] Mr. Wolf said that Apple's music products had become
] something of a Trojan horse for the company as the
] popularity of the iTunes service and the iPod are clearly
] helping sell Macs. "The Apple Macintosh is starting to be
] a growth story," he said. "Music is starting to drive Mac
] sales."

[ Hooray for Apple! Big wins this quarter! -k]

Demand for iPods Leads Big Increase in Profits for Apple

] "Bush has created more harm to this country's standing
] and security than any president in history," Trudeau
] said. "What a shame the world has to suffer the
] consequences of Dubya not getting enough approval from
] Dad."

Ouch!

[ Trudeau certainly has no love for W. The Doonesbury representation of GWB is freaking perfect, like so many of the characters. An asterisk with a cowboy hat... it's just right on. -k]

Yahoo! News - 'Doonesbury' Artist Trudeau Skewers Bush

] The tags will be read by readers installed in school
] gates and other key locations to track the kids'
] movements.
]
] The chips will be put onto kids' schoolbags, name tags or
] clothing in one Wakayama prefecture school.

[ Hmmmm... -k]

Japan school kids to be tagged with RFID chips | CNET News.com

] The Tolkien estate and Warners have sent out a lawyergram
] to the owner of shiremail.com, arguing that the word
] "Shire" belongs to them. The Register traces over 1,000
] years of usage of the word "Shire" in England, and
] enumerates many towns with the word "shire" in their
] names across the English countryside.

[ I'd like for the heirs of great authors to shut the fuck up for the most part. This just strikes me as unreasoning greed... -k]

Boing Boing: Tolkien estate claims trademark for

[ I think this movie is gonna totally kick ass. -k]

Miramax | Hero

] Welcome to FUH2.com, home of the official Hummer H2
] salute. So...why all the fuss? Well, it breaks down like
] this:

[ Yase. -k]

FUH2 | Fuck You And Your H2

] Water owes its intrinsic blueness to selective absorption
] in the red part of its visible spectrum.

An interesting link that was sent to me by someone who was intrigued by my Antarctic webpage on "Why are icebergs blue?"

[ Good stuff... i did not know that before. -k]

Why is water blue?

] "Some of these people who have been reported to be
] arrested never showed up in any of the places of
] detention run by the U.S. where we visit,"

...Because its not like the Geneva convention has ANY importance anymore...

AP- Red Cross Fears U.S. Is Hiding Detainees

] The Bush administration has proposed scuttling a Clinton
] administration rule that put nearly 60 million acres of
] national forest largely off-limits to logging, mining or
] other development in favor of a new system that leaves it
] to state governors to seek greater - or in some cases,
] fewer - strictures on road construction in forests.

[ Maybe a minor issue, but another pebble on heap of reasons to change leadership ... -k]

IHT: Bush seeks to cut rule protecting forest lands

] If business users were less shortsighted, Kay says, they
] would seek to create computer models of their companies
] and constantly simulate potential changes. But the
] computers most business people use today are not suited
] for that. That's because, he says, today's PC is too
] dedicated to replicating earlier tools, like ink and
] paper. "[The PC] has a slightly better erase function but
] it isn't as nice to look at as a printed thing. The
] chances that in the last week or year or month you've
] used the computer to simulate some interesting idea is
] zero -- but that's what it's for."
]
] ...
]
] Though Kay claims he's "not trying to sound like a crab
] here," he does border on it, especially when shortly
] thereafter he asserts "pretty much everything that's
] believed is bullshit."

[ There are a few gems in this otherwise unremarkable article, two of which are above... it's still probably worth a quick read. -k]

A PC Pioneer Decries the State of Computing