Monday, May 22, 2006

Veterans' data swiped in laptop theft. Government employee's home is robbed and computer holding personal information, including Social Security numbers, is taken. [CNET News.com] comment []  trackback []

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Collision course for Symantec and Microsoft. Its lawsuit against Microsoft could put the brakes on Vista, as competition between the companies heats up. [CNET News.com] comment []  trackback []

The Office in a Bucket is the best!  This is so cool! Inflatable buildings - from an office to a pavilion. Cory Doctorow: Britain's Inflate sells and rents gigantic inflatable structures, ranging from a small "office in a box" to gigantic pavilions. Link (via Cribcandy) [Boing Boing] comment []  trackback []

Is UC Irvine funding anti-semitic hate speakers?  I believe in free speach BUT I don't believe that it's okay to spend public dollars on it.  Maybe we should write letters to UC Irvine?  Perhaps a class action lawsuit?  Note - do NOT watch the video at work. Jew Hate, America Hate Speeches at UC Irvine. Watch the VIDEO here. It is almost inconceivable that this is here in America, sanctioned by the University. If this virulent hate continues, America has no chance to stem the tsunami of Islam.The parade of radical, hateful speakers brought to... [Atlas Shrugs] comment []  trackback []

Photos of Katamari Damacy runners in Bay to Breakers race. Cory Doctorow: Fans of the awesome video game Katamari Damacy ran last weekend's Bay to Breakers footrace in San Francisco dressed as characters from the game, pushing a giant katamari ball dotted with funny San Francisco symbols, from Frank Chu's notorious "Zagnatronic Galaxies" sign to oversized martini glasses. The photos from the race make it clear that these cats were the best thing on legs this year. Link (Thanks, Heather!) -- I'm posting this for you Jackie! [Boing Boing] comment []  trackback []

OSXBOOK.com has a great presentation up.  Check it out if you are a Computer junkie :) Understanding OS X Kernel Internals. jglidell writes "The OS X kernel has been in the news alot this past year, whether it's why its slow, Mach/micro-kernel makes it bad, it's going closed source and what not. Amit Singh has put up a new presentation on the innards of OS X. It does a pretty good job of summing up the OS X kernel architecture, and has some pretty detailed diagrams... for instance they show that there are so many process/threads layers in OS X. So if you are in the mood for doing some OS studying then head over." [Slashdot] comment []  trackback []