Saturday, November 9, 2002

Fred Allen. "[Television is] the triumph of machine over people." [Motivational Quotes of the Day] 9:21:49 PM    comment []

Henry David Thoreau. "It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes." [Motivational Quotes of the Day] 9:21:09 PM    comment []

Arthur C. Clarke. "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum." [Quotes of the Day] 9:20:34 PM    comment []

Sir William Bragg. "God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday." [Quotes of the Day] 9:19:23 PM    comment []

Anonymous. "Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side." [Quotes of the Day] 9:18:47 PM    comment []

Fighting Microsoft The Open-Source Way : Apple, IBM, and Sun have opened up their software code to the public in their battle against Redmond. It just might work. (Business 2.0 via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 9:07:44 PM    comment []

Slashdot | Secure PDAs. An anonymous reader writes "This article at LinuxDevices.com introduces a unique Linux-based 'secure PDA' co-developed by IBM and Consumer Direct Link, Inc. (CDL). The Paron MPC combines the functions of a PDA, Bluetooth wireless access, cellular telephone, and biometric fingerprint recognition, along with a security-oriented hardware/software architecture. The device is claimed to be the world's first handheld wireless device with built-in biometric user authentication. The Paron is based on an Intel StrongARM SA-1110 processor and uses a Linux 2.4.x kernel and provides a GUI environment and PDA app suite based on Trolltech's Qtopia and Opera's browser much like the Sharp Zaurus." [Privacy Digest] 6:46:50 PM    comment []

Apple Ahead Of Pack In Eliminating Spam : The strength of OS X's spam-filtering ability is proprietary technology, something called "adaptive latent semantic analysis" that comes out of Apple's research group. (Seattle Times via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 10:24:48 AM    comment []

iBlog sites: Ryan Schroeder, Alwin Hawkins. [Scripting News] 9:51:24 AM    comment []

As if I don't have enough to do, I've downloaded this to see how it works and what it's all about. iBlog is a standalone blogging tool for Mac OS X. It's not a Blogger API or MetaWeblog API app. It does its own content management. It also appears to have a news aggregator built in. It's a free beta right now. It would be interesting to see a weblog created with this software. [Scripting News] 9:49:33 AM    comment []

Software Shootout: Mac OS X Virus Protection [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion] 8:09:34 AM    comment []