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Top ten things in the air

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Apple watchers are trying to guess the meaning of “There’s something in the air” on Apple’s tantalizing Macworld banners. Here are some possibilities.

  1. Apple is buying Adobe and adding AIR to the iPhone and building it into OS X
  2. Wireless syncing of iPod & iPhone with Macs
  3. Rent movies wirelessly directly from the Apple TV
  4. Bluetooth headphones for iPod & iPhone
  5. Subnotebook will have built-in 3G or EVDO
  6. All laptops will have built-in cellular modem
  7. Wireless tablet Mac
  8. Wireless charging for iPhone & iPod
  9. Mobile TV on the iPhone
  10. Beam Technology to transfer data, faster than bluetooth

A little bird just tweeted that the macbook nano is coming.

Hitler or Falwell

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Via Boing Boing: A simple game of Godwin’s Law. Guess whether each of these quotes is by Hitler or Jerry Falwell.

  1. My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter.
  2. This ‘turn the other cheek’ business is all well and good but it’s not what Jesus fought and died for.
  3. Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith…. We need believing people.
  4. I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!
  5. Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
  6. We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.
  7. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit … We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press. . .we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess.
  8. This the national government will regard its first and foremost duty to restore the unity of spirit and purpose of our people. It will preserve and defend the foundations upon which the power of our nation rests. It will take Christianity, as the basis of our collective morality, and the family as the nucleus of our people and state, under its firm protection….May God Almighty take our work into his grace, give true form to our will, bless our insight, and endow us with the trust of our people.
  9. Remain strong in your faith, as you were in former years. In this faith, in its close-knit unity our people to-day goes straight forward on its way and no power on earth will avail to stop it.
  10. We’re fighting against humanism, we’re fighting against liberalism … we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today .

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Microsoft Celebrates Sale of 100th Zune

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CARS: “Just days after Apple’s announcement that it had sold 100 million iPods, Microsoft’s Zune celebrated a milestone of its own. According to a press release issued by the company today, its 100th Zune was sold to 13-year-old Dieter Ebersbacher in Shreveport, Illinois, and is a sign of its success in the marketplace.

‘The sale of the 100th Zune is a sign that it has captured a secure foothold in the market and it totally doesn’t suck,’ said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

bush hid the facts

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Here’s an interesting Windows bug.

1. In a new window type “bush hid the facts” (all lower case, no quotes)

2. Save the document.

3. Reopen it.

bush hid the facts

bush hid the facts

Where did the text go? Windows mistakenly identifies the file as Unicode rather than ASCII if you create a document with certain text. Almost any 4 letter word followed by two 3-letter words followed by a 5-letter word will have that effect. (via Newsvine; more details here)

New element discovered – Bushcronium

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A major research institution has just announced the
discovery of the densest element yet known to
science.

The new element has been named “Bushcronium.”

Bushcronium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons,
75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons,
giving it an atomic mass of 311.

These particles are held together by dark forces
called morons, which are surrounded by vast
quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

The symbol for Bushcronium is “W”.

Bushcronium’s mass actually increases over time, as
morons randomly interact with various elements in the
atmosphere and become assistant deputy neutrons
in a Bushcronium molecule, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some
scientists to believe that Bushcronium is formed
whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration.

This hypothetical quantity is referred to as “Critical
Morass”.

When catalyzed with money, Bushcronium
activates Foxnewsium, an element that radiates
orders of magnitude more energy, albeit as incoherent
noise, since it has 1/2 as many peons but twice as many
morons. (via Newsvine)