Entries from December 2004The Posts You Asked For

Northwest traps passengers — AGAIN.

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“This is the equivalent of a medical tsunami — there was no warning put out whatsoever on this apparently benign, over-the-counter medicine.”
–Browne Green, attorney for Sabrina Brierton Johnson. (Johnson is suing McNeil claiming that Children’s Motrin caused her to go blind.)
A medical tsunami? So the possibility that Motrin caused an allegric reaction compares to the [...]

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I was wrong. CNN gets even lower.

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CNN’s news judgement is, well, pathetic.

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So THAT’S what cheerleaders shake.

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Meet Stephanie Kwolek.

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Staring at my ceiling, literally, I saw a great analogy for the electron “cloud” that quantum physics describes.

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Temperature since the 19th century.

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A simple thing like stain-proof fabric is pretty cool in action.

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Referees kill Giants, but that’ll change.

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AOL’s new ad looks disturbingly familiar.

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Gateway responds to my criticism of its marketing.

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My spam project got its first piece of unsolicited junk.

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I once said that AOL was doomed. Wired found that funny. Now I get to smirk a bit.

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New examples of Mac-user logic.

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I’m trying a spam project — let’s see when a brand-new address starts getting junk, and from whom.

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The Thunderbird mail client is terrific.

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Looks like Mac Daily News gave up on its Mac server and jumped to Linux.

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This is so funny I have to share it.
Jeremy Bolton, Defender of All Things Mac, wrote:

Again, Mr. Kantor, you have made a rather sizable mistake that cannot
go uncorrected. Hmm, let’s see, one brand of anything with that kind
of market share? Check out Microsoft’s market share of the PC
operating system market. Or their share of word [...]

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I know that the Mac folks are desperate to believe that everyone is out to get them. They have these knee-jerk reactions if someone says something less than wonderful about any Mac product.
So of course they’re accusing me of hating the iPod because I didn’t gush about it, and, in fact, dared to question its [...]

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