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Entries from September 2002

Starsky and Hutch. Starsky and

September 30th, 2002 · No Comments · movies

Starsky and Hutch. Starsky and Hutch is coming to the big screen. Ben Stiller plays Dave Starsky opposite Owen Wilson as Ken Hutchinson with Snoop Dogg as natty dresser, Huggy Bear.
[raelity bytes]

After their hilarious work together in Zoolander, Meet the Parents and The Royal Tenenbaums this should be a good one to look [...]

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Just noticed an interesting feature

September 30th, 2002 · No Comments · software

Just noticed an interesting feature in Mail. I filter messages from a group on Radio Userland to a specific folder on the topic as well as retain a subfolder for news that my RSS aggregator emails to me so I can post from mail. I decided to move the folder and actually rename [...]

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Porn Spam: It’s Getting Raunchier.

September 30th, 2002 · 1 Comment · spam

Porn Spam: It’s Getting Raunchier. Disturbing, explicit and sometimes-illegal pornographic images are popping up more and more, unsolicited, in e-mail boxes everywhere. Observers worry even the sickest perversions may become more mainstream as a result. By Julia Scheeres. [Wired News]

This morning I had 20 pieces of spam waiting for me (in the Junk folder) when [...]

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30/09/2002 - 07:51:34 Rudolph Giuliani

September 30th, 2002 · No Comments · politics

30/09/2002 - 07:51:34 Rudolph Giuliani asked US President George Bush three days after the September 11 attacks whether he could personally execute Osama bin Laden if US forces caught him. Pic: AP

Rudolph Giuliani asked US President George Bush three days after the September 11 attacks whether he could personally execute Osama bin Laden if US [...]

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The Next Frontier for the

September 29th, 2002 · No Comments · gadgets and technology

The Next Frontier for the Home Theater: Motion Simulation. Surround sound is nothing anymore. Anyone who wants the ultimate home theater setup will have to get this: a $20,000 motion simulator from Canadian company D-Box. Called the Odyssee, the whole contraption fits underneath your seats or sofa, and moves you all around whenever there are [...]

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Stop the holy showboating. Listen

September 28th, 2002 · No Comments · Sports

Stop the holy showboating. Listen up, jocks: God doesn’t care if you score a touchdown. So do your praying in private, not in the end zone. [Salon.com]

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After last weekend installing Grey

September 28th, 2002 · No Comments · software

After last weekend installing Grey Matter, Blosxom, PHP and DynDns I might be ready to update the setup at home. The real question is … when will Apple make this available (and should I just wait for that)?

Apache 2 for Mac OS X. Bill Humphries reports that Apache 2.0 (and other server [...]

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Bluetooth in Cars [PDABuzz.com]

September 27th, 2002 · No Comments · gadgets and technology

Bluetooth in Cars [PDABuzz.com]

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Oct. 9, the U.S. Supreme

September 27th, 2002 · No Comments · politics

Oct. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case being led by Digital Rights legal activist Lawrence Lessig

A Case to Define the Digital Age. A Supreme Court challenge to a 20-year extension on copyright protection could decide much of what Web surfers get to read and share [Business Week: Daily Briefing]

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who cares… perhaps this will

September 27th, 2002 · No Comments · spam

who cares… perhaps this will generate some traffic…

Jaguar / Apple Mail 1.2 = 98% less spam ….
Jaguar / Apple Mail 1.2 = 98% less spam

Handles HTML better than Entourage did for me and with the hooks into Address Book and iChat has become a great program.

Posted by: Jonathan GreeneTime posted: 2002-09-26 17:23:08
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While actually not on the

September 26th, 2002 · No Comments · apple, gadgets and technology

While actually not on the rumor mill as long as say, an Apple PDA, the phone rumors have been milling pretty hard since MWNY. This article posted on ePrairie of all places says that Motorola Inadvertently leaked the pictures… if anything close to that comes out it will be a sure thing [...]

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OpenTV to Buy Interactive TV

September 26th, 2002 · No Comments · gadgets and technology

OpenTV to Buy Interactive TV Rivals ACTV and Wink

Media mogul John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp. reshuffled its interactive TV properties on Thursday, with Liberty-controlled OpenTV Corp. purchasing both rival ACTV Inc. and Liberty’s Wink Communications.

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href=”http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Sep/bpd20020926016509.htm” >Geek.com has some amazing

September 26th, 2002 · No Comments · gadgets and technology

Geek.com has some amazing shots of the new unit. This is a must see
for gadget maniacs. A bit beefier in the backside to accomodate the WLAN adapter
but still very slick. Also of note is the intense screen - running at up to 640×480
the high-res mode is simply amazing. **UPDATE ** Geek.com was asked to remove [...]

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Sony’s liscensing of teh TiVo

September 26th, 2002 · No Comments · gadgets and technology

Sony’s liscensing of teh TiVo software is paying off like mad for consumers. The future is looking even brighter with the news this morning that the PS2 will soon be able to handle PVR functions! So much for needing to buy a second TiVo for our apartment - problem solved! (I clearly realize [...]

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This is exciting stuff and

September 26th, 2002 · No Comments · gadgets and technology

This is exciting stuff and confirmed (must be the same source?) on PalmInfocenter. The new palm devices are getting closer and closer. Can’t wait to have to decide which way to go. My Palm m505 works great, but the future devices with ARM chips, OS5 and integrated bluetooth are what I [...]

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We can only hope that

September 26th, 2002 · No Comments · gadgets and technology

We can only hope that the results of this are excellent products, not more lawsuits, though I doubt there won’t be any more legal action. Not sure if this affects release dates on the pending palms…

PalmSource, Good Technology team up
Palm’s software group and start-up Good Technology are teaming to take on Research In [...]

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If you want the good

September 26th, 2002 · No Comments · apple, marketing, movies, software

If you want the good stuff, or at least want it first, you will have to pay. Star Wars trailer - buy Quicktime. Two Towers trailer, login to AOL. Good thing I have an account!

AOL previews second Tolkien film. America Online says it will debut the promotional trailer for “The Lord of [...]

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No towers in Tony’s rearview

September 26th, 2002 · No Comments · tv

No towers in Tony’s rearview mirror. Towers excised from Sopranos’ opening credits. I was wondering about this while racing through the Sopranos’ season three on VHS (no cable), the shot of the twin towers in Tony’s rearview mirror during the popular opening-credits sequence. I assumed they’d take it out or replace it, and Nick Denton [...]

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We all miss the old

September 25th, 2002 · No Comments · Personal, marketing

We all miss the old dot-com days in NYC when you could order pretty much anything youu desired and have it delivered by messenger within an hour. Kozmo and UrbanFetch bit the dust… WebVan never made it here, but now people are starting to get excited with the idea of Fresh Direct.

Can FreshDirect Bring [...]

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Charles presented a good story

September 25th, 2002 · No Comments · apple

Charles presented a good story last week, but was against the notion…now things are starting to look different.

Second Thoughts about Intel in Macs. A deluge of reader mail has opened my eyes to some very sound reasons why the Motorola PowerPC chip’s days may be numbered [Business Week: Daily Briefing]

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