There's been a bit of discussion going about why ZFS, the file system developed by Sun for Solaris, is important to Mac users.
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There's been a lot of bad mouthing from various Macintosh users and developers out there surrounding MacHeist the past week or so.
The sheer amount of diversity in the small but growing community I live in has resulted in a lot of confusion for me recently. Upon walking into a local small business, owned by an Italian women who, "came to the United States for a better life," she says.
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I've watched nearly every game in the 2006 World Cup to this point. I played soccer for twelve years, AYSO, Mid-Michigan, High School Varsity, and enjoyed the game and found many of my teammates and opponents worthy of respect.
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Law enforcement agencies are yelling "That thing got a hemi?" it seems these days. Dodge is making a run at getting it's Charger and Magnum cars into police squads everywhere by competing directly with the venerable Ford Crown VIc police cars.
This entire article is filled with information about this so called "good girl" who met a man from Amman Jordan on MySpace.
In a previous item I seeded, Michigan to require "online courses" for high school graduation, talking about a new state education requirement of an online class to graduate.
After years of debate and false hopes, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has decided to raze Tiger Stadium, the historic but decaying home of Ty Cobb, Hank Greenberg and the 1984 World Series champion Tigers.
Interesting article trying to draw a possible correlation between the poor Genesee County unemployment rate (8.2%, one of the highest in the state) and crimes like theft and retail fraud to older people who are jobless and desperate.
There's growing momentum in Michigan -- and nationwide -- to allow public schools to go further and create gender-specific schools.
I emailed in a suggestion to the Newsvine staff the other day about creating special chat rooms for the World Cup. This would hopefully help kick off a small spur for using the chat rooms.
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Joe Dummars discusses his reaction to the Pistons losing in the Eastern Conference NBA Finals this year and the changes that will be made for next season.
The application of bedliner coatings in various ways is becoming a pretty common thing these days. I've heard of several ways it wa being used, now the military is using it to help protect people, vehicles and buildings.
"In what analysts are terming a major step in heading off what could be a crippling strike at bankrupt Delphi Corp., the troubled auto supplier and the UAW have reached an agreement offering buyouts to most Delphi workers."
"And the World Cup trophy goes to… Czech Republic! Electronic Arts declared the winner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™.
"The usual oil industry flacks and dogmatic skeptics have surfaced to denounce Al Gore's global warming movie. But climate scientists say that, basically, he got it right."
"Ever wish you could charge your cellphone or laptop in a few seconds rather than hours? As this ScienCentral News video explains, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a battery that could do just that, and also might never need to be replaced."
At Clio Area High School's graduation ceremony in Clio, Michigan on Sunday the Principle's "tush" was apparently gropped by two students as they were congratulated by the staff. The Principle Keith Smith filed a police report to press charges.
Granholm once again proves she doesn't know jack about education. Now she wants students to complete some form of "online learning" in order to graduate.
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