farmers market on my block now. i think it will be every sunday. the street is blocked off between broome and delancy. unfortunately i have a fresh direct delivery due any minute. d'oh.
world series pop culture on vh1 now.
Korea Rising ... I'm shopping to replace a dead Panasonic DVD player, and a Samsung DVD/VHS recorder has risen to the top of the heap. While DVD recorders have gotten dirt cheap, huge feature gaps remain. The Samsung unit works with every DVD format (except DVD Audio). Why is that so frickin' hard, Philips, Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba? I'm hoping this is the last SD-only DVD gizmo I ever have to get.
Future Bright For Home Media, Analysts Say
Two separate analyst reports released Thursday paint a rosy future for home media servers and the networks that they will use to pipe content around the home.
Two separate analyst reports released Thursday paint a rosy future for home media servers and the networks that they will use to pipe content around the home.
living with war today
Rising China TV spec may sink DVB-H
Mike Clendenin
EE Times
(07/03/2006 9:00 AM EDT)
Shanghai, China -- As China prepares a digital terrestrial TV standard suitable for fixed and mobile terminals, uncertainty is growing over the future of rival mobile-TV standards here.
China has been experimenting with two competing mobile-TV broadcast standards: Digital Video Broadcast-based DVB-Handheld and a South Korean derivative of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) known as Terrestrial-Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. However, now that China's own digital TV standard is close to finished, authorities here are giving it priority, threatening the viability of European-invented DVB-H and DAB-based T-DMB.
Mike Clendenin
EE Times
(07/03/2006 9:00 AM EDT)
Shanghai, China -- As China prepares a digital terrestrial TV standard suitable for fixed and mobile terminals, uncertainty is growing over the future of rival mobile-TV standards here.
China has been experimenting with two competing mobile-TV broadcast standards: Digital Video Broadcast-based DVB-Handheld and a South Korean derivative of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) known as Terrestrial-Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. However, now that China's own digital TV standard is close to finished, authorities here are giving it priority, threatening the viability of European-invented DVB-H and DAB-based T-DMB.
internet, circa 1998
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Judge Rules DeLay Stays on Ballot
-- will DeLay have to pull a Ken Lay to clear his name from the ballot?
-- will DeLay have to pull a Ken Lay to clear his name from the ballot?
Andy Warhol/Sonny Liston Braniff commercial (YouTube). Yeesh.
easy out
a day im happy not to commute. challahu akbar.
A senior government official familiar with the matter said that in directing Libby to leak the classified information to Miller and other reporters, Cheney said words to the effect of, "The president wants this out," or "The president wants this done."
