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I had a great camera when I was back in San Francisco. And I never used it. There was just no real visual inspiration around. But here I am wandering through the streets of Grasse having lunch with Meis and I can't help but take pictures all the time. For example, this rich wall that just perfectly framed my girl. There's something incredibly inspiring about decay...the wall, not the girl :-)

Sex bomb: erotic psy-ops throughout war history

Fascinating online collection of sexually-oriented wartime propaganda, from WWII through present. Above, a shelling report form from the Korean War, fortified with boobies to encourage more soldiers to carry and complete the form each day. The site is a bit long, but it's an amazing collection and worth a browse.

Essential Mac Utility--WinSwitch

Fast User Switching is a great Mac feature that lets two or more people easily and securely share one machine. But it requires having your entire name in the MenuBar, which can eat up way too much valuable real estate. Just load this little diddy (freeware) and...problem solved.

VideoPod...gimme, gimme, gimme

Mobinote DVX-POD 7010 at Designtechnica

Finally, a competent and elegant looking video version of the iPod if ever I have seen one...7-inch color LCD (720x480), 20GB HD, Video and Audio recording AND playback, MPEG-4, DivX 3.11, 4 and 5, QuickTime 6, WMV, WMA, MP3, JPEG, GIF, BMP...Whew!

Oh, AND it can also record TV video directly into MPEG-4. Think TIVO in the palm of your hand. At $599, it's priced just a c-note over the top-of-the-line iPod. Available this fall. Or shall we say, "in time for X-mas?"

USSC Bush Smack-Down!

BANG! POW! KABLOEEY! Looks like the Bush team is finally starting to get their long-overdue reality-check:

"The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the Bush administration's war on terrorism yesterday, ruling that terrorism suspects..."

The French

You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting some poster like this using a half-naked girl to advertise snakeoil diet creams/pills/machines. I mean, howz a guy supposed to get any real work done...

my girl

i live in dc now. last night i had bella, my new girlfriend, over. we really like each other. but i'm not ready to say the "l" word just yet. won't share the same pillow, but i'll lie next to her with my spine touching hers. we pretend to ignore each other but really follow each other around. sorry the picture is out of focus - i'm just learning how to use a camera.

Ah, friends...

There really is nothing better than being out on the road. Especially when you get to bring your friends along with you! We just finished an awesome couple of weeks here in Grasse--first hosting the Tates/McGinn-Straubs followed by a short visit from Marie and Lexy who flew in from Paris for a brief weekend repas. Check out the photos on the left...

Zip-Linq Retractable Cables

Sure, the little animation is uber-goofy. But like a 5-year old amped up on half a box of Little Debbies, I just can't get enough of these roll-ups. They're about the same price as any other cable ($8-10) and take up a fraction of the space. Team up the Treo sync cable with the Use-Your-Treo-As-A-USB-Drive software and that's one more thing you can show off.

It is, after all, ALL about what you can show off...isn't it?

Use your Treo as a USB drive

I'm coming to realize that the real art of living out of a suitcase is ensuring that everything you carry does more than one thing. For example, my lovely wife MeiMei both cooks and cleans... Anyway, this is a fantastic piece of software that turns your Treo into one of those ubiquitous flash USB drives. Also lets you drag files/movies/mp3s to your Treo without even having to sync. Yummy.