it’s looks official. microsoft: no new versions of IE for mac. good riddance:

“”No IE 6 is planned,” Sommer said in a telephone interview. “Safari is turning into a better answer for (Apple) customers.””

i’m testing driving firebird on my ibook. it’s smooth and sporty, although it seems a little on the sluggish side when launching. there doesn’t seem to be a noticeable improvement in rendering speeds either. hmmmm. in related testdriving, i’m also tooling around in a thunderbird. me suspects that i’ll be leaving the mozilla application suite mothership sooner rather than later.

new to me. the
technorati
keyword search

. as

dave sifry shows

there’s lots of goodness in the api.

whoa. i went to ft. lauderdale on business. who knew there were hotels in this world that not only don’t have wifi, but don’t even have wired broadband? jeeez. what is going on in florida?

interestingly, i’m 2 degrees away from

britton chance

, the venerable optical engineering professor whom is behind the
seemingly goofy

headband lie detector

:

“Research subjects wearing the headband are told to
answer some questions truthfully and others deceptively.

At the moment a subject makes the decision to lie, before even
uttering it, there’s a milliseconds-long burst of blood flow. Those
bursts are read by the sensors and show up as spikes on a laptop
computer. “

one of my undergraduate professors,
clyde barlow

, received his ph.d while doing his thesis work in britton’s lab.
in fact, i did

“bioanalytical chemistry”

independent research for clyde which had some similar themes, in
terms of real-time monitoring of the specral properties of deep
tissues to detect changes to stimuli. however, i studied beating
hearts, not liars. i’ll spare you the details of how and where i
got the beating hearts.

anyway, the real point is that even the relatively simple model of
monitoring heart tissues was hard to execute consistantly. it’s
hard to imagine an array of sensors that could reliably
differentiate between something as complicated as lying. but i
guess if anyone could do it, britton could. and probably clyde.

sometimes i feel a bit of sympathy for those folks that are forced to sit through movies for their living. but at least some of them look at it as an opportunity to hone their comedy writing skills:

“”2 Fast 2 Furious” is among the most lethargic action movies I have ever seen: when Mr. Walker and Tyrese are not driving, it might as well be called “2 Slow 2 Tedious,” since the script shows all the energy and sophistication of an old episode of TJ Hooker.”

“The basic editing scheme suggests a how-to video on manual shifting techniques. Step 1: depress the clutch. Step 2: yank the gearshift. Step 3: grimace and shout in the ethnic slang idiom of your choice. Repeat as necessary until you crash into something or find it advisable to activate the nitrogen-powered booster rockets, now available from your dealer as part of the special doofus hotrod sport package.”

hmmm. me wonders why 5 out of 6 pages are timing out right now.