Advice for switchers… Your Mouse Moves Differently in OS X The most elemental way you’ll interact with your new Mac is with your mouse. Mouse-tracking, how your physical mouse movements affect your on-screen cursor, is not just slower on OS … Continue reading
From Jay Tea over at Wizbang: The Islamist world is not inflamed over a dozen cartoons published by a single newspaper in Denmark. (To be perfectly honest, they’re more inflamed by three counterfeit cartoons passed off as legit by a … Continue reading
From my e-mail: 1. It’s important to have a woman who helps at home, cooks, cleans & has a job. 2. It’s important to have a woman who can make you laugh. 3. It’s important to have a woman who … Continue reading
From my e-mail: Duties of a Wife Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives duties. The 1st man had married an Asian woman and bragged that he had told his wife she was … Continue reading
Annan to Bush: Help stop murder and rape in Darfur By Evelyn Leopold Sun Feb 12, 1:41 PM ET UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Secretary-General Kofi Annan intends to ask President George W. Bush on Monday what the United States can … Continue reading
For once, I agree with Denis Hamill Cartoon riots test free press It doesn’t take Valentine’s Day for me to acknowledge my lifelong love affair with the First Amendment. But these days as I read the free press and watch … Continue reading
Not for nothing, but anyone who tells me this is justified can just go to hell. As part of a grand jury investigation that’s still secret, the Justice Department asked a federal magistrate judge to approve monitoring of an unnamed … Continue reading
If you use your computer on a regular basis, you’ve probably accumulated no less than 10 tons of crap (give or take an ounce). WinDirStat shows you visually how your crap is arranged, how big your big crap is, and … Continue reading
“I just had a baby,” Salina Newman told the operator when she dialed emergency services Tuesday, according to transcripts released to the media on Thursday. “I was only six months pregnant and I went to the restroom and the baby … Continue reading
Google Copies Your Hard Drive – Government Smiles in Anticipation Consumers Should Not Use New Google Desktop San Francisco – Google today announced a new “feature” of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If … Continue reading
I’ve called Boing Boing out on numerous occasions for their consistently anti-Christian criticisms while reporting other way-out stuff with a matter-of-fact frankness that’s equally offensive. Cory Doctorow, in a rather matter-of-way manner, mentions a story about a woman who was … Continue reading
Bill Bennett, on the Situation Room with Wolf “So Poor and So Black” Blitzer, nailed CNN for their double-standard with regards to not showing the Mohammed cartoons and yet demonstrating the hideous anti-semitic cartoons the Arab world uses regularly by … Continue reading
From Boing Boing: Early in Walt Disney’s career, he had a minor success with a character named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a distant ancestor of Mickey Mouse. However, Walt lost the rights to Oswald in a sour business-deal with a … Continue reading
From the NY Daily News: Despite a February fare hike and a three-day transit strike, subway ridership last year hit 1.45 billion – the highest in more than 50 years. New subway cars and other upgrades have made tube travel … Continue reading
An internet icon is retiring… Jeeves the valet who for a decade has overseen searches on the Ask website is about to be sacked. By the end of February the iconic valet will disappear from the site he has graced … Continue reading
You’re walking down the street with your friends. There are 10 of you. You decide you want to rape a woman you see walking across the street. You start walking across the street, having made your intentions clearly known to … Continue reading
Busta Rhymes’ silence in the slaying of his bodyguard drew the ire of police and the victim’s family yesterday as the rapper skipped the wake of the man who may have saved his life. Detectives believe that Rhymes was just … Continue reading
Tom Warren over at Neowin comes unglued about a rumor regarding Halo 2: If you’re a Halo 2 fan then brace yourself… Microsoft has the sheer audacity to expect PC gamers to upgrade to Windows Vista in order to be … Continue reading
Well, this is indeed interesting. Today, XM announced that they had signed Oprah for a channel of her own on XM Satellite Radio. This is a particuarly interesting addition to the XM stable of talent, which already includes Martha Stewart, … Continue reading
SHOCK: ‘IDOL’ AMATEURS BEAT ‘GRAMMY’ PROS IN RATINGS Thu Feb 09 2006 09:01:52 ET How 100+ wannabes Outrated Madonna, U2, Kanye The music business suffered another embarrassment Wednesday night — when AMERICAN IDOL’s Hollywood cattle call drew a larger audience … Continue reading