Only Linus Torvalds could make news by switching computers, but there's not much to report here. It was free hardware, and he's still running Linux on it, so the only story is that he's not maintaining the x64 portions of Linux first-hand. Wonder if the temptation will be there to …

Y'know, I like the idea behind USB, and I love Linux and UNIX. Combine the two together, though, and it's just an ugly sight (or at least on my computer it is). I've had trouble with a few USB devices slowing to a crawl and corrupting the eventual data, especially …

That's Sir Bill Gates to you.

You know you have way too many podcasts when after pruning them you still have 504MB of them in your queue to listen to. Wow. :)

Apparently there is a rather large lobster out there, weighing in at 22lbs. Estimates on its age vary wildly, but the thing is HUGE. "I for one welcome our new crustacean overlords".