2006 [page 4]
- Fire & Mellow [∞]
Andrew Fire and Craig Mellow won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine today. I was privileged to see Dr. Fire give a seminar in Boyer Hall at UCLA in front of about 25 faculty and students.
- Bill to ban online gambling in the works [∞]
There’s a bill to ban online gambling in the works. I think online gambling should be legalized, regulated, and taxed. Online sites should be required to verify that the gambler is of legal age through sophisticated methods. I also don’t think gambling companies should be able to advertise on television or print media with their free “educational” .net sites. A ban on online gambling would significantly hurt offshore sites and gambling sites run in other countries, namely England. Legalization in turn would hurt Indian casinos, increase revenue for major domestic gambling corporations, and probably fuel gambling addiction.
- James Lavelle interview on starwars.com [∞]
There’s a new interview with James Lavelle on starwars.com.
- New version of .Mac webmail [∞]
There’s a new version of .Mac webmail in the works!
- iTunify [∞]
iTunify is an iTunes tag editor with support for find and replace, as well as regular expressions.
- M-CARE sold to Blue Cross [∞]
M-CARE was sold to Blue Cross Blue Shield on Friday. The UMHS press release claims that plan coverage will not change significantly.
- Share iTunes album art [∞]
My parents share their iTunes collection on the iMac, and when I get home I’ll have to update it to share the artwork as well.
- The Unarchiver [∞]
The Unarchiver is a great replacement for the built in Mac OS X unzip utility.
- Aqua4iTunes [∞]
Aqua4iTunes restores the beauty of Aqua to iTunes, whose default appearance in version 7 is shameful.
- The Outsider review [∞]
DJ Shadow’s new album The Outsider is out and it’s mediocre.
- U of M VPN [∞]
U of M VPN. Access campus resources from home.
- A tale of two mothers [∞]
A tale of two mothers. Time interviews Tupac and Biggie’s moms 10 years after their sons’ deaths.
- More Banksy pictures [∞]
Here’s some more artwork from the Banksy exhibit.
- Banksy’s new LA exhibit [∞]
Banksy opened a new exhibit in LA this weekend that features a painted live elephant.
- E. coli in spinach [∞]
Time has an interesting article on the sanitation problems associated with pre-packaged spinach.
- Cell phones banned while driving in CA [∞]
Drivers will not be able to talk on their cell phones in California starting in 2008. This is the greatest law passed, ever.
- iTunesKeys [∞]
iTunesKeys enables hot key support for iTunes on Windows. It works great and doesn’t use a lot of RAM!
- Banksy targets Disneyland [∞]
Banksy targets Disneyland. He flew all the way to California from England to pull off the stunt!
- Mack Brown making excuses [∞]
Texas football coach Mack Brown blames the Longhorns’ loss to OSU on the new clock format introduced by the NCAA. Right Mack, your team’s lack of offense during the entire game wasn’t the reason, it was the game clock expiring too quickly.
- Jason Fortuny’s Craigslist Experiment [∞]
Jason Fortuny’s Craigslist Experiment. This reminds me of Dateline’s “To Catch a Predator” except that it is a one-man show and a little bit creepier. I also find it interesting that RFJason left his contact info on his web site while pulling this stunt and is now getting threats from his victims.