links for 2008-07-24

Exposing Bush’s historic abuse of power (Salon)
Does the executive branch keep a massive database of illegally obtained information on dozens of individuals?
(tags: bush politics intelligence)

Oh man, I’m gonna abuse this (Big Contrarian)
Instant Rimshot, meet Cowbell Plus, a real iPhone app that allows you to play percussion instruments by shaking the phone.
(tags: iphone humor)

Vanity Fair Covers [...]

Outlook 2007 annoyances: keyboard shortcuts

Things you can’t do with Outlook 2007: assign custom keyboard shortcuts to Ribbon items.
This is annoying if you have certain keyboard shortcuts hardwired. For instance, in Outlook 2003 (and Word) one could access the “Paste Special” command (which gives a number of optional formats in which content can be pasted into a document, including unstyled [...]