An interesting article from ArsTechnica describing their thoughts on the potential roadmap for Apple CPUs in machines to come out over the next 18-24 months. I'm not sure I agree with the entire analysis, but it does make a good argument.

Good comic today from JoyOfTech.

So much for being pretty sure that Apple wasn't going to roll this one out today. According to everybody's press releases, reports, etc. and what I heard sitting in the Keynote (now available via QuickTime), Apple will begin shipping Macintoshes that are based on the Intel CPU architecture by June …

Well, our elected officials are at it again. Presumedly as a part of their efforts to free commerce, Representative Pete Sessions (R-Dallas, TX) has decided it would be in all of our best interests if the Federal Government banned the creation of WiFi networks by municipalities to let the free …

It's been a while since I posted anything to the HAM section of this site, so I'm happy to pass on this story from Make:Blog about a contest held on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno putting CW (Morse code) against SMS (cell-phone short-message service). Not surprising to people …

CNet is again reporting that they have heard strong rumblings that Apple will announce on Monday a switch to Intel-based CPUs in the Macintosh line. I'm skeptical, but we were all skeptical when people discussed the switch to the PowerPC from the 68xxx architecture in the early 1990's, so we'll …

Tom Yager of InfoWorld has reviewed Tiger and Tiger Server and has found them worthy of 9.5 and 9.3 ratings (on a scale of 0 to 10). Of particular interest is his mentioning of Darwin, which is often left out of discussions about the two cats.

An article from the Christian Science Monitor discusses fourth-generation nuclear power plants (no, George, that's not pronounced "nuk-u-lar"). After a nearly 30-year drought in the US in bringing new nuclear power plants online, there's growing interest in replacing existing coal plants and providing new power using nuclear energy once again …

An interesting article from Anandtech compares the PowerMacintosh G5 to similarly configured PCs and finds it lacking as a server due to problems with thread spawning and (therefore) forking. However, they like it as a workstation. Perhaps Apple would like to comment on this at the WWDC.

Apple's logo is peeking out over rooftops in San Francisco from Moscone West, site of this year's WWDC.

According to an article from CNet that discusses reviews at Tom's Hardware and Anandtech that each show AMD's dual-core chips with an advantage over the Intel chips with dual-core technology.The Anandtech review is a bit more neutral, but the reviewer at Tom's gives early adopters a clear choice: AMD …

According to an article (registration probably required) from the Wall Street Journal, Airbus is telling customers that it will be delaying the shipments of their new A380 superjumbo.

Google has announced the Summer of Code, whereby students who spend their summer working on certain open source projects can earn up to $4,500. The details are pretty cool. They're funding 200 developers, all students, to execute on plans to complete open source projects for a number of open …

It's interesting to read people's take on the world. As a fan of Orson Scott Card's fiction, I've watched his online commentary for a while. This week's Ornery American column on Islam, Newsweek, Democrats, "Smartland" and "Heartland", with a bit of Mormon history thrown in is interesting. I can't say …

An article from Wired details the exploits of the three young hackers (16,19 and 20) who broke in to the LexisNexis databases and had access to the personal data of over 300,000 people. Of particular interest is the account of how they got access to the law enforcement …

Here's a good article from David Pogue of the The New York Times about a set of ground rules he'd like to see used in the Mac vs PC wars. As far as I'm concerned, life'd be a lot more civil if people followed them.

You might want to skip this one if you can't handle discussing toilets. However, if you've traveled in Japan, you've undoubtedly run across the hole in the ground referred to as a "Japanese-style" toilet. In this article, the Japan Times discusses the benefits of their native toilets over the "Western-style …

Intel and Microsoft have started to quietly insert pieces of Microsoft's new Digital Rights Management (DRM) into Intel's latest hardware. According to an article from Digit, Intel's Pentium D (dual core chip) and 945g chipset include support for the DRM technology, although neither Microsoft nor Intel is disclosing how much …

CNet is reporting that Bank of America has announced plans to roll out two technologies to help the firm (and customers) fight against phishing (the use of email and web sites to gain personal information from users). The strategy includes adding features to their web site and leaving a trail …

This is probably getting pretty old by now, but there are a lot of people who still seem not to get the point: move to a Mac, reap the benefits. Winn Schwartau (contributor to Networld, author of computer security books, and founder of The Security Awareness Company has switched his …