Along with new computers, Apple announced a bunch of new products and software, including some available now. iChatAV, available for download, is probably the most interesting to most users, with the exception of the 1.0 version of Safari. The new iChat will allow for not only IM, but also …

Apple announced on Monday the G5 series of desktop computers. The computers are serious speed daemons, with the ability to access 8GB of RAM, a fast 1GHz processor bus, SATA storage and up to two 2GHz CPU's processing data in 64-bit chunks. Of course, they won't be available until August …

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that EverQuest for the Macintosh is now shipping.

I love it when this happens. About a week after the iTunes Music store came out, I sent them a note asking for a global "Just Added" list. Now, I'm sure they didn't hear my one request, but they did add the feature. Not only does it show what is …

An article from the Washington Post raises a new thread from China's giant Three Gorges Dam project: environmental damage from pollution. Since the Three Gorges Dam will be the largest single hydroelectric facility in the world, generating 18.2 Million Kilowatts of power when it is fully online, you would …

I was quite happy to see a mainstream media outlet (the Washington Post) with a concise, thought-out piece on DVD copy protection and how overboard the motion picture industry is going. Rob Pegoraro does a good job of arguing for restraint among lawmakers at preventing users from fair use of …

Business 2.0 has an article (with a pie graph) about who gets your music dollar when you buy songs online. The gist is that the artists pick up somewhere between 8% and 12% (some a bit higher) and the site gets the largest portion (about 40%). It is unknown …

With Monday's (hopefully) impending announcements from Apple, here are some thoughts on the individual technologies mentioned in the "leak" last week. G5 (aka IBM PowerPC 970) The 970 (which it looks like Apple will be calling the G5), is the first workstation-class chip released from IBM's Power4 architecture of CPUs …

In a phone conversation with my brother yesterday, he said "You guys are mean!" In particular he was describing the manner in which the technical community has a tendency to go out for blood on hypocrisy and bad policy. Although I was unwilling to completely endorse it at the time …

A good techno-political article on Wired about the Iraqi internet service provider and its trials and tribulations through the regime and bringing the internet back on line in the country. Particularly interesting was a quote from the head of the organization who said in an interview last month that the …

We didn't actually count them, but the local Barnes & Noble store in Reston, VA last night had at least a hundred (and possibly twice that many) people in it at about quarter after midnight when we stopped by to see how it was going. As would be expected, there were …

A press release from Metapkg.org announces an alliance between Fink, Gentoo, and OpenDarwin to work together to provide the best opportunity for users of the Macintosh operating system to have access to UNIX and open-source projects. Hopefully, the alignment with "raise the pie higher," as opposed to diluting the …

For those into very serious blue-screen and compositing effects, Apple has announced Shake 3, and upgrade to the compositing package they purchased in February of 2002. The package is pricey ($3900 on the Mac, and $9900 under Linux and IRIX), but it is acknowledged to be the best product in …

In late April, I was feeling concerned because all of my reviews had been favorable. I wrote in that review "At this point, you are wondering if I ever pan a film." The time has come, the movie is The Hulk and to cut to the quick, don't waste your …

According to Apple's QuickTime site, they will be offering a replay of the WWDC Keynote from Monday morning (PDT) after the Keynote is finished. This should provide hours of "fun" for the folks who don't get to go.

Wow.... As I was submitting story number 999, I realized that I'd cranked out 1000 of these since January of this year, when I decided to start this little site. My guess is that there have been fewer articles read than written, but that's quite alright, as I'm not looking …

The Washington Post is reporting that McDonalds restaurants is asking their meat suppliers to cut back on the use of antibiotics. The move comes as a reply to the growing concern that antibiotics in the food chain are contributing to the increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a growing health concern. McDonald's …

The Washington Post has an interesting article on a growing trend (about thirty campuses in the US right now) to offer so-called Whiteness Studies courses in colleges. The idea has raised quite a bit of controversy on some campuses, due to the nature of the subject matter and the way …

A bill sponsored by two Washington state Democrats (Brian Baird and Jay Inslee) will make its way in to the US House of Representatives aimed at auditing the controversial ICANN and putting a decision by the organization to give Verisign a monopoly on "wait listing" domains on hold. An page …

I have been refraining from the various blow-by-blow rumors for the upcoming Apple WWDC, but this one is just too juicy to let pass. I will note that the following may well be a hack from outside of Apple or it may just be a huge mistake from inside, but …