not hitler, pol pot.

Microsoft Zune's As Good As Dead On Arrival

"lite" "hummus" -- I'm sorry, but without olive oil it's not hummus. It's watery bean paste.

not imperial rome, imperial athens.

security fence business is booming. bet those security stone masons are becoming envious. nobody wants walls anymore. and forget about moats. or not.

tired of making your own coffee-cola concoction? now coke has you covered.

trans fat ban in nyc restaurants?

someone mentioned Heroes on nbc. caught a few minutes of it and it seemed promising. without ever having seen lost, im going to say they share a sensibility. add in an x-men factor and probably a hint of 24. watch for yourself. theres a two minute synopsis or the first episode available online.

I think I posted about this years ago, but I can't find it, and it's the anniversary again: Stanislav Petrov. Phew.

Fluffy article about Cisco's streaming video play

fresh gilmore girls - season seven premier tonight at 8 on what used to be the w b.

the "dean" get schooled.

HD settop box issues with IPTV, including some Broadcom v. MSTV sniping.

Sirius adds wifi and MP3 capabilities

Motorola Makes Video Buy

The Schaumburg, Ill., wireless titan said Monday it acquired Vertasent, a closely held video-application developer, for an undisclosed price.

The Colmar, Pa., tech shop designs software to support advanced digital services like video on demand and video over the Net.

i hadnt watched any of the chris wallace - bill clinton showdown until i saw a couple of clips on the daily show tonight. i know people mocked foxs "clinton unhinged" teaser for the program but i think it was an apt description. of course, they think thats a bad thing. too bad hes out there equivocating on lieberman. im glad he can get riled enough to defend his legacy too bad he somehow considers lieberman a part of it. i dont know why considering what a useful idiot the rabbi was during the lewinsky business.

east village olive oilery

Martin Geddes over at Telepocalypse has some interesting thoughts about how media delivery systems will evolve.

Do what you do best

Interesting WWII story. I'll reserve judgement until I hear Bruno's opinion, but it sounds convincing:

In all this time however, every attempt at biological warfare has been essentially offensive. The idea has always been to incapacitate or kill the enemy. Except once, in Poland, during World War II, where a pair of quick-thinking doctors used a little-known organism to keep the Nazis at bay.

The microorganism is Proteus OX19. In most ways it’s an entirely ordinary little bacterium. Its one remarkable feature is that human antibodies for Proteus OX19 cross-react with the antibodies for Ricksettia – the bacterium responsible for the deadly disease typhus. Blood from a patient infected with Proteus Ox19 will give a false-positive in the most common typhus screening method, the Weil-Felix test.

Enter the Nazis into Poland....

I wonder how the delusional right will spin this ...

DirecTV-Liberty Media Deal Still Many Weeks Away

LOS ANGELES, CA, Sept. 19, 2006/Satnews Daily/ — A proposed deal involving Rupert Murdoch’s sale of New Corp’s 38 percent stake in DirecTV to Liberty Media, which is controlled by fellow billionaire media mogul John Malone is still weeks and weeks away, according to an executive familiar with the talks.

Implementing the new homepage design is held up because the submitted design uses CSS code that happens to completely break on Mobile IE. Mobile IE may be a terrible browser (even worse than regular IE), but it's (sadly) popular. Determining what exactly is causing the break is non-trivial.

Fish highway.

it's the last day of summer.................... so long summer of 2006