LaCie is introducing an FireWire/USB 2.0 external 1Tb hard drive. It’s compatible with recent Macs/PCs, the size of a small shoebox and will sell for $1,199.
LaCie Bigger Disk
It’s not too surprising, I guess; with careful shopping you can get 1Gb of hard disk for $0.50 – $1.00 today, and it’d be pretty easy to [...]
I drive on a stretch of US 101 in Redwood City, just north of Silicon Valley and just south of Oracle Galactic Headquarters, where tech companies like to advertise on the billboards.
IBM recently posted one that says “Middleware Is Everywhere.” Sun responded with a similar design that says “Middlewhere Is History.”
It’s odd to try [...]
Larry Lessig responds to the latest SCO screed about the GPL in More SCO fud, this time insulting the constitution. You know it’s going to be good when he starts “… after reading this extraordinary document by Darl McBride of SCO infamy, I couldn’t resist canceling this morning meetings to respond.”
Verbum sapienti satis est, [...]
And now for something completely different: a slap in the face with a fish. Recommended articles, even though they’re a punch in the gut for liberals.
This article is the source of a great quote which is usually taken slightly out of context, like this: “a consortium of conservative think tanks, talk radio hosts, and [...]
That’s what a friend asked about this week’s good economic news. Are these numbers real, or have the books been cooked?
Among some of the news he quoted was a bit about the Commerce Department’s report that the US gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 8.2% this last quarter, the best we’ve [...]
Boy, am I glad I never got into downloading illegal MP3’s — now I don’t have to Send Them Back.
via David Weinberger
Pointers to a couple of interesting articles I’ve read recently about the Iraq situation:
Molly Ivins reacts to the new Bush plan to hand over sovereignty to Iraq next year before the election; as she says, “I’m glad all this bug-out stuff is coming from the administration — if some liberal said it, we’d all be [...]
This post isn’t really about abortion. It’s about the decision-making process the United States uses in reproductive medicine.
Here is a picture of President Bush signing the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. He is surrounded by a coterie of mostly older, white, male legislators.
President Bush signs Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 [...]
Like Wikipedia, but it’s a world-wide travel guide: WikiTravel.
It’s ground-floor time, with around 586 articles and 61,000 page views since they started in July — but it looks like a winner.
via MisterBad on Advogato
The Selective Service is soliciting volunteers to constitute local draft boards. (local copy)
It’s not in the US news yet, but it is elsewhere:
Will U.S. bring back the draft? (Toronto Star)
US raises spectre of conscription (BBC)
Appeal for draft board volunteers revives memories of Vietnam era (UK Guardian)
via Paul Barfoot