Archive 2002
Down With Entropy
Yo, this one goes out to all you punk b*tches who think the Hawkman is soft just because I'm wicked smart. Listen up, I got something to say. Straight out of Oxford a crazy motherf*cker named Hawking. When I be rocking the mic you be gawking at me 'cause I'm a bad mama-jamma, you wanna [...]
Stop The Factoids
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Coca-Cola was originally green. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class. City with the most Rolls Royce's [...]
More Free MP3s
Why is Moxy Fruvous one of my favorite bands? Yeah, they ROCK! A few months ago, they started releasing songs about their fans (the Fruheads). How cool is that? Yeah, I'm supremely jealous. Chad Maloney, Zard Snodgrass, Heather Rolph, Jason Reiser, Chris O'Malley, Krista Ortgiesen, and some 24 others (a new one is being released [...]
Googlewhacking
What's better than stinkfish bowels? Gretchen's orange chicken. Well, it didn't start out that way. She made this nice glaze (substituting fructose for honey). Yeah, I replaced most of it with peanut butter, but it was tasty nonetheless. The television was tuned into CNN in the background. Some Shiite Dingleberry was going off on Internet [...]
Bullock's Bullocks
The Net. Arguably, one of the stupidest “technology” films ever released. Not even Sandra could save this one. Premise strong, execution lame. I can't stand movie-made GUIs – especially when they're trying to emulate real-world machines. I could probably make a good living as a Hollywood “tech” consultant. Beats the heck out of flipping burgers, [...]
See Pee You
Intel Expected to Cut Pentium 4 Prices Over Weekend – Northwood is the code name for Santa Clara, California-based Intel's newest Pentium 4 chip, in which some of the dimensions are as small as 0.13 microns. By comparison, a human hair is about 50 microns wide. By moving to smaller line widths, Intel is able [...]
Radio Ga Ga
Turning Macs on Thievery. Stolen computers are notoriously difficult to recover. But a Houston man cleverly found his sister's stolen iMac using remote control software, friends on the Net, luck and brains. SUIT – Against Microsoft, Justice Department. A NONPROFIT ANTITRUST organization said it planned to file a lawsuit against Microsoft and the U.S. Department [...]
Severe Truths
Factoid: A piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part of a publicity effort, and that is then accepted as true because of frequent repetition. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.” “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters [...]
Happy Fun News
10.0.4 Available. OS X 10.0.4 is available in Software Update. Here are the release notes: Improvements for USB devices, including additional external device support for iTunes CD burning. Improved battery life for many PowerBook G3 systems. Improved Classic compatibility. Security updates to OpenSSH and `sudo' services. Support for the new active-matrix 17-inch Apple Studio Display. [...]
Did You Know
It is impossible to lick your elbow. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out. A shrimp's heart is in their head. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single [...]
Dust Love Bunnies
I have to disagree with you (and in doing so, come to Gretchen's defense). A neatly stacked pile of coasters is only ready to hold one drink in a somewhat elevated position (a precarious and possibly dangerous setting, depending on the drink involved). On the other hand, if the coasters are conveniently arranged in a [...]
Netscape Still Sucks
I was amazed when I read the article about AOL suing Microsoft. Netscape shot itself in the foot, and they sue Microsoft… Joel Spolsky wrote a lot about netscape a couple of years ago… here are two articles and a quote from an insider: “Things you should never do” and “Netscape goes bonkers.” (Dennis Rivard) [...]
From Furo's Fingers
Well, it doesn't take a math major to figure out that even a few warez users can suck up a full T-1 quickly. 1.55Mbps divided by 256Kbps upload speed = 6 users and a full T-1 is exhausted. Now, Waterloo alone has some 3000+ subscribers on the cable modem system, and I can guarantee that [...]
Random Clicks
Why Did Apple's iBook Have To Grow Up?. I'm a happy user of Apple's iBook line and recently had the opportunity to look at the new 14″ iBook at my local Apple retailer. But I left the store scratching my head and wondering why the design broke away from its ideal form factor. [osOpinion] City [...]
Inbox (Paul Witheridge)
Still can't figure out why you ignore Pegasus Mail. Not only will it completely disable embedded scripts in e-mails by default and support plugins which automatically invoke the virus scanner of your choice whenever an attachment is saved, opened or viewed but will also allow you to colourize – if that turns you on – [...]
