The Daily Loper – April 5, 2007

In Fact, It’s A Gas Edition

Todays links of interest:

• After Emergency Fix, More Microsoft Patches Ahead
  Death, Taxes and Microsoft Patches.
• Keith Richards Will Not Promote New Pirates Movie
  OK, let’s review: This is a guy who was an admitted junkie for years; was busted for heroin possession in Toronto, and — possibly apocryphally — had every ounce of his blood swapped out in order to help him clean up. And this is somehow the tipping point? Look, we l-u-v love Keef, now and for always (have you heard, I dunno, "Jumping Jack Flash" lately? still. totally. kills. on. every. fucking. level.) but did Disney really think it was a good idea for him to go on press junkets to promote the film in the first place?
• Solar radio bursts interfere with GPS
  That explains why I got lost on my way to work that one day. Perhaps Google could do something about the sun. Or is that more of a Monty Burns kind of thing?
• Google is banking on you to help map out its future
  How could Google Maps get any better? Why, personalization, of course. Now, if they could just get the real-time traffic onto my car’s built-in nav system, then we’d be talking about something!!
• Amid Civilization’s Ashes, A Venti Mochaccino
  Cylon-occupied Caprica City opens its first Starbucks. It was only a matter of time.
• MLB agrees to take cable customers’ money
  Good news for Baseball-loving cable customers, MLB has struck a deal with In Demand. Sucks to be someone who just made the investment in satellite specifically to get the MLB package. Sucks even more to be me, who has a local cable monopoly that isn’t part of this deal.
• Best Buy Geek Squad to offer help in `Second Life’
  The problem with this story is, the Geek Squad would usually help you with the type of problems that prevent you from logging in to Second Life. Presumably this is all some elaborate scam so that Geek Squad Geeks can get paid for their time roaming around the virtual world.
• Meet The New Harper’s Website
  Harper’s Magazine has digitized 157 years of content and placed it online for the world to read. Provided the world subscribes to Harper’s (under twenty bucks a year). It’s possible that the archives will be opened up to bloggers and others in the future, but right now, membership has its privileges.