Smoke Filled Back Rooms

The thing that I find mildly offensive about the HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray deathmatch is that consumer had very little say in the matter. Ultimately this format war has been decided not by what consumers find most appealing from a quality and cost standpoint, but by Wal-Mart, Netflix and big Hollywood studios.

I really don’t know if [...]

The Duplicity of Chavez

It’s hard to imagine the mental gymnastics that Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez must go through before declaring that the U.S. is engaging economic war, all the while benefiting himself from $100 a barrel oil. Even more curious is that despite $100 a barrel oil the country is literally going broke with out of control inflation [...]

A lost laptop, a $54 million lawsuit

“It shouldn’t take a $54 million lawsuit to motivate Best Buy to address these issues,” she said. Her initial offer to settle for $2,100 has been withdrawn because her expenses have risen, including time spent filing a police report and consulting with lawyers about her case, she said. Concerns about identity theft also [...]

Pleading the Fifth

hehe.

When you’re being told you shouldn’t drink, and you want to, you should plead the Twenty-First.[From The Volokh Conspiracy - -]

Artist Profile - Michael Cullen

A new feature, quick profiles on artists I like.

Michael Cullen is an artist and woodworker, and what I really like about his pieces are that they are functional and exquisitely ornamented with hand carved patterns. The carvings on the casework are simply put, extraordinary.

The other aspect of his work that I like is that he [...]

We Don’t Need No Stinkin Bloggers

We received an interesting email today from Business Wire, a press release wire service that Warren Buffett bought in March 2006. Currently Business Wire is ranked about #32 on the Techmeme Leaderboard, which puts it above some top tech blogs (but not ReadWriteWeb, which is ranked #6 currently). The email claimed that companies [...]

National Geographic Launches Widgets

NGM redesigned their website and included a couple of really cool widgets that NewsGator is serving up for them. These are great examples of how you can engage site visitors with multimedia content that is compelling and ultimately time consuming. The name of the game for advertising supported websites is time spent and anything that [...]

Downside of Buying a Supercar

Eventually, I eventually make up outrageous answers—answers that seem to be more in line with people’s expectations. They’re more than willing to believe that an R8 can go 250 mph and is handmade in Switzerland by Enzo Ferrari’s illegitimate granddaughter.

[From Downside of Buying a Supercar - Audi R8 Crowds - Mike [...]

India’s Tata backs air-power car

This is actually a pretty promising technology. I don’t know too much about the inner workings but one factor that is key to the viability of this system is they have dramatically reduced the weight of the vehicle, which means look for it in compact offerings predominately. For the developing world this should be a [...]

RSS in Plain English

This video is awesome… we’ve all seen the “whiteboard genre” before but this one is particularly effective in my opinion, an observation borne out of many attempts to explain RSS to my mom.

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