A great rant from Daring Fireball concerning, Apples, PC's command lines, the iPod and Wall Street. Quite a combo, eh?

Dell's Dud
10:49:22 PM     comment []

Ha! See what I mean! Not only does "marketing" cause diabetes, but "global warming" causes malaria! And here all this time I was under the impression that malaria was caused by parasites in the genus Plasmodium ...

Using this logic would force one to conclude that reading causes fascism: after all, if people couldn't read Mein Kampf, they could't be fascists! Ban reading now! Save the children!

Global Warming Deaths on the Rise. About 160,000 people die each year from malaria, malnutrition and other maladies caused by global warming, a new study says. Researchers estimate the number could almost double by 2020. [Wired News]
9:05:59 AM     comment []

Comments from the victim.

Geer Comments On Firing From @Stake [Slashdot]
8:59:11 AM     comment []

A fine view from the inside on the run up to the current SCO lawsuit. Mr. Firmage clears some things up, and points out a contradiction inherent in SCO's position that I'd not noticed before.

An open-source letter. Former Novell executive Joe Firmage details the internal battles that led to the sale of the licensing rights for Unix to SCO and how that decision is now roiling the Linux market. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
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