2005

1) Turducken is in effect. It went into the oven at 5:50 am local time this morning. Due to come out about 7:00 pm and served at about 8:00 pm. Pictures coming later. I also made Apple Pie with Whiskey-Soaked Cherries (substituting kirschwasser for whiskey) and Sugar-Free Fudge. 2) The US has a plan to invade Canada. Really. 3) Abduraahman Wahid, the former president of Indonesia has a great Op-Ed in yesterdays’ WSJ entitled: “Right Islam vs. Wrong Islam”. 4)…

The World: Testing access to the Internet in remote parts of the world can be difficult, if not impossible. Now, a California-based, non-profit is working on solutions. Reporter Cyrus Farivar is in San Francisco with the story. Internet access in remote parts of the world (4:10)

Reuters: Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, the tiny dots on the screen that appear when you call up his home page. He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page, called, logically enough, www.milliondollarhomepage.com, while lying in bed thinking out how he would pay for university. The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants…

So despite the fact that I’m a stockholder, I’ve never actually flown JetBlue. My grandmother pointed out that they’re currently selling $39 one-ways from OAK to Long Beach, and I immediately grabbed it. (Although in my haste, I had to make a change from a Friday eve flight to an early Sat morning flight due to a thing at work that I forgot about.) I’m leaving my craigslist ad up for now on the off chance that someone replies so…

Macworld: by Cyrus Farivar No final 2005 podcast would be complete without a look forward as to what to expect from Apple in 2006. The next big event is Macworld Expo—to be held Jan. 9 – 13 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco—so the Macworld editors have been pondering what they might see at the biggest Mac-related trade show of the year. I spoke with Paul Kent, Vice President of IDG World Expo, one of the head honchos in…

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I found this site on a Google Ad somewhere. They advertised crazy prices for memory cards, like a 2 GB SD card for $50. I put in an order. It’s been two weeks and no SD card. It’s a scam. They use my credit card number to buy some AOL service and Yahoo Classified ads. Completely fradulent. The address that they list on the site : 308 Fountain Circle Huntsville, Alabama 35801 is the address of the Huntsville City Council.…

One of the new projects of mine at work is to be a blogger at Macworld’s new blog: MacUser. Come check us out!

I saw Munich last night. Quite a good film. The ETA/ANC/IRA meets PLO scene is fantastic. In semi-related news, the

Is anyone else going to LA for MLK weekend? I could have bought a Southwest ticket last night for $120, but stupidly waited until this morning and now they cost almost $200. I’ve put up an ad on craigslist. My other options are to suck it up and get the $180 ticket on United or Southwest — or try to brave the California Chinatown Bus scene (San Leandro BART to Santa Monica!) for $90 roundtrip on CABus.