Month January 2006

Good Advice From Slate

I stumbled across an article over on Slate (by way of a Slashdot story) that attempts to answer, in a nutshell, the essential question PC users the world over ask themselves “Why can’t Microsoft get security right?”. The article, unfortunately,…

Best Line I’ve Read In Ages

From Powerline’s rough transcript of today’s Alito confirmation hearings comes the following gem of an exchange: […][SPECTER:] Do you agree that Casey is a super-precedent or a super stare decisis, as Judge Luttig said? ALITO: Well, I personally would not…

All Hail Jobs!

MacWorld ’06 started today, and what did Steve Jobs announce but the very first Intel-powered Macintoshes. One was the iMac, as predicted, the other was the newly-christened MacBook Pro, starting at $1,999. Of course, the base model is for poseurs…

The Eagles’ Loss Is The Vikings’ Gain

Excellent. After dumping Mike Tice like a stone, the Minnesota Vikings have hired former Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Brad Childress as their new head coach. Good choice, Zygi. Might this mean the West Coast Offense is coming to the Metrodome?…