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Goodnight Irene – Huddie Ledbetter, aka Leadbelly

Tivo will be able to transfer videos to Ipods… But…

Hot news for Tivo and iPod Fans. Coming soon to a computer near you! > “TiVo Inc. today is expected to announce a service that allows its digital video recorders to save programs to iPods and PlayStation Portables, further untethering television from time and place.” (from [LA Times](http://ww...

Big news from Iraq, if it’s true…

Zarqawi probably killed! according to Iraq the Model. > “According to these two sources, Iraqi and US military forces in Mosul think that Zarqawi, al-Qaeda leader in Iraq was possibly killed in a raid on a house where members ...

Dilbert Torture

According to Dilbert (or is it Scott Adams) we are approaching the whole question of torture in the wrong way: > “The objective is to think up a form of torture that’s effective but doesn’t sound so bad when the rest of...

Very funny: Build a better Bush

** **Click here for more hilarity! (Thanks Larry) Technorati Tags: funny

The $100 Laptop

You might have heard of Nicholas Negroponte’s (Wikipedia bio – maybe better than the one he wrote himself!)  project to create a so-called hundred dollar laptop. He spoke about it at the recent Pop!Tech conference, and the first prototype was unveiled last night. Andy Carvin got a chance to play with it and prepared this very interesting video documentary about it. Check it out.

Web 2.0 — mash ups — Kayak — and nude beaches ?!

Did you know that Curacao is the 7th favorite place that travelers from Boston consider when they are looking for nude beaches in the Caribean? Miami is the first, Aruba the second. This important bulletin brought to you by Kayak Buzz, a ...

All you ever wanted to know about Crypto

Looks like this is practically an online book on the topic. Also, WikiPedia has a detailed entry on the subject. (Via Digg) Technorati Tags: crypto

Ray Ozzie’s Blog V3

Glad to see that Ray is blogging again. Now that he is at Microsoft running the big new initiative this should be a really interesting one to follow! > “A couple of weeks ago, Bill and I brought life to a new initiative that, over the course of the months...

Interesting Wired article about War Blogs

I came across this a little while ago in Wired about War Blogs. Pretty amazing stuff: > “Strong opinions throughout the military ranks in and out of wartime are nothing new. But online technology in the combat zone has suddenly given those o...

Did MSFT leak on purpose, or did they know they could easily be leaked?

I’ve read several accounts relating to Microsoft’s recently ‘leaked’ documents about the new strategy, for example, Cringely says: > “While ostensibly written solely for internal discussion, the documents from Bill Gates and new Microsoft CT...

Roku Roku Roku: Aint Technology Great?

This little gem really works! A **Sta...

What blogs are good for: Learning about Microsoft

So can you learn anything useful from a blog? I’ve often spoken admiringly to friends about Microsoft blogging. I’ve said that, it’s not so much that people are giving away any trade secrets. You learn stuff that are not secret, but you probably would only fin...

Learning about Open Source

Peter Moldave, a friend of mine who has helped me immensely with BlogBridge has (gulp) [started blogging](...

Ultimate baby name choser

This one has made the rounds, but in case you haven’t seen it yet. Whether or not you are expecting a baby, have a child, or just love cool visualizations, you’ve gotta check out “The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager“. Incredibly cool! Technorati Tags: babyboomers

Swallowing an umbrella

“The sword passes within millimetres of the heart, aorta, and other vitals but, surprisingly, few deaths related to sword swallowing have been described. A Canadian sword swallower did die, but that was after swallowing an umbrella.” (from BMJ.com, the General Medical Journal, online, via MetaFilter.) You do learn the darndest things on the web, don’t you? Technorati Tags: funny

Wiki as in Wikipedia

I assume you know about Wikis and the Wikipedia. If not, click on the links to the left and you’ll both find out and experience it, in one fell swoop. On [BlogBridge](http://www.blogbridge.co...

For advanced nerds only: How the deathstar works

From How Stuff Works: > “There is no question that the last few years of world history have seen a fair share of chaos and disorder. With so much global unrest, governments worldwide are struggling to devise new methods to maintain order. The Galactic Empire’s s...

Google API -> Open Standard

I really like this idea that Dave Winer has put forward: “Let’s make the Google API an open standard”, where he says, among other things: > “We’ve asked for a plug-in architecture for search engines, and if we can’t have that, a solid easy-to-program API is a **...

[GEEK] OPML Validator

I just came across Dave Winer’s new, beta, OPML Validator, which is a welcome development. While there is an OPML spec, having a validator too is a great, pragmatic, concrete way to give a big thum...