I saw A Scanner Darkly last night. I wont spoil any surprises with much of a review (not that you’d expect a decent review from me anyway) just to say that about a quarter of the way through it was starting to loose me; by half way it had dragged me in; and by the end I wanted a half hour more at least. It certainly got everyone talking afterwards.

Go watch.

My poor MacBook Pro seems to be struggling. Ive had a few weeks now of random disk errors in the log, a few weeks a go I did an Archive and Install (and also a full backup with Carbon Copy Cloner) which seemed to do some good and also called Apple to log the problems with them.

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I bring you the hottest new underground music interweb sensation fresh from their state-of-the-art recording studio - I 10 T D with their identity card protest song, Identity.

Hailing from deepest Hampshire, UK but raised on the mean streets of Eastend London - I 10 T D are a fleeting sensation, vaunted to match or exceed OASIS in popularity or at the very least musical talent, I 10 T D are the next decades one hit wonders.

“Do not miss this band” - MNE

“Better than ‘Snakes on a Train’” - Music Critic

Be sure to pass the song around and don’t be surprised to see an updated version some time soon.

A friend at work did this, Ill pass along any comments.

Ive just watched the WWDC 2006 stream, I need a while to digest it, but I like what I see.

Has Steve been watching too much South Park lately? He seemed ‘super’ super.

It sounds to me like the new Universal Access voice is the one used in the movies on the Leopard pages.

Jenson Button wins the Hungary Formula 1 in a fantastic wet race from 14th position.

Ive just read about a video and article about hijacking a Macbook in 60 seconds or less and also a follow up article supposedly countering the negative comments received in the first article.

Apparently:

they ultimately decided to run the demo against a Mac due to what Maynor called the “Mac user base aura of smugness on security.”

I just dont understand this mentality, would I be considered smug because; I didnt run with knifes or scissors? Wore a seatbelt in a car? Looked each way before I crossed the road? Or engaged any other manner of accident prevention? What is going on with the world? Sheesh!

Besides, it seems theres some confusion over why exactly they used a 3rd party wireless card and whether you could hack a Mac with the built in Apple card and what precisely the hacker can do.

Either way, Ill sit here smug in my ivory tower that there are currently 0 viruses available for the Mac and that if it is truly due to “security through obscurity” (which I dont think it is) the Vista beta got plenty of viruses with a fraction of the users Mac OS X has, comfortable in the knowledge that if any do surface for the Mac Im gonna know about it.

Newsvine article.