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Tuesday, October 28, 2003 |
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Dept. of Lost Children
Where is the love for these mirthful concrete guardians of garden whimsy? Coldly abandoned by their owners, they languish in a stinking French jail, unlike the common criminals that took them from their posts.
PARIS- A French police station has been stuck with a room of homeless garden gnomes, victims of a wave of gnome abductions, after a fresh bid to trace their owners failed. Ah, what can be done? ::gallic shrug::
"In wanting to set them free, the (Gnome) Liberation Front has virtually imprisoned them," policeman Sylvain Brucker told Reuters...
How like life; there is pain and abandonment. Even for the little gnome. I must go watch zee Jerry Lewis. |
Apple removes Safari download from Web? [The Macintosh News Network]
I smell an update. Folks have posted that the version that was on Apple 's website wasn't compatible with Panther. |
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Morons in the News: Boondocks too cool for the Post. The Post drops selected "Boondocks" strips. More wussiness likely to follow. [Morons Dot Org]
Oy. Looks like someone has misplaced their balls again.
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Dept. of Schadenfreude
Oh thank ghod, it's not just me.
After no headaches from the first two machines, backing up the iBook was foolishly skipped. Typically, the iBook was the only one of the three machines loaded with several years' worth of digital pictures, music, e-mail, writing and other precious files. Little of it, naturally, was saved elsewhere. Dumbass. In a related story, Maggie Osterberg was quoted as saying, "Damn! That is one black-ass kettle!"
We'll keep ya posted. |
Congressmen ask NASA to put OSP on hold. Two leading members of Congress have asked NASA to stop further work on the Orbital... [spacetoday.net]Shades of the Nixon administration! Once again, the U.S. space program is in jeopardy, thanks to ill-advised foreign misadventures. As the article in Space Today says:
In a letter to NASA Administrator Sean O[base ']'Keefe, dated October 21 and released to the public Monday, Reps. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) and Ralph Hall (D-TX), the chairman and ranking minority member, respectively, of the House Science Committee, asked O'Keefe do defer any additional work on OSP. They reached that conclusion because of the combination of a lack of clearly-defined goals for NASA after the completion of the International Space Station, as well as a realization that a previous five-year budget plan for the program is "no longer credible." In other words, "don't expect any money, as it's all going to Iraq for the foreseeable future."
Smells just like Viet Nam vs. Apollo. |
Macworld review: 15-inch PowerBook G4s. Eight months after Apple announced its smallest and largest PowerBook G4s -- the 12-inch and 17-inch PowerBook G4s, in aluminum, not Titanium -- Apple released the laptop many professional Mac users had been waiting for -- the aluminum 15-inch PowerBook G4. With its slick performance, bright screen, and support for USB 2.0, FireWire 800, AirPort Extreme, and Bluetooth, this laptop was worth the wait. But people who've received PowerBooks with loose latches or video problems may wish that Apple had taken a bit more time to iron out kinks. [MacCentral]I want one of these so badly, my teeth hurt. But, as MacWorld says:
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Zillions of Universes? Or Did Ours Get Lucky?. A controversial notion known as the anthropic principle holds forth that the universe can only be understood by including ourselves in the equation. By Dennis Overbye. [New York Times: Science]
For a quick overview of superstrings, check out: Superstring Theory |
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