Bizzy’s AM Coffee Biz-Econ-Life Links (032406)

Free Links:

• If An Enviro You Know Is Sad Today, Here’s Why — The first automobile was sold on this day in 1898.
• I Really Tried to Resist Posting This — (Oh, sure. — Ed.) I know 96% of readers use PCs. Bear with me, at least this item is about Intel and Windows…. running on a Mac (bold is mine):
  

  Windows XP on Macs: Tested, Benchmarked

  ….. We thought, what can we add to all of this? Why, we can boot XP on a 20″ iMac, a MacBook Pro, and a Mac Mini Intel Core Duo all in the same room, of course. And we can make all three of them remotely access a fourth Mac system via VNC, so we’re looking at Mac OS as a window in Windows XP Pro.

  (This is all 100% legal, by the way. Apple has said it’s not opposed to booting other OSes on Macs - Linux has run on Macs for years - and our copy of Windows is legally licensed.)

  PC Magazine Desktops maven Joel Santo Domingo ran some benchmarks on the three machines, and came up with surprising results. The MacBook Pro is the fastest Core Duo laptop we’ve tested running the Photoshop scripts. It’s faster than other laptops originally designed for Windows.

  If I couldn’t resist posting, I won’t even try to resist this: Nyah, nyah.

• Another Day’s Key Economic Stats — Existing home sales were up 5.2% in February (vs. an “expected” -1%). Initial unemployment claims dropped to 302,000 vs. the “expected” 305,000. So people are worried that Fed Chairman Bernanke will think things are TOO good. Nice problem.
• No, they’re not biased (HT Instapundit):
  

  A top producer at ABC NEWS declared “Bush makes me sick” in an email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.

  John Green, currently executive producer of the weekend edition of GOOD MORNING AMERICA, unloaded on the president in an ABC company email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.

  “If he uses the ‘mixed messages’ line one more time, I’m going to puke,” Green complained.

  The blunt comments by Green, along with other emails obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT, further reveal the inner workings of the nation’s news outlets.

  A friend of Green’s at ABC says Green is mortified by the email. “John feels so badly about this email. He is a straight shooter and great producer who is always fair. That said, he deeply regrets the sentiment expressed in the email and the embarrassment it causes ABC News.”

  Developing…

  Yeah, he’s mortified all right ….. that he got caught.