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April 18 is Poop For Peace Day.
Mark your calenders!
(Gross.)
Update: Mandar suggests everyday is poop for peace day.
Update: If it so moves you — sorry! — Bennett has a post at the Utne Reader Blog about The Politics of Poop.
Gangster’s holiday: “Mother’s Day was the most important Sunday on the organized crime calendar, when homicide took a holiday and racketeering gave way to reminiscing.”
A Wii-themed Valentine’s Day card. “Will you be my player 2?” More here. (thx, nicholas)
White Castle is once again doing special Valentine’s Day dinners this year…you get your own server and candles! Here’s what last year’s meal looked like (more at Flickr).
What’s the cut-off date for wishing someone a happy new year? Is the end of January too late?
If you’re looking for a Christmas tree in NYC, here’s a map of where they’re sold. (via sbj)
A list of the best and worst cookbooks to give people for Xmas (or Kwanzaa or Hanukkah or Festivus).
Nerdy Halloween costumes alert: Ricky dressed as Google Image Search. I know someone out there is planning their Web 2.0 or folksonomy costume. Let’s see it!
I don’t want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I’ve been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won’t bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I’ve encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I’ve never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs’ faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don’t get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you’d like, but I’d rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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