I was looking around on Digg, trying to find something to amuse me during my illness, and came upon this little gem; if your computer starts playing 'It's A Small World' or 'Fur Elise,' it could very well be the motherboard trying to let you know the system fan isn't working.

Seriously.

I dunno why this amuses me so much, but odds are it has something to do with codeine and cough syrup.

I was watching NCIS when a commercial came up where some guy was talking about how AIDS cases and STD were appearing with alarming frequency at nursing homes and whatnot. He then says, "I bet you didn't think you'd have to talk to your parents about safe sex, did you?"

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a lot of vomiting to do.

I was working on someone's computer the other day, which had a ton of spyware, when I found BonziBUDDY installed.

Seriously.

This concludes my stupid thought for today.

ATI has announced that they're releasing a new USB TV-tuner card for the Mac platform later this year. This, naturally, is good news; there's very few (and by that, I mean "one") other ways to get TV on your Mac, and a little competition is always swanky.

Wanna know what's not swanky? When a company like ATI insists that the computers that Apple puts out are "MAC" computers, not "Mac," as they do twice in the beginning of the product spec sheet. It's even more annoying when people I work with (who are my bosses, therefore making it rather difficult to correct them on such a trivial matter) do the same thing. Or when some random internet poster, who usually relies on the simple "FIRST POST!" to get attention, does the same thing.

Seriously, it's not an acronym or anything... it's an abbreviation of "Macintosh." So, please, set your caps lock button to 'off' before typing that, 'cause it's really getting on my nerves. And, given how few nerves I have left, it's just plain ol' mean.

MacRumors reported yesterday that a UK website is claiming knowledge of some new software updates coming to the iPhone, allowing for video recording (with direct uploading to YouTube), among other things.

This mirrors what El Jobso said when the iPhone was announced back in January, claiming that other functionality would be unlocked over time through updates. That being said, we're already two updates in, and the only feature that's been added is the iTunes Wi-Fi store, which, although nifty, would be much farther down my list of "must have" features than a mobile iChat client or picture messaging or being able to send the same text to multiple people without having to retype the damn thing over and over or... well, you get the idea. There's a lot of stuff that free phones can do that this $400 pocket computer can't do, and that's starting to irritate me a bit.

Basically, although an actual update that added a feature that the phone should have had from day one would be cool, I won't be holding my breath for it, and recommend you do the same. Unless you have super breath control, in which case, game on.

Harold Stringer, Sony headman and massive trash-talking egotist of the Blu-Ray Disc Alliance, has claimed that the high-def format war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is at a stalemate. I could go on to make a joke about this being another "mission accomplished" gone wrong, with Stringer claiming victory almost a year ago, but I won't do that. Nope. Not me.

In "super-pathetic idiot" news, Jack Nicholson has told MTV that he's pissed that he wasn't asked to don the make-up of The Joker again for The Dark Knight. I can kinda understand that; if I was ancient, had skin like a leather suitcase and hadn't had a movie with decent returns in years, I'd be angry that something that's a surefire hit had left me out in the cold, too.

Man, it must be nice having such a sense of entitlement.

On WhySoSerious.com, one of the many sites being used to virally promote next summer's sequel to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, there's a picture of Heath Ledger as The Joker.

I've not been a fan of the images of The Joker that have been shown, since they all looked pretty lame, but, I must admit, I kinda dig this. I still don't like the fact that apparently Joker wears make-up instead of looking like a clown thanks to a chemical accident, but what can you do.