I debated whether to buy a new PowerBook before I came to Japan and decided that the 17″ was too big and the 12″ doesnt come with a PCMCIA adapter slot. The slot is a big deal for me for expansion as we move towards future wireless standards as well as my Echo Indigo Audio card.
So I’m still without a Mac even though I want one and an iPod desperately. I guess I will wait until they ship the new 15″ AlBook with the Radeon 9600- in May?
My problem with the music service is that there’s no way that Apple would ever have the obscure dance music stuff that I love, so it’s a moot point for me. I’ll keep on buying vinyl and CDs and ripping my own collections.
O’Grady’s PowerPage – Year of the PowerBook

Phenomenal essay/speech by UCLA Geographer(!) Jared Diamond. This is why I love the Internet.
Edge 114 – WHY DO SOME SOCIETIES MAKE DISASTROUS DECISIONS?: JARED DIAMOND

Philip has some interesting ideas about using outliners and blogs to hold politicians more accountable to their promises. The challenge is that blogging wont be that popular for quite some time, but the early bloggers will get the majority of the traffic (i.e. Ross Mayfield’s map, Clay’s Power Laws, and the examples of Glenn Reynolds and Mickey Kaus, etc.)
Philip Greenspun’s Weblog: