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The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year--or for that matter, ever--is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware. The $2419 (plus the price of a copy of Windows Vista, of course) MacBook Pro's PC WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88 beats Gateway's E-265M by a single point, but the MacBook's score is far more impressive simply because Apple couldn't care less whether you run Windows.

-- PC Magazine

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St. Petersberg Times PolitiFact-O-Meter

If only for this avatar/icon:

This Should Cause Some Concern in Redmond

Steve Jobs says that Apple intends to release a new version of MacOS every 12-18 months or so. Yeah, sure, it's also a way to squeeze out another $129 from Apple fanboys every year or two. But Leopard offers some amazing technologies, like Time Machine and Quick Look, things that aren't really incremental, but revolutionary. My personal favorite is the combination of Cover Flow file-system browsing with Quick Look. In fact, I think Cover Flow file browsing and the likely-upcoming multitouch interface will revolutionize the PC interface.

Frank Rich's Article on Iraq War Profiteering

is remarkable in a few respects -- the human toll it has taken, the failure of anybody heretofore to provide adequate oversight and this little statistic:

As the investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele observed in the October Vanity Fair, America has to date “spent twice as much in inflation-adjusted dollars to rebuild Iraq as it did to rebuild Japan — an industrialized country three times Iraq’s size, two of whose cities had been incinerated by atomic bombs.” (And still Iraq lacks reliable electric power.)

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Illinois beats Wisconsin

We're in first place in the Big Ten!

Val Kilmer is Still Hungry

If There's any Question as to Why Illini Fans

are tortured souls, I think this should pretty much erase any doubt. Coming off of a winning season, undefeated Illinois met undefeated Michigan before a home sellout. Illinois raced out to a huge lead and Michigan clawed its way back.

Then, the officials got in the way.

Just in case you were wondering, the first ball was ruled a fumble and the ball given to Michigan. The second play was ruled not a fumble and the ball given to Michigan.