Slim: Why did you buy a book on Christian pop culture?
Me: It's an ironic knowing look by a secular Jew, and looked humorous.
Slim: I grew up in Texas. I can give you critiques of Christian pop culture.
Me: It's by a blogger I read, and he was looking for a one-day push in sales, so for a few bucks I supported him. He'll buy my book one day.
Slim: That's completely unenforceable. You're just revealing yourself to be a sucker.

Don't do that, do this.

Related: my joke provoked linguistic discussion that got dugg.

• Better Gmail 2. Adds nice features to gmail, and I really notice when I'm using Gmail at a browser (I'm looking at you IE) that doesn't have this extension.


• Tab Mix Plus. Undo closed tabs and other nifty features.


• Delicious. I care not so much about the social features (what is everyone else bookmarking?), perhaps because my politics are different than the mass of delicious users, but this is a very handy means of quickly providing multiple tags to pages for future bookmark reference. With so many projects in my queue, it's handy when I see a ssrn abstract or news article to be able to quickly make a note of it and have it filed away to retrieve a year or two later when I finally get around to writing about the topic. I'd reread Walter Olson's Reason piece on the importance of statutes of limitations in February 2007, and might've forgotten to cite to it over a year later in my most recent Liability Outlook except that I was able to flag it in just a few seconds at the time.

Separately: Digg, Delicious, etc., should go the next step and really allow users to categorize themselves. Digg or Stumbleupon is worthless to me because its readership is dominated by people who don't share my interests. If I could ignore "pages most dugg" and instead look at "pages most dugg by users who also characterize themselves as libertarians (or members of the Federalist Society or whatever)" that would be interesting, and might make me want to bother using Digg.