The Modem Driver gives us an internet history lesson of our newest traitor.

Take a look here.

If you ever had any doubt about how you should watch your movies (if you have a choice), take a look at this website under Examples. I especially like the way that Sean Connery disappears in the fullscreen print of “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”!

I’ve never been so completely pulled into a world on the screen.

My Review: [[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]

Mandrake 8.1 is a great Linux OS

Mandrake with KDE is a great OS, but if you have to use something else
OS X would be a great choice. At least it is not the Fisher Price OS
(Windows XP)!!

Hmmm…

In October 2001 I took one last look at the Linux box, then reached for a kitchen cleaver, cut off its head, and bought a Mac. The Linux box still hums along happily beside me, doing its work in a lightweight, GUI-free environment, never complaining, never crashing. I love having a Linux server in the home. It’s quiet, reliable, and fun to tweak on from time to time. But it will be a while before I try to use Linux as a desktop OS again…OS X 10.1 is the only OS other than BeOS that I truly ENJOY working with. Windows is just “there.” It offers me no joy — only compatibility. Linux/Unix is like pulling teeth, and has a horrible appearance no matter how hard you try to dress it up. OS X is a beautiful marriage of elegance and power.

[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]] is a flawless adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary masterpiece. Director Peter Jackson and his brilliant ensemble cast have created a spectacular holiday gift for the whole world.

Another great Foxtrot comic!!!

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The most heartbreaking thing about faithful moviegoing is that awe, beauty and

excitement, three of the things we go to the movies for, are the very things we’re cheated of the

most. The great wonder of [[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]] is that it bathes us

in all three, to the point where we remember — in a vague, pleasurably hallucinatory sensation

from another lifetime — why we go to the movies in the first place. It would be an insult to say

the picture merely lives up to its hype; it crashes the meaning of hype, exposing it as the graven

image it is. Advertising is dead: Long live moviemaking.

This just sounds way too cool.

So, before I could really do anything interesting with my iPod I had to record music onto my Powerbook.

Since I was grading papers yesterday I just popped disks into the drive as I worked until I had recorded

about 25 hours of CD music with iTunes. I connected the iPod to my Powerbook via the firewire cable and a

few minutes later I had 25 hours of music on the deck-of-cards size iPod. The iPod’s drive was only about

1/3 full.

From the license agreement for Frontpage

You may not use the Software in

connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their

products or services, infringe any intellectual property or other rights of these parties,

violate any state, federal or international law, or promote racism, hatred or pornography.

Is it just me, or this ridiculous? We have a Bill of Rights that guarantees us free speech in this country, but now we have Microsoft trying to control how we use their products?

Don’t forget, you’re [[Free to Think]].

Listen up Mr. President… I think you dropped the lawsuit way too quickly. It’s this kind of crap that you get when you have de facto monopolies in control of information flow.