Don’t teach someone how to drive near a swimming pool – Great picture
Category Archives: Aside
Apple did not copy Konfabulator – His writing goes on and on, but his point is well taken.
About halfway through Quicksilver. It is the second most confusing book I have ever read. Doing lots of gameroom stuff. Craving spaghetti and meat balls with garlic bread. Subverting the system.
Is America’s obesity epidemic a lie? – George W. Bush is an extremely active, healthy person, but according to the standards some experts are pushing, he, along with 80% of Americans, will be considered overweight.
Everyone shouldn’t see this film – MPAA bans critic’s quote “everyone should see this film” because Farenheit 9/11 is rated R. Huh?
Tiger Server will support offline home directories – But will I be able to use the home dir on two places at once? And do I really want to run OS X Server on my desktop?
Latest IE security hole: Don’t use Explorer, says CERT – I’ve been saying that for years
Upper Class Suite – The coolest airplane setup I’ve ever seen
Low-Carb Fad Seen as Unhealthy and a Ripoff – Ah, a new trade group
New Yorker Review of Farenheit 9/11 – Pretty good explainer with some cursory sniping.
One of the “Olsen Twins” is in treatment for an eating disorder – A symptom of our times, if “symptom” means insanity and “our times” means a pervasive culture created by “the media” that has convinced many Americans that they need to look for their entire lives like stick–thin pre–teens. This turn of events doesn’t surprise me. From the article: “We need to love our different shapes and sizes […a]nd we need to wake up, because women are dying.”
The Condensed Bill Clinton – Slate saves me $30 and 900 pages of my life. [Edit: The story appears to have disappeared. Odd]
Microsoft patents “personal area networking” – The good: people are seeing the potential for wearables. The bad: I read about implementations of this done years ago at MIT, IBM, and other places, and that MS can patent it is just another example of the stupidity of the US patent system and how it holds back innovation.