Mike Cohen

Cody is now laying in

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Cody is now laying in front of the patio door and making the weirdest sounds, not quite a meow, not quite a chirp. It’s so cute.

A little while ago, I walked behind my building to the river & I saw a racoon swimming. Too bad I didn’t have my camera with me – I never know what birds or animals I’ll see there.

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16943 ª May 6 5:24 PM. Can gay sex succeed where Colin Powell failed? Great story about Jerusalem’s first gay pride parade, planned for June 7. Orthodox deputy mayor Shmuel Shkedi is incensed: “The very existence of these people is a provocation, their existence is uncivilized…This thing must be condemned.” Meanwhile, the organization behind the march, Jerusalem Open House, continues to host meetings of Israeli and Palestinian gays and lesbians on the same street where suicide bombers killed 11 and injured 188 last Dec. And here’s a report of Arik Sharon telling g/l leaders, “I think everybody should live their lives as they choose to” at a Feb. 26 meeting — the first-ever between an Israeli Prime Minister and representatives of the lesbian/gay/bi/transgender community. Commence group hugging now. (more links inside) [MetaFilter]

Andy Sullivan: "While file-sharing services

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Andy Sullivan: “While file-sharing services like Kazaa and Morpheus enable anyone with an Internet connection to access a huge library of music for free, experienced file sharers are more likely to actually increase the amount of money they spend on CDs, the report by research firm Jupiter Media Metrix said.”  [Scripting News]

I’ve bought several CDs after first downloading that artist’s songs via Napster. I found out that I like the Cuban group Los Van Van and I’ve discovered several new groups by browsing people’s libraries.

I just checked an abandoned

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I just checked an abandoned POP account I haven’t looked at since November of last year. There were 154 emails, all spam.

This is an account that I never gave out to anyone – I once had my email forwarded there from my pobox.com account. The pobox.com account is now forwarded somewhere else and gets very little spam. I have no idea how anyone got that address, since it’s a fairly obscure domain (xtrabox.com) from a provider of POP3 accounts rather than a well-known ISP domain.

Some of the printable subjects were things like “Boost your windows reliability” (I don’t think so… I don’t even use Windows).

I took this picture today.

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I took this picture today. This is the Middle River behind my home. They call Wilton Manors the Island City because it’s completely surrounded by rivers that separate it from the rest of Ft. Lauderdale.

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16729 ª April 29 9:43 AM. Buried in debt, wallowing in multiple bankruptcies, with a trail of ill will across three states: this is the state of Anita Bryant twenty five years after her anti-gay campaign in Florida. Perhaps these right-wing Christian groups who have recently been attacking gay and S&M events should take a lesson from this. [MetaFilter]

Aww, let’s all cry for her “;->”

Help bring RealPlayer to OS

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Help bring RealPlayer to OS X. MacCentral points to a RealPlayer survey for future features online. If you would like to see an OS X version of the multimedia software from Real, fill out the survey and let them know that they need to get with the program. [Mac Net Journal]

This is one of the lamest surveys I’ve ever seen. Not only do they misspell Macintosh, they only list Intel, AMD, and Cyrix CPUs – no PowerPC or 68k. They list every version of Windows, but don’t distinguish between MacOS X and classic MacOS. It proves just how little they understand the Mac, and it’s not surprising they don’t have an OS X version.