blind Irish ballad singer named Matthew Murdock, off to bring it back safely.

It’s a race against time in a world in which time is the enemy —

It’s not a What If or an Elseworlds. And it’s really fun…

— ‘1602’ author Neil Gaiman

Watching the bat

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Contribute to the Howard Dean presidential campaign!

I have to admit, this is really amazing — the Howard Dean campaign is posting the results of their fundrasing in near-realtime, with updates every half hour, as this is the last day for fundrasing for this quarter.

Last week their goal was to hit six million in contributions.

This weekend, after passing six million, they raised the goal, hoping to hit six and a half million by the end of today.

Around 12:15pm EST today, they broke the six and a half million mark, and raised the goal line on the bat to seven million. As of their last update, at 1:30pm EST, they’d raised \$253,604 today.

Let’s help them out.

Red wine

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Regardless of how Apple corporate wants to portray its products, the Mac isn’t a machine for the masses any more than red wine is the preferred beverage at baseball games. To be honest, the masses don’t have the capability to appreciate the elegance and depth of this platform.

— Derrick Story

(via The Book of FSCK)