While this has no doubt been out for a little while, I thought it was pretty funny. At the risk of looking like an AMD fanboy, here it is:

10. Tried to follow their own roadmap to get to the duel
9. Decided to take the “front-side bus” to the duel; got stuck in a
bottleneck
8. The “Intel Inside” stickers they used to package the cores
together keep melting
7. Too busy rearranging the deck chairs on the Itanic
6. “Hey, we don’t expect anyone to actually buy these things!“
5. Didn’t want to compete when they realized that the duel would
involve actual “rules” of fair competition
4. They couldn’t get a permit from the fire department to emit that
much heat
3. No systems available yet — protective clothing used by
manufacturers only safe for up to 149 watts
2. Dell told them they weren’t allowed to participate

And the number one reason Intel didn’t accept the dual-core duel:

1. Moore’s Law has been replaced by “Paul’s Paradox”: the number
of canceled products per year at Intel will double every year
after the introduction of the AMD Opteron™ processor.

Voyager 1 Sails Past 100 AU- Planetary News | The Planetary Society

Last week, the Voyager 1 space probe passed the 100 AU mark on it’s journey towards interstellar space. (that’s about 9.3 billion miles from the Sun) It’s absolutely amazing that this spacecraft has lasted as long as it has. If you have any interest in space science, I would recommend reading this article. It contains a great deal of background information on the probe, it’s mission, and what we have learned to date. More information is available on the Voyager mission homepage.

While this isn’t exactly hot off the press, (the press release came out in July) I thought some of you might find it interesting. Winternals, the company run by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell was aquired by Microsoft. Mark and Bryce also have a companion site called Sysinternals that contains a wealth of useful freeware utilities. Many of the freeware programs also come with source code allowing interested software programmers to make modifications. The recent aquisition has been a cause for some fearmongoring on sites like Slashdot and others. While I’d like to believe that Microsoft will allow Mark and Bryce to keep the Sysinternals site available, I have to admit I downloaded a copy of every one of the utilities just in case. I honestly think this aquisition is a win for Mark and Bryce as well as for Microsoft. These are 2 of the brightest windows developers around and their combined experience can only serve to improve the quality of Microsoft’s products. (and that’s good for all of us…)