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What is President Bush so afraid of? (Hint: it doesn't have anything to do with oil money...) 2006-10-19 04:57:00 (Via AlainsNewsletter.com) In a speech on our war on terror on September 5, 2006, President
Bush described the objectives of al Qaeda and other terrorists to subjugate the world under an Islamic dictatorship. His words:" We know what the terrorists intend to do because they've told us — and we need to take their words seriously. So today I'm going to describe — in the terrorists' own words, what they believe… what they hope to accomplish, and how they intend to accomplish it. I'll discuss how the enemy has adapted in the wake of our sustained offensive against them, and the threat posed by different strains of violent Islamic radicalism. I'll explain the strategy we're pursuing to protect America, by defeating the terrorists on the battlefield, and defeating their hateful ideology in the battle of ideas. The terrorists who attacked us on September the 11th, 2001, are men without conscience — but they're not madmen. They kill in the name of a clear and focuse Read more:afraid
, anything
, President Bush
MacNN turns Apple boo-boo into PR nightmare for the company 2006-10-18 13:33:00 McAfee has been very helpful about letting customers (and non-customers) know that there is a free tool out there to clean up the RavMonE (W32/RJump.worm) virus that was shipped on a handful of iPods this quarter.But the fine folks at MacNN, evidently in an effort to garner traffic from traditionally non-Mac-site-reading audiences, used a headline that effectivly renames the virus threat in the minds of readers; and so, shows again that web statistics are more important than clean journalism.What burns my britches about stuff like this is that other sites like Apple
Insider, MacOSRumors, etc. pretend to be Mac fans; but instead show their true colors when choosing the low road when it's not called for (much like 'outing' product information a few days before a keynote speech). In this case, MacNN has done no better:Admittedly, there are times when Apple must be called to the carpet for thoughtless or senseless decisions; but an error like this worm appearing on hard drives is an ind Read more:turns
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LA Times underestimates intelligence of the American people -- again. 2006-10-16 23:27:00 Via CraigDeLuz.com (The Home Of Uncommon Sense): The Los Angeles Times
tried to call Arnold Schwartzeneggar a racist for saying -- BEHIND CLOSED DOORS -- that Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia is 'hot':"In a feeble effort to portray Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a racist, the Los Angles Times released an excerpt from a tape that was recorded during a private meeting.'Bonnie Garcia is great,' Kennedy says on the recording. 'She's a ball-buster. She's great. Is she Puerto Rican?' ...'She maybe is Puerto Rican or the same thing as Cuban. I mean, they are all very hot. They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it.'My first question is how did they get this tape? Who was recording it? Well it appears that from time to time the governor records some of his meetings so that his speech writers can capture his speech patterns and language styles on policy issues. So, he does not record all of his conversations. Bu Read more:intelligence
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Oprah's got one (or more); you want one, too! 2006-10-16 13:57:00 Meet the iPod nano (PRODUCT)RED Special Edition. Apple will give $10 of its purchase price to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa. Just introduced, the iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED is an Apple Store exclusive and will not be sold through other retailers. Sleek, lightweight, and just $199, the 4GB iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED delivers everything your customers expect from the world's best-selling digital music player. A brilliant, 1.5-inch color display. Up to 24 hours of battery life. Seamless iTunes integration that lets them import CDs and shop for songs, podcasts, and audiobooks on the iTunes Store, then sync them in minutes. All in a durable aluminum enclosure that tells the world they've chosen to join (PRODUCT)RED. Read more:Oprah
A Father's Footsteps by Steven R. Perkins 2006-10-16 02:04:00 Someone we know has put himself out there in the form of a new book -- the first one that he's done all on his own. We hope you will enjoy it... we're ordering a copy for ourselves right now!"A Father
's Footsteps
by Steven
R. Perkins
On a company golf outing, in Myrtle Beach, computer account executive Mike Anderson encounters clues to a past he never knew he had. Along the way he discovers a new love of the game, but finds something even more important ... himself. (Paperback: 260 pages)
Pumkins are for PIE, and NOTHING ELSE... 2006-10-15 16:30:00 From Rooters Newswire:"Police arrested a 27 year old male, in a pumpkin patch at 11:38pm Friday. The man will be charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, public indecency, and public intoxication at the County courthouse on Monday.The suspect allegedly stated that as he was passing a pumpkin patch, he decided to stop.'You know, a pumpkin is soft and squishy inside, and there was no one around here for miles. At least I thought there wasn't,' he stated in a phone interview from the County courthouse jail.He went on to state that he pulled over to the side of the road, picked out a pumpkin that he felt was appropriate to his purposes, cut a hole in it, and proceeded to satisfy his alleged "need".'I guess I was just really into it, you know?' he commented with evident embarrassment.In the process, he apparently failed to notice the police car approaching and was unaware of his audience until an officer approached him.The officer went on to describe what happened when she approached
Lots of costume parties this next week... remember, what happens 'in costume' should STAY 'in costume'! 2006-10-15 16:22:00 A couple was invited to a swanky masked Halloween Party. She got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone. He, being a devoted husband, protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed, and there was no need of his good time being spoiled by not going. So he took his costume
and away he went.
The wife, after sleeping soundly for one hour, awakened without pain, and as it was still early, she decided to go to the party. In as much as her husband did not know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching her husband to see how he acted when she was not with him.
She joined the party and soon spotted her husband's distinctive costume cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice chick he could, and copping a little feel here and a little kiss there. Determined to turn the tables on him, his wife sidled up to him and -- being a rather slinky babe herself, he left his partner high and dry and Read more:parties
Who says you can't take it with you? 2006-10-15 08:08:00 Have a thumb drive? Have all your favorite apps in your pocket? Why not?Someone at Freesmug.org has gone to all the trouble of listing and linking a library of applications that will fit -- and run -- quite nicely from your thumb drive.Fill'er up!"OS X FOSS portable applications are packaged so you can carry around on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (or also on your internal hard disk), taking your preferences with you."Included in the list so far:Portable Firefox OS X: The award-winning Web browser just got better. It's free, and easy to use. Join the millions of people worldwide enjoying a better Web experience.Portable Thunderbird OS X: An e-mail and newsgroup client with powerful, new junk mail controls.Portable Adium: Multiple protocol instant messaging client.Portable AbiWord OS X: Word processing program similar to Microsoft Word.Portable Nvu OS X: A complete Web Authoring System. HTML wysiwyg editor.Portabl
Sometimes, I am in sync with my readers. 2006-10-15 07:13:00 From my traffic statistics, it appears that a particular post has become the most popular, apparently because of a few emails floating around (there is no 'originating page' listed in the stats).I went back to re-read it, and it stands as one of my favorites, as well. (Well, that and the one about Britney Spears that ran my numbers up to the stratosphere for a day...) Read more:Sometimes
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Latest recruiting tool recommended to Indiana Pacers: Drug-Sniffing Dogs! 2006-10-14 05:35:00 Remember 'the good old days' when people talked about professional basketball players 'shooting' for a three-pointer instead of firing in the air 'in self defense'?Remember when professional athletes were in the news for taking performance enhancing drugs, instead of munchie-inducing ones?Yeah, neither do we.-----Google News: +Pacers
+drugsWTHR.com: Man driving Jermaine O'Neal's SUV arrested for marijuana Read more:recruiting
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Michael doesn't want you to get 'Zuned' (at least without a little KY...) 2006-10-10 13:18:00 We're a big fan of all Michael
Robertson has accomplished -- and even moreso of his mission. Read his perspective on the whole DRM vs. portable player thing here in his latest newsletter:"Getting ZunedOctober 5th, 2006Every week at MP3tunes we hear from people who have lost all or a portion of their iTunes music (it's often motivation to get 'music insurance' and open a $40 locker with unlimited storage).While we're happy to have a new customer, it's sad when someone loses their personal possessions. Their loss is often tied to a DRM (digital restricted music) problem. Music wrapped with restrictions like songs from iTunes aren't really a purchase, but rather a rental. Like all rentals they come to an end and you're out on the street with nothing. It's just a matter of time before one of the following happens:- Technology company changes rules, technology or strategy. See: Your Music Goes Flat- A hard disk crashes.- Computer is stolen, broken or upgraded.- Exceed number of al Read more:least
, little
It's Technology's Fault. 2006-10-10 13:02:00 From Rueters.com:"BERLIN (Reuters) - An 80-year-old German motorist obediently following his navigation system ignored a motorway 'closed for construction' sign and crashed his Mercedes into a pile of sand further down the road, police said Monday.'The driver was following the orders from his navigation system and even though there was a sufficient number of warnings and barricades, he continued his journey into the construction site,' a police spokeswoman told Reuters.'His trip finally ended when he wound up crashing into a pile of sand,' she added.The driver and his wife escaped uninjured from the collision, which occurred on a motorway near Hamburg."Hand over the keys, SIR -- we taking you back to the HOME... Read more:Technology
, Fault
Raising the barre as a weekend exercise... 2006-10-09 05:16:00 After scouring the internet for plans and/or drawings that would spec out a way for me to build a 'barre
' for my daughter to practice her ballet positions (yeah, it's going to be forever for me to get used to that spelling...!), I found a few articles that noted little more than the expected height for such a contraption -- generally waist-high.When further searching for ready-to-use barres (both wall-mounted and floor-standing) turned up prices running the full range from $80 to $300, I knew it was time to shop our local Menards and Lowes for some roll-your-own goodness.The woman who promised to love, honor, and not pace by the front door graciously allowed me several hours for 'The Hunt', while she wrangled our less-than-angelic children in the middle of the day.The project wasn't quite finished until about 10PM; but since my daughter was too wired to be asleep yet anyway, she jumped at the chance to bound out of bed and pose for a snapshot on her new equipment.Brackets: $4.70 Read more:Raising
From now on, we're sticking with CamPets. 2006-10-07 04:37:00 After the latest fiasco in harboring an escaped bit o' nature in our dining room, I have decided that from now on we're sticking
with pets that we don't have to clean up after, feed, talk to, or bury.This month's favorite is some kind of rodents in Japan; we'll even share, since we're in the mood.(click for live video)UPDATE 061007: Sadly, this webcam is now password-protected; we'll have to 'shop' for another one to view this month... perhaps we 'slashdotted' it and now they're suspicious of the extra traffic.
Never drink alone. 2006-10-07 03:40:00 My wife just recently made her first eBay purchase, and is at this moment beside me, happily adding this or that to her watch list like a veteran addict.She's so cute! Read more:alone
He was a good caterpillar... 2006-10-07 03:01:00 The kids, the wife, and I spent a few minutes in the evening air just before dinner tonight to say goodbye to a good friend. He only spent a couple of days with us, before he exploded with poop and died.He will be missed; but Jarod made a nifty headstone out of cardboard and paper, and he is now resting peacefully in our back yard (Gus the caterpillar
, not Jarod).Zoning restrictions on this sort of thing will be researched in the morning.
Liberal Boob(s) of the Week: Christian Conservatives? 2006-10-05 23:59:00 One of the most consistently reliable criteria used by Conservatives
to point out Liberal
Idiocy is what is often referred to as 'situational ethics'; that is, if a practice gets you what you feel a right to have, breaking any rule or infringing upon the rights of others is OK... so long as enough people can be cheered into agreeing with you.This time, it's one of the most vocal Christian
Conservative groups on the planet that has stirred the pot, and ruined it for everyone else. And if you look into their history, you might agree that this is the rule -- not an exception -- to their standard method of operation. It's folks like these that give the rest of us Christians a bad name -- and fuel anti-Christian jokes like the Ned Flanders character on The Simpsons cartoon TV series. I believe they do more damage to the world-view of Christianity than Osama bin Laden or anything the Pope has been quoted as saying about Muslims:Activist organization responsible for 99% of FCC complain
Uh, YA THINK SO? 2006-10-05 23:27:00 Pope accuses Muslim extremists of inciting anti-Christian feelings (dailymail.co.uk)"... Muslim fundamentalists had "linked (the Pope's words) to the presumed western war against Islam" and had gravely harmed Christian-Muslim relations. ..."Why oh why would they ever do that? And I thought we had been getting along just so well...
It's all about the UI... 2006-10-05 12:52:00 Just the other day, I was describing to some coworkers that the new default voice ('Vicki') sounds a lot more realistic on my new MacBook than it did on it's predecessor, a lowley PowerBook G4 12" (which was set to the older voice 'Victoria'). I didn't see that they bothered to mention the addition in the spec sheet.Regardless, the new voice reminds me strongly of of actress Elizabeth Hurley -- which is not especially a bonus where the relationship with the woman who promised to love, honour, and share my WiFi is concerned.Interestingly, I came across this article in my daily reads that seemed an appropriate illustration to characature 'the other woman' (as my wife calls it):For the man who has everything... the Liz Hurley 'fembot' goes up for auction (dailymail.co.uk)"For those admirers of Elizabeth Hurley who cannot afford the real thing - and that's most of us - here is a rather cheaper alternative... the 'fembot' played by her in Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged M
Good thing I didn't eat out much this month. 2006-10-04 04:00:00 This email was dropped with no warning amongst the spam in my mailbox:"Dear [firstname], Thank you for renewing your .Mac membership! Your account [accountname] has been renewed until October 04, 2007 PDT.Welcome to another year with .Mac!"That's right, I forgot again that the annual subscription fee was about to come out of my checking account; but luckily I am not in a bind this month for getting the month's bills paid like I was last year.There are a lot of people out there who question the worth of the .Mac accounts; but it's been a good fit more many of my needs and I plan on sticking with it for the foreseeable future. Read more:Good thing
We're betting that the kids didn't start this particular fight on MySpace.com... 2006-10-02 13:13:00 Video games. Violent TV. Music videos. Grafitti. All of these get blamed when somebody goes over the edge and shoots up a public place (especially a school). But I believe it comes down to not allowing the courts to drill someone in the head after noticing that they beat up kids on the playground, kill small animals for fun, and vandalize property regularly 'because there's nothing on TV.'Apparently, someone else slipped through the system again:Police: Several Killed At Amish School In Pa. (TheIndyChannel.com):"Police say a 'number' of people have been killed in a shooting at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pa. Earlier, there were reports of a hostage situation and multiple people shot at the one-room schoolhouse in eastern Lancaster County.'There are a number of people dead. ... The exact number I do not know yet,' state police Cpl. Ralph Striebig said. The person who fired the shots was among those killed ... Lancaster TV station WGAL reported that th Read more:betting
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Apple's doing Windows on Intel now, so Sony responds by outing some fruity MacBook-class budget notebooks with similar feature set 2006-10-01 16:27:00 You may recall how we have complained here that smaller notebooks are disappearing or growing far too expensive for normal people to afford. Great for people who like larger screens; not so great for people who travel professionally, or who consider their laptop as an 'oversize PalmPilot'.Now that Apple
's smallest notebook is a 13-incher, it's interesting to see what their best style-competitor, Sony
, is doing
in the same size and price range:"VAIO C Series ... backed by an Intel
Core™ 2 Duo processor, the VAIO C model also has plenty of power for high-speed computing and an energy-efficient battery life so you can enjoy games, music and movies longer— while away from home. The unit is Windows
Vista capable and Windows Vista Premium ready. ...Sony VAIO C Series notebooks in espresso black and urban gray will be available at the end of October at national retailers starting at about $1,350. The exclusive colors of seashell white, blush pink and spring green can be purchased in Read more:outing
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Are ATMs too unsecure for retailers' cash? 2006-09-30 18:14:00 (this in reponse to a Wired article and accompanying comments about ATMs that are getting 'hacked' because their service manuals are too easily found -- containing procedures and default passwords that can compromise machines that are not properly managed by the retailers
who position them in their places of busines...)"And going up even more now that every reader of Wired is now aware of this flaw, and has probably downloaded the manual. -blackspiderofd00m"You have it right, BlackSpiderofd00m: it did take me only about half an hour to locate it:But it's also our responsibility for each of us, as Wired readers, to visit our local breakfast nook or truck stop and let them know that they have to be aware of the manufacturer's most recent efforts to get them secure.This issue is pervasive across hardware manufacturers; how many times have we all had this conversation about wireless access points sold into both the consumer and pro markets? Devices should ship defaulted to 'secure'
The Facebook party is over; long live the party... 2006-09-27 01:17:00 From Facebook
Just Launched Open Registrations (TechCrunch.com):"…moments ago Facebook removed the restrictions on registration and anyone can now become a member by joining a geographic network.They've also anticipated backlash from existing users who liked Facebook just fine as an exclusive club, thank you very much. New privacy controls were put in place in the last week to give users additional say over who can find and interact with them. ...Expect lots of heated debate over this move. And also expect exponential growth in Facebook's usage by tens of millions of new users. ..."And for a few months, I was feeling special. Now that everybody can get in, I'm back to just feeling 'short-bus special'.Grrr.-----(Click to add me on Facebook and MySpace) Read more:long live
Tickle Me Elmo is the new Cabbage Patch Kid. Make sure The Home locks in your grandparents this season. 2006-09-25 03:27:00 OK, for those who were disturbed by the 'Epileptic Elmo' of years gone by, and are confused by it's strange comeback as 'Elmo on Crack', here it is -- you really can see the Devil's hand in the minds of successful Marketing people:Fight Breaks Out Over New Elmo Doll (CBS 4, FL)(AP) TAMPA Even Elmo isn't laughing about this one. A man called 9-1-1 after he says another man threatened his life over an Elmo doll. ...Tickle
-Me to the extreme... (49abcnews.com, KS)Tampa, FL — The new Tickle-Me-Elmo made some shoppers so tickled they got into a fight that officers say is no laughing matter. ...Man Threatens Gun on Customer Over New 'Tickle Me Elmo' Doll (ShortNews.com, Germany)A man is still at large in Florida after he told a Tampa Bay man at a local Target he had a gun. The shopper had grabbed two TMX ...Fight Over New Tickle Me Elmo Turns Dangerous (WJZ, MD)It's one of the most desired toys of the year, but a desire for the new TMX Elmo doll almost cost one man his life. The T Read more:Cabbage
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