+ The most radically sensible way for Canada to react to the US refusal to comply with the NAFTA ruling on their 5 Billion in tariffs levied on Canadian lumber:

With a simple letter to the US, under FTA Article 2106, NAFTA Article 2205, Canada can, with six months notice, withdraw from these agreements without penalty and without conditions. Our trading relations with the US will then automatically revert back to the GATT/WTO framework of international law, which will enable us to both maintain our institutions and trade profitably with the US.

by David Orchard and Mel Clark in CommonGround.ca

:: DJ Hell
by Ariadna, Sunday, August 21, 2005

This interview was done in a teeny tiny and very hot green room, at the top of a skinny and precarious staircase at La Paloma while the chicks of Dirty Princess (one wearing a g-string and pasties and the other wearing a small sequined tube top and an equally small and sequined skirt) were warming up for their show.

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11 steps to a better brain (Fixed Link)

It doesn’t matter how brainy you are or how much education you’ve had - you can still improve and expand your mind. Boosting your mental faculties doesn’t have to mean studying hard or becoming a reclusive book worm. There are lots of tricks, techniques and habits, as well as changes to your lifestyle, diet and behaviour that can help you flex your grey matter and get the best out of your brain cells

+ Kind of weird, Mac’s OS X has been hacked and runs faster on a PC.

By Mark Baard (Wired)

Imagine if your next Mac cost you only $300, and ran faster than any G4 or G5 you’ve ever used.

That future may already be unfolding: Hackers have found a way to bypass a chip designed to prevent the Mac OS from running on non-Apple PCs, which are often cheaper than Macs.

Some of the hackers are running the tweaked version of the operating system on their PCs natively. Others are using the system with VMware, which allows the Mac OS to support more PC hardware.

Hackers and curious computer users this week have been downloading the tweaked Mac OS X for PCs, nicknamed “OSx86,” from several websites connected to the BitTorrent file-distribution system.

OSx86 is designed to run on Apple Computer’s next generation of hardware, which some call “MacIntels” and others “MacTels” because the machines will run on Intel microprocessors rather than the PowerPC processor used in current Macs. The hacked version of OSx86 is based on pirated software, which came from copies of the operating system sent to participants in the Apple Developer Connection. The ADC participants also received MacIntel computers for testing and development.

Now the hacked version of OSx86 is running on Dell laptops and other PCs with Intel and AMD microprocessors.

I might try to install this later in the fall. xplOde’s instructions seem do-able. Probably best to get a copy while it’s floating around…