I’ve been so exhausted all day. I’m wondering if I’m just finally catching up on all the sleep I’ve missed over the last few weeks. Of course now I just hope I won’t be up all night.

M. C. Escher: “My work is a game, a very serious game.” [Quotes of the Day]

The Omni Group released beta 1 of OmniWeb 4.5 sometime recently (I think, I’m not quite sure when it came out). This one is special because it uses Apple’s WebCore. So remember how slowly OmniWeb used to render pages, it is much better now (though still feels a little sluggish, but that might be because I’m eating up tons of bandwidth with bittorrent at the moment). The one issue… no tabs. I never realize how much I use them until I don’t have them. Now I just wish Safari let me tweak all the options OmniWeb does. (Release notes and known issues can be found here.)

From a few different sources, MS has announced that it is dropping IE for the Mac. This actually isn’t too surprising, since Apple’s been working pretty hard on making Safari work with almost any web page (hmm, aren’t we about due for another beta or a release?). The part of this I find amusing is part of MS’s explaination:

Ho says that the decision has been made to make way for Apple’s own Safari browser. ‘Some of the key customer requests for web browsing on the Mac require close development between the browser and the OS, something to which only Apple has access,’ she explained. [MacMegaSite]

Huh? Just what features are people requesting that require that? Camino, OmniWeb, and Firebird seem to be doing okay so far. What the heck are they talking about?

Here’s more proof that Squirrels are evil. It’s in a cute little pixel music video. It’s a little odd, but make me smile in my sleep deprived state. [via /usr/bin/girl]

This morning as I was trying to sleep a bit more I had a sudden thought: cats are my kryptonite. I can walk into a house and tell there’s a cat there without even seeing it. If I pet one I usually end up regretting it. So, what’s your kryptonite?

Lee Simonson: “Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.” [Quotes of the Day]

Spike Lee was granted a temporary injunction against the Spike TV name.

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Thursday granted a petition by filmmaker Spike Lee and ordered Viacom Inc. to temporarily stop using Spike TV as the new name for its TNN network.

State Supreme Court Justice Walter Tolub said he was temporarily enjoining the network from using the name Spike pending a trial on the issue. He ordered Lee to post a $500,000 bond to cover Viacom’s losses in case the company wins.

Lee said he sued Viacom to protect his name after he learned that the communications giant planned to change TNN’s name to Spike TV on June 16 in what he saw as a deliberate attempt to mislead the public and capitalize on his image and prestige.

Viacom announced in April that it would change TNN’s name to Spike TV in an attempt to attract more men to an audience that is already about two-thirds male.

Spike TV, billing itself as “the first network for men,” shows reruns of “The A-Team,” “Baywatch” and “Miami Vice” and sports entertainment such as pro wrestling, “American Gladiators,” “Car and Driver Television” and “Trucks!”

The network also carries an animated series featuring Pamela Anderson as the voice of Stan Lee’s “Stripperella,” an undercover operative who is also a stripper. [Newsday]

So, a network that is showing things like A-Team, Baywatch, and American Gladiators is trying to mislead the public just by calling the network Spike TV? I heard about this a day or two ago, but I didn’t think he’d actually succeed. That’s so lame. The judge compared Spike Lee to people like Cher, Madonna, and Sting. Um, and when were any of them called anything different? Sting didn’t go by Sting Smith and then shorten it or anything like that. I’ve never heard Spike Lee called anything but that. Sorry. I don’t buy it. IMNSHO, Spike Lee is just being a twit.

The folks who make Spike seasoning should look out. They may be next.

From CNN

(CNN) — Actor Gregory Peck, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of upstanding lawyer Atticus Finch in 1962’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has died. He was 87.

Peck died overnight, spokesman Monroe Friedman told The Associated Press.

Finch was recently named the No. 1 hero in movie history, according to a survey by the American Film Institute. [CNN]

Hmm, maybe I’ll have to do a Gregory Peck movie night now.