We’ve been waiting for you.»I don’t know why this phrase popped into my head. Googling on it yields results for pages that address spiritual and religious matters. Though I am an anti-religious science-inclined agnostic and believe that what we know about our universe is the product of empiricism and the historical record, I am OK with this unexpected link between marking time and things unknown. Happy New Year.«

one last time…

Mind-blowing documentary about the people who come to The Gathering of the Juggalos. In the Vimeo comment thread, user Daniel Cronin links to photographs taken at the gathering over the last two years.

For the last month I’ve been working on a script to allow me to import animated GIFs into Yojimbo, which script incorporates a few of the concepts I used for Add Bookmark to Yojimbo and Yojimbo Bookmark Collection From Front Window. Stoked by hot new scripting functionality, I decided to accept Software Update’s waiting updates.

A few days later I noticed my new script»I plan on sharing this once Apple provides a fix for the problem I describe below« was failing to add the selected text to the comments of the new Yojimbo items it creates. A few moments with Google led me to the problem.

Until Apple updates Safari so JavaScript can once again identify selected content, I’m staying with the earlier version of Safari (for me Safari 5.0.5). If you’ve upgraded and are missing the ability to refer to content selected in Safari using JavaScript, you can follow these instructions from MacOSXHints to downgrade Safari to your previous version.

About a quarter of a million people, more than three percent of the Israeli Jewish population, poured into the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to protest the cost of living, one of which symptoms is an increasing wealth disparity between rich and poor.

My question is whether the working poor and the vanishing middle class in the United States feel similarly and, if so, what we can learn about the ongoing activism in the Middle East.

I plan on upgrading by the end of August, mainly to save on getting a haircut.»I’m joking, people.«

This comic by Gabby Schulz forecasts a recent dustup over a presentation by Rebecca Watson at the 2011 World Atheist Convention in Dublin. Basically, Watson explains she doesn’t like it when anonymous men hit her up for sex at conferences»liberal paraphrase«. After said presentation, an admiring male supporter may have hit her up for sex and, later, Watson posts a video about the elevator incident. Shit storm ensues. QED.

What I find particularly hilarious (and predictable and depressing) is that the recounting of the Watson-gets-propositioned dustup on MetaFilter generates yet another dustup regarding sexism on the Internet, the form of which dustup had also been forecast by Schulz’s comic.

Three weeks ago, I was traveling to Gilroy on CalTrain.

I missed my first train because holiday traffic was so heavy so would have to wait another half hour for the next (non-express) train.

I sat down on a bench inside the terminal, a glass and I-beam affair that was more aviary than pomo playhouse. At some point, someone had sprayed some warm liquid on my left arm. I looked around to see who had done so and, I think, I exclaimed What the fuck?. No one among the nearly thirty people nearby acted as if they noticed, which I suppose if you were in the pomo aviary and some random black-Korean guy jumped up and yelled What the fuck? would you visibly react? The young senior man to my left and the pretty young woman to my right didn’t even look over.

I looked up to the I-beam above and saw a pigeon—accompanied by a dozen of its fellows in various stages of sitting, jostling, and landing—fold its wings and waddle back into place.

The train was delayed by more than half an hour and departed on a different track.

Nostalgic and funny, reminiscent and regretful, exactly anonymous.

Wishlisted.