Thursday, September 4, 2003

Lying in exile. Bush took the unsubstantiated word of Iraqi renegades about WMD over intelligence experts in every branch of the U.S. government. [Salon.com] 2:15:14 PM

"Some sliver of authenticity from the truckloads of stinking garbage". After reading Lester Bangs' collection, you have to wonder: What would the legendary critic, who believed that music mattered, make of today's Britney and P.Diddy ludicrousness? [Salon.com] 2:14:53 PM

Pitting Sadistic Nihilism Against Moral Verities. A "Star Wars" spinoff offers light sabers galore and Jedi knights aplenty. By Charles Herold. [New York Times: Technology] 2:14:41 PM

Heart of Darkness, on a Desktop. More and more PC owners are discovering software lurking on their computers that they had no idea was there. And viruses are only part of the story. By Katie Hafner with Michael Falcone. [New York Times: Technology] 2:14:27 PM

Backup 2 beta available for .Mac users. Apple has released a public beta version of its Backup application to users of the subscription-based .Mac online service. The new version can be downloaded by signing in to .Mac now. Backup is designed to provide users with a convenient way to back up and archive data from their Macs to removable storage media like CD-Rs or to the online storage associated with their .Mac accounts. The software includes scheduling features and more. [MacCentral] 2:13:59 PM

Unix users to be 'major beneficiaries' of Panther. Unix users will be "major beneficiaries" of Panther, the next major rev of Mac OS X, Apple software product manager Darren Sng said at this week's Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group (AUUG) conference at Sydney's Duxton Hotel. LinuxWorld reports that Panther will be bundled with an optional, optimized version of X11, the X window system for graphical user interfaces (GUIs). [MacCentral] 2:13:30 PM

AOL Launching Online Batman Strip. Starring villain Sin Tzu, "the latest criminal mastermind and shadowy eastern mystic created by comic book superstar Jim Lee and Flint Dille." [Comics Worth Reading] 2:13:12 PM

Up Next: The iTunes Movie Store? [MacSlash] 2:12:57 PM

New exclusives for .Mac members [The Macintosh News Network] 2:12:12 PM

'Cool Hunters' Like Apple's Shine. Apple Computer's market share may be slim compared with the likes of Microsoft and Dell, but youth marketing experts say the company is the height of cool among young consumers. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 2:11:54 PM