My prediction: Apple is slowly working towards phasing out Microsoft products entirely, and natively supporting Windows applications in a Mac environment.

1. With the release of their own alternative to Internet Explorer and Powerpoint (Safari and Keynote, respectively), Apple seems to be slowly phasing out their reliance on Microsoft applications.

2. WINE and CodeWeavers’ CrossOver Office let Linux users run Windows applications natively, without requiring Windows (or a Windows emulator) to be installed (screenshot). Unfortunately, both applications require an x86 processor.

Apple is built on Unix and now natively supports X11. If they were smart, they’d be working on porting WINE over to PowerPC processors right now. OS X would be the only operating system capable of natively running Macintosh, Unix/X11, and Windows applications simultaneously.

If someone’s already working on something like this, let me know about it.

I’ve been under an NDA for the last couple of months, so I couldn’t reveal anything about There.com, the mysterious startup that I started investigating back in May. Well, There.com launched its public beta.

In short, I pegged it with my original prediction: “like Habbo Hotel meets Everquest.” It’s a 3D chat environment, where people can interact with one another, explore the game universe, and spend real-world money on character upgrades and in-world items. Thanks to David Weekly for getting me involved with the project.

Eleanor White wants to know, “Do you think you are targetted by neuro-electromagnetic technology?” For more evidence of this massive government conspiracy, don’t miss the sabotage photos. “The armpits and crotches of my clothing are frequent targets of perp saboteurs.”

If that’s not enough proof, her homepage provides more of her research into the MKULTRA and COINTELPRO thought-control experiments that have harassed innocent and involuntary citizens since the 1950s.

Thanks to the Internet, the truth can finally be told! (Thanks, lcbo.)

I just received an e-mail from Mahir “I KISS YOU” Cagri, in response to a pitch that former Gettingit.com editor Mat Honan sent to him on December 8, 1999! Better late than never, right? He must have a huge backlog of mail… Here’s the e-mail:

From: "Mahir" <[email protected]>
To: "Mat Honan"
Subject: Hii
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 00:10:41 +0200

Hii ,I kisss uuu !!!

How are you ?

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Love & Share for Peace

www.ikissyou.org

with my love

Who can Know may be we can meet this year!!I go many country my fans home and see around take pic together add my site,who invite me and send ticket.. I join free all kids-green-animal-poor -love -peace organizations too all world .I go many schools for lecture about my life and internet

The RIAA foolishly left the content management administration page for their homepage open to the public: anyone can add a new press release here (update: cached copy). The real-time edits are reflected immediately on their homepage. (Old entries are archived on their press releases page. Possibly not safe for work, depending on what’s been recently posted.)

You heard it here first. Don’t expect this to stay up for long. Update: They took their site down. You can use the cached pages in the comments to view the original pages, or view Jason Kottke’s screenshots of the hacked pages. (Thanks to Phil for the tip.)