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- In his infinite wisdom, Dennis Miller says we ought to scrap the space program. Normally, I would disregard this as... |
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- The company reaches settlements that total approximately $200 million in six class-action lawsuits that involve antitrust claims and product pricing. Ten down, five to go. |
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- BillG gave us a vision of the PC in 2006 (when we can reasonably expect to have WinLong released): CPU 4-6GHz; 2 core [64 bit] Memory 2+ GB Disk 1+ TB GPU 3x today Net 1Gb, 54Mb wireless My first thought was "what am I going to do with 1 terabyte of hard disk space?". The answer then came to me "whatever I want! |
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- Great little post by Glenn Reynolds on the subject of the loony religious right:I caught the tail end of a segment on this on my local talk-radio show. Most of the callers were extremely negative on the subject, though the... |
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Nicecast (Oct 28 2003 18:58 GMT) - Just noticed that our friends at Rogue Amoeba have released a new app I've been testing for a while, called... |
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- Taking a complicated form and converting it into an HTML form while trying to preserve the visual appearance can get... |
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- Weather Service officials have fanned out across our area trying to figure out if we were slammed by several tornadoes last night. One woman in New Jersey was killed when winds blew down a huge tree, trapping her inside a car. |
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- Noxious fumes leaking from a radiator in a public school in the University Heights section of the Bronx made 35 people inside a classroom sick. |
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- It began on a street corner in Corona. It appeared to be a simple dispute but when it was over one man was dead, and another now is facing charges in his death. |
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- There was heavy traffic in Brooklyn this morning because of a huge oil spill on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. |
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- With wind-driven flames threatening the densely populated San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, firefighters dug in Tuesday for another brutal day battling one of the most destructive and deadly wildfire outbreaks in California history. |
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- President Bush says both Iraqi followers of Saddam Hussein and foreign terrorists are working against the U.S., and are both behind a series of deadly bomb attacks in Iraq. |
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- It was bound to happen one of these days. In today's NYT, Paul Krugman finally lashes out at all those who criticized his defense of Mahathir Mohamed. "A Willful Ignorance" is a dismal performance: Smear tactics aside, the thrust of the attacks was tha |
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- Slate's Dennis Cass makes several comparisons between BtVS (particularly the Buffy/Angel romance) and the WB's new Tarzan series. |
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RioWorld (Oct 28 2003 18:58 GMT) - You know, the great thing about the interweb is that it serves as a great resource for people who share similar interests... |
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- This may be history, folks. The first blog post published while on the set on a major cable television show. Greetings from K Street. |
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- Well, I still have the cough. It seems like its worse today than it was all last week. I stayed... |
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- The transcript of BillG's keynote is available. |
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- L'XBox recupera la posizione numero due nelle vendite inglesi dopo appena poche settimane di predominio GameCube a seguito del ribasso del prezzo. E questo il dato saliete che emerge leggendo le nuove statistiche che la societa' ChartTrack ha fornito. L'arresto del GameCube e' significativo, con una riduzione delle vendite del 20% rispetto alla settimana prima, nonostante un uso massiccio di... |
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- Sony ha oggi annunciato che lo strepito quanto inatteso successo dell'Eye-Toy, la telecamerina che permette di controllare alcuni giochi con i movimenti del corpo, continua senza sosta. La periferica, introdotta in estate nella confezione "EyeToy: Play", ha gia' superato un milione di unita' vendute nella sola Europa nei quattro mesi in cui e' stata nei negozi. E il lancio e' ormai imminente per... |
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- Quello che un tempo sarebbe stato impensabile è adesso quasi realtà. Sonic, il porcospino emblema principe di Sega, approderà sulla PS2 (a Dicembre in Giappone, all'inizio del prossimo anno in versione PAL e Usa), accompagnato da alcuni dei personaggi famosi della serie videoludica. Così come accadeva all'interno dei titoli in 2D, Sonic e compagnia dovranno sfrecciare lungo percorsi anti-gravitazionali,... |
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France IV. (Oct 28 2003 18:57 GMT) - The missiles used in the attack Sunday were built in France and Russia. They were also apparently brand new: "Half the missiles were 68 millimeter, which have a range of two to three miles; the others were 85 millimeter, whose range is three to four miles, he said. The smaller... |
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- Another Brazilian Beauty... |
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- I have seen some comments that some readers would like to see a session code in the title of PDC blogs to help them. This is a good point, and I will try to accomodate you. |
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- Who would fill Fletcher's vacant Congressional seat? A special election is required. |
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- HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - Defensive end John Abraham will miss the New York Jets' game against the New York Giants on Sunday with a strained right groin. |
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- doxiemom, of course the statistics are way in your favor, but |
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- I hope I have not missed you. Please check your PM's. Take |
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- After fooling around with Avidemux2 on my linux box for the past few days I managed to get a clip produced that is watchable. It's the Intro to Zoids Guardian Force. Zipped it's approx 29 megabytes. Format is in Mpeg2... |
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- A week ago I was interviewed for an Outside the Inbox article for the Montreal daily La Presse and it ran today. Here it is: «Les paroles à l'intérieur des chansons n'utilisent pas des mots pris aux pourriels, mais elles s'inspirent de leurs titres», explique Brad qui a réuni des collaborateurs de toute l'Amérique du Nord pour produire les 14 titres de Outside the Inbox. I have no idea what I said there but I sure hope it's awesome. |
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- The unbelievable is starting to get more believable as the football weeks go by. Lori has managed to win 3 times overall to my 4 times. This week, we both tied with 9 picks each... but she won the tie... |
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AP: (Oct 28 2003 18:55 GMT) - AP: Shareholders Approve Palm Unit's Spinoff. "Palm, now joined by rival Handspring, will be renamed palmOne Inc. The spun off division, which develops the Palm operating system, had already been acting independently as a subsidiary for mor... |
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Úff, djamm (Oct 28 2003 18:55 GMT) - Úff, djammVersta við að djamma, núna eftir að Kamilla fæddist, er að fá ekki að sofa almennilega á eftir :-)Unnur var að úts ... [1] |
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- edd: I could just about cope with the excesses of HTML mail, but OE2003 mails look like they'll require a plugin even to view.; edd: That is if they use any of the fancy schmancy rights management features.; edd: |
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- edd: wonder if LILO supports them?; mattb: as used in the ICL OPD; mattb: |
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- mattb: a nice buy for 400 quid, nice and portable, and runs linux good; mattb: in Feb 2002 they were selling for 2185ukp; phl: |
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- edd: Last one to the 1922 committee's a wimp; (2003-10-28 15:26) |
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- I've read articles in The Chronicle about mothers leaving academe to have more time with their children. While those articles make excellent points about the conflicting roles of mother and professor, they neglect the larger issue of the enormous space... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - IDGNet New Zealand Oct 28 2003 12:38PM ET... |
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- Instapundit believes there may be another denial of service attack on Thursday. At this point in the year, it won't bother me much, but just to remind you, the backup blog is at http://pages. map. com/pinto/blogger. |
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