While the mothership is keeping quiet, we’ve added another local Maui artist, Diane Epstein - Silk Painter to our roster. Carmen gets into painting silk, like watercolor isn’t hard enough!
Rumors and rumors of tabletsMusic by Diesel: “Fever”
Tea by Tetley’s with shortbread.

Who knows?
The geeks in the tinfoil Apple caps have been busy. This item was found crawling along the baseboards until I smashed it with a shoe. LINK
Apple Mac Tablet PC With Docking Station In 07
Apple researchers have built a full working prototype of a Mac tablet PC and three Companies in Taiwan are now costing […]

This is neat! It’s a technique I’ve been using for years.

Maintain a large space ahead of your car.

Encourage one, two even three cars to merge ahead of you.

If traffic slows to a complete stop, KEEP TWO CAR-LENGTHS OF SPACE OPEN AHEAD OF YOU.

Never “punish” merging drivers by closing your gap.

Granted, traffic jams on Maui […]

It’s been a great holiday season - lots of parties good food and fun. There’s been no noise from Cupertino so game makers to dominate the geek press. But since I don’t really care about the Play Station or X-Box you won’t hear about them herel Sorry.But Microsoft’s Zune music player has been a real […]

(sigh) How many times do I have to say this; Megapixels are magic numbers with only a glancing relevance to the quality of a digital photograph
A great lens on a good camera used by a good or lucky photographer are the cause of good photographs.
Too often, I’ve kept my mouth shut and nodded […]

We mine the Apple rumor sites and reveal some more Apple Mail tips.
Keola pops in with a Hawaiian tech word I forgot.
There’s a site for free Mac software.
Guy Kawasaki Interviews Woz
There are some strange noises.
Tea by Tetley’s
No more Mr. Nice Guy until Cadbury’s puts out!
Music by Diesel: “Doing What the […]

As an addicted Second Life fan, I was actually online when thisall happened sunday and the only thing I noticed was a pop-upannouncing that they were locking logins for a while to get rid of ahack. So I went on building my weapons and looking at virtual breastsuntil another message came up announcing that everything […]

When all else fails, you can depend on the Gator State to come up with outstanding demonstrations of - what’s the word? Oh yeah, stupidity. (PS: Drugs or alcohol may have been involved, and perhaps genetics.)
You see, alligators are free for the taking in Florida. You just go outside, locate a bit of water and […]

I could listen to Woz talk all day long. He’s funny, hyper and he has something to say about growing up smart and doing good work. Woz is America at it’s best. His grandparents were some of those awful immigrants you’ve heard so much about lately.
Guy had a chance to interview Woz and […]

Richard Dreyfuss Sr. Advisor Oxford University on Democracy has been making something of himself. Here is an amazing video of him clearly explaining what has happened to America and unlike most of the bobbing craniums on TV, he explains in no uncertain terms what to do about saving the precious “twinkle” of democracy that once […]

This is so much fun! Microsoft introduces an iPod killer that sucks and people are suprised. Here are some comments recently found on DIGG.
ZUNE can’t be used as a portable hard drive
…as O’Reilly mentioned: You can connect your Zune to a Mac, and will even see that it’s attached in the System Profiler, but that’s […]

Too bad this is such a toss-off. The issue deserves more thought and discussion than just a 15-second blurb.
Now that the iPod
has reached such iconic status that airlines are willing to put their
particular pukas into the seats, is there any chance at all that
Microsoft or any other company could gain market share without adapting
Apple’s ipod […]

This handy tip was found strutting around the room at the
“MacOSHints” site which occasionally comes up with lifesaving tips from
contributors.
Here is explained
number-one free method of turning otherwise hilarious movies and porn
clips into luscious QuickTime movies that don’t stutter or offend your
Mac-sensibilities.
Convert WMA files to other formats with a free app
My
girlfriend is fond of sending […]

Zune MP3 players’ opening salvo a dud
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA –  Microsoft’s attack on the Apple iPod began with a whimper Tuesday as Zune players made a lackluster debut in US stores.
Two boxed Zune players sat ignored on the top shelf of a Plexiglas showcase packed with iPod accessories in a Virgin Megastore near Union […]

Someone’s gonads will be on a split over this, Steve does not like his contractors talking out of school. But it is nice to have yet another confirmation that there may soon be an iPhone.Just remember “When it beeps - then it’s shipping.”
Taiwan’s Hon Hai wins Apple orders for mobile handsets, notebook PCs    TAIPEI […]

From some news site that I’m too lazy to link, comes this not
suprising report on Apple’s holiday opportunities as well as reviewer’s
discovery that Microsoft’s “iPod-Killer” is a turd in a box.
Retailers see strong Mac demand, little excitement over Zune
Checks
with retailers in the north east indicate there is strong demand for
Apple Computer’s Intel Mac line leading […]

MacHelp Maui Interview Dick
Nelson is one of Hawaii’s greatest painters and teachers. In the first
MacHelp interview Dick talks about the influence of the Mac on art and
how well the technology mirrors the world of paints and pigments.
We’ve also got some local bagpipe music and another wonderful song from Steven Espaniola.
Scott promises not to […]

This isn’t about Macs or Hawaii. It is though an amazing demonstration of what technology can do, especially in education.
Here’s a one-hour BBC documentary on the history of “the” prime number by Tery Jones, late of Monty Python. It’s funny, brilliant and succeeds in teaching some otherwise boring maths and history.

Go read this:
Another letter to my best friend

Apple has upgraded their MacBook line to Intel Core Duo
processors which are faster and hopefully cooler. This makes the
plastic encased laptops which were merely realvery fast. This whole fast thing is pushing me to the edge of my vocabulary. Next they’ll be; really, really a whole lot faster?
The MacBooks are
still available in two colors - […]

I was getting worried. Kitty Harriss getting buried up to her neck at low tide by the citizens of Sarasota wasn’t up to their usual standards. Just because she’s a raging fruitcake and a pawn of the dark side, the ignoble end of her poilitical career was no great suprise. Fake tits and brain damage […]

GOP officials: Rumsfeld stepping down
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, architect of an unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years as Secretary of Defense, Republican officials said Wednesday. CNN
Now we’re seeing what a mandate really looks like!

“Kitty only loses by 11 points? What do you have to do to really lose in Florida? As a guideline, Mark Foley is currently leading his opponent…”

On this week’s podcast Carmen got all farm and wuzzy about Jake Shimabukuro, Hawaii’s young ukulele master. I looked him up on YouTube, and found this video of him playing George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
Then I crawled back into my chair, it was apparent that she is justified in her worship - […]

Maui Weather
The Maui Ukulele Festival
Carmen joins the Jake Shimabukuro fan club
More Apple Mail tricks.
Music by Steven Espaniola from his CD “Ho’omaka”
Tea by Stash - Earl Grey
Great stats! Thanks ya’ll

GOP “robo-call” scandal grows, now hitting Washington state as well
from AMERICAblog by John in DC
UPDATE: Fraudulent calls hitting Virginia voters too.
In Virginia, Democratic voters are getting phone calls telling them
they’ll be arrested (Markos has the audio via the link above).
The fraudulent GOP voter-intimidation scam has now hit Washington state. Other states being targeted by the […]

Presented here in its near entirety, here’s a great blog post from ArsTechnica about the latest Mac Virus scare. This author has the right attitude and real, true facts. Anyone who pays attention to a virus software company’s warnings about Mac security probably also thinks Faux New has somthing real to say about politics.
New Mac […]

A very kind person, obviously a Canadian, named only ’seanadb’ has just posted a handy demonstration movie of Mac OSX features that is meant to explain the world’s best computer to PC borgs and newbies. (Did I forget to insult anyone?)

There was also a notice about this movie posted on DIGG where the responses immediately […]

“This isn’t an election anymore, it’s an intervention.” - Andrew Sullivan on CNN.

One of the few realistic concerns that geeks had when Apple switched their chips to Intel was the presence of “Trusted Computing” features on the latter’s devices.
Trusted Computing
is the Rovian name for a technology that allows manufacturers to lock
you out of your own computer if you do something they don’t like such
as run a competitor’s […]

I found this really neat video documentary about Nicola Tesla at Google Video. It’s not the usual same-old-shot fair about how smart he was, this one actually gets into his more radical inventions, the one’s that could have really changed the world for better or worse.

The Echo Chamber and Statistics
Wired columnist Leander Kahney, author of “The Cult of Macintosh”, “The Cult of iPod” and soon the “Cult of iPhone” and the “Cult of iDildo” just wrote a great piece about the Echo Chamber effect caused by Apple’s growth.
Back when I accidentally had a job at a computer dealer, we experienced […]