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Tuesday morning, our house smelled like it was burning. Every flat surface was covered with ash dust. Like the rest of Sonoma county, we’re downwind of the Rumsey fire.

The solar panels were a mess too.

CherryOS is a G4 emulator. It claims to allow Windows users to run MacOS X Panther in a virtual machine.

Is this thing real?

Curiously, the screenshots link from the site’s homepage results in a .NET error, indicating that maybe the CherryOS people should have hosted their website on Apache, e.g. running in emulation in a G4 VM on that Windows box.

[news seen at Macintouch, from where it will spread rapidly, if it’s true]

Update: turns out there’s already an open-source solution for running OS X under both Linux and Windows: PearPC. This tends to indicate that the CherryOS is real, at least in the sense that it is possible to emulate PowerPC hardware well enough on an x86 to fool OS X. [Thanks to Sam B. for the tip!]

Update: looks like CherryOS is a scam after all. Macintouch and Slashdot readers cut through the hype. As of this writing, the entire CherryOS site is reporting errors.

I just sold my motorcycle, disproving the adage “There are only two kinds of riders: those who have fallen, and those who will fall.” I rode for 10 years without falling.

No, that time I forgot to put the side stand down doesn’t count; I caught the bike with my ankle just before it hit the sidewalk.

My optometrist just apologized to me for the environmental damage he’s doing by wearing disposable contact lenses.

In a 2002 interview, President George W. Bush remarked, “I do not need to explain why I say things.”

But we’ve uncovered the reason anyway: he says things because the voices tell him to!

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