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The big news, of course, is that Apple’s releasing Safari on Windows — and although it’s been a rough first few days for them (and will get rougher), more choices are generally good for users, and so I’m hopeful that they can work to produce a product of quality on Windows eventually. I’m quite fond of Firefox, of course, and am very happy that people everywhere in the world continue to adopt our browser in increasing numbers.

iTunes for Windows worked for (at least) two reasons. The first is that people had iPods and needed something to organize their music with on their Windows PC. The second is that it’s a pretty good music player in general. A lot of the people I know who use iTunes in Windows aren’t iPod users.

I can’t see why anyone would switch from any browser in Windows over to Safari. Firefox users are generally pretty loyal, and if the greatness of Firefox can’t sway IE users, Safari sure as hell won’t.

Creature Comforts is an American takeoff on the UK show of the same name. I’ve watched the first two episodes and been thoroughly entertained, but I’m thinking, how long can it go on? Will the novelty of conversations (no matter how intriguing and real they may be) dubbed over claymation animals wear off after time?

The claymation is incredibly well done though, and totally in sync with the speech. It’s almost as if the animals are really talking, and when they say something that reflects the characteristics of the animal representing them (ie. A guy’s conversation about his nose, or “beak” as he referred to it, was dubbed onto a toucan) you really see the animal references that pop up in daily conversation, that kind of go unnoticed.

All in all I think it’s the most inventive copy of a show I’ve ever seen. I’d recommend it.

globeandmail.com: ‘Prince of pot’ hearing set for November

Vancouver — The long-delayed extradition trial of Marc Emery, Canada’s self-proclaimed ‘prince of pot,’ is now set to start in November, more than 27 months after Mr. Emery and two alleged associates were arrested in Vancouver on United States warrants for selling marijuana seeds to Americans over the Internet.

This is what, the second? Third time this has happened? Second, I think. Do they not have a case? They’re essentially trying him for something he openly admits to doing, this is a trial that shouldn’t take more than a few hours.

There’s a crazy underlying reason for all of this, and I’m really wondering what it is. Is there a statute of limitations on this kind of stuff? Are the courts rebelling against the US drug czars in any way they can? I sure do hope so.

Eating live frogs, rats cures tummy upsets | Oddly Enough | Reuters

Jiang Musheng, a 66-year-old resident of Jiangxi province, suffered from frequent abdominal pains and coughing from the age of 26, until an old man called Yang Dingcai suggested tree frogs as a remedy, the Beijing News said on Tuesday.

Chinese medicine has always amazed me. I remember when I was young, walking through Chinatown in Vancouver into traditional chinese medicine shops and seeing the most bizarre stuff.. dried guano, bat wings, all kinds of things, and thinking “I suppose it’s gotta work if they’ve been doing it this long.”