Monthly Archives: October 2004

You can’t buy George Carlin’s new book, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, at Wal-Mart. What a great rea­son to visit a local book­seller and buy it there.

It’s taken three years to clean up after a CSX train­wreck that dumped thou­sands of gal­lons of sol­vents. Much of that ended up in the Gene­see River and remains in the sed­i­ment along the river bank.

Google will launch a Mac ver­sion of Google Desk­top, though no idea when. It’s a sig­nif­i­cantly dif­fer­ent task than the Win­dows version.

Some anti-virus firms are try­ing to con­vince banks that their (Windows-based) ATMs are in peril from com­puter worms. Is this an ounce of pre­ven­tion, or a case of scare tactics?

No mat­ter what the Pen­ta­gon deter­mines about the miss­ing Iraq muni­tions, it will be some­one else’s fault.

Via Boing Boing: Nin­tendo apol­o­gizes to Sui­cide Girls! Appar­ently a case of lawyers run amuck.