Thirty-nine bucks?!

John Gruber:

The central point of Yojimbo, as I see it, is that you can just throw bits of information into it without really thinking much at all. It’s a deceptively simple application...

What added value does Yojimbo provide over a folder?

If I look at the Yojimbo features list, I don't see a big difference:

• "Effortless to install, learn and use" In the Finder, just hit Apple-Option-N. Training done.
• "Reliable and secure—it’s built using core Mac OS X technologies" Also applies to folders in the Finder.
• "Store almost anything in Yojimbo—text, rich text, images, PDFs, even serial numbers and passwords" Folders can store all of this information too.
• "Location independent access—use .Mac Sync Services and enjoy the same Yojimbo satori at home and at the office" You can sync your data with .Mac in the Finder too. Just keep your data on your iDisk.
• "Organize your information any way that suits your style, from 'everything in one spot' to 'organized to the extreme'" The Finder will let you create subfolders to your heart's content.
• "Instant Spotlight search" Apple-Space. Done.
• "Sync notes via The Missing Sync 3.0 for Windows Mobile" ...ok, you got me there.

UPDATE: David Simmer says,

The organizational abilities of the program are pretty slick, and I use it every day, all day long. The Quick Input Tab alone makes the program so far beyond folders in convenience that it's laughable to compare them. Not only that, but you can create notes/secure notes from directly within the program, and search through them effortlessly (you'd have to use folders AND spotlight AND notepad to do that from the Finder, and it wouldn't be nearly as convenient). And then there's .Mac syncing... my notes and snippets are automatically synced between all four of my computers, so I have access to the same info no matter which of my Macs I'm using. I don't even know how you would do that from Finder folders.

And buy a t-shirt

Now I really want to visit Big Bone Lick State Park.

SuperSwitch

Thanks to my brother Greg for pointing this out to me: apparently ancient Macs were only able to boot into Linux thanks to a security vulnerability in Mac OS 8.

Shocked and awed

So I got hit by the ugly prebinding bug detailed by Rosyna, and didn't even realize it until two months after it happened.

It only poked its head when I tried to play with PHP, and got this:

[Jeff-Macbookpro:/usr/bin] jeff% /usr/bin/php
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libiodbcinst.2.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/lib/libiodbc.2.dylib
Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
      /usr/lib/libiodbcinst.2.dylib: file to short
      /usr/lib/libiodbcinst.2.dylib: file to short
Trace/BPT trap

I fixed the problem by getting a fresh copy of that file from a friend, copying it over, repairing permissions (one of the few times that permissions repair is actually useful), and updating the prebinding once more. After that, PHP worked like a charm.

Begone

In the "holy shit is that useful" category, we have how to permanently stop Jehovah's Witnesses from bugging you ever again.

Kill Facebook while you're at it

While I understand Apple's decision to block Myspace.com from the computers in their Apple Stores, I wonder if that decision will backfire.

Will this lead to an ugly rumor that "Myspace doesn't work with Macs", and stifle the recent increase in Mac sales?

(Note: MySpace does work on Macs, in case you were planning on quoting me out of context.)

Be very afraid!

They're gonna get you, Mike.

You're totally fucked, Steve.

UPDATE: Federal judges are still 60 years behind the curve.

Get this man a chai tea and some Grey's Anatomy DVDs

Whoa whoa whoa, I thought Democrats were the girly men?

[sob] After 3,000 of our fellow citizens died at the hands of these terrorists, when are we going to stand up and take them on? When are we going to defeat them? [sob]

Oooh, new twitters to read!

I had some brilliant insight as I woke up this morning. I immediately headed over to my laptop to share it with all of the loyal Geekable readers.

After sitting in front of NetNewsWire trying to clear out 1,400 unread items, I don't remember my cool thoughts anymore. Thanks Brent.

I think they mean vigorous, but I'll take it anyway

I think that this flyer is a fake.

If it weren't a fake, then there wouldn't be over a dozen little tear-offs still attached.

The flowers next to her front porch

Once I assumed that everyone who talked to themselves was crazy, but then I learned that some people are actually talking to others with a Bluetooth headset.

Now I assume that everyone who talks to themselves is using a Bluetooth headset, but today I realized that some people are still crazy.

C4[1] Detonator

Yay, C4[1] is coming. Last year's C4 conference was awesome -- props to Wolf Rentzsch.

I'm thinking of doing some pre-C4[1] partying, and calling the event C4[1] Detonator. My idea is that it would be a smorgasbord running from Thursday evening to early Friday. Perhaps a Thursday dinner at Volare and Guinness at Fado Irish Pub? Maybe a Friday breakfast at Lou Mitchell's and some authentic Chicago-style hot dogs for lunch?

If anyone is flying in a day early and would like to join me, please email me and let me know.

Havane Wiesenstock?

Who, you might be asking, is Havane Wiesenstock?

Actually, it's not a person, it's just what I tend to ask the clerks at Target.

Lolz

There is a non-zero probability that by linking to this image, I am breaking United States law. Please contemplate how fucked up that is.

Therefore

I love this list of "proofs" of God's existence. Here are the first three, in a lame attempt to increase the length of this post.

TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT, a.k.a. PRESUPPOSITIONALIST (I)
(1) If reason exists then God exists.
(2) Reason exists.
(3) Therefore, God exists.

COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT, a.k.a. FIRST CAUSE ARGUMENT (I)
(1) If I say something must have a cause, it has a cause.
(2) I say the universe must have a cause.
(3) Therefore, the universe has a cause.
(4) Therefore, God exists.

ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT (I)
(1) I define God to be X.
(2) Since I can conceive of X, X must exist.
(3) Therefore, God exists.

(1) Archaeologists believe they have found King Herod's tomb.
(2) Therefore, Jesus existed.
(3) Therefore, God exists.

Fees ability

How is this even legal?

On apathy

Jon Stewart on PBS, as insightful as ever (this excerpt is from the 19:30 point):

I think, one of the things that I do think government counts on is that people are busy, and it's very difficult to mobilize a busy and relatively affluent country unless it's over really crucial, you know, foundational issues that come to sort of a tipping point...

...Here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd -- and I've always had this problem with the rationality of it. The president says, we are in the fight for our way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation and of the generations to come, and so what I am going to do is, you know, Iraq has to be won, or our way of life ends and our children and our children's children all suffer. So, what I am going to do is send 10,000 more troops to Baghdad. So there's a disconnect there, between -- you're telling me this is the fight of our generation, and you're going to increase troop strength by 10%, and that's going to do it. I'm sure what he would like to do is send 400,000 more troops there, but he can't, because he doesn't have them. And the way to get that would be to institute a draft, and the minute you do that, suddenly the country's not so damn busy anymore. And then they really fight back, and then the whole thing falls apart. So they have a really delicate balance to walk between keeping us relatively fearful, but not so fearful that we stop what we're doing and really examine how it is that they've been waging this.