Q: What's brown and black and looks good on an Apple Legal Rep?
A: A doberman.

Another example of Apple's legal arm tarnishing the reputation of the rest of the organization.

FYI: The word is typically spelled "Maasai".

I wonder if there is there a similar guide for Brits (or Americans) visiting Kenya?

"... since there is no wood, what were they burning in the stove?"

They burned seal blubber. Nicely sooty.

DwardisimoRex: I think you're being a bit harsh. He was an explorer. A might bit eccentric, but he had leadership qualities that are hard to find. How many people could set out with a crew that large, have the mission fail so miserably, and still bring everyone back alive? That is the exceptional part of this story.

Anyone who hasn't read Shackelton's story really should. It is amazing. The book is called "The Endurance", by Alfred Lansing. Don't bother with the made for A&E movie of the story; it doesn't do it justice.

Think of Castaway times 28.

"MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOUR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS. SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON"

"It’s a truly fascinating design!"

Couldn't agree more. Wonder who the Designer is.

That is incredibly cool!

“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster.”

Amy is a four foot rabbit? I thought all rabbits had four feet. At least the lucky ones.

smirk!

That's pretty cool; just so long as the proper kind of tissue grows back, and stops growing at the proper time. That line, “Somehow the matrix summons the cells and tell them what to do,” just doesn't give me a lot of confidence in the process.

I've been working Mac support for printing companies for a long time, and you've got some stuff going on that I've never seen. Congrats!

I wouldn't worry about it being a virus/worm; there's really nothing out there right now that can be anything more than a nuisance to Macs.

I would second the reinstall advice — if for nothing else but to get Safari back in action — but you should do it sooner rather than later and relieve yourself of some of the frustration. Your answer implies that you're not sure if you've been backing up your files correctly; you really, really ought to get that covered, because it's not a matter of if your hard drive goes south, it's when (and that applies to Macs and PC's.) It's a hard lesson to learn if you wait too long.

I'd love to help, and will, but can't really guarantee my availability; this little nuisance called "work" is in the way.

Great link, Alex; thanks! Especially impressed by the MAC/Mac reference. It drives me absolutely nuts when people write MAC when talking about Apple products.

Pursuing truth is one thing; finding it is another altogether. Especially when looking for it on the Internet.

Wow; that's too bad. These guys need to look into the Wilcraft Ice Fishing Machine.

Just reinforces the importance of living within your means and avoiding carrying a balance on any credit card account. How many people know that if you make purchases on a credit card and pay the balance every month you pay no interest? If you're building a credit rating, that is the way to do it -- show them that you can be responsible with your money.

And if you pick your card issuer carefully, you can get one with no fees. Some even give kickbacks. My wife & I have a card that for every $2500 we spend gives us $50 back toward our mortgage principal. We buy most everything on that card, but we pay the balance every month and thus avoid paying anything extra.

While I would agree that people should be prevented from carrying huge balances on credit cards, I hate the thought of governmental intervention to make that happen. The feds would only screw it up worse than it is now. Anyone spending $69,000 he doesn't have on a credit card shouldn't have one, but should have the self discipline to know when enough is enough. And anyone finding himself in a predicament like that, should get a non-credit card loan to pay off the CC (and cut it up) then work like crazy to pay off the loan. You'll always have more control over interest rates with a standard loan.

You can't blame the CC company for making the service available; it's up to individuals to read the contracts and know what they're getting themselves into. Everyone is told up front when they sign the dotted line that the CC company can change the interest rates on a whim, and stories like this show what they will do when people abuse their credit cards. They make the rules, and they've got shifty lawyers who have nothing better to do than write those rules in a way that benefits the company. Caveat emptor.

That's reely neat!

The one in the Guinness bottles is more interesting; it's called the Rocket Widget, because it looks like a little rocket. The first time I bought a six-pack of bottles I thought something had come loose in the dispensing line at the factory; sad to say, my first thought was "product liability lawsuit". Instead I wrote a post about it on my buddy Deane's site, Gadgetopia. (wow! that was 3 years ago!)