links for 2007-04-30

"Historians will likely see the 2006 midterm election returns as indispensable to their work. Without a change in party control, we would never have a chance to get to the bottom of what has happened to this country."

"It happened to me about 10 years ago. I had called David Sedaris’s memoir “Naked� a “tour-de-farce� in a review in Newsday. Shortly thereafter, the publisher ran an ad in which my 600-word review had been boiled down to one phrase: “tour de f

Finally! This is a key part of Firefox that I miss on MacOS.