Vatican: Don't Knock Science
As part of a project to help end the 'mutual prejudice' between science and religion, the Roman Catholic Church urges the faithful to consider scientific reason.

Call It 'Gorilla' Marketing
Smashing cars to bits may seem like an odd tactic for promoting a car-sharing service but it's undeniably satisfying, in a primitive sort of way.

You Can Be Smart and Married
Despite suggestions to the contrary, you don't have to be dumb to trap a husband or rich to acquire a wife. Commentary by Regina Lynn.

Josh Ledgard thinksMini-MSFT could be Steve Ballmer. Interesting, but not true. I am Steve Ballmer. Wait, no, I'm Mini. No, I'm confused.";->"

David Merceron the sorry state of search APIs.

immolate: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
immolate: to kill or destroy, often by fire.

We needa beautiful icon for valid OPML.


What if Scooter Libbywere a guest on Law&Order?


Norm Augustinushas some good OPML badge material!

WIRED:Battle for the Soul of the MP3 Phone. Motorola and other companies have been selling phones that play music in Europe and Asia for a couple of years now - handsets with lots of memory and serious audio capabilities. And with the iPod, Apple showed how to turn an ordinary MP3 player into a great one. Put it all together and you get - the ROKR? How does a great idea get this botched?

Faster Mac

In yesterday'sthreadwhere I explored buying a new Mac with a dozen awesome Mac experts.Brian Criscuolofounda way to make my current Mac perform as it was designed to. Here's what I did that made the difference:

1. Create a new user with full Administrator priviledges.

2. Log off. Log on as the new user.

3. Do some stuff.

4. Log off. Log on as the old user.

Voila. Fast Mac!Zzzzzip.

Amazing.

I kind of thought this was an easy to use computer?

Oh well.

1/4/01:"In the centralized model for the Internet, your browser makes requests of a server that could be very far away, or slow for other reasons. Now imagine that the server is very close and you don't have to share it with anyone, it's yours and yours alone. It would be fast!"