cringely’s new idea
What if Apple introduces OS 10.5, its next super-duper operating system release, and at the same time starts loading FOR FREE the current operating system version — OS 10.4 — on every new iPod in a version that runs on generic Intel boxes? What if they also make 10.4 a free download through the iTunes Music Store?
fox screws up, innocent family hurt
Sensationalist “journalism” at FOX misidentifies family as terrorists:
The LA Times reports that featured Fox News contributor John Loftus incorrectly identified a La Habra, CA, home as that of a terrorist. The family of five who lives there has been harrassed ever since.
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Loftus, whose “Inside Scoop with John Loftus” is a feature of Fox Network News television every Sunday at 11:20 AM, gave the family’s address on the air, saying that a terrorist connected with the July 7 London bombings lived at the address. Directions and satellite photos were briefly available on-line until police intervened and had them taken down.
cbc unplugged
Great source of CBC blogs and podcasts.
Tracking Down a Cell Phone Thief
Tracking Down a Cell Phone Thief
Moral of the story – even if you’re enough of a cunt to steal from a charity raffle, don’t be fucktarded enough to steal a phone from a community of phone experts.
copyright, explained
The kind folks at Bromberg & Sunstein LLP – Intellectual Property, Business, Litigation have a nice flowchart showing just how easy copyright law is.
programming explained
Q. What’s the difference betweeen an implementor and a maintainer?
A. One writes code, and the other rights code.
joey’s PSA
Republicans want beer money back
headline of the day: S.C. Republicans want beer money back.
worst fiction winners
The 2005 results from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest are in.
In considering the wisdom of entering upon an affair of the heart with the redoubtable Miss Ffiona Sensuosa, MacFadden Perfidy weighed the undeniable erotic advantages of such a confluence of physiologically coinciding characteristics against the demonstrably unfortunate fact of her exhibiting pronounced advantages over him in terms of wealth, intelligence and personality, and concluded that their union could possibly be inadvisable.