There was some speculation on TWIT 18 that Steve Jobs may not be totally honest when he says that OS X (the Mac operating system) will only run on Apple hardware, not stock PC boxes that are used by Windows machines. Here is my take on what they said with some additional speculation mixed in: [...]
Browsing Posts published in August, 2005
The Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 PVR (Explorer from now on) is the absolute worst piece of consumer electronics that I have ever owned. Nothing else I have ever owned causes me to say out loud about once a week, “what a piece of _____” (the blank word varying depending on how exasperated I am). I [...]
I tried to buy a ticket from Toronto to Cuba on aircanada.com but got an error message saying that people living in my country of origin (Canada) could not have a billing address in a list of about six countries including Canada and the US. The only “billing address” on the page was the address [...]
Reports say that the BBC may have added a fictional character (boy-band singer Jamie Kane) to Wikipedia. BBC officially denied the charge saying it was a fan that made the entry. Either way, I think that this is a good thing: 1) the community caught it very quickly. What reference book is scrutinized and corrected [...]
digg.com is consistently the best site that I check every day. It is a social bookmarking site where people vote for “articles” (websites) and the best float up to the home page. Like a democratic google where people decide popularity instead of an algorithm (pagerank). I’m too lazy to actually register and vote. I subscribe [...]
Another great mashup: cheap gas and google maps. A very good use of google maps. The only negative is that gas prices change so quickly here (in Toronto)–several times a day in some cases–that it is hard to keep up to date. At the moment the prices being shown are from last night (95-99 cents/liter) [...]
for coming up with a great experiment. Did you know that fruit flies can live for up to a day without their heads? Miesenbock and his team at Yale U. shine unfocused laser light down their throacic ganglion (equivalent to our spinal cords) to simulate nerve impules coming from their missing brains. This replaces stimulation [...]
The page is here. Top ten items are: 1. Manned space exploration 2. Kozmo.com 3. Napster 4. The Concorde 5. GM’s EV1 6. The original Palm Pilot 7. Good keyboards 8. Wires 9. LPs 10. the Newton The only one I agree with is #1. NASA has dropped the ball, the Russian program is broke [...]
in Toronto for wasting my time with too many commercials. I realized how bad it was after seeing Murderball at a different theatre where there were no commercials and a single coming attraction. At the SilverCity Theatres in Yorkdale and Yonge/Eglinton they show commercials with the lights up before the scheduled show time. Then when [...]
A great movie. It’s about the US and Canadian Quad Rugby Teams (quad rugby was originally called Murderball but the name was sanitized). He men in wheelchairs disspelling stereotypes of the “dis” abled. These guys are much more able than most. Nice personal stories. I would have liked to see more of the sport itself. [...]
