I guess I'll be using Bugmenot with WP like I have with the NY TImes for years.

Modding a Wii is painless. I have a 500gb drive attached to mine and haven't used discs in months.

Not on the second generation Wii, since it lacks the Gamecube ports.

I'm using a USB adapter with my Wii. Nintendo sold one themselves. But again, not sure about the software or the extent that it can be modded.

My Sony TV supports DLNA. I run PS3 Media Server on my Mac and Linux box and can stream all my movies, with subtitles, without using another set top box. It has Facebook, YouTube and all that, but DLNA was the only reason I bothered attaching a network cable to it. I didn't even want a net enabled TV but the 'dumb' version didn't have as many input options.

Its Skype widget can support a fucking webcam but when you plug a USB keyboard in to use with its web browser an error appears stating, "Unsupported Device." Leave it to Sony.

Sorta looks like something that would summon the Cenobites if opened for repairs.

I like Game Center, especially the worldwide rankings.

ClarisWorks became AppleWorks, which was sort of like Apple's Microsoft Works and stagnated for years, especially after Pages and Keynote came out. The Intel switch was the final nail in the coffin for it. It definitely had some loyalists, though; many seemed to be K-12 educators.

I think many of the iWork people came from Gobe Productive, which in turn was comprised of many ClarisWorks exiles. I guess the whole thing has come full circle in some ways. AppleWorks was such a kludge of legacy code that open sourcing it would probably be a hassle of limited use for the community, especially with so many other modern projects out there.

The Gobe code coild be interesting though, especially for the Haiku guys.

And working for an institution that fuels itself on groupthink and blind patriotism is a last resort for smart people with personal ethics.

. . . but after making a few dozen phone calls realized no one gave a shit, much less was willing to pay money for access to a Google prototype. To compensate for his disappointment, he dicked around with the Google employee.

Funny you should mention that. I have DOSBox running on my Wii with probably a thousand DOS games installed on its SD card. I play Wii titles, but emulators get plenty of love too. It's a compact, noiseless, and pretty cheap way to bring most major consoles and a handful of 8 and 16 bit computers into your living room. It's such an easy system to mod too, and Nintendo hasn't pushed out any troublemaking updates for more than a year now.

I realize the same can be accomplished (I'm assuming) with an XBox (current or previous generation) or PS3 -- but the form factor is great. Used Wiis will be showing up on Craigslist for pennies soon enough, and the most failure prone component: the optical drive, is unnecessary.

The Wii's browser is fine. The problem is that you're browsing modern websites on a machine with the processing power of an iMac from 2002.

The bigger they come, the harder they get stabbed.

I wonder how effective sliding it between my asscheeks before handing it to them would be in deterring theft.

Other than the occasional maps, Nintendo Power was shit.