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My brother’s newest song, “Just Another Punk” is up on his MP3.com page. Check it out, it’s fun! Let us know what you think over at Radio Bump in the comments. (Made with a Mac)

Marathon: Aleph One I had no idea that Bungie released the Marathon source to the community, and I certainly had no idea there was a way to play Marathon on a Mac OS X/Windows/Linux machine at this point. On a similar note, did anyone else notice that the opening scene in the first board of Halo (the best game for the Xbox, and the one that made me actually get an Xbox) is sort of the same one from Marathon 2?

Davezilla makes me laugh, and coffee then comes out of my nose, which makes me remember to visit his site without hot liquids in my hand or mouth.

This watch syncs with your Pocket PC(there is a Palm version too) to let you carry your contacts with you. It reminds me of the George Carlin routine about your house being just a place to keep your stuff, and when you travel, you bring a smaller version of your stuff, and if you then take a day trip somewhere, you need to com up with an even smaller version of your stuff. It’s like that.

The iMac Challenge I’m very confused by this story. Jim Hied is a MacWorld editor, so you would think he knows how much expansion you can do with Firewire ports. You can add virtually anything you might want. However, despite mentioning the ports in the article, he says that the new iMac is “not expandable.” It’s quite expandable.

PhotoDude notes the Atlanta connection that came through for the US bobsled team. I still can’t figure that one out either. It snowed here once this year though, so maybe that’s when they practiced.

Canada: 5 USA: 2 The game was closer than the score would indicate. It’s their game, and man oh man was their team a powerhouse today. Everything was great about this game, the officiating, the level of effort, the team play, and the attitude of the players. I’m happy, after the disaster at the Nagano games, that we walked away with the Silver medal. What do I have to complain about, I’m an Atlanta Thrasher’s fan, and it’s going to be a few years before I’m for a team that has the chance to win a Stanley Cup.

This browser speed test on Mac OS X, which is on the Chimera site, shows Chimera to be the speed champion. I can’t remember the last time that brand new beta software was so substantially faster than the established industry players. I was using it for a couple of days on my TiBook, and can say it was much faster at rendering pages than the other Mac OS X browsers, but also is not complete yet. (Oh and they released a new version on Friday too.)

My free Six Degrees Calendar qarrived yesterday. It’s actually a nice, albeit difficult to read from a distance, desk calendar.

CNET: Picture this: Photoshop on Mac OS X Okay, like there isn’t enough anticipation for this app’s release right nwo to begin with? I mean they have been talking about it for months, they demoed it at MacWorld, the whole OS X community knows it’s on it’s way. So why announce it two months prior to its actual release? I’m happy it’s on its way, and its nice to have a better idea of when, but sometimes I do not understand software companies marketing departments at all.

My stuff owns me.

I’ve decided I’d much rather know when a site is updated and visit it than have the headlines pushed to me. Thankfully, I can do either.