You Are Also What You Drink – New York Times This may be my favorite article… ever. Drinking coffee and tea is good. Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol is good. Drinking all the stuff I don’t drink (soda, sweatened fruit juices, etc) is bad.
The Album, a Commodity in Disfavor – New York Times Last year, digital singles outsold plastic CD’s for the first time. So far this year, sales of digital songs have risen 54 percent, to roughly 189 million units, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. Digital album sales are rising at a slightly faster pace, but [...]
Since 2005, Bush has appointed at least three U.S. attorneys who had worked in the Justice Department’s civil-rights division when it was rolling back longstanding voting-rights policies aimed at protecting predominantly poor, minority voters. Another newly installed U.S. attorney, Tim Griffin in Little Rock, Ark., was accused of participating in efforts to suppress Democratic votes [...]
Nope, didn’t buy one… yet. Not sure if I shouldn’t just get a Mac Mini instead. Turns out that it is a mac super-mini (from The Forums at Something Awful): bash-2.05b# system_profiler Hardware: Hardware Overview: Machine Name: Mac Machine Model: AppleTV1,1 Processor Speed: 1 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 1 Memory: [...]
Tech Crunch – Good News! CD Music Sales Down 20% from 2006 As the marginal price of recorded music continues to fall towards zero, its natural price, bands will need to make money elsewhere. Live concerts will become more and more popular, and will be the largest source of revenue for many artists. Recorded music [...]
The Geography of Nowhere (The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape), by James Howard Kunstler I am a city planning geek. When I was first working on virtual worlds stuff in the mid-90s, I started reading it for work and I got hooked: Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, Robert Venturi, Lewis Mumford and all their [...]
Slashdot | Linked List Patented in 2006 Looks like that peer review of patent applications thing happened a bit too late. So who is LSI gonna sue first? Then, who is going to invalidate the patent?
Unsanity.org: Shock and Awe: How Installing Apple’s Updates can Render Your Mac Unbootable and How You Can Prevent it When you see the “Optimizing System Performance” phase of a software update, Mac OS X is really updating prebinding. Updating prebinding has a very, very nasty bug in it (look at _dyld_update_prebinding). If multiple processes are [...]
Life is too short for crummy food, N likes to say. It sometimes makes it difficult to try a new restaurant. Luckily, someone else made the reservations, because we might not have tried it otherwise. Located in a bit of a grim place it manages to convey a bit of high-end feel, although the furniture [...]
White House Said to Prompt Firing of Prosecutors – New York Times The administration is blaming the blatantly political firings of federal prosecutors on Harriet Myers, who resigned in February. I mean this is just so dumb. First, you recommend her for Supreme Court justice and spend countless pages of print talking about how close [...]
