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Neal Stephenson On Star Wars

> If the "Star Wars" movies are remembered a century from now, it'll be because they are such exact parables for this state of affairs. Young people in other countries will watch them in classrooms as an answer to the question: Whatever became of that big

Inside Mac Radio Bloopers

When in SF last week we were on the Inside Mac Radio [http://www.osxfaq.com/radio/] show. Scott asked August and I to do sound clip that they can use in the show. We sat down with Ken and Laura to record. Today I wake up to this audio

Cute Story About Apples And Love

Apples To Apples is indeed one of my favorite games right now. Its simple, fun, and is all about getting people together. But someone took the game a step further :) > "After a few rounds and a few turns of Ashleigh as the judge, I finally took the '

Tablet

I'm doing some Lotus Notes training, and one of the guys here is taking notes using an HP Tablet PC -- Robert [http://scoble.weblogs.com/] would be proud -- The device is a tad think for my tastes, but it works very well. The thing I really

iTunes User Agent

Looks like Apple is testing iTunes 4.9's podcasting support > The next version of iTunes, 4.9 is out grabbing podcasts from site around the web, likely from testers at Apple. Logs are showing a new user agents "Agent: iTunes/4.9 (Macintosh; N; PPC)"

Carmack On The Apple Switch

> We work with Apple, ATI, and Nvidia to make everything run as well as possible. Doom 3 had AltiVec code in it, and there were driver changes to make things work better. The bottom line is that the compiler / cpu / system / graphics card combinations available for macs has just

.MAC 2.0

Because I can say this: .Mac is really cool. It supports 1 to many authentication to .Mac accounts. The publisher needs a .Mac account, but "subscribers" do not need any .Mac account! This enables all sort of groupware applications via the .Mac framework! They said the scale is

New York Times

> Ray Slakinski, an independent Apple developer whose company, iPodderX, makes software for podcasting on the Macintosh, said Apple's strategy would not cause him any development delays. Apple has been reliable in providing developers with tools for smoothing major transitions, he said. "It's a good

OneClickSpec

The PSWG released a draft of a spec [http://pswg.jot.com/WikiHome/DraftPublications/OneClickSpec2] for One Click Subscription. It looks interesting, and I need to spend more time reading to make fully comment. > <rss version="2.0"> <channel> ... <atom:link rel=

Apple and Intel

Everyone, and I do mean everyone is posting about Apple making a switch to intel processors. I hear this rumor a lot (like every 6-12 months) but if its actually true, I don't think its a switch! Intel makes CPUs for a lot of systems, including the Pentium