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1. This movie:

The Swimmer (because of this article, and originally because of this guy)

2. This song:
Who Made Who - Space For Rent (The Rapture/HushHush Remix) (because of this mix)

3. This picture:

Charles Sandison, Mapping Desire, 2005 (because of this post)

4. This YouTube clip:

Mazzy Star - Ghost Highway - live on MTV (because of this blog)

I don't care how quickly this video might spread around the internet. I have to make someone else watch this. I don't know why.

(Much like when Lin Swimmer fears he's alienating portions of his audience, I fear I may do the same with this post. But I spent a large chunk of my day thinking about these things, so I'm posting it anyway. I promise my next post will be mindless fun pictures/video.)

I'm a programmer. It's true. Or at least I'd like for it to be true. While I do spend a lot of time writing code, I'm not formally trained, nor am I all that good. But I do think I'm enough of a programmer to care strongly about my text editor. I'm not rich enough or willing enough to buy a text editor (or else I'd probably have TextMate), so all I have to choose from are the free ones. Today, I methodically checked out some of the best free ones for OSX, and here are the results, posted here for you if you're curious... and to remind me why I liked and didn't like certain ones.

Also, if you use any of these, please tell me all about it in the comments.

MacVim
Excluding Notepad++, this is totally my favorite. I want to learn everything about Vim.
(And no, I will not partake in any Emacs vs Vim talks yet. Not until I've learned Vim well enough to kill you in 4 keystrokes, which, I hear, is possible.)

• CON: Can feel a little too much like what it is: a command line program wrapped up for OSX (but it's still more OSX-y than the java-y programs on this list)
  
• PRO: Wicked snappy
• PRO: Wicked powerful
• CON: Takes some getting used to
• PRO: I like tabs
• PRO: C-tags!
• PRO: Lots of plugins and support and customization
  
• CON: No alt-click block selection (Although it might be possible with some key combo I have yet to master)
  

• PRO: Awesome code folding
• PRO: Good 'find' highlighting (like Smultron). Wish it were more like Safari, though.
  
• CON: No tabs, but a (very confusing to me) project tree-thing instead
• Huge. Can be sluggish.
  
• PRO: 'organizer' mode is sort of nice and interesting

• CON: Doesn't strike me as being as powerful as Notepad++ or MacVim
• PRO: Looks pretty good (could use a better color scheme, though)
• CON: Syntax highlighting is not all that great, and sometimes really sucks.
  
• PRO: I like tabs
• PRO: Good 'find' highlighting (like Smultron). Wish it were more like Safari, though.

• CON: no tabs, but a drawer instead
• PRO: Better syntax highlighting than Smultron
• PRO: Feels more powerful than Smultron
• CON: Feels less powerful than MacVIM

• FATAL CON: not osx/cocoa enough (duh! it's for Windows)
• PRO: I like tabs
• PRO: I love this program!!! No idea why, either.
  

• CON: Not osx/cocoa enough
• CON: Plugins are a good idea, but feel sort of not solid
• PRO: C-tags!
• CON: No tabs

• CON: Not osx/cocoa enough
• CON: Feels slow (java-y?)
• PRO: Reminds me of notepad++ (not sure why)
  
• PRO: I like tabs

Lately, I've been here:




In other news, I need a haircut.

1 - If you're curious...
2 - To make this blog more of a showcase, or start of a showcase...

...some if the Processing things I've been working on:

Yes, The Hardly Boys In Hardly Gold is one of my favorite movies ever. It was released on DVD this year, which unfortunately makes it lose a little bit of its beat-up, passed-around VHS charm, but oh well. It's for the better.

Anyways, Jesse recently posted some youtube clips from the movie after Jim made a post about it, so my interest was renewed. And of course, as Jim notes, everyone I know owes it to one Mr. Karl "bat-breaking big-top-raising" Voigtland for introducing (perhaps indirectly) them to this movie.

I found the best hip hop ever: www.educationalrap.com

So, in Amanda-style, I'm giving you a preview of my WHFR show for Sept. 10..... It's going to have some educational rap. Oh my god, if I had more money, I'd buy all the Rhythm, Rhyme, Results albums.... but alas, not enough money. I bought a few of my favs, which I will be (virtually -- where's the vinyl release, RRR?) spinning on my show, in honor of the world not ending. Huh? Listen to my show to find out.

But even if you don't care to listen to my show, check out some educational raps NOW, please.

As far as I can tell, it's The Utica Club Natural Carbonation Beer Drinking Song by the Utica Club Natural Carbonation Band, from Utica, NY. Check it out (with an extensive back-story) on The Devil's Music.

Now, if you have any candidates to outdo this song, let me know!