No more terrorist attacks please, we’re tired

In Wired, again with the terrorists:

Companies are beginning to gear up for LNG [Liquified Natural Gas - C.] imports. As many as a dozen new terminals are expected over the next decade. To many energy experts, fear of a devastating LNG fire from an accident or terrorist attack is the toughest obstacle facing the industry.
Liquefied [...]

It’s so cold that… wtf?

Ontario is experiencing an impressive cold snap right now with temperatures down in the -30C’s (that’s -947 for you Fahrenheit people), with some amusing consequences:

A cold spell gripping Ottawa is so intense that houses have started to produce loud cracking noises, prompting worried citizens to report burglaries and gunfire, local police said Wednesday.

But then the [...]

Forward or backward?

How would you interpret this sentence?

Next Wednesday’s meeting has been moved forward two days.

Should you show up next Monday or next Friday? Temporal Attitudes.

Ami-what?

Holy crap, it lives! The Micro-AmigaOne and Amiga OS4 Developer Prerelease [ArsTechnica].

Yes, it’s Bill Gates

Dear The Internet,
I’ve seen the pictures of Bill Gates in Teen Beat, but thank you.
Sincerely,
Chris

Scottstuff on MythTV

Why would anyone bother with the bite-in-the-ass that it a MythTV install? Scott at Scottstuff puts its perfectly:

What I really want is the TV equivalent of iTunes—I want to be able to take the big mound of DVDs that I have sitting around, RIP them, and move them to the basement, next to the big [...]

Adventures in MythTV

This weekend I finally gave a concerted effort at getting MythTV running on what used to be my Windows box. I started with Fedora Core 3 then regressed back to Fedora Core 2 when two hours of fucking about with display drivers couldn’t even get the initial post-installation screen to show up. FC2 installed just [...]

The Numbers Guy

The Wall Street Journal has started a new column about the use and abuse of numbers and statistics by the powers that be in The Numbers Guy.
This edition: Just How Deadly Is Bird Flu? It Depends on Whom You Ask.

…the group’s doctors and scientists have lately been forecasting truly alarming numbers from the so-called Asian [...]

Ship date for the Mac Mini in Canada

David Akin gets the scoop with the first mention I’ve read (not that I’ve been reading much about this Macintosh of which you all speak, honest) of a ship date for the Mac Mini in Canada: January 29, 2005.
Excuse me, I have to go stand in line now.

Mac snobbery hits fevered pitch, and other stuff

Post-Macworld the MacSnobbery and lifestyle angst has hit a new fevered pitch these past two days. A sampling of statements from five minute’s worth of Wired this morning:

“I like the Mac for the operating system and the computer,” said Kolb. “The iPod is cool, but the Mac is cooler. I would hate to see the [...]

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