"This strikes me as a perfect example of Donald Knuth’s famous axiom: 'We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.' There are a slew of cases where the easiest solution to doing something in AppleScript is to use do shell script to do it from a shell scripting language. I think it’s the best thing that ever happened to AppleScript."

I won't quote a thing from here, because the whole thing is just perfect. I would tie this to a Malcolm Gladwell concept from /Outliers/, but that might cause the whole blogosphere to burst into flame.

Early adopters of e-mail may remember a list of 100 questions — “Where did you go to high school?” “What is your saddest memory?” — that became ubiquitous in the mid-1990s. And the immediate progenitor to “25 Random Things” isn’t hard to find: In 2006, bloggers were challenging one another to list 100 random things about themselves on their sites.