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Thursday, April 10, 2003

Why Apple might not switch to Intel processors. Quite an interesting read, especially since he's debunking John C Dvorak's Prediction... [Jasmeet] [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes] Much better argued than Dvorak's idiocies about Apple and Intel. 11:13:25 PM  Permalink  comment []

Here is a cool video promoing the Honda Accord, a nice exercise in kinetic art, via Jim. 10:29:59 PM  Permalink  comment []

Powell says U.S. does not have list of nations it plans to attack, will use dart board map method [FARK] 6:39:59 PM  Permalink  comment []

Looking for Odd Covers?. Some of the highlights of April Winchell's multimedia library include: TV Stars Who Insist On Singing You've Lost That Loving Feeling (Telly Savalas) Mr. Tambourine Man (Jerry Springer) Abba covers in Hindi: Dancing Queen German cover songs: Theme from Bonanza Oh Susanna (the Southern German Drawl is hillarious) Supreme's "Where did our love go" An incredibly large collection of strange covers of Stairway to Heaven. [nick gaydos > thynk] Be sure to go right to Winchell's page to link to the music; there's some fun reading there, too. 4:49:46 PM  Permalink  comment []

The Rising Last night my pal Blair and I drove up to Sacramento to see Bruce Springsteen. Though we got lost, we still got there in plenty of time to get pretty good floor standing seats. This was an unusual show: Bruce was coming back from Australia, and this was a one-off USA show on the way to Vancouver. This performer and band certainly know how to put on a show. They showcased The Rising, not surprisingly, though Blair doesn't think it's strong enough to build a show around; I enjoyed the new songs. For the rest of the show, Bruce relied on crowd-pleasers quite a bit. It's hard to argue with that; I love The Promised Land as much as any song I know of, and there are a bunch more from Darkness On the Edge of Town and Born to Run that are very welcome. Still, it would be nice to be more surprised by song selection. A highlight for me was a terrific Who'll Stop the Rain, the second song in the show, after an acoustic Born in the U.S.A. The arrangement of the latter didn't work for me this time around, though it did on the HBO special a couple years ago. The band was all enthusiastic, and I enjoyed Susie Tyrell. They all pulled some nice schtick, with Bruce making us beg for encores. A nice bit was when he was trying to get us on our feet, and said, "come on up the rising of your ass." An enjoyable evening: this is a hard-working, honest, true bunch. They have a way of sucking you in, of reaching out and grabbing you. If, from time to time, the artifice shows a little, well that's OK, too. 3:21:53 PM  Permalink  comment []

"Saddam's regime has fallen. Compared to getting the water supply running again, past-beating might seem a luxury. It's not. Dealing rightly with the past is more important even than water for the long-term health of a future Iraqi democracy." The unmissable Tim Garton Ash. [Davos Newbies] 3:10:48 PM  Permalink  comment []

Here's a great Flash animation of Tom Lehrer's The Elements. [Davos Newbies] 3:07:27 PM  Permalink  comment []

" Implementing VisiCalc" [Daypop Top 40] Fun Reading. 1:27:44 PM  Permalink  comment []

Long-Term Safety Of Low-Carb Diets Unknown. KERO - People who go on low-carbohydrate diets typically lose weight, but it might not be because the diet is better than others, according to a new study. List of Several Studies on Obesity Newsday Count Calories, Not Carbs BusinessWeek EurekAlert - Food Navigator - Boston.com - and 22 related » [Google Health News] 12:48:30 PM  Permalink  comment []

Radio Renewal For those of us who signed up when it first appeared, licenses to Radio UserLand are now expiring. At $40, it's pretty much a no-brainer to renew, and I just did. There's a nice post here that gives a rundown of some other tools, though it's a little OSX-centric. I have been hoping that UserLand would announce a new version of Radio. Though they've added to it, there are a number of improvements they could make. I'd like to see better remote access, more flexibility in where I can store the Radio data, a more robust writing tool than a browser (I don't know how many times I've lost work because I hit something so simple as the Back button), and a more flexible inteface for reading what's in my subscription list. I guess what I really want is New News Wire for Windows. I'd really like to move the aggregator from my laptop to another machine, so it wouldn't steal cycles on the laptop, but still let me read and post from there. 11:27:20 AM  Permalink  comment []

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