You may have recently noticed the “Now on Radio 5558!” in the sidebar. It shows the band, song, and album art of whatever is streaming on Radio Go Go Goya! from my Mac mini. It’ll mostly be Okinawa Pop on any given day, but when I put up another playlist to listen to at home, [...]

This is what, according to the head of CIA covert operations in Europe Tyler Drumheller, the White House said to the CIA when presented with credible intelligence that Iraq had no WMD programs active six months before the invasion of Iraq. This and other damning evidence of that which we all knew already will be [...]

Watch this Encyclopedia Britannica 1946 video on how to gauge despotic tendencies in our community and tell me the Bush Administration isn’t despotism-prone. (Thanks to Notorious for the heads-up).

The President of China (who, unlike our “President,” can speak in full, articulate sentences) ate expensive food with Bill Gates yesterday and talked about Windows and Chinese piracy of it. They also had a feel good moment, sort of:
“Because you, Mr. Bill Gates, are a friend of China, I’m a friend of Microsoft,” Hu said [...]

Business Week just posted the world’s 100 most innovative companies list. Guess what’s at #1 (hint: not Microsoft).

Hot off the press, the crime of the century (courtesy of Notorious Ph.D):
“Crime briefs: Libraries remove comic for pornographic content
Press-Telegram staff & wire reports
Long Beach Press Telegram
SAN BERNARDINO — San Bernardino County libraries have been ordered to remove a comic book that contained pornographic cartoons.
“Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics,” was an overview of the [...]

Blue Screen of Death on a Mac
For those of you who live on the Dark Side of the Moon or simply don’t give a crap about tech news, you probably missed the minor earthquake (epicenter at 1 Infinity Loop, Cupertino, CA) Apple provoked a couple weeks ago with the announcement of the beta version of [...]

Read the rest of the all-too-close-to-home parody from The Onion here.