Wow, Apple’s OSX Dock Really *Is* That Annoying
I downloaded and ran, for kicks, a hack of Apple’s OSX that runs on vanilla Intel PCs, OSx86. It’s weird to think that now you can pretty effortlessly clone a Mac onto a PC....
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Numbers Game
Between 2000 and 2005, foreign direct investment in the E.U. 15 was almost half the global total, and investment returns in Europe outperformed those in the United States. “Old Europe is an investment magnet...
Sodomized Ex-McDonald’s Employee Wins $6.1M
There’s a headline you don’t see every day. Gory details here.
Nil Metaphase
Today I did some personal chromosomal analysis: karyotyping. Extracted some blood, cultured it in a growth medium to encourage cellular DNA synthesis and division, then killed the cells, stained them, and went looking for...
Typing Monkeys
Many people debate what is the most pointlessly long article about trivia on Wikipedia. This one about Sony PSP exploits may be a winner!
Golf Mania
I saw an email asking if people wanted to attend a conference being organised by the American College of Physicians. When I checked the location, I decided to count how many golf courses were...
Mitochondria Gone Wild
We had a clinical presentation today from Richard Hass, a mitochondrial disease expert with UCSD’s Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center. It was tough. He presented case after case of doomed little children who basically...
No Last Words
WMD (Weapon of Mime Destruction) Marcel Marceau is dead. No last words, apparently. This will have to do.
Highest Bidder Wins
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of...
Infertile Crescent
That on the two parallel banks of the Tigris and of the Euphrates bad weeds should grow, that no one should set out on the road, that no one should seek out the highway,...