i think i might hate those new hummer commercials more than anything else.

on the advice of tommy i downloaded adium to manage all of my many, many instant messaging accounts (well, three, really. gtalk and two AIMs). and i like it. but i have a question - for the life of me i can't figure out how to set up alerts on people. i use alerts on a number of folks - family, coworkers, friends i like knowing are online so i can chat with them - but i am adium dumb and can't find out how to do them. not even google or adium help is helping me. any suggestions?

UPDATE: nevermind! literally right after i posted this i figured it out. am dumb.

UPDATE II: i should mention that i've more or less been converted to macs. i use my own at work now as much if not more than the PC, and after abusing tommy's this past weekend, i like them a lot. now if cnn would just pay me and i would stop spending money on multiple plane tickets back to d.c., i'd have one in my hot little hands right now.

The Borf saga continues. This flyer, courtesy of Rob, has been making the rounds on DC's streets:

The domain in question isn't curently live, and the WHOIS information is fake — it lists prominent leftist lawyer Bernadine Dohrn as the contact person (no, I hadn't heard of her before either). That's pretty much in keeping with the vibe I picked up from the kids we met at last summer's Borf-in at Dupont: basically, that they're the sort of folks who show up at WTO protests but don't break any windows.

They've still got until the 27th to hook the nameservers up to something, I suppose. I didn't have a lot of faith that they'd be able to pull this meager feat off, however. But now I hear that New York's Graffiti Research Labs are involved in the proceedings. Suddenly I'm considerably more interested.

GRL are the folks who invented LED throwies, popularized the electro-graf (which I hope to adapt toward making a fablab-assisted sign for the new office), and had a significant presence at the Maker Faire. And, although I didn't realize the extent of it, I guess I did know that they'd conducted some pro-Borf agitation, too — including some right here in DC.

So they're basically big-time geeks with a mischievous streak. If they're gonna be at Borf's welcome-home party, count me in.