[Solaris] Review: Solaris Performance and Tools
Useful. Much of it Dispensable.
Aug 30, 2006
The key stength of this book is its long review of tools and what they do. Its key weakness: the expected audience seems to change with the topic.

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[Solaris] Review: Solaris Internals, 2d ed.
People Will Love It Because It's Here
Aug 30, 2006
The primary authors relied on a community of contributors. Since Solaris source code is now available on OpenSolaris.org, these contributors also blog on their areas, giving the book a living, online supplement. But reading the book can therefore be an uneven experience.

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[I Dump on What They Said] Michael Fay to John Mark Karr: Playah!
"Wish I'd Thought of That!"
Aug 28, 2006
If anyone had listened to John Ramsey instead of merely repeating him("Let the justice system take its course"), Karr would still be in Thailand on sex offense charges, and US authorities would be testing his claims, not swallowing them whole.

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[Songs in the Key of Middle C] Weekend Update, Take 1
I'm Michael Ernest, The King of Discount News!
Aug 25, 2006
Tina Fey's departure from Saturday Night Live means, at last, Lorne Michaels can give me a job.

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[Songs in the Key of Middle C] Disney to Pluto: The Jig Is Up
Go Dog Some Other Cartoon Universe!
Aug 24, 2006
Disney is forced to concede: Pluto was never really a dog.

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This morning I am sorting through the last of the boxes from my move.

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[Poetry Corner] Wake

Aug 20, 2006
This morning the drape of your limbs
over my body
hardened me.

With my fingers and lips I wanted
to arouse the hunger
of the animal
that speaks for you
in your dreams.

[Poetry Corner] The Lady in the Coffeeshop
The Patient Facade
Aug 17, 2006
My view through the glass falls on street.
While I am wondering I wonder Am I framed well?
A Faye Dunaway-inspired tableau, perhaps?

My eyes want to follow the red convertible,
The teens fumbling with new grammar
For their flushing passions,
The shopkeeper simmering over her damaged tomatoes,
underneath this neighborhood's Sword of Damocles,
A traffic light blinking a steady red.

My other Mind, quickening in desires.
Slanted sun-shade awning, let my
Eyes be hidden.
Sun, polish the curve
Of my leg, like a marble to capture
His inner eye.

Bring him to me as a rivet, for my breast is thick,
and plated.

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[Songs in the Key of Middle C] Great Minds Think Alike
Me and John Mark Karr...greeeaaat
Aug 17, 2006
Lara Karr said her ex-husband spent a lot of time studying the cases of [JonBenet] Ramsey and Polly Klaas, who was abducted from her Petaluma, Calif., home and slain in 1993.

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[Songs in the Key of Middle C] John Mark Karr Charged with JonBenet's Murder
Still: I Ssee Only One Innocent in this case
Aug 16, 2006
Ten years after JonBenet's murder, they have arrested John Mark Karr, a repeat sex offender who was not only identified to the police from the start, but appears to have some prior, unexplained connection to the Ramsey family in Georgia.

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Bruno Kirby died of complications from leukemia. He was 57.

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Hollywood Throws a Knuckleball on 3-0?
Them Some Crazy Mutha-fuckahs!
Aug 11, 2006
Since I don't have TV, I miss some sneaky little parties. They are rare enough that I don't mind, except when I finally catch on.

I saw a preview for Snakes on a Plane last night. Star: Samuel L. Jackson. Budget: $35 million. Premise: beyond stupid. Marketing engine: double overdrive. Title colors: the yellow-to-orange wash familiar to every wannabe Raiders of the Lost Ark movie or spoof ever. Ok, something's up.

C'mon now, Hollywood, don't be shy. Whatcha doin'? If even Beeker knows what's up, surely you can clue the rest of us in.

Guess where I'll be on August 18? Yep, the one place you'll never see this movie: a plane. Irony sucks.

[Songs in the Key of Middle C] Federally Funded Art
So Much Funnier Than the Real Thing
Aug 9, 2006
Austin is radioactive, move to Houston.

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If the price of liberty is constant vigilance
then for survival it must be constant battle
Aug 8, 2006
In the wake of the Israeli offensive in Lebanon, the outrage I've read has me both dumbfounded, and reminded of the rhetoric running up to the invasion of Afghanistan.

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