Frasier’s Brilliance

fraserspeirs: Technoraqi: “Now you might think this is a tad ungrateful of Salam: some of that tomato juice on the rug is from his four missing relatives and, given that the Americans have seen to it that his own juice is no longer in danger of hitting the shagpile, it might be nice if he understood that, in the end, it’s in his interest to clean up the room more than Rambo’s. But personally I find it heartening: if the Americans can’t transform Iraq into New Hampshire, this snotty little twerp is living proof that you can at least turn it into Islington. “

Ouside the Xbox

Strategy: Outside the box | CNET News.com: “Instead, the Utah-based software engineer switches on his Microsoft game machine and fires up the Xbox Media Center, an unauthorized piece of software that he helped write and that allows a modified console to play most popular digital movie and audio formats.”

Perls of Geekdom

The GUI Gallery

MacDailyNews – Welcome Home: “‘Just because computer users know how to reboot when their machines crash doesn’t mean they wouldn’t choose a better alternative.”

Yahoo! News – Top Stories Photos – AP: “Michigan State University graduate student Michael Shafer stands next to the computer in East Lansing, Mich., Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003 he used to discover the worlds highest prime number. Shafer ran a Dell Dimension PC with 2 gigahertz of memory and an Intel Pentium 4 microprocessor.”

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