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I was looking for a good small web source to link to April showers bring May flowers for yesterday’s New Leaf Journal article on a brave tulip in Red Hook. I turned to Marginalia Search and Mojeek for the task. On Marginalia, I found a link to a link to a May 10, 1998 blog post by Michael Rawdon titled May Flowers. It did include the adage. I did not ultimately use it in my article. However, a passage unrelated to spring and flowers caught my attention:

Oh, and I ordered my new G3 Macintosh from The Apple Store. They say it could be up to 3 weeks before it arrives due to “time for assembly”, but seeing as it’s a standard model minus the internal modem, I’m betting it will arrive sooner.

Michael Rawdon (May 10, 1998)

While I never had a Mac of any kind (lest we count my temporary custody of Victor V. Gurbo’s 2007 MacBook), the passage caught my attention because I wrote about one Macintosh G3 just over a year ago. In Power Macintosh G3 in Nana Anime, I used a reverse image search to identify a desktop computer in a 2006 anime I was watching at the time. Of course, the G3 I wrote about was first released on January 5, 1999, so Mr. Rawdon must have ordered the model before the one I covered.

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I read a new AlternativeTo blog post about the re-design of the Reeder app. Reeder, I read, is a feed reader for iOS and MacOS. I am not personally familiar with it because I do not use Apple hardware and even if I did, I would not opt for a proprietary feed reader. The design of the app looks interesting, however. As far as I can gather, Reeder was originally a traditional feed reader (that experience is apparently still available), but the re-design turns it into a feed reader with a more social media stream aesthetic. I would not opt for that design for reasons similar to those I offered for not wanting to use feed readers to follow social streams, but I nevertheless think the idea may be good for feed usage in general. Using feeds is good (regardless of the app), and offering people an interface they are more familiar with than that of a traditional feed reader may help increase uptake.