Enron jury reaches verdict – May. 25, 2006
This made my day. Skilling’s self-righteousness in his congressional testimony is what really made me ill. They better hope none of their cellmates had Enron stock.
Nike, Apple Team Up on iPod Running Gear – Yahoo! News
Nike, Apple Team Up on iPod Running Gear – Yahoo! News
I already have an iPod Nano and a Garmin Forerunner 205, so I think I’ll pass on this – especially since I’m particular about what running shoe I wear. I think the best thing about this would be the Power Song feature for the end of a race or workout.
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Feds pursuit of phone records is only the latest fishing trip – MarketWatch
Feds pursuit of phone records is only the latest fishing trip – MarketWatch
Dvorak’s column asks an obvious question: Why ask for records when you can look at the results yourself with a bot?
Many suspect that this isn’t about child porn or any sort of porn, but an attempt to track the public, possibly for political market research — or worse, domestic spying. It’s plausible, for one good reason. The government doesn’t need to get Google records to get the Google search results.
You simply go on to Google and do a search yourself! Is it that hard for these folks?
The Justice Department has access to dozens of quality programmers any of whom could write some robotic code in a few minutes that would slam the Google search engines as much as needed to develop real-time up-to-date search patterns and search engine results. Isn’t this what they want? Then why don’t they do it?
Wanting old results from a million random public searches has got to be an analytical nightmare if they are trying to find some connection to porn and Google. It sounds more like a fishing expedition.
The fact that they do not want to do directed searches themselves — where they could get real first-hand proof of any problem — is the hint that there is more to this request.
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Macworld: Mac Word: Beneath the MacBook battery bay
Macworld: Mac Word: Beneath the MacBook battery bay
Ease of hard drive replacement is very nice – especially compared to the iBook G4. I think this is important since the hard drive is the component most likely to fail or in need of an upgrade – especially if you have a substantial music and video library.
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MercuryNews.com | 05/17/2006 | Trio arrested for injuring motorcyclist
MercuryNews.com | 05/17/2006 | Trio arrested for injuring motorcyclist
The first motorcyclist spent five days in a coma and required more than 500 stitches and several titanium plates in his face to repair bone damage and tissue loss, Palanov said. The man is no longer in a coma, but Palanov could not say if he was still in the hospital.
And the motorcyclist was said to be only going 20 to 25 mph. I go faster than that when sometimes when I’m on my road bike. I wonder if the trio ever thought what the possible consequences might be for their actions.
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Is Al Gore Running for President Again? – Yahoo! News
Is Al Gore Running for President Again? – Yahoo! News
Gore as President and Wesley Clark as his running mate would get my vote.
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The Apple Store (U.S.) – MacBook
The Apple Store (U.S.) – MacBook
I love it! To get the cool, black look, you need to buy the most expensive version!
I presently own a 1.2 GHz G4 iBook, and I like the improvements they’ve made to the screen brightness and latching mechanism. The wider screen and thinner profile are nice dimensional changes. The 1.83 GHz dual-core for $1,099 is a great deal. What’s interesting is that upgrading from 512 Mb to 1 Gb of RAM is $100 while upgrading to 2 Gb is $500. Are 1 Gb SODIMMs really that expensive?
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Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn: Gearing for the dreaded climb
Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn: Gearing for the dreaded climb
Nice to read that even the pros have to resort to compact cranks and even triples on some very steep climbs in the Giro. I’ll probably be swapping my 53-39 Ultegra crank for a Shimano 50-34 sometime this summer since there are some steep sections on Montebello road where I could really use a lower gear.
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H-P moves beyond boring boxes – MarketWatch
H-P moves beyond boring boxes – MarketWatch
Dvorak talks about skins for PCs and other boring industrial objects. I’ve never been a fan of design for the sake of design (well maybe during the New Wave 80s). With products, I’ve always loved design that had an inherent functional need. A case in point regarding both statements is the new Nike Air Zoom Hayward.
I love the design of its two-piece sole. First, there’s the Phylon midsole (the gray area) with the full length Zoom-Air insert, then there are sections instead of a single piece of Phylite (the red area) which decreases the weight and increases the flexibility of the sole. I ran in the shoe for the first time yesterday, and it’s a worthy update to the Air Skylon with it’s light, cushioned ride. The design for design’s sake feature with the show are the plastic glue-on pieces which make the outside of the shoe look like a topographical map. For the life of me, I cannot figure how they could have any functional purpose. The shoe would have had a much cleaner look without those pieces, but I guess it wouldn’t have looked as cool.
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Microsoft and Google Grapple for Supremacy – New York Times
Microsoft and Google Grapple for Supremacy – New York Times
A picture of the two sexiest men alive.
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