Update: After further reading I’ve learned that Murky Coffee used to own a store on Capital Hill in Washington DC as well but had to close down in March because they owed the District hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes & their landlord for rent dating back 2 years.
Jeff Simmermon recounts his recent [...]

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We’ve got a secret for you: Sweeney Todd is a musical. We understand there might be some confusion about that, seeing as how the television ads don’t have a single note of singing in them, and if you blink during the theatrical trailer, you’ll miss the five seconds of Johnny Depp singing buried in the [...]

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Flickr has added tracking statistics for photo views, referrers & a few other tracking categories for pro account holders. You must go there & turn it on manually for them to show up and Flickr says there will be a 24 delay after doing so (although I caught it early and it only took a [...]

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So this post is being completely written using the new Windows Live Writer. So far? I’m impressed. I’m exclusively on my mac at home & prefer MarsEdit for day to day blog posting there, but I could definitely get used to using Live Writer for while I am here at work. Testing insertion of picture….ok….it [...]

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So as I posted on Friday, I attended a They Might Be Giants concert at the 9:30 club here in Washington DC. This was the third time I’ve seen them live, the first being at The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC in mid-2006, and the second being at Starr Hill Music Hall in Charlottesville, VA.
The [...]

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The two and a half years between the debut of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and today’s release of 10.5 Leopard feels long, not just because it’s been the longest-ever stretch between major Mac OS X revisions, but also because it’s been an eventful two and a half years.
How eventful? Think about this: When 10.4.0 [...]

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Having managed to acquire Leopard early, I have successfully installed it. After backing up my system I chose to go the easy route, being a Mac user for less than a year, I wanted to take the method most “newbie” Mac users would probably take.
The installation began without a hitch. I was perplexed at first [...]

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The new Amazon MP3 Store looks like no previous iTunes Store rival. The music is completely DRM-free, encoded at a very respectable 256 kbps, includes a ton of songs from major record labels, and offers terrific software support for Mac OS X.When you purchase singles, you can download them directly via your web browser. When [...]

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Xeni Jardin:

Steve Jobs hosted a companywide town hall meeting for Apple employees earlier today, all about iPhone. Word is: Full-time Apple employees who’ve been there a year or more will receive one of the devices, free. This adds up to a total retail value of more than $12 million. Gizmodo: Link. Engadget’s posts: one, two.

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IGN has a preview of Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, checking out the new features and scenarios available in this expansion pack. GameSpot
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