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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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Cover Flow

By Matthew Yglesias

Nov 9 2007, 8:10 AM ET Comment

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I upgraded one of my machines to Leopard last night, and while it doesn't look like it's about to change my life it does have some cool features. And an annoying weird one. Namely, Apple has taken its somewhat weird and annoying "cover flow" feature from iTunes and brought it over to the Finder so now you can browse through your files and folders in the awkward, inefficient, can't-really-see-where-anything-is way. But why? Cover flow definitely does look cool on a television ad, but the crux of the matter is that actually using a computer is very different from sitting back and watching a scene unfold. Cover flow doesn't seem to me to work at all as a way to actually use your computer.

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