A Pizza-Box-Sized Mac For Under $500?
Posted on December 30, 2004 - Filed Under science & technology | Leave a Comment
From Think Secret:
Code-named Q88, [the new Mac with] a 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 processor is said to be incredibly small and will be housed in a flat enclosure with a height similar to the 1.73 inches of Apple’s Xserve … size benefits will include the ability to stand the Mac on its side or put it […]
International Disaster Relief / Matching Funds
Posted on December 29, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, desi / india, science & technology | 5 Comments
Hope all of you are enjoying your holidays so far. The Southeast Asian Quake and Tsunami reminds us that “civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” This incident hurts even more as a lot of the poor and uneducated who perished did so not knowing what a tsunami is. […]
Read More..>>Christmas Spirit
Posted on December 20, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, funny | Leave a Comment
To hell, Alice, to hell!
Read More..>>Query Letters
Posted on December 16, 2004 - Filed Under funny, movies/tv | Leave a Comment
Query Letters To A Hollywood Producer
My favorite is Hoop Dreams Meets Shawshank: “A black guard coaches a prison basketball team and finds the strength and motivation he needs in a crippled, white inmate who shoots three-point baskets better than anyone he’s ever seen.”
That and Midnight Runs Meets Spaceballs
Hyping Terror For Fun — And Profit
Posted on December 15, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, government | Leave a Comment
From CommonDreams.org:
What if, similarly, the War On Terror was largely a scam, and the administration was hyping it to seem larger-than-life? What if our “enemy” represented a real but relatively small threat posed by rogue and criminal groups well outside the mainstream of Islam? What if that hype was done largely to enhance the power, […]
Two Unforgettable Women: M.S. Subbulakshmi and Sharon Meinholz
Posted on December 14, 2004 - Filed Under desi / india, music, wisconsin | Leave a Comment
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi, better known to her fans as M.S. Subbulakshmi or simply MS, passed away on the night of December 11th in Chennai, India. The Maria Callas of India, MS added a new dimension to music and devotion through the instrument that was her voice. The woman whose Hindu devotional songs which […]
Read More..>>Induce Law
Posted on December 11, 2004 - Filed Under books, computing & internet, government, public domain, science & technology | Leave a Comment
Sometimes I wonder why I bother getting out of bed in the morning:
From Norm W, “The people who brought you Sonny Bono now are giving you the Induce Law. Prohibiting the manufacture or sale of any device which might be ‘reasonably’ assumed to ‘induce’ anyone into violating any law or regulation.” Added Norm […]
Coinciding Thought Patterns: ECG Of The Democratic Party; Is Liberalism Dead?
Posted on December 9, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, government | Leave a Comment
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Is Liberalism Dead?: Lakshmi Chaudhry of Alternet interviews Adam Werbach of the Sierra Club and the Appollo Alliance on the relevance of liberalism today.
“When I talk about fulfillment, I’m really talking about something I want to believe in and fight for. It should be a powerful antidote to fundamentalism, be as powerful as fundamentalism is […]
Really Funny and Twisted Animation
Posted on December 9, 2004 - Filed Under funny | Leave a Comment
Maaaaking fiends … maaaking fiends … this is great!
Making Fiends
Take note: My middle name is now Vendetta.
When Icons Fight
Posted on December 8, 2004 - Filed Under computing & internet, funny, science & technology | Leave a Comment
Icon Wars
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