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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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By Matthew Yglesias
Jan 4 2008, 11:48 AM ET Comment

Apple's Mighty Mouse. I've been a laptop user for so long that the whole idea of mouse use is somewhat unfamiliar. But thanks to Bluetooth, you can now get a wireless mouse that's simple to carry around in your bag and use when appropriate. What's more, after years of resisting the whole two button mouse concept, Apple's gone and developed the most elegant implementation of it out there. Unfortunately, they seem disinclined to brag about this since that might entail admitting that they were wrong on the utility of the second button, so you actually need to go into the system preferences and change one of the default settings to enable the right button functionality.

Also recommended: Third party RAM. Someone pointed out to me a little while back ago that RAM's not nearly as expensive as I thought -- Apple's just wildly overcharging people for it. And they're not even wildly overcharging for some kind of double super-secret proprietary RAM -- you can buy stuff that plugs right into your computer all over the internet with ease. It's just a pure price discrimination scheme: don't be a victim, but also don't be running your computer without enough RAM.

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