with this guide, you can't lose.

What a Crappy Present - CD Gift Advice, Parents and Kids

] Intel will next month move into the digital TV market
] with a low-cost, single-chip solution to all the
] electronics and chippery found in today's big screen
] tellies.
]
]
] The chip giant will reveal is product at the Las Vegas
] Consumer Electronics Show, which opens its doors in three
] weeks' time, the New York Times claimed yesterday. The
] move will herald significantly cheaper sets, possibly by
] next Christmas, analysts interviewed by the paper
] forecast.

Maybe I'll be able to afford one next year now.

Intel chip to pave way for cheap digital TVs - report

You know it's true. How many televisions do you have? Do you even know? How many channels do you get? Do your kids refuse to watch black-and-white programs? No one had a VCR in 1970. Now 240 million of us do, but VCRs are history now that Wal-Mart is selling DVD players for $29.

Fortune.com - Value Driven - Admit It: You, Too, Are Paris Hilton

] When the final part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy
] opens next week, it will ratchet the franchise's
] box-office receipts up to several billion dollars - and
] mark the final triumph of all things geeky over what we
] used to think of as cool. Xan Brooks investigates how it
] happened

We are all nerds now

] It happened a year ago this week. That's when coach Barry
] Trotz and General Manager David Poile decided they were
] confident that Tomas Vokoun could be the team's No. 1
] goaltender, thus, allowing the Preds to trade No. 1
] goalie Mike Dunham to the New York Rangers for veteran
] center Rem Murray and two young defensemen, Thomas
] Kloucek and Marek Zidlicky.

I disagree. I think the defining moment for the franchise was a month later when Trotz **DIDN'T** get fired. Yes, the rest of the season ended horribly, but with that winning streak in Jan and Feb, he proved that he can make magic with the team. Even if we don't make the playoffs this season (likely), the team is starting to believe that it can. That's a huge step.

The Preds defining moment?

I didn't even bother putting a quote in here, because there are too many.

Steve Job gets it. He understands the risks, and has a good grasp on the reality of how music and technology affect each other, and of the business issues at hand.

Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview

] From the Jesus Fairy Christmas tree topper to the Lord of
] the Kings jigsaw puzzle...

must have Jesus ashtray...

Ship of Fools: the Magazine of Christian Unrest

] Funk music pioneer George Clinton was arrested and
] charged with drug possession after allegedly admitting to
] an officer he had cocaine in his pocket.

What the funk?

CNN.com - Funkmeister George Clinton arrested - Dec. 9, 2003

Rattle wrote:
] MemeStreams is a mini Google bomb for the people. Take your
] MemeStream title for instance.. Because if the way our pages
] interlink, if you are one of the people on this system who has
] used it actively for a long time and is highly recommended
] (yes, it matters, alot), you can pretty much pick your Google
] key words..

Very interesting...

RE: Google Time Bomb - Will Weblogs blow up the world's favorite search engine? - Microcontent News, a Corante.com Microblog

] Explanation: In 1787, astronomer William Herschel
] discovered the Eskimo Nebula. From the ground, NGC 2392
] resembles a person's head surrounded by a parka hood. In
] 2000, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged the Eskimo
] Nebula. From space, the nebula displays gas clouds so
] complex they are not fully understood. The Eskimo Nebula
] is clearly a planetary nebula, and the gas seen above
] composed the outer layers of a Sun-like star only 10,000
] years ago. The inner filaments visible above are being
] ejected by strong wind of particles from the central
] star. The outer disk contains unusual light-year long
] orange filaments.

WOW!

LB

The Eskimo Nebula from Hubble