Wired has an interesting article describing the "guerrillas" who have invaded this week's MacWorld show in New York to taut their favorite software package (Final Cut Pro) as a mechanism for revolutionizing film. What surprised me was that there are 27,000 members of the FCPUG (Final Cut Pro User …

Wired has a good article about a new bill proposed in Congress that would "clarify" that uploading a single copyrighted file to a P2P network would make you eligible for a 5 year prison term and $250,000 fine. The proposed bill (sponsored by two Dem's, John Conyers, Jr. (MI …

This story from the Washington Post is just funny. It appears that our intrepid would-be thieves decided that they would steal the money from an ATM using brute force... they were wrong. After prying it from its concrete base and dropping it to the ground a number of times, the …

Are you paying too much for your dial-up ISP service? Once you read this article from PCWorld, you may think so. The article surveys some very basic ISPs that run in price from $4.50 per month (that's right, dial-up internet access for ~$50/year) to $22 per month (EarthLink …

In what I strongly hope will not be a trend, Quentin Tarantino will be releasing his next film voyage Kill Bill in two parts, according to an article from the New York Times. The supposedly three-hour film is slated to be released in two installments starting this fall with a …

Don't like the way Safari looks or acts? Microsoft Internet Explorer got you down? If you're a Macintosh developer and have installed the latest SDK from Apple, you can write your own web browser with "one line of code" by following the instructions in this article from CocoaDevCentral. Admittedly, the …

PalmInfoCenter is reporting that Sony Japan is introducing a new PDA tomorrow, complete with larger keyboard, WiFi, Bluetooth, and camera. The Clie PEG-UX50 runs PalmOS, has a 480x320 screen, a 300kpixel camera (with 3x zoom), and accepts Sony's Memory Stick Pro cards for storage.

Apple and Volkswagen are doing a promotion this summer wherein new Beetle owners get a new iPod with the car (along with an accessory kit to mate the two). The commercial is very cool.

It's only available via the "premium download", but for $5.95, not bad. For those who have been hiding under a rock, America's Army is the world's leading online advertisement for military service.

Jeff Goldblum's voice is back for the new G5 commercial, now available online via QuickTime.

CNet reports that Cisco has confirmed previous reports that there is a flaw in Cisco's IOS software that can result in denial of service through routers running the software. It appears that there is a sequence of packets that causes the router to believe that its queues are full and …

An article from BBC News this morning indicates that researches in the US have determined that so-called "male menopause" is not due to hormonal changes, but is instead due to unhealthy habits, such as too much drinking, or perhaps just laziness. Professor John McKinlay, of the New England Research Institutes …

In a move that appears specifically targeted at Lexmark and their chip-enabled anti-refill technology, the North Carolina Senate has approved a law that would allow everyone in the state to refill any printer cartridge, regardless of any agreement to the contrary in the purchase agreement. An article from the Herald …

It's not the whole case, but CNet reports that Microsoft has lost an important ruling in the case brought against it by small software and technology company InterTrust Technologies. The case involves the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology and patents currently held by InterTrust. The company has a …

At MacWorld earlier this week, Apple announced a program whereby users of Adobe's Premier can get a copy of Final Cut Express from Apple in exchange for their original disks. The disks can alternately be used for a $500 discount off of the price of Final Cut Pro (also from …

Apple's stock was up in after-market trading after the company announced that they had earned a profit on increased revenues of 1.55B in the last quarter. Although still much smaller than the Microsoft Windows market (Apple is number 7 in personal computer sales), the showing was strong enough to …

An article in the Scotsman describes the planned slaughter this week of about 3,000 genetically modified (GM) sheep from the firm that cloned Dolly. The sheep were being used by PPL Therapeutics to test AAT, a drug intended to slow the progress of diseases such as hereditary emphysema and …

According to an article from BBC News, the British Wind Energy Association is shooting to produce half of the UK's "clean power" target using wind turbines. Earlier this week, the British government announced that they were opening up three off-shore areas for new wind turbine farms that could help in …

AOL is going to be launching a new service to customers called AOL Journals that will provide features that allow users to easily create a web log, otherwise known as a blog. According to an article in the Washington Post, the company will not release the service until later this …

In May of 2002, I sold my 15" PowerBook to a lady named Jenny Hedley (a transplanted Californian living in New Zealand at the time). She had purchased it to work on a surf film "by women and for women." I emailed back and forth with her over a couple …