] So, you wanna make your ugly Windows XP interface look
] like Mac OS X, huh? It%u2019s really not all that
] difficult to do, and with a little luck, you%u2019ll be
] able to convince all but the most die-hard Mac users that
] you run an Apple computer. First, here%u2019s a list of
] the programs you%u2019ll need:

This could be fun...

Turn your PC into a Mac - Features - Engadget - features.engadget.com

] "And the weapons of mass destruction? Whatever happened
] to them? I'm sure we'll find some," he laughs. "They're
] being flown in right now in a C-130. There were, and will
] be, a lot of people killed over there. And if you don't
] care about the Iraqi casualties, what about the American?
] We stand to lose more people in the next months of
] occupation than we lost in the weeks of war. One of the
] reasons we escaped largely unscathed so far was because
] our military moved so fast. But now we're sitting targets
] -- we have to establish bases, patrol the streets, guard
] checkpoints. We're sitting targets for suicide bombers
] and other terrorists."
]
]
] "And they told us, 'Don't worry about W. not knowing
] anything, good old Dick Cheney will be his minder.' Dick
] Cheney? And this was going to be compassionate
] conservatism? Dick Cheney is to the right of Genghis
] Khan, he wants to drill in your backyard, he wants to
] deny black people their rights --it was all there in his
] voting record for us to see. What were we, rubes?"

AMERICAblog: From a Salon Interview of Ron Reagan Jr Last month

] In three separate press conferences over a three year
] period at the beginning, and well into, the AIDS crisis,
] Ronald Reagan's chief White House spokesman joked and
] laughed off questions when reporters tried to make
] serious inquiries about the AIDS epidemic.

Fantastic transripts here. I told myself that I wouldn't get involved in the counter-revisionism that is going on right now with us liberals (TM) but I had never actually seen the active oppression in the administration. I suppose its at least a partially unfair lens given that 50 years ago racist jokes were acceptable. But still. Not everyone was a saint just because you choose to selectively remember them that way.

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

] But a proposal in Congress could shut down the party. The
] measure would end the fixed-rate option, making all
] federal student loans issued after July 2006 subject to
] variable rates. Repayments would then rise and fall each
] year in sync with interest rates.

!!!

CNN.com - Will fixed-rate student loan consolidation end? - Jun 7, 2004

] France has bestowed its most prestigious honor on 99
] American veterans, thanking them at a pomp-filled
] military ceremony for helping to free Europe from Nazism
] 60 years ago.
]
]
] Officers pinned the Legion d'Honneur (Legion of Honor)
] medal on the former soldiers' chests Saturday as their
] children and grandchildren watched proudly, many shooting
] pictures and videos.

Ryan: what a wonderful gesture given the idiotic social/political situation in the US these days.... cheers.

CNN.com - France honors 99 brave Americans - Jun 5, 2004

] We thought we were pretty hot when we put The Final
] Countdown as the ringtone on our Treo, but in
] Japan, a country which regularly shames us with its
] gadget savvy, ringtons are so over. These days it%u2019s
] all about chaku-motion, short video clips that play on
] your phone everytime it rings, like of guitar solos or
] pop singers shouting out You've got a phone
] call! or whatever.

Engadget - www.engadget.com

Good lord click this link. Mp3 of a bluegrass band covering some 10 radiohead songs in a medley. Courtesy of Boingboing.

Rodeohead

] Megadriver is a brazilian heavy metal band devoted to
] videogame music.

A metal band that covers entire video game soundtracks.

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] Cingular today announced that it has selected Lucent to
] deploy a WCDMA/UMTS and HSDPA trial network in Atlanta.
] The 3G network will use 1900 MHz PCS spectrum to test
] WCDMA/UMTS technology, supporting data rates up to 384
] Kbps. Cingular will also test the network with Lucent's
] High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSPDA)software
] upgrade. HSDPA boosts WCDMA data rates to as high as 14.4
] Mbps.

Cingular Taps Lucent for WCDMA/HSDPA Trial Network (Phone Scoop) 14.4 MBPS WIRELESS IN ATLANTA

Decius wrote:
] ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] ] Ryan -- Tom, also from the article posted, you learn that
] the
] ] production of uranium also requires -- surprise, surprise, a
]
] ] great deal of petroleum. Everything we do requires it.
]
] For what? Transportation? What do you mean by "REQUIRE." Do
] you mean that the actual chemical is literally required, or do
] you mean that we typically employ it because its the cheapest
] option right now.

Well, from what (little, admittedly) i have read, it is the only means by which to produce the uranium to be used. you MUST, currently, have petrol to refine the uranium (and hydrogen, for that matter). I don't know if there is a POTENTIAL to not use it, but that has yet to be seen. And with 40 years left, how quickly do you think it can be rolled out...

RE: Observations and the State of Affairs - Peak Oil