An interesting post from boingboing.net recounts a story wherein a user who had formerly signed up for a Miller Brewing Company contest using a throw- away email address and then threw it away is now getting email from Miller on another account. The return email in the message is …

Well, I guess I'm happy that I didn't upgrade to the 2.16GHz processor and that I ordered early. My order was, until last week, showing Shipment on the 15th, delivery on the 21st. Then Apple announced the upgrade plan and that shipment times would slip by a couple of …

Now that things are starting to become much more clear about the Oompa-Loompa "virus" (AKA, Leap.A), I figured I'd try to put things into perspective and give a few of my thoughts on the whole thing. For those who haven't heard, there has been concentration this week on reports …

An article from the Chicago Sun-Times tells of the Drake Hotel in Chicago (a landmark hotel built in the 1920's) deciding to give a Cicero couple a special anniversary gift: the same price they paid when they honeymooned at the hotel in 1946. According the the paper, "Amazed by the …

An article from CNet this morning describes "We Know" a World of Warcraft guild that seems to be providing a social environment for a number of well-known technologists, including Joi Ito.

According to an article in today's Washington Post (read it fast, 'cause the Post'll charge you if you wait too long), Grants.gov, the Federal Government's clearinghouse for grant applications is not compatible with anything other than Microsoft's Windows operating system. Apparently, the contractor (Northrop Grumman) felt that their implementation …

Vint Cert, long-time internet founder and now at Google testified last week in front of the Telecommunications subcommittee of the Commerce committee of the US Senate. No telling how well the comments were accepted by the Senators, but I liked what he had to say. I'll leave off the details …

Admittedly, you're not going to be seeing this thing in use for the next SuperBowl, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are hoping that it will enable them to get pictures of the Higgs Boson particle (a key element in the Standard Model of particle physics). According to an article …

The British Red Cross and Canadian Red Cross have both indicated that they would like the "improper and illegal" use of the Red Cross emblem in video games to stop. According to an article from GamesIndustry.biz and a letter published on GameLaw.org, requests have gone out from both …

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted an article requesting that users take care when activating the "Search Across Computers" option in Google Desktop (available only for the PC right now). Although the article certainly raises an interesting question, there are some specifics that might mitigate at least some of this …

In an interesting move, Apple has decided to give the top 12 contributors to the Webkit open source project brand spanking new MacBook Pro computers and has invited five of them to come to Apple's WWDC as Apple's guest. This according to a posting on Surfin' Safari.

Patch 1.9.3 is available for World of Warcraft and it supports the Intel Macintoshes! It might not be earth shattering news for most, but the performance on this is astounding.

I'm sure you're all getting sick and tired of my publishing everything I can about the new Intel iMac and are expecting me to finally get some real news or at least movie reviews in here, but I just can't pass up this article from MacSpeedZone that specifically addresses the …

Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux says that he won't switch the Linux kernel to GPL 3 because of the anti-DRM provisions in the license. An article from CNet covers a posting to the Linux kernel mailing list that details his concerns.

In an important ruling, a Nevada court found that Google's cache of the data of web sites does not violate copyright law and is covered by the "safe harbor" provisions of the DMCA and other laws. Comments from the EFF are available in an online article, as is the ruling …

Not surprisingly, since David Pogue (columnist for the NY Times) is a well-known Macintosh zealot, he's got the new Intel iMac and he says it's really fast. Like him or not, he seems to have done a legitimate end-user comparison and warns about which applications you can take with you …

Apple's Aperture product page now states that upgrades to the Universal Binary version of the product (released in November) will be available for free from software update instead of for $49 with a DVD distribution, as originally announced at MacWorld earlier this month. Thanks to MacFixIt for the pointer. Final …

There's a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) going around, and not a small number of benchmarks. Frankly, the two benchmarks I've cited in previous posts are a good example of the two ends of the spectrum, with MacWorld's being pretty shallow and Ars Technica's being well thought out …

Ah, yes, the market. If Apple and Microsoft don't give you what you want, put a bounty on it and see if the Internet will provide. This is exactly what Colin NederKoorn has decided to do, and he's getting help. As of 10pm last night, people had pledged (and paid …

An article from C|Net News.com indicates that Apple's recently-updated iWork "suite" of Pages and Keynote has grabbed 17.4% of the Macintosh office applications market and almost 2.7% of the unit share of office suite sales worldwide, edging out Corel's WordPerfect Office.