Time, Hands. Pretty.

Escher's 'Relativity' in LEGO

] The new services will include downloadable recordings of
] Jameson and other members of ClubJenna (Jameson's
] marketing business for adult stars' Web sites) making
] suggestive sounds that can be used as ring tones on
] mobile phones. Content will also include music, texting
] services and images that can be used as wallpaper or
] screensavers.

buzzword update: moantones.

Pocketful of porn | News.blog | CNET News.com

Cell phones for dogs.

((O)) Pet's Mobility

] A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed
] himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on
] the snow to melt it.
]
] Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering
] along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was
] buried in the Slovak Tatra mountains.

SOUNDS LIKE PROGRESS � Man Pees Way Out Of Avalanche

] With its music downloads selling at a rate of more than a
] million per day, Apple Computer Inc. said Monday
] customers have purchased more than 250 million songs from
] its online iTunes Music Store.

Talk about volume. Apple was excited to sell its first million... now it is about 1.25m/day.

Forbes.com: Update 1: Apple ITunes Sells 250 Million Songs

] The Microsoft chief and the richest man in the world,
] Bill Gates on Tuesday made the largest private donation
] to child heath, giving £400 million to the "Global
] Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation", so as to ensure
] children in developing countries have access to
] life-saving vaccines. Gates who had recently visited
] India to oversee immunisation programme of children
] described the donation as "just a down payment".

Bill Gates

] After all, it's Jan. 24, the "most depressing day of
] the year," according to a U.K. psychologist.

Oooh, equations. Weather and sociological explainations.

I've definately had more SAD in January than December so far.

MSNBC - Jan. 24 called worst day of the year

] Yeah, but what's it REALLY for? Movies.
]
] The Mac Mini is one of Apple's trademark technology
] repackaging jobs. There ought to be nothing inherently
] exciting about the little box.

Nice assessment. I really hope NetFlix is talking with them.

PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column

] And yet every May, speakers all over the country fire up
] the Standard Graduation Speech, the theme of which is:
] don't give up on your dreams. I know what they mean, but
] this is a bad way to put it, because it implies you're
] supposed to be bound by some plan you made early on. The
] computer world has a name for this: premature
] optimization. And it is synonymous with disaster. These
] speakers would do better to say simply, don't give up.

This is a pretty good summary...

What You'll Wish You'd Known

] Onstage at the Macworld Exposition in San Francisco last
] week, Apple's chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, proclaimed
] 2005 as "the year of high-definition video," a strange
] declaration from someone who was not trying to sell
] television sets. He kept his laser-like focus on the iPod
] and the Mac mini, a new low-priced, book-size computer.
]
]
] But he noted that the giant screen projecting his
] demonstrations was in high definition, gave a cursory
] display of several computer video-editing tools and
] offered an enthusiastic plug for a new Sony
] high-definition video camera. He also invited Sony's
] president, Kunitake Ando, onstage for a brief and cryptic
] appearance and mentioned that the two companies might
] find other things to cooperate on in the future.

The New York Times : Technology : Is Apple Thinking About Mac TV?