Brent Simmons is also the person responsible for NetNewsWire & MarsEdit, which I am posting with. (Dare you complain about me ending a line with a preposition...)

Email: "Email is like TiVo for chat.



I’m not sure why I felt like writing that sentence, except that I’m a big fan of the ‘blank is like TiVo for blank’ comparisons. At some point, everything is either like TiVo or like a thing being TiVo’d.



I sometimes enjoy making up absurd comparisons. Clouds are like TiVo for rain. Soup is like TiVo for vegetables. That kind of thing."

(Via inessential.com.)