I am in Los Angeles this week. I am writing to report to you a new fad that I’ve seen out here. They have been saying for many years now that the sun is bad for you. This is not new news across the country where the summer suntan is now less popular. There are other solutions to tanning, but there are drawbacks to those.

The “mystic spray tan” washes out over the course of a week to 10 days. There are “self tanning” lotions but many of those are beta-carotene based and make you look orange.

Here in LA its just not acceptable to not have a tan. The girls have dealt with this by going with the tanning lotions. Since they all do it, they all look orange, but it’s socially acceptable - kind of like frivolous plastic surgery. I do not know if they will start to refer to them as California Carrots, but I will keep you posted.

Under $1000? For a Sun workstation?

After practically writing these guys off for dead I am eating crow. If they market this thing right they could have a win. Personally I would want to play around with the new Solaris 10 OS before buying into it but wow, very good specs on that box, and you can always run Gentoo or even windows.

Wired has a great editorial outlining the legislative points that Congress could undertake to help the problem of identity theft. Its a good list. I would hope they would also add a provision that makes creditors liable for incorrect or bad information that they submit to the credit reporting agencies. (via Schneier)

Today we are going to Kings Island to celebrate the momentous occasion that is the 7th birthday. I’m sure there will be plenty of pictures in the Photo Blog ->

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