I've seen this around on various MAC sites and ignored it, but recently I've gotten interested in my system performance. This is awesome. I spent about 30 minutes tweeking it, and I am very happy with the results.

iPulse for OSX

] "Elite members of the cast of Star Wars prove that they
] are all natural-born homey g's. "

werd

AtomFilms - Star Wars Gangsta Rap

] North Korea's ruling party newspaper has fired a barb at
] Washington, saying the country is ready to deliver "bitter
] defeat and death" to a threatening United States.
]
] "The DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea]
] remains unfazed as it has made full preparations to cope
] with the confrontation and clash with the Yankees," a
] commentary in the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun
] said.
]
] "The army and people of the DPRK with burning
] hatred for the Yankees are in full readiness to fight a
] death-defying battle."

N. Korea: 'Burning hatred' for U.S.

] Kissinger, 79, said he was confident that he could have
] resolved potential conflicts of interest with his
] consulting firm, Kissinger Associates, but was concerned
] that "the controversy would quickly move to the
] consulting firm I have built and own."

Hrm.... This is probably good news but that Bush doesn't seem to get what the real problem with this was in the first place. I won't call it good news until I see who'll pop up to replace him.

Yahoo! News - Kissinger Resigns as Head of Sept. 11 Commission

I just want to make a comment here.

The minute t-mobile makes a commercial where a black dude is getting the shit kicked out of him by the cops and cute brunette shows up and gives his friends a camera phone they are gunna sell a million of these things. You want your decentralized news media. This is how you are going to get it.

T-MOBILE camera phones

] "Though the monkeys had no concept of a "boy" toy and a
] "girl" toy, they still showed the same gender preferences
] in playing with the toys, Alexander says."

This is an interesting nature vs. nurture observation.

Monkeys share human gender based toy preferences

] "There are 51 Republican members of the United States
] Senate. Surely they can find someone to be majority
] leader besides Trent Lott."

NYT calls for the axe for Trent Lott.

Fire Trent Lott

] "What's important --- increasingly important --- is the
] process by which you figure out what to look at. This is
] the beginning of the real and true economics of
] information. Not who owns the books, who prints the
] books, who has the holdings. The crux here is access, not
] holdings. And not even access itself, but the signposts
] that tell you what to access --- what to pay attention
] to. "

``Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge''

] "Thieves are using information contained in 'out of
] office' auto-reply emails and cross-referencing it with
] publicly available personal information to target empty
] houses."

Burglars target 'out of office' emails

Comparing current government policy to bad television reception.

Technical Difficulties