Interesting quote
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of
war in order to whip the citizenry into a
patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a
double-edged sword. It both emboldens the
blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when
the drums of war have reached a fevered pitch
and the blood boils with hate and the mind
has closed, the leader will have no need in
seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the
citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by
patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto
the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For
this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. -
Julius Caesar
Update: Apparently this quote is fake. See the discussion on
snopes.com. I
should have guessed, it was just too good...
(13:45) [/War]
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MailPictures
Installed myself a copy of MailPictures yesterday.
It's an add-on bundle to Mail.app that adds a X-Image-Url header to
outgoing email that can be used to fetch an image and display when
reading mail.
Interestingly the ability to display an image has always been in
Mail.app, but just isn't advertised by Apple. (I wonder what other
goodies may be lurking in there). MailPictures just intercepts the
method that looks up the image and checks to see if the X-Image-Url
header is present. If so, it downloads the image and stores it in the
cache (~/Library/Caches/com.apple.addressservices/Photos on Jaguar,
~/Library/Images/People on 10.1.x)
Even more curiously, Mail.app doesn't use images you may have stored
in your AddressBook. (this seems like an oversight)
So, I modified the source to MailPictures to check the AddressBook for
an image if one hasn't been found by either of the other two
techniques. The author of MailPictures says he'll put this in the next
version, but for now you can download it from me if you want (send an
email if you want the source too):
MailPictures-2.0.AB.dmg (208 kb)
(10:09) [/Computers/OSX/Apps]
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