I hate Catharine MacKinnon. A lot. I know, that’s not a very nice thing to say, but The Guardian has published an interview with her to talk about her new book. I read it, so I can’t help but really despise her.

“So that means not that all the people who wrote it were rapists, but that they are a member of the group who do [rape] and who do for reasons that they share in common even with those who don’t, namely masculinity and their identification with masculine norms and in particular being the people who initiate sex and being the people who socially experience themselves as being affirmed by aggressive initiation of sexual interaction”

So, just being male puts me in the “group of people who do rape” so I presumably somehow identify or condone or understand it? I call Bullshit. Surely I must be completely misunderstanding her. Right?

Jessica recently discovered iSight and Photo Booth.

Where do I put this?

I’m pretty sure I need to use Macworks for the Lisa, but can’t find anywhere to put the disk.

You know that funny little fish with legs that smartass evolutionists use to make fun of the funny little legless fish used by the creationists?

Turns out it’s real

With Rails 1.1, Complete control over your app is now available from ./script/console. Mike Clark lays down the basics. This might even cause me to do integration testing once in a while.

I may have mentioned this before, but nothing beats LibraryThing for tracking your books. They’ve recently added a nifty Javascript widget for easily displaying select books from your library on, say, a weblog. I’ve added one showing 6 recently added books. They link to Amazon, so if you’re one of those wierdos who hates Amazon for some obscure reason, don’t click on ‘em.

“When I die, I want to go quietly in my sleep, like my grandfather,

not screaming in terror, like his passengers”

I forget who wrote that, but still think it’s funny

Mike Clark has nicely summed up the underappreciated new features in Rails 1.1. All of them are relevant, and very welcome.

The new Kinkless GTD release is available. This thing just keeps getting better and better. For you Getting Things Done fans, it really is a great implementation. You’ll need the latest Omni Outliner Pro beta to run it. Ethan, the author, refuses to take money for it, but I hope that changes because it’s worth its weight in gold and I’d happily pay for it. The best new feature is a rewritten Quicksilver action for adding tasks. Say I need to remember to drop off a CD at SuperCo for the SuperCo.com project. Here’s the set of keystrokes needed (with explanation in parenthesis)…

Command-Tab (brings up Quicksilver)

. (period - enter text mode)

Drop off Disc > Super @ Errand (Task > Project @ Context)

Tab (Moves to action pane of Quicksilver)

k (Brings up the Send to kGTD action)

Enter (That’s it)

That’s it. Now I have a next action under the SuperCo.com project with a context of Errand.

The third line there is the meat. Type your task, then the project, then the context. The best part is that you only need to type the first few letters of each and the send script is smart enough to figure out the rest. Sweet.

The long-awaited Basecamp API was just launched. There’s a nifty Ruby wrapper available already, which uses serialized Yaml packets rather than the usual XML, making things even easier.

I expect interesting things. More here.