16 cannibal kings
A Few weeks ago I saw a search for iCab come up in my referer logs (My referer logs are a constant source of entertainment). Why now I thought? Then answered my own question: there must be a new version out. Yes there is iCab 3.03
iCab - Internet Taxi for the Mac. iCab is a largely one man effort to produce a web browser for the Macintosh OS. I switched to Firefox over iCab about 2 years ago. Firefox was shinier, extensible, more cascading. iCab 3.0 which I downloaded; though, seems entirely suitable for mostly daily browsing. With iCab, the myriad configuration interface being so easy to get to, the key is not to change it out of the default settings without a good reason. Doing a little browsing in iCab reminded me of my changing surfing habits over the years. Before the Radio Weblog (before RSS) it was more haphazard, more serendipitous. I had a list of sites, in book marks, I went to regularly, but it was all fairly unstructured unpurposeful. I think the Library/Information science term for that "non-directed" search or some such. Still I was trying to put online hours on a more news/information acquisitional footing at that time though. Going through the old bookmarks list showed me a few things had gotten ost in the process the link to the Bad Subjects emag was old which I even have on the links bar on Atomized Jr. (now fixed). I knew it had changed it just slipped my mind to fix the link. Another thing I noticed was the first site which I identified as a 'weblog' as opposed to a web site: I hate music. Pop music (and its ancillaries), so much to be exasperated about so little time. Music I didn't hate from last year, Oakley Hall, They're from Brooklyn
Oakley Hall (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The band leader, Patrick Sullivan, used to be in Oneida who are also good, also from Brooklyn. Killer song (for me) is Lazy Susan. As I've mention over the course of the year I also liked the Pink Mountaintops, and Wilderness. I saw the re-run of the Decemberists on Letterman the other day. I haven't had time to assimilate this record yet. They played Valencia on Letterman. I like the title cut, crane wife, so far. Primarily I'm still a radio creature. I like hearing new stuff on the radio in a set put together by a dj. I'm missing WFMU over break. I'm on dial-up still and can't indulge in all that broadband style internets. I did see a post concerning WFMU dj Kenneth Goldsmith on MetaFilter
Goldsmith sings Wittgenstein | MetaFilter. There were few comments and fewer still on topic. Largely no one bit, neither did I - I ain't no fool. If someone is going to sing modern european theory you just have to get out of the way and let them. That reminds me when are the Sic Alps going to show up on iTunes? I order nothing through the mail (except maybe one of them AlphaSmart Neo's). I limewire nothing. Nothing. The problem with liking a band called Oakley Hall is the discovery that they named themselves after Oakley M. Hall, the novelist (here intertwined 'Oakley Hall'). I feel obliged now to see what he was about and read something by him. Over this break I finally reading finished Edward Belamy's utopian novel Looking Backward, which I started to read last summer and eventually set aside to read other better stuff. One writer I wanted to look into is the German essayist/novelist Robert Musil. He was a contemporary of writers like Mann and Hesse, and hell I've read things by both of them. One last little thing on First Church before the year is out. After I wrote the post on PN Hoffman and our church which I knew was a little unfair, the Washington Post wrote an article for the metro section on this which I offer as a corrective:
Million-Dollar Condos, With a Soup Kitchen Below - washingtonpost.com.
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