<p>speaking of <a href="http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/">quicksilver</a>, its startup splashy thing is well heckafied gorgeous ligature.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/153384904/" title="qs ligature.jpg by veganstraightedge, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/77/153384904_5a05482dd0_o.jpg" alt="qs ligature.jpg"></a></p>

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  <p><a href="http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/adobe_translation">Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe's 'FAQ' Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia</a></p>
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<p>freakin hilarious.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2005/04/15/trent-reznor-rules/">The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) : Trent Reznor Rules</a></p>
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<p>in case you haven't heard by now, trent reznor has provided NIN's latest single as a <a href="http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/">garage band 2</a> project for download so you and me and anyone can remix his music without having to hack it apart first. </p>

that. is. so. freakin. hott.

<p>i've been wanting this to happen for quite some time. some friends and i talked about doing this with our video projects, including the source clips and maybe the <a href="http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/">FCP</a> project so that people could remix them if they wanted to. </p>

<p>we'll see how long it takes for this to catch on. true open source media. source included, not just free of license.</p>

<p>another issue i have with <a href="http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/beta.php">netnewswire 2.0</a> is the downloads. it's one of those good and bad features. you can only have 2 downloads going at one time. the rest are 'pending', then load up as the current ones finish up. i'm sure this makes most sense for most situations. i just wish i could override that setting and say lemme download say 5 or 10 downloads at once. now let me say this, i understand the design challenge of having prefs that are user configurable and still having a clean intuitive UI. but maybe it could be a pref that i could set only via the command line, so as to keep it out of the prefs window.</p>

<p>brent, is this possible?</p>

  

        The number of downloads you can have going at the same time is not currently configurable in NetNewsWire 2.0. That is a preference we plan to add in a future version.

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  <p>The Sultan is omnipotent in his desert because he controls the water supply. He rations it strictly: for women, a teaspoon a day; for great, stout men, a tablespoon; for infants and elders, a thimble-full.  No one dares protest, for to drink any less would be fatal. Priests baptize babies with spit from their droughted mouths; wives collect the sweat off their husbands' brows to bathe in. The subjects make do as best they can, and take great pain not to displease their ruler.</p>

  <p>One day, an incredibly beautiful maiden appears from far away. She is the Sultan's new wife, fresh from the monsoon country. Her long, black hair flows and ripples like a river; her voice is the song of a laughing brook; looking into her dark eyes, one finds oneself floating in a summer sea. The very air around her drips nectar.</p>

  <p>The Sultan's stable boy falls in love with her. He languishes for months, living only for the rustle of her skirts, the glimpse of her moist skin. Unbeknownst to him, she too is watching him -- she likes his faraway air, his shy seriousness, the depth of feeling in his knitted brow. One morning, while the Sultan and his henchmen are away on business, the stable boy sneaks into her chamber. She is bathing in a magnificent pool.</p>

The poor boy stands mute before her. All he has longed for his whole life, the years of parched throat, cracked lips arid isolation, is personified in her -- and he is a simple stable boy, intruding upon her. In the recklessness of desperation, he opens his mouth: a torrent of adoration pours out. It becomes a deluge; then, a psalm. She is moved; it has been a long time since has spoken to her honestly, let alone beautifully, in this barren land. She tells him to come to her after sundown.

  <p>That night, after everyone else is asleep and the moon is high in the clear sky, the stable boy leaves his tent and creeps to the tower in which the Sultan keeps his wife. The door is locked, and soldiers stand guard inside, so the boy scales the dry brick of the wall to her window. She opens it and helps him in. Hours later, the Sultan is awakened by sounds of passion from his young wife's bedchamber.</p>

  <p>His soldiers stamp up, but it is too late. From their lovemaking flows a river so deep and so wide that all the Sultan's horses and men are unable to cross it to punish the enraptured couple. In a a rage, the Sultan orders that a mountain of dust be piled up so that his subjects will not see the new body of water. It is done, and none of them do; but the hot sun shines overhead, and soon the gypsies in the countryside are crooning a new folk song: <em>you can outlaw the rain</em>, they sing, <em>but we all see the clouds are gathering</em>.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/2204694788/" title="crimethinc boat logo by veganstraightedge, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2134/2204694788_13980c7aa9_m.jpg" alt="crimethinc boat logo"></a></p>