Matthew Gifford

Cubs win! Cubs win! Cubs win!

Mitch Kapor has posted a good list of the shortcomings of Apple's Mail.app. I'll add one to the list. When I'm writing a plain text e-mail, I want a monospace font and no inline attachments. Of course, I have many other problems with Mail.app. Hopefully these will be resolved in Panther. If not, I'll probably end up switching to Mailsmith or Thunderbird.

Like Mike, I thought the Any key joke was just a joke. Nope. People are actually confused about it.

Mike Marusin:

I don't think I've been looking forward to a show as much as I am for Wilco tonight at the beautiful Auditorium Theatre in Chicago…

I'm so incredibly disappointed that I'm not seeing them this weekend. Just found out about the shows today.

Dave Barry's readers let the American Teleservices Association know what they think about telemarketing [via Kasia Trapszo]:

Thousands of Barry's readers have done as they were told, forcing the association to stop answering its phones. Callers now hear a recording, which says that because of "overwhelming positive response to recent media events, we are unable to take your call at this time."

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"I feel just terrible, especially if they were eating or anything," he said. "They have phones like the rest of us have phones. Their attitude seems to be if you have a phone, people are allowed to call you."

Hmm. I might have to get myself one of these after I find a new employer.

Johnny Cash died this morning at age 71.

Congratulations, Professor.

Wham-O is asking a judge to order the film out of theaters as long as it contains the Slip 'N Slide scene, or for a disclaimer to be added urging viewers not to try the maneuver made by Spade.

Please, make it stop.

The Onion nails trademark law insanity (via Lawrence Lessig) on the head.