Finally got around to seeing Napoleon Dynamite. Pretty good. Possibly over-rated but enjoyable all the same. School in the American mid-west must be pretty dire . . .

A little bit 'fanboy-ish' but this Times article - How Apple Ate the World discusses the companies place in modern culture.

Instructions on dual booting your intel Mac with XP. I think most people will wait for VMWare or VirtualPC . . .

Not many updates but the Nonadmin wiki tracks information regarding LUA (Limited User Account). With the rise in viruses, trojans and spyware locking down user access is becoming more of a necessity.

They do in NZ - Does Novell still have mindshare. ZenWorks and eDirectory sound horribly useful and better than their MS counterparts. GroupWise on the other hand is dire from what little I've seen of it.

Still going - New gear from Cray.

More interesting writing from Guy Kawasaki - The Art of Recruiting. Some interesting insights. I like the 'interview as a project' description.

Two useful guides - Creating a Subversion Repository (Windows centric) and a guide to the /proc filesystem.

I remember this book from my primary school days - I have to concur that the running with scissors thing scarred me for life too. Good to see Struwwelpeter is getting an update for the younger generation.

A great series over at MAKE magazine - The Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge - Top 25 Inventions of 2006. Be sure to read all parts - Part I, Part II, Part III, IV, V.

The future of gaming - Wired Article - Dream Machine. Spore looks like a great game.

On a related note - there seems to be some good stuff at this years 2006 Independent Games Festival. Rumble Box and Darwinia look pretty neat.

If you're stuck for something to watch try out some of the items on The Top 100 Overlooked Films of the 1990s. Not entirely convinced by the order but there are definitely some greats worth checking out.

Fascinating - Demonstration for Cutaway Technical Illustrations using Adobe Illustrator. I love these diagrams (even more so when I was a kid) - this one took 720 hours - a solid month of work!