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makin’ tea in your underwear

+ Thu, March 31

→ Presidential Commission finds that US intelligence was “dead wrong” about Iraq before the war – This news, this news, it shocks me!  Startling!  Unexpected!  Soul robbing!
→ The Safari-extending Saft now lets you reorder Safari’s tabs – If only they were the native tabs in Adium…
→ Stuff like this makes me want to see Sin City all the more – Here kid, have a trailer.
→ Celebrate the vibrant return of the world’s most hideous automobile!

+ Tue, March 29

→ Solid writeup from Wired about today’s hearing in the P2P case – Along with an article about the campers outside, including nickd.

+ Mon, March 28

→ My pal nickd is at the Supreme Court and is blogging the events as the unfold in the landmark Grokster v. RIAA case – It’s honestly not an understatement to say that file-sharing as we know it today hangs in the balance.
→ Polycarbonate is nice and all but, make that iBook fuzzy!

+ Thu, March 24

→ The true story of the Sosumi sound in System 7 – Turns out it is a taunt to Apple Records afterall!
→ T.Rex found with soft tissues after 70,000,000 years! – Free registration here.
→ Gallery of transparent desktop pictures – Very cool effect, must try

+ Wed, March 23

→ UK nut installs his own art in New York museums – Two of the four pieces are still up!
→ Scientists finalizing equation that links metabolism and body mass across all species – Among many other physical qualities, it seems.
→ Wired on The Decemberists and BitTorrent

+ Sun, March 20

→ Slashdot is moving to XHTML/CSS finafuckenly!

+ Fri, March 18

→ 20% of Windows iPod users bought a Mac in the last year – 43% say they’re thinking about switching in the future – outstanding!

+ Wed, March 16

→ Useful, attractive, feature complete: GoogleX – Google meets OS X’s Dock

+ Tue, March 15

→ Jeremy Bogan, server admin extraordinaire, and his absurdly awesome arcade cabinet – I’ve been following the progress on this for the last year, very interesting read.
→ Tarantino to release Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair as one movie in US theaters in the next few months
→ MC COPULATION – There’s not a lot I can say to explain the infinite awesomeness here.  Please try to understand.

+ Fri, March 11

→ Links (torrents mostly) for the new Star Wars Episode III trailer – Dare I say it?  This actually looks good.
→ Not sure how I missed this but, Nokia and Volkswagon in bed over bluetooth cellphone-car integration. – As a user of both of these companies’ products: Hell yes, bring it on.

+ Thu, March 10

→ Pacho, the animal rights crusadin’, television starlet Colombian donkey is freed from jail, no longer a suspect in a traffic accident.
→ Apple joins Blu-Ray Disc Association Board – 25GB per disc, mm mm mm.
→ Every Calvin & Hobbes ever, ordered by date

+ Wed, March  9

→ Fantastic satire at Engadget about the state of cellular technology and Motorola
→ The Israeli Army automatically gives low security clearance to troops who have played D&D.

+ Tue, March  8

→ Death Star located and featured on today’s NASA pic of the day

+ Sat, March  5

→ Google does weather?  Google does weather. – And of course, retrievable by SMS.

+ Fri, March  4

→ To apply this G5 clock hack or not? – I must say, white blïnkenlights would look damn awesome.
→ Using the new motion sensor in the latest Powerbooks for computer control – Rock left, previous song, rock right, next song.  Brilliant.
→ Flirting via iTunes music sharing