If you’re looking to use one of Apple’s new multi-touch Magic Mouse with your current Mac, especially to experience the glory of multi-touch gestures on a desktop, we have some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that the update for Snow Leopard, which requires 10.6.1, and Leopard, which requires 10.5.8, is available now from Apple’s software update downloads site. Software Update didn’t automatically recommend the update, which was posted last night, so it may not recommend the download unless you’re already using a Wireless Apple Mouse (née Mighty Mouse).

Hmmm, where or where can my little mouse be…

ABC News reporter Terry Moran caused quite a commotion tonight on Twitter after writing the following: “Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a “jackass” for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential.”

I could not agree more with you Mr. President! Kanye West is nothing more than a wart on the ass of humanity. After West embarrassed himself and humiliated Swift he was promptly removed from the VMA’s.

He should be banned from the VMA’s.

Here is the video:

Taylor Swift/Kanye West (Shame) from Jido Faoa on Vimeo.

Transit officials say the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will not reopen in time for the Tuesday morning commute.

The announcement late Monday leaves thousands of drivers to find alternate ways to get into San Francisco and sets the stage for possible gridlock on other San Francisco Bay area bridges and roads.

California Department of Transportation director Randy Iwasaki said workers will not be able to complete work to repair a crack in the span by Tuesday 5 a.m., when the bridge was scheduled to reopen.

The bridge was shut down over the holiday weekend so a section of the eastern span could be cut out and replaced with a new double deck section as part of a seismic upgrade. Crews used the closure to inspect the bridge, discovering the crack Saturday.

As they say, a pitcure is worth a thousand words…

Better hurry and get yours today…

Chia Obama

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She was more than 160 miles from home, and her family had no idea where she was.

Nobody else knew she was there except the couple that snatched her off the street in front of her house in South Lake Tahoe, California, in 1991, and took her straight to the soundproof shed, police said.

Jaycee’s pocket of Phillip and Nancy Garrido’s backyard in Antioch, California, was so overgrown no one even knew it existed.

Dugard and her two daughters are “in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll,” Undersheriff Fred Kollar said.

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“You could walk through the backyard and never know there was another set of living circumstances,” said Kollar. “There was nothing that would cause you to question it. You can’t see it from either adjoining property. It was presumably well arranged.”

She was reunited Thursday with her mother, who was overjoyed to learn the ordeal was over and the daughter she feared dead was actually alive and well.

Jaycee’s stepfather, the last person to see her in 1991 and a longtime suspect in the case, said he was overwhelmed after doing everything he could to help find her. He said the news that she was found was like winning the lottery.

“To have this happen where we get her back alive, and where she remembers things from the past, and to have people in custody is a triple win,” he told The Sacramento Bee.

Yes! Chalk one up for the good guys…

No, buying software is more like joining a club with annual dues. Every year, there’s a new version, and if you don’t upgrade, you feel like a behind-the-curve loser.

There’s a time bomb ticking in that business model, however. To keep you upgrading, the software company has to pile on more features each time. Sooner or later, you wind up with a huge, sloshing, incoherent mess of a program; a pile of spaghetti code that doesn’t run well and makes nobody happy.

You’re in even worse shape if that bloatware is your operating system — the software you run all day. Just ask anyone with Windows Vista.

This year, though, Apple and Microsoft both realized that the pile-on-features model is unsustainable. Both are releasing new versions of their operating systems that are unapologetically billed as cleaned-up, slimmed-down versions of what came before.

Microsoft’s, called Windows 7, comes out in October. Apple’s, called Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, arrives on Friday, a month earlier than announced. (Apple to Microsoft: “Surprise!”)

Apple’s release strategy is highly unorthodox: “Leopard, a k a Mac OS X 10.5, was already a great OS-virus-free, nag-free and not copy-protected. So instead of adding features for their own sake, let’s just make what we’ve got smaller, faster and more refined.”

What? No new features? That’s not how the industry works! Doesn’t Apple know anything?

And then there’s the price of Snow Leopard: $30.

Have they lost their minds? Operating-system upgrades always cost a hundred-something dollars! ($30 is the price if you already have Leopard. If not, the price is $170 for a Mac Box Set that also includes two suites of Apple software: iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb and the GarageBand music studio), and iWork (the Numbers spreadsheet, Pages word processor and Keynote presentation software).

In any case, Snow Leopard truly is an optimized version of Leopard. It starts up faster (72 seconds on a MacBook Air, versus 100 seconds in Leopard). It opens programs faster (Web browser, 3 seconds; calendar, 5 seconds; iTunes, 7 seconds), and the second time you open the same program, the time is halved.

“Optimized” doesn’t just mean faster; it also means smaller. Incredibly, Snow Leopard is only half the size of its predecessor; following the speedy installation (15 minutes), you wind up with 7 gigabytes more free space on your hard drive. That, ladies and gents, is a first.

Unfortunately, Snow Leopard runs only on Macs with Intel chips — that is, Macs sold since 2006. If you have an older Mac, you’re stuck with Leopard forever.

(Techie note: Popular conception has it that the space savings comes from removing all the code required by those earlier chips. But that’s not true, according to Apple. Yes, that code is gone, but new 64-bit code, described below, easily replaces it. No, Apple says that the savings comes from “tightening up the screws,” compressing chunks of the system software and eliminating a huge stash of printer drivers. Now the system downloads printer drivers as needed, on demand.)

As it turns out, Apple programmers could not leave well enough alone. They disobeyed the original “no new features” mantra. As they pored through all the bits of Mac OS X, they kept stopping and fixing little things that had always bugged them, or coming up with neat little ways to make things better. So:

The Mac now adjusts its own clock when you travel, just like a cellphone. The menu bar can now show the date, not just the day of the week. The menu of nearby wireless hot spots now shows the signal strength for each. When you’re running Windows on your Mac, you can now open the files on the Macintosh “side” without having to restart. Icons can now be 512 pixels (several inches) square, turning any desktop window into a light table for photos. Just to name a few of the new features…

Now images surface of Brown being active in his community; graffitiing!

You can’t make this stuff up.

Chris Brown was sentenced Tuesday for beating up his former girlfriend, pop singer Rihanna. As part of his sentence, Brown has to do community service that includes removing graffiti from walls.

Um, like the graffiti he was photographed spraying earlier this year, right around the time he was beating up Rihanna? RadarOnline.com got these exclusive shots they say are from February 2009, the same month he violently assaulted Rihanna in his rented Lamborghini.

I am sure he is making his mother proud…

“We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever,” a family statement said. “We thank everyone who gave him care and support over this last year, and everyone who stood with him for so many years in his tireless march for progress toward justice.”

R.I.P.