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This Week's Bookmarks: 100 Best Album Covers, Swiss Army Knife, Robin Williams, Delayed Flights, Fictional Brands, Button Stealer, Highest Paid Olympians https://amerpie.lol/2024/07/28/this-weeks-bookmarks.html

Carolina Bays , Carolina Bays are elliptical depressions in the earth’s surface found along the eastern seaboard of the US , linkage.lol/carolina-…

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Computer People , How people react to computer issues now as opposed to the early days of widespread PC usage , louplummer.lol/computer-…

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Today on App-Addict - Witch from May Tricks is a window switcher that lets you ⌘+tab to an open tab in the Mac browser of your choice, not just Safari. It also features a menu bar switcher and optional vertical or horizontal layouts.

https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/witch-multi-featured-window-switcher

From my 100 Strangers project - Tony remarked that he was an African-American making me a Korean version of a Mexican dish in an American restaurant. Whatever. The bulgogi tacos were off the hook for real.

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My 77-year-old Dad is a diehard YouTube fan. He’s recovering from heart surgery today, so I made him a playlist to give him something to do while he’s laid up. YouTube for Grownups

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YouTube for Grownups , A playlist of 10 YouTube channels I made for my 77-year-old Dad while he’s recovering from heart surgery. , linkage.lol/you-tube-…

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Today on AppAddict - MenuWhere - its single purpose is to pop up the frontmost app’s menus at the current mouse location. By default, it is activated by ⌘ + Right Click, but you can use the built in preferences to activate it totally with the keyboard if you want to.

https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/menuwhere-simple-cheap-and-useful

From my 100 Strangers Project - I met Joe downtown outside of a locally owned coffee shop. He was having some java and smoking a cigarette through a hole in this throat. He told me was a cancer survivor and that he just couldn’t give up cigarettes, although he no long drank or used drugs.

Vivian Maier - Street Photographer , Vivian Maier was an American street photographer whose work was not discovered until the time of her death. , linkage.lol/vivian-ma…

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Living Out Loud Update , Just an update on what’s going on in various projects and personally lately. , louplummer.lol/living-ou…

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Today on AppAddict - focusedOS lets you create a distraction free workspace by blocking apps, websites and interface elements and by playing ambient sounds to help you concentrate on what is important.

https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/focusedos-distraction-free-workspace

To Die With Che , A poem about the left , louplummer.lol/to-die-wi…

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Today in history, 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos with Australian Peter Norman wearing an OPHR badge in solidarity.

Stuff in a Time Machine , A vintage post from 1997 where I look at my tendency to be a bit of a hoarder , louplummer.lol/stuff-in-…

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Worst Computer Virus Ever , The MyDoom computer virus cost the economy %52 Billion and once was responsible for one if four email messages sent every day. , linkage.lol/worst-com…

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From my 100 Strangers project - I met Tammy at the mall late on a winter afternoon as she was about to head inside for her shift at one the restaurants in the food court. I saw her a few times after I took her photo and she always remembered me.

Today on AppAddict - a look at task managers and to do apps for Mac with my personal choice, Things 3 highlighted. A two-time Apple design award winner, Things 3 may be the pinnacle of app design in the Apple ecosystem.

https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/things-3-maybe-the-pinnacle-in-app-design

JD Vance throws his bacon grease in the garbage can.