“His sartorial attempt to blend in with the concrete did little to assuage the tension.”

This is my favorite of unhappy hipsters so far.

I was expecting something a little different from the title – the site is more like yuppies filled with ennui. I imagine unhappy hipsters to be more about anorexic brooklynite big-glassed boys struggling to fit into their skinny jeans or angsting over which scarf looks best with their ironic lumberjack coat. Still, this is good.

[Hat tip to Mr. Greg Storey]

The New Yorker has all thirteen of the short stories Salinger published there online

You’ll need to be a subscriber but you get to see the article as they actually appeared, which is really quite amazing, if not terribly legible.

iCan’t believe it! It’s now at the online Apple Store! $400 for an Mp3 Player! I’d call it the Cube 2.0 as it wont sell, and be killed off in a short time…and it’s not really functional. Uuhh Steve, can I have a PDA now? [Edited by elitemacor on 10-23-2001 at 02:33 PM]

—From the Mac Rumors (lol!) thread after the original iPod was announced. Sure, it’s unsporting to smugly smile years after-the-fact but that doesn’t make it any less fun. [via Timoni]

J. D. Salinger, Enigmatic Author, Dies at 91

Charles McGrath’s obituary in the New York Times.

You’re all right and smarter than me to boot so I won’t flog the newspaper of the future demands any more. I ain’t so well-spoken as a Mrgan or a Gruber anyhow.

As exciting as turning the publishing world upside down is, there seems to have been scant attention paid to the other thing about the tablet I’m pretty excited about: multitouch for your computer.

Sure, the tablet itself is going to have a slick, high-fidelity haptic interface that’ll let you swipe pages and flip widgets, etc, but I want all this on my computer. And I want the tablet to bring it. Forget touch screen iMacs, that idea’s as dumb as it is obvious, give me something that augments my keyboard and mouse and makes interacting with my computer just a little more natural. Make all of that Cover Flow stuff, currently a vaguely interesting toy, actually useful. 10/GUI without all the boring. Add a pen if you need to do something with all of the handwriting tech you’ve been bottling up but make using all of my fingers the exciting part. I never wanted to lick OS X but I do want to touch it.

My iPhone just sits at my desk all day, charging, my tablet (palette? canvas?) could actually be doing something.

And while I’m on a tablet-as-accessory kick, what if the tablet is also an accessory to your iPhone? I already carry the phone around with me everywhere, it’s already got a big hard drive and connectivity, the tablet could just tether off all of that.

iCurrent looks like a clever aggregator/news filter

Not sure what I like about this one more than any of the others – the filtering and tuning feel about right even if the design needs some work. I’m not convinced that anyone’s cracked the aggregation/personalization nut just yet and everyone else has moved onto the social/real time web. I like iCurrent’s approach.

ACORN gotcha man among four arrested for attempting to bug Mary Landrieu’s office

Remember the douchebag who was playing at being Mike Wallace with a cleverly edited bit of “investigative reporting” that turned out to be basically false? Well, he’s been arrested for trying to bug U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu’s phone. I’m sure Hannity, Beck and O’Reilly will be issuing their apologies soon.

Well, we’re screwed, they’ve weaponized owls now [via Collision Detection]

We are very concerned about the appearance of T.P.N. profiteering and exploitation of the grass-roots movement

—Philip Glass, national director of the National Precinct Alliance, on why his group is pulling out of the Tea Party convention. You mean a group that charges nearly $600 to attend, has sponsors and pays the headliner $100,000 isn’t grassroots? Huh.

I’m not enough of a writer to avoid being either hopelessly maudlin or sounding like the slogan of a failed 90’s dotcom (“the people network of connected people!”) so I’ll just say thanks. Thanks to bailey and poeks and auntmarvel for organizing such a swell party, Saturday night was about as perfect as it could have been. Thanks to the wonderful folk who traveled from so far away, across water even – your sniffys and secretsquirrels, your raffitorri, the Canadians, can’t forget them (sourey!). Thanks to the locals for putting up with us, for walking us around town, for staying out late on school nights, for showing off The Tablet after a few drinks (myeh, seems kinda half-baked, I’ll wait for the next one).

And to every awesome one of you for making these ridiculous and impossible friendships real and important. Thank you so much.

(Incredibly cute photo of phillygirl and myself, artfully captured by my pal zuhl)