Pretty neat linguistic blog with lots of interesting bits.

languagehat.com

AHOSKIE, North Carolina (AP) -- Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have been charged with animal cruelty after dumping dead dogs and cats in a shopping center garbage bin, police said.

HAAAHAHHHAAAAA... Aaah hypocrits god bless'em.

CNN.com - PETA employees charged with animal cruelty - Jun 17, 2005

Michael Dell would like to license Mac OS X and ship it with future PC products, the Dell founder and chairman has revealed.

Dell 'happy' to ship Mac OS X-based PCs | The Register

Bangkok — Authorities in Thailand say it's something they've never seen before: death by super glue.

A young Thai man said to be suffering from stress killed himself by sealing his mouth and nose with glue, police said Thursday.

The Globe and Mail: Thai police say man glued himself to death

Custom novelty taxidermy...

Novelties-Humorous Mounts

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.

Clinton apparently made some recent statement about running again... I think term limits are a good idea.

Democrats want to repeal the 22nd Amendment.

Apple Computer this month is expected to update its retail copies of Mac OS X 10.4 to includ the first two maintenance releases to the Tiger operating system, ensuring that all new customers obtain the most stable and reliable version of Mac OS X directly out of the box.

The company's online store in Canada is already listing for sale the current version of Mac OS X as "OS X V10.4.2 'Tiger' Retail," although the latest official release remains at 10.4.1. Developers contacted by AppleInsider also said they are expecting to receive Mac OS X 10.4.2 on optical media -- something Apple did not offer with the release of Mac OS X 10.4.1 last month.

Mac OS X 10.4.2, which is due for release from the company this week, will reportedly deliver over 80 fixes and enhancements to Tiger, in addition to those included with Mac OS X 10.4.1.

Among the many fixes expected in the release are Finder updates to finding by kind and using Slideshow, updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers, and improved autologin for managed user accounts.

Other areas of change will reportedly improve user experiences with AirPort and wireless access, iDisk synching, installation reliability, and file sharing using AFP and SMB/CIFS network file services.

The release is also rumored to deliver enhancements to Address Book, Automator, Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, iCal, iChat, Mail, Safari, and Stickies.

Sources tell AppleInsider that Mac OS X 10.4.2 will likely arrive in two versions: a 42MB Delta release containing only the changes made since Mac OS X 10.4.1, and a 55MB Combo update that will pack all the enhancements made to Tiger since its inaugural release on April 29th.

According to reports already present on several Internet sites, Apple over the weekend provided its developers with Mac OS X 10.4.2 build 8C29, which at the time contained no known bugs.

Still, it's rumored that Apple continues to work on Mac OS X 10.4.2 this week and is considering builds from the 8C3x milestone as final candidates.

Almost as many fixes as new features for tiger.

AppleInsider | Apple to refresh retail copies of Tiger with 10.4.2

Here is a strange site. Sometimes funny sometimes sad. People send in their secrets on postcards they have made. Check it out.

PostSecret

Well, apparently some nutters nipped a life-size Dalek model and are now holding it ransom until they get further instructions as to what to do with it from Doctor Who.

My favorite bit is how the guy who runs the gallery it was taken from mentions that there was "no torture involved" with the removal of the plunger (weapon arm) from the Dalek model. I think he needs to take a little vacation until he can stop making slips like that. It's creepy.

It could be a relations stunt, but at least I find it nice that the BBC has enough of a sense of humor about it to have contacted Colin Baker (one of the actors who formerly played Doctor Who) to see if he'll talk to the "kidnappers" should the opportunity arise.

Hello, Reality? This is fandom calling... Dalek Kidnapped, news at 11

Funny.

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