Nintendo's Still the One

By Fred J. Aun, TechNewsWorld, 03/16/07 11:04 AM PT -- Nintendo blew away the competition in February gaming console sales, according to an NPD report. The company sold 485,000 DS units and 335,000 Wii consoles in the month. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Xbox 360 sold 228,000 units, while Sony continued to struggle as its PlayStation 3 lagged with only 127,000 units sold.

and in other news, i will be suing tim conway for not being funny.

Giant ice cap found under the south pole of Mars that, if thawed, would cover the entire planet with 30 feet of water.

i cant even begin to imagine one good thing to say about karl rove but i was just watching a rerun of keith olbermann and during the entire segment while discussing roves involvement in the prosecutor scandal they had "turdblossom" under his picture. seemed a little unseemly for a news organization to go there. but then what do i know of decorum?

Aggressive Intel Quad-core Price Cuts Before "Barcelona"

Intel is trying to steal AMD's thunder by cutting prices deeply. The Q6600 is a Core 2 Quad with 1066 MHz front side bus (connects to the memory controller chip), 8 MBytes of cache, and 2.4 GHz operating frequency. It will be $266 (in quantity) by Q3 of this year. Earlier this year, the retail price of the 2.93 GHz sibling was around $2k.

Four screaming-fast 64-bit processors for $266. Awesome.

garbo speaks!

Blu-ray Outsells HD-DVD For Second Month Running
Sells 2:1 against HD-DVD in February.
by Gerry Block

March 13, 2007 - Trade magazine Video Business reported today that Blu-ray outsold HD-DVD in February for the second month running. According to the magazine's figures, roughly 250,000 Blu-ray movie titles were sold in February compared to only 125,000 HD-DVDs. In January movie sales for each format were roughly the same.

Helvetica - a movie about graphic design.

the faces concert on bbc crown jewels on vh1 classic. tonight concerts by neil young and thin lizzy

the groom reaper

A teaser on MNS, "Signs of Hope in Baghdad", links to this AP article:Early signs of progress in Baghdad crackdown
Yeehaw! Where's that "Mission Accomplished" banner!

Oh, wait ... what's this in paragraph 13 ...

In the 27 days leading up to the operation, 528 people were killed in bombings around the capital, according to AP figures. In the first 27 days of the operation, the bombing death toll stood at 370 — a drop of about 30 percent.

tracy morgan has some fun on morning tv.

the naked city was shot on location in nyc in 1947. much of the action takes place around rivington st. when i noticed the shapiros wine i realized that this was not shot on some hollywood backlot. so, a nice snapshot of the neighborhood. they even have a scene in the essex market. robert osborne said many of the bustling street shots were taken from a truck which preserved the cameramans anonymity and the naturalistic ambiance.

im sure there are a million awful photos related to the war but this one apparently has upset the tender feelings of the warfloggers.

If It's Sunday, It's Still Conservative: How the Right Continues to Dominate the Sunday Talk Shows,

Why isn't Viiv working for Intel?
NEWEST MULTIMEDIA PC BRAND HASN'T GENERATED MUCH BUZZ

The most common Viiv approach seems similar to Apple TV. A media adapter gizmo sits next to the TV, and connects to a personal computer. The delay in availability of the media adapter gizmos and a new media-aware OS (i.e. Vista), have taken some of the wind out of the sales of Viiv.

One of the "gizmos" is described in the September 2006 article below -- but it's still in beta and currently only supports presentation of photo and music from the attached PC to the TV: Don't even think about moving media in the other way.

DirecTV's Viiv box almost ready for prime time

I'm still not clear why a PC needs Viiv to do this. Fast boot and power-on via LAN perhaps?

Last week I had IMHO a sensational meal at Aburiya Kinnosuke.....one of the best dishes was a Yellowtail Neck cooked in the bincho-tan charcoal pit, splash of lemon and YUM!! The grilled young bamboo was fantastic as was the mixed plate from the "for drinks" menu which included whole baby squid in miso......not everything is great here, the eel and egg just for example was just OK....the noodles which is how I end the meal are stunning as is the way I like to begin fresh tofu.....dont miss the chicken meatballs with soft poached egg on top and anything table bincho-tan coal grilled on the something or other leaf.....eat at the counter

Get Skinny #6

Today is day 2 of my 2nd Liver Flush prep....
Yesterday I had to brunch so had eggs and cheese (and lots of bloody marys's:>) but I will be vegan today and for the next 4 with just a dash of wine Wed's nite....

Colonic #1 will be Friday at 10am, problem is I am #1 so the room will be cool.....

So for the Liver Flush you need to be vegan and drink tons of apple juice too loosen the gall stones...

CLEANZE IT BABY!!

in other news, saudi arabia annexes texas. allah be "yee haw!"

I’ve had only one real job in my life. I know what you’re thinking, but managing the Sex Pistols wasn’t a job; it was a lifestyle that consisted of creating an environment that you could run wild in. The boring job was in London in 1962, when I was 16. I hadn’t done well on my exams — in fact, I hadn’t bothered to take most of them. University was not in the cards.

My mother dragged me to the local labor exchange, where a man read off a list of available jobs: machine operator in a pen factory, assistant to a linens salesman, booking clerk for Fyffes banana boats. As he worked his way down the list, he came across a job for a trainee wine taster at George Sandeman, the venerable wine merchant. The occasional glass of sherry on religious days was the only wine I’d tasted. But my mother, a walking cliche of nouveau riche, thought this sounded respectable enough to boast about at cocktail parties

ears

via jaschw, "El Bulli in Spain is arguably the best restaurant in the world."

the best expresso in nyc to me is Blue Spoon Cafe on Chambers St near City Hall.....amazing, I avoid coffee but when I need to rock, I stop by here and do 2 singles (one after the other) and its sends me into full speed but so smoothly.....it of course comes short and creamy and it rivals Italy (made by this lady there I assume the owner named Heather, not sure the others can make as good).....from her web site ((Our passion for coffee led us to serve Intelligentsia brand coffee and teas — what we believe to be the finest available on the market. An environmentally and socially responsible company, Intelligentsia works closely with growers and importers to ensure the quality of the bean. All Intelligentsia coffee is traded fairly, paying the grower above the Fair Trade price.))....

www.bluespooncoffee.com, worth the trip to drink but only M-F 7am to 6pm

fowl mouth

The Great Apple Video Encoder Attack of 2007: Cupertino plans to add H.264 hardware support to its entire line.

wikipedia to check id's. - note first comment