Apparently this is a known bug, yet the it was still in the Karmic release. So, I've got openSuse ready for an install tomorrow. PulseAudio seemed to be working ok for me though.

The story line for The Prisoner (1967 - 1968) is eerily similar to the 1965 movie called "Thirty Six Hours", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_Hours. In it, James Garner wakes up in a hospital supposedly five years after attending the final briefing for the D-Day invasion. He is disoriented; there's a newspaper dated five years later. He goes to the window and looks out in a scene reminiscent of the opening sequence of The Prisoner. Instead of the village, he sees the hospital grounds. The deception is an attempt to discover the plans for the D-Day invasion, "by hook or by crook". It's uncanny how similar The Prisoner is to this movie. It's been a long time since I've seen the movie, but I believe that the Garner character is referred to as Number Two (instead of number six in The Prisoner), as well as other similarities.

Word from Apple is that "Users will notice refinements including a more responsive Finder; Mail that loads messages up to twice as fast; Time Machine with an up to 80 percent faster initial backup; a Dock with Expose integration; QuickTime X with a redesigned player that allows users to easily view, record, trim and share video; and a 64-bit version of Safari 4 that is up to 50 percent faster and resistant to crashes caused by plug-ins. Snow Leopard is half the size of the previous version and frees up to 7GB of drive space once installed." It sounds like a deal to me for $29, especially reclaiming 7G of hard drive space.

So now it will be called Team Shack. Maybe they can get the B-52s to do some kind of theme music for their appearances?

I believe that the program has already received an additional two billion dollars of funding by Congress last Friday before they recessed for the summer.

Perhaps not unlike the corporate interests of some scientists these days.

The majority of scientists used to agree that the earth was flat. And at the center of the universe.

I have it on the best authority that the earth was created in 1972.

When I read the headline I thought if this worked out that there might be help for my L4 and L5 back problems.

Apparently I was not-so-obviously joking.

Obviously we did already because there's a camera shot from the asteroid of Earth.