If you decide you want to replace the failing battery in your old iPod mini (does anyone besides us still have such an antique?), you will do fine if you follow instructions like these or these, and if you buy a battery like this one (around $10 plus shipping). Go for high capacity; the one I bought is 750 mAh (it takes some digging sometimes to find the specs). The only thing I would add is to include a razor blade (use a box cutter) in your arsenal of prying tools for the somewhat delicate job of separating the top and bottom plates from the metal case. I did mine in about 10 minutes and now it has 8+ hours of battery life again.
We won't have time to attend the opening of the new Olympic Sculpture Park today, but according to this information, I, and presumably KING 5 TV, are now in trouble:
In high school in Mississippi I looked at a fairly detailed map of the state and compiled a list of singular place names. I have no idea where that list is now; it sure wasn't in any digital form. Here is a newly created list, had by browsing placenames.com:
Zombie computers that spew spam all over the internet are unquestionably a HUGE problem. But, as John Gruber notes, from exactly whom have come the "scattered reports of botnet-related attacks on computers running the Linux and Macintosh operating systems?" Specifically the Macintosh OS. Please, prove it. Show me even one macbot.