As a followup to my (probably unwarranted) rant yesterday — the one about how PC makers are still prototyping computer designs that Apple has been shipping for years — comes this news: Apple today announced an update to the PowerMac G5. I believe — and tell me if I’m wrong — that this is the first consumer desktop computer to use a liquid cooling system. Now that’s futuristic.
What’s next? Liquid helium? Superconductors?
And what do you do when your G5 springs a leak?
There’s a very short teaser on the BBC website for the new series of Doctor Who. Teaser is the operative word here.
Thanks so much to Sammy for this one! MSNBC reports on President Bush’s attempts to ride a Segway, complete with images of him falling off of the self-balancing scooter. The Segway went down on the [more...]
Here’s another amusing placement of a Google ad: on a site that lists the many dead zones for various cellular carriers () — including a story of how Cingular phones don’t even work in the Cingular [more...]
