I’m planning on starting from scratch with my present install of OS X - get everything tidy before the next update goes on sale.

I want to keep addresses (Plaxo), some of my Safari bookmarks and all my mail (which desperately needs sorting out) as well as all my media, or what’s left after recently dropping my external notebeek hard drive!!! But there’s also a slew of applications that I wouldn’t want to run my mac without, some of them are so embedded in my using the OS that I probably wouldn’t think to name them unless I thought about it.

There’s also a nice write-up about indispensable apps entitled Make your Mac a monster machine, got me back to playing with Dragthing but I can’t say as I dug ASM or fruitmenu. Can’t win ‘em all.

So here it is, my list of ‘apps-that-I-can’t-do-without-so-I-remember-to-install-them-when-I-wipe-my-MBP’: No doubt I’ll be adding to this list for a while

The aim of the game is to discard all of your 13 cards.

Deal 4 hands of 13 cards. If there are fewer than 4 players, leave the remaining hands as dead cards. If there are 2 players, play twice using the remaining 26 cards.

The player with the 3 of Diamonds starts by playing any of the card sequences (see below).

The next player to the left may play a higher sequence with the SAME NUMBER OF CARDS - either higher in number or same number in a higher suit.

The player may decline to play by saying pass - even if they are able to play.

The first round ends when no one wishes to play a higher sequence. The winner of that round (the person who laid a sequence that everyone else said pass to) now starts a new round with any new sequence/number of cards.

The winner is the first player to discard all their 13 cards.

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The Museum of Unworkable Devices

The Hidden Masterpiece by Balzac, courtesy of Classic Literature.

Separate pages after the jump.

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