smh.com.au - 25 days ago
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Using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981. And don't change it. I admit it: I'm a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can't control it. It's Apple. I don't like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous ...
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The OS Wars are over
Crooked Timber —
... One of the longest-running of culture wars, that of Mac vs PC (or rather, Mac OS vs MS-DOS and then Windows) can finally be declared at an end. After this piece by Charlie Brooker, nothing more need ever be written on the subject (hat tip, Nancy Wallace). ...
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Crooks and Liars —
Salon: Get the smelling salts...A Republican voted for the House Dems health bill!
Free Thought Manifesto: One Nation, Under Illusion
The Political Carnival: The lying, self-absorbed little death panel-monger is at it again
Scott Horton: More on the Verdict in Milan
James Fallows: Unemployment and airplane crashes
Digital Life: Better the broken Windows than life with the Mac monks
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