4 Siwan 5766 * 31 May 2006: Day 48 of the `Omer

Greetings.

Today’s news and commentary:

• Muslim Demonstration
  
• “Heart may be home to its own stem cells”
  
• “Blame the aggressor”
  
• “25 years on, anti-AIDS drive still falling short”
  
• “Al Aksa kills suspected collaborators”
  
• “A Blow to Gov't Whistleblowers”
  
• “Advice for NATFHE”
  
• “Many young adults in US lack health insurance”
  
• “Promised Land”
  
• “Hope For the Best”

Hack of the day: ATIccelerator II, which is described as “on-the-fly overclocking for Mac OSX”, specifically of graphics cards. I now have the Mobility Radeon 9000 in my PowerBook running 25.84% of the speed it’s rated at. (WARNING: This is a hack. Be careful with it, and don’t blame me if you fry your graphics card.)

Today’s weird thing is BookCrossing, which describes itself as “The World's Biggest Free Book Club - Catch and Release Used Books”. I’m considering “releasing” two surplus Sherlock Holmes books this way. Enjoy.

Aaron