IT Director for a non-profit in Washington, DC. Man About Internet.
Courtesy of BoingBoing:
BoingBoing readerSteve says, "Our old fiend Arlen 'The Undead' Specter is at it again. This time he's trying to fix the 'problem' with the warrantless wiretaps by... Wait for it... Making them legal!" Link to Wired News coverage of SB2453, the National Security Surveillance Act (PDF link to bill)
This is a very funny series by Gabe & Tycho at PA. Start here and read the next 4 or 5 comics after it.
...the only day of the year that you can talk like a pirate and not be entirely insane. Tuesday September 19th 2006 is Talk Like a Pirate Day! Talk Like a Pirate Day only comes once a year (on September 19th), this year it falls on a Tuesday. If you are not ready yet, you can learn more about this international holiday on the About TLAPD page
Last night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart showed us a clip of George Bush's Sept. 11th anniversary speech from Monday in which he used Little Richard to help him along...
"Apple's Showtime event was all well and good, but the big news today was on Anandtech.com. They found that the two dual-core CPUs in the Mac Pro were not only removable, but that they were able to insert two quad-core Clovertown CPUs. OS X recognized all eight cores and it worked fine. Anandtech could not release performance numbers for the new monster, but did report they were unable to max out the CPUs."
- From Slashdot.
