Painted Willie?
two swiss chef's are cooking great in manhattan

one is rumored to be the youngest chef to get a michelin star in europe, and after a stint at Compton Place (sp?) in SF has taken the helm at 11 Madison Park, two meals there have been sensational, like dining in great spot in europe, with a very nice wine list!!

the other is a spot that used to be Chelsea Commons, now called Trestle on Tenth, hearty homey with a splash of innards, here too the wine is super, loaded with values / organic small growers

skinny
any major dupe
any major dupe.
43. Alias
Now that the pioneering 71 Clinton Fresh Food and aKa Café have closed their doors, Alias is the sole survivor of the restaurant family that made Clinton Street’s culinary name. Maybe that’s because the prices are low enough and the menu flexible enough to keep the locals coming back. But the kitchen’s genuine reliance on seasonal ingredients, and the offbeat way it combines them, as in a recent salad of Greenmarket strawberries, fried capers, and Di Palo’s ricotta, gives it a distinct identity on a block where it’s gotten much tougher to stand out.

plus top 5 brunch and prix fixe spot.
ny times endorses lieberman lamont.
Motorola Buying Broadbus Technologies -- Broadbus is a SW based video-on-demand (VOD) system vendor. This article cites Mot as a cell phone maker, but this probably has more to do with their cable TV business. They provide both headend and settop equipment for cable and IPTV.
sunday bloody sunday
YouTube strategy sticks to clips
2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes Sacre bleu!
Amazon Looks to Movie Downloads
Although it has refused to confirm, Amazon has been rumored to be readying its video download service for launch in mid-August. First reported by trade magazine Advertising Age on Sunday, the service is said to offer both movies and episodes of television shows.
Judge Refuses to OK Telco Mergers
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan told lawyers representing the interests of both SBC and AT&T and of Verizon and MCI that he could not give final approval to either merger unless he received more information. While both have been given the go-ahead by the FCC, the courts have not yet decided if the mergers are in the public interest.
Warner Bros Offers TV Shows on iTunes
Intel readies WiMax chipset
Rosedale 2 is shipping in sample quantities so equipment makers can develop products while Intel continues testing
The Mideast Crisis Explained
Rok TV Takes On MobiTV
Kazaa, Skype, and now "The Venice Project"
Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net
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.
energy dwink
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."
Forgent JPEG claims rejected
Microsoft confirms Zune rumors