It's pricey, but it's huge! Trans International has announced that they are now shipping a 1GB DDR333 RAM module compatible with Apple's 17" PowerBook. For only $1400, you can have 2GB of RAM in your laptop.

I was reading an article this morning about a cleric in Iraq who is preparing a force to control the city of Najaf (a holy site in the country) and was struck by a particular phrase that should give warning to those who think that it is a waste of …

You may not have seen the original story about a man in Las Vegas who was selling the opportunity to hunt naked women with paintball guns, but plenty of women's groups did and were outraged. However, it turns out now that the "hunt" was just a ploy to sell videos …

Do you ever get that feeling that you didn't see the same movie that everybody else did? That's certainly the case for me after reading reviews of Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life. I don't know what these people saw, but I want to see that movie, because …

This article in USA Today describes an invention by a Chicago-area Boy Scout who saw an opportunity to streamline airport inspections at the world's busiest airport (still O'Hare). The invention (and I've actually seen these at Dulles as well) is a box with a metal detector in it that is …

Robert Cringely of PBS has a proposal that he wants people to look at for creating a commercial music service that keeps the simplicity of Napster without the legal problems. I'm not so certain that it would be successful in court, but it's a nice exercise in thinking outside of …

The (presumably biased) Dr. Mac from the Houston Chronicle seems to think so. In this article, he smashes the advertising, ease-of-use, and licensing of the new site. However, the best line was definitely in this selection:"The site is called BuyMusic.com. At first glance it looks a lot like …

Apparently, if you have a Macintosh, you aren't supposed to even visit BuyMusic.com, Buy.com's new web-based WMP music store. Despite the fact that they're more than happy to bash Apple in their ads (yeah, right "music for the rest of us"), they can't seem to stand the heat …

OK, I'll admit, I wasn't surprised to read the article from the New York Times yesterday about computerized voting machines and the ease with which they could be subverted. Software is the basic problem, and the experts who looked at it say that it is not to be trusted. In …

Well, it's official, Doom III is now a 2004 release. According to an article from Wired, the publisher (Activision) has stated that "for planning purposes, we're assuming Doom III will come out in the fourth quarter." Hey, Carmack, stop playing with your X-Prize toys and do some work, dude!

Remember the 45? No, not the .45 caliber, the 45 RPM record. They were small, came sheathed in an uninteresting piece of white paper, and contained only two songs. Often in the 1950s,1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, you could find them in record stores (you remember, the places that used …

It's not aimed at stopping you from traveling, or keeping you from getting an abortion, but the legal tactics being employed by the RIAA (as described in an article from the Associated Press) certainly seem to qualify as using fear to coerce behavioral change, thanks to our duly elected representatives …

In an interesting turn of events, investment powerhouse Merrill Lynch is dumping their existing deployment of Cisco's IP voice telephones for new systems from Avaya. An article from CNet describes the defection as having taken place due to "network utilization issues." Those familiar with Avaya will note that this is …

Garmin, makers of fine GPS products, has announced the shipment of a new combination GPS and PDA named the iQue3600. The device is PalmOS-based and thus will run some software from other vendors, but it seems a bit crippled with only 32MB of RAM and no built-in wireless of any …

I'm not a big fan of reading the obituaries, but this one was forwarded to me this morning from the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Jane Barbe, the voice that people associate with Ma Bell, died Friday of cancer at the age of 74.

Pearl Jam has announced a contest to find the favorite versions of each of a dozen or so tunes that they have posted to iTunes after each concert on their current tour. Pearl Jam has taken the novel approach of posting an "album" after each concert so that attendees (or …

An article from BBC News discussing a new paedophile (sic) victim database provides some details into the new database that will contain the faces of children who have shown up in pornographic images on the internet. All told, the database (called ChildBase, but apparently not associated with any of the …

For those who use SSL for email, you may find interesting a recent enhancement to server certificates from Thawte, the addition of client capabilities as well as server. By popular demand (and I know I was one of those demanding it), the company has decided to cut a break to …

According to an article from the Washington Post, AOL lost 846,000 subscribers in the last quarter. Not all of this is attrition, though. It appears from statements by the company that some of it was caused by "previously miscounted" customers being removed as well. They still stand at a …

Wired has an article about the response of a number of universities to subpoenas from the RIAA about alleged illegal file sharing. There are a wide variety of good issues that the universities are trying to bring to the table before this situation gets even more out of hand than …