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Apple changed the font smoothing preferences in Snow Leopard and removed the proper control for external monitors — their automatic setting doesn’t work properly. Text looked absolutely terrible on my Samsung LCD monitor after installing OS X 10.6 until I entered this into the Terminal:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2

(You might also prefer -int 1 for less smoothing or -int 3 for more smoothing.)

I can’t imagine why non-Canadians think all of our police wear funny hats and bright red tunics.

This is the sort of thing we strive for at Dabble DB a lot of the time — for the user, Things Should Just Work.

Christopher Grabowski’s photos of dying and dead coastal communities in British Columbia, from Geist magazine

Why are bikes in Portland so expensive?

Mark Hume calls it “one of the biggest salmon disasters in recent history”. Sad.

On being John Hughes’s penpal.