Palm and MS. The CLI *is* better. Chickadee song cracked.

Not so nice headline of the day: Palm teams up with Microsoft. As a former Palm devotee, I’d like to offer some reasoned commentary here, but will instead limit it to a simple ‘ewwwwwwwwww’ and give my HPDA a few extra index cards before I leave the house this morning. ;)


How to turn off iChat iTunes status messages? Command line version. Post of the day. See, the CLI is better!


Discover: Biologists Crack Code of Chickadee Song

Who would have guessed that when a chickadee opens its tiny beak, it has a lot to say? Biologists studying the alarm calls of black-capped chickadees found the bird’s songs signal not only the presence but also the size of nearby predators. ‘This level of complexity is certainly new, in terms of alarm responses especially,’ says Chris Templeton of the University of Washington in Seattle. His study shows chickadees have one of the most sophisticated means of communication discovered in animals….