Nokia N73 Starts Shipping -- "a stunning multimedia computer with excellent photography features and integrated stereo speakers for optimized audio pleasure"
this story starts out not without its amusement and then takes a hard right at the end.
the comments are telling coming from both sides.
Intel has been spanked in the high-end server market by AMD, but in the mainstream market Intel is poised to
bury the competition by setting new benchmarks in bang for the buck.
Scenarios for the digital home: Q&A with VP Doug Rasor of TI
"There’ll be multiple Da Vinci chips, but one of the first ones we announced has for instance 10/100Mbps Ethernet, on the chip. It also has USB 2.0 on the chip, and an LCD driver. So if you’re thinking of making a portable media player, for instance, and you’re thinking of giving it network connectivity, Da Vinci would allow you to do that very easily, with a minimal number of chips."
josh marshall politely gutted on mushy lieberman positioning.
I heard the
angry arab guy on NPR yesterday. He's a prof at California State University, Stanislaus (in the Sierra foothills). His peeps are from south Lebanon.
[...]
"The report also found that conservative Christian schools -- a constituency that supports vouchers -- lagged significantly behind public schools in eighth-grade math. The report supported similar findings from a University of Illinois study on math."
"Fundamentalist conservatives will be sorely disappointed if the government doen't come through with those vouchers because they are really counting on the eleventy three-hundert dollars per student which will allow them to purchase copies of Heather's Mommy Speaks in Tongues and Biology 101: Men Are From Dust, Women Are From Ribs."
ill have to put this down as one of
gilliards dumber conclusions. glad most of his commenters have more sense than he.
sucumbed to the lure of the
vitamin water. (im told 50cent is a part owner of the company with one of the flavors named after him.) reviewed at
bevnet.
im having a vital-t, at the moment, which is quite nice.
Slanted Door -- D and I had lunch there yesterday. The Shaking Beef wasn't as stunning as the last time, but was very good. Perhaps it had less impact because my palette knew what to expect, or perhaps the preparation was toned down slightly. Still highly recommended.
The greenlake beans with honshimeji mushrooms were also great. Green beans with shallots and mushrooms are a perennial of mine, and it's always nice to see an alternate variation. There was a bit of spicy heat in the oil used to cook the beans.
The green papaya salad is very mild compared to what I'm used to at Krung Thai in the South Bay.
I think they are missing the point,
but:
FOR those who yearn for a well-aged, full-bodied vintage wine but lack the funds to feed the habit, the solution may lie with a Japanese boffin, a zany-looking contraption, a couple of metres of latex tubing and a few hundred volts of electricity.
Squirrelled away in his chemical engineering laboratory in rural Shizuoka, Hiroshi Tanaka has spent 15 years developing an electrolysis device that simulates, he claims, the effect of ageing in wines. In 15 seconds it can transform the cheapest, youngest plonks into fine old draughts as fruit flavours are enhanced and rough edges are mellowed, he says.
ive seen two middle aged women carrying umbrellas (to keep the sun off) so far today. anyone else been outside?
world wide internet television keep up with the middle east war here