By itself, the Palm Foleo may not seem that interesting, but, since it runs Linux, I can’t wait to see what the hackers do to it once it hits the market. If they can port standard unix utilities over to it (that’s assuming there’s any on-device storage), it might be a handy little low-cost linux laptop.

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Shelby is addicted to otters. It started on our trip to the Newport aquarium last summer. She got hooked watching them play in their exhibit and when we went to the gift shop, she latched onto a stuffed sea otter and refused to let go, despite much crowbar action. She’s had the stuffed otter and her addiction ever since. Enter Cute Otters.com. She can amuse herself for hours on that site (with my supervision, of course).

Be careful, though. The cuteness displayed there may very well melt your face.

This post’s title was brought to you by the leet translator. Now you, too, can know what all those snot-nosed punk kids are saying online!

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Interestingly enough, you can simultaneously see the wrong and right market approaches to consumer demand of electronic media.

In the former link, the company (Microsoft), has chosen to ignore the consumer and side completely withe the movie industry and, in the latter link, you can read about a company (Neuros (they’re so cool, they get two links!)) that shuns the movie industry’s opinion and blessing and designs a product that completely enables the consumer.

Gee, golly. What a novel idea.

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Hot on the tail of the Air Car, someone’s found a way to get salt-water to burn; by looking for a way to kill cancer.

As with most awe-inspiring discoveries, it comes followed not by a “Eureka!”, but, instead, by a “Huh, I’ll be damned!”

Of course, if this did catch on and turn into a mass-produced fuel source, drought-affected areas would find this solution…problematic.

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Apparently, there’s an Ohio state law-imposed limit on how many times within a 30-day period you can electronically transfer assets between accounts. While I can understand the reasoning behind this if the two accounts were checking accounts or were to different account numbers, but, in this case, it’s taking money from a savings account and placing it into the checking account to cover some unexpected expenses.

Knowing my luck, it’s probably some bass-ackwards “consumer protection” law.

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This is the type of outside the box thinking we need here in the US, but, sadly, aren’t getting due to the many, many ties to oil corporations by the people designing and manufacturing cars.

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Even though I don’t use Windows anymore, this would have been a wonderful idea! I just hope things like shareware and software trials don’t start creeping in.

See, in Ubuntu, if you want to install, say Firefox, you just drop into a terminal and type ’sudo apt-get install mozilla-firefox’ and apt-get will dutifully do out the the online repositories and download and install firefox and all if it’s requirements. It will also suggest a list of other packages that, while not required, may help you get more out of the application.

Synaptic (and Adept, if you’re a KDE user) is just a graphical version of apt-get. Makes managing software much easier and I’m glad to see the mentality spreading to Windows.

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Grotesque, yet oddly addicting.

DISCLAIMER: the link above has disturbing photos in it. You know how at the end of any movie with an animal in is has a disclaimer that says “no animals were harmed in the making of this movie”? Yeah, well, that disclaimer doesn’t apply here, k?

P.S.: I can’t spell disclaimer. Thank goodness for spell check!

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Meizu’s M6se

If it hits the US market, I’d love to snap one up:

• MP3, WAV and OGG audio support
• AVI video support
• 2.4 inch QVGA display
• FM tuner (no word on FM recording)
• 8GB flash storage
• $130 (not final US market price

So it’s a toss-up between the M^se and the Sansa e280, which adds FM recording and photo viewing, but it’s unclear how the video support works in linux (the specs say that video has to be converted using the Sansa media converter).

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US News opines about a day without Mexicans. Of course, what they’re forgetting is that Americans aren’t upset about immigrants, but by illegal immigrants.

I think that’s a delineation that hasn’t been pushed hard enough in all of this hubbub.

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