What happens when Jordan has a headcold? He sits in front of his computer and catches up on his photo backlog. Here's what's new in the gallery:

Thumbs up, but barely.

First mistake: let Ron Howard direct.  I can just picture the conversation between Dan Brown and his agent:

Agent: "Great news Dan, I got Ron Howard as the director!"
Dan Brown: "Wow, I can't believe it!  How exciting!"

Freeloader.  It's available via Synaptic.  Nice GUI, shows all downloads in a single window, handles regular downloads in addition to torrents, has all the features you need (such as the ability to throttle upload speeds), and isn't a resource hog.  Also, it will minimize to an icon in the menu bar.

Of course, I would only use it for legal downloads.  Unlike most public P2P networks, the bit torrent network has been used by companies for a lot of legal downloads.  I downloaded my Ubuntu installation CD's via bit torrent.

It's maddening how the simplest multimedia tasks become difficult in Linux.  Although to be fair, I had a lot of trouble playing DVD's in Windoze too.  In fact, really, I think I managed to get DVD's playing in Linux with a lot less effort than it took me with Windoze.

I've never really known what the difference was between Hispanic and Latino.  Given how sensitive racial sensibilities are in the modern world, I felt bad going around using one term if the other one was really appropriate.  For some strange reason, I don't have any friends who are Latino or Hispanic so I wasn't able to ask (and I never felt comfortable walking up to a stranger to ask).  That's where good ol' Wikipedia comes to the rescue:

Hispanic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia