Switching to Mac (or not)

Walter Mossberg discusses “which types of users might find switching [to Mac] inadvisable.”

Jim Brown …

was born on this date in 1936.

Brown was listed as the 4th greatest athlete of the 20th century by ESPN.

Brown played only nine seasons for the Cleveland Browns — and led the NFL in rushing eight times. He averaged 104 yards a game, a record 5.2 yards a pop. He ran for at least 100 yards in 58 of his 118 regular-season games (he never missed a game). He ran for 237 yards in a game twice, scored five touchdowns in another game and four times scored four touchdowns. He rushed for more than 1,000 yards in seven seasons, scorching opponents for 1,527 yards in one 12-game season and 1,863 in a 14-game season.

“For mercurial speed, airy nimbleness, and explosive violence in one package of undistilled evil, there is no other like Mr. Brown,” wrote Pulitzer Prize winning sports columnist Red Smith.

Read the entire ESPN essay on Jim Brown: Brown was hard to bring down.

I wanna be like Mike

Michael Jordan is 42 today.

Don’t miss out

Buy your own little piece of the Magic Kingdom at eBay.

Best line of the day, so far

“The [Honduran] abuses, however, were widely chronicled in local papers. That means he [John Negroponte] either willfully ignored the mass murders and torturing of citizens or he was so out of touch that he didn’t see the atrocities going on beneath his very nose. Neither of these scenarios is what the United States needs in a National Director of Intelligence.”

From the web site Think Progress, commenting on the nomination of Ambassador John Negroponte as National Director of Intelligence.

Link via Altercation.

Pull/Fore

Hunter Thompson suggests a new sport: Shotgun Golf.

Brit Hume is a classless ass

From Liz Smith at the New York Post Online:

I felt I had nothing to say on the Charles/ Camilla en gagement. But then I heard newsman Brit Hume “covering” the story, and saying, “Well, if you look at a photograph of Diana, you can understand, but this one . . . why? Why her?”

Good grief! Camilla is a normal-looking, middle-aged English lady. By no means is she a candidate for the bell tower at Notre Dame. In fact, she has grown more gracefully into her maturity than many “great beauties.”

Beauty does not automatically translate into stability, kindness, intelligence, compassion, wit, sexual prowess or happiness — not for the owner of the beauty, or for those in its axis. All it means is that nature has been both kind and cruel, because as surely as you are beautiful now, the day will come when you cherish candlelight. And Botox.

Link via Altercation.

NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars

From Space.com:

A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water.

The scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, told the group that they have submitted their findings to the journal Nature for publication in May, and their paper currently is being peer reviewed.

What Stoker and Lemke have found, according to several attendees of the private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane signatures and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably similar to those recently discovered in caves here on Earth.

Must be part of that intelligent design thing.

Good one

“A Nebraska man has been arrested for stealing a greyhound bus, getting drunk, and trying to crash into his ex-wife’s trailer home because he thought she was cheating on him. This could be the first time ever that a crime gets nominated for a country music award.”

Jay Leno