Day: April 4, 2003

What’s the word on C-Dilla?. A friend on one of my lists wrote: …found some nasty stuff on C-Dilla – installed as a copy protection tool with Turbo Tax, seemed to cause some nasty stuff on my system running as a system service in Win2000. Searches on various forums turned up some news on it…

Peterson home silent “It is offensive to me,” said Brent Rocha, the missing woman’s brother. “Basically (her husband, Scott,) is saying he doesn’t care about the life he had with Laci. It seems like he just abandoned that life so easily. It definitely doesn’t make sense.” [ModBee]

Hot, sweaty and scandalous. Bikram Choudhury, founder of the fastest-growing style of yoga in America, has copyrighted his poses and is threatening to sue anyone who teaches his “hot” style without permission. Is this enlightenment? [Salon.com]

Starchaser unveils manned spacecraft prototype. Starchaser, a British company competing for the X Prize, unveiled Thursday a small capsule the… [spacetoday.net] After looking at pictures of the capsule I’m sure the guys wife is asking the question asked of most great inventors, “Are you NUTS???”

Tuning Into the Hype About Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi Internet access is popping up in all kinds of businesses, including fast-food restaurants and coffee shops. But do customers really want it? By Elisa Batista. [Wired News] Hell yah we do! The problem with the article is, they assume Starbucks to be the model place for Wi-Fi. A…

For those of you who haven’t found them already, Tim Bray points to some great news links to keep you up to speed on the War in Iraq. Don’t Watch the War on TV. We don’t get TV at home, so I’ve been following the war (a bit obsessively, I will admit) on the Web….

KIM JONG IL has started blogging.  [Instapundit] Actually The Phil  pointed me at this a week ago. I laughed until I cried. Everyone at work was looking at me but I couldn’t help it. ROR.

No Pants Fridays. Anybody care to join me?… [C:\PIRILLO.EXE] Quick! Somebody get that guy a job before he REALLY starts to lose it! I wonder if this could be a side effect of the hair dye.

Super squid surfaces in Antarctic: “A colossal squid has been caught in Antarctic waters, the first example of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni retrieved virtually intact from the surface of the ocean.” [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] Undoubtedly there is a TV movie in the works somewhere.

An unconfirmed report on NPR just aired that the US has found lots of an anthrax-like white powder near Baghdad. [Scripting News] Whoa! That’s what I like about Dave being on the east coast now….he gets up earlier and post’s the news earlier.