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NYT article today (registration required): http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/nyregion/28nyc.h tml "It was the 11th straight commercial - the second with Beyoncé trilling and shilling for Tommy Hilfiger - that pushed the audience over the edge. ..." "Oh, come on!" a man cried in the dark. "Give me a break!" a woman called out. "We paid for a movie!" another man shouted.

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Another NYT article says :"Although Slate has never achieved steady profitability, it is credited with helping to shape Web publishing as well as pioneering the use of hyperlinks and Web logs."

What? Did I just pioneer the use of hyperlinks?

There's still good journalism in America, but you have to read it, not watch it:

The New York Times is widely derided for having a "liberal bias," but there is still no paper in the US that covers as much of what is going on in the world today and presents as wide a range of intelligent and interesting commentary. The print edition is jam-packed with info, and while people complain about the fact that you have to register to get free news from NYT online, it's more than worth the money. ;-)

The Christian Science Monitor, despite the name is a scrupulously independent voice. Their print version is formatted not to bring you every ounce of news, but to pick and choose stories of interest from around the world. CSM doesn't focus on immediacy, which is quite refreshing in the era of instant news stories without any meat.

The Wall Street Journal takes flak because it represents the voice of The Man, but if you recognize that the Journal's bias is in favor of the capitalist marketplace, it's an excellent source of information. The reporting is solid and the range of coverage is impressive.

Getting back to the theme of going beyond knee-jerk immediacy, there are several excellent weekly and monthly magazines available in the states. I'm partial to The Economist, which is not published in the States, and so provides much more coverage of the rest off the world. I happen to agree with most of their editorial bias, but I sometimes disagree with it. One of the nice things about the Economist is that they state their views in a way that allows you to separate the facts from their views.

I'm also partial to The Atlantic, a monthly magazine that explores a wide range of issues. Their coverage of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq has been superb for its depth, range of viewpoints, and clarity.

There are plenty of other great news sources in the United States. I merely listed some of my favorites. My point is that if you expect the television to provide you with serious news coverage, you'll continue to be disappointed. If you take the time to sift through a few print publications, you may be amazed at what's out there.

A car that can wink, laugh, cry and get angry

sounds like you need what toyota may be implementing on future vehicles...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/technology/20cov ert.html

this vs. this . (Claire Forlani)

I think above user is referring to:

Front Line: Is Wal-mart Good for America?
Fast Company: The Wal-mart You Don't Know
NY Times: Ideas & Trends: Discount Nation; Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

Or just one of the following:

Front Line
Fast Company
The NY Times

I'd hit it!

See for yourself.

-Jem

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Too late. The climate change is already under way. Increased heat waves in Europe, increased hurricane frequency, thinning of ice caps, retreating glaciers. Whether or not this is due to human activity, its happening. Now.

And some slightly older random stories from my bookmarks file.

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NY Times had an article today about how the game ratings are useless. Parents buy the games regardless of the ratings.

here. ;)

Briefly, Earthsea is a world composed of hundreds of islands. The society is non-industrial, but magic is an integral component of everyday life. Women are seen as a lower class, and only men perform magic. Otherwise, the rest of the world is "normal" in our sense, except that dragons are a reality, though their presence is rare.

The books tell tales of a few recurring characters, most notably a wizard named Sparrowhawk (also known as Ged). If the producers of such a series went through all the trouble to proclaim this as based on Earthsea, you would think they would have been more faithful to the books. However, they seem to have written a completely different story, with some small number aspects of the original sprinkled throughout the shows. The end result is something that barely resembles the books and thus loses its uniqueness as a fantasy world.

It seems that the NY Times review (Registration required.) of the series is dead on: what is left is a mishmash of various fantasy stories, sort of Harry Potter meets Lord of the Rings meets Hercules meets Star Wars.

Anyone hoping to see a film version of the beloved books is going to have his hopes dashed upon the thorny rocks. Instead a different story is presented, using people with the same names but completely different experiences. Anyone hoping to learn about the books by watching them will be misled into thinking they are shallow cookie-cutter versions of everything else. Imagine if Frodo had "lived happily ever after" when he kept the ring himself to bring peace to the world... even though Tolkien never envisioned such a world.

Undoubtedly, a film producer must change the story presented on screen in order to compensate for the differences between visual and printed media, but this is one of the sloppiest adaptations I have ever seen. Ms LeGuin's comments only underscore my own opinion (or is it the other way around??). Don't watch it, unless you don't care whether the Earthsea movies match the Earthsea books, then it won't matter anyway. --dv

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/politics/16missi le.html

Before Wednesday's test, the Missile Defense Agency had conducted eight tests with interceptor vehicles, scoring hits in five under carefully controlled conditions. Some critics of the agency, which has spent more than $80 billion since 1985, say the entire test program is unrealistic and that the tests have been scripted.

The entire NASA program got 16 billion for next year.

The editor was just quoting the AP article. The interesting part is that the NYTimes has the same "anomaly" explanation also.

Do you have a better, just as (or more) reputable source? If you're going to bash, you should back up your opinion.

I thought it was illegal to do that (the whole DeCSS case and all).

The New York Times (http://nytimes.com/) is nicknamed "The Gray Lady" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times), or if one is feeling expansive, The Great Gray Lady. The nickname extends from the Times decision in the 1950s to stick to plain black and white text when other newspapers started using color for illustrations, photos, ads, etc. However, the Times went color in the late 1990s, so the nickname is not really very apt anymore.

A "Painted Lady" is an ornate style of house popular in the late 19th century, a tattooed whore, and a type of butterfly, among other things.

I recommend you to read All This, and They Take Pictures, Too, an interesting article by David Pogue. He compares twelve digital cameras with a street price under $300. In case you need to register, there you go.

There is no FA. Did no one notice? Here is one

Better story at the New York Times. There's also http://print.google.com and the odd http://www.google.com/print/

Enjoy

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Teachers are using purple pens instead of red to grade things, because it "softens the blow."

Okay, with this news, American society has officially gone to shit. When a teacher can't put a red X on a wrong answer on some kid's test paper because his/her fragile little psyche will be irrepairably shattered, that is the absolute last straw!

This is right up there with the "nobody loses" and "everyone gets a trophy" kind of shit. This country is turning out stupid, soft kids who cannot take rejection or any kind of negative reinforcement.

If you're reading this now, take my advice: save yourself some trouble and start learning Chinese now. Because when China is ready to take this country over, those kids who can't deal with papers graded in red ink will be grown up and in charge, and it's going to be a short, losing war.

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The parent article plays a typical Chinese game with words.

how am I supposed to find cheap labtops?

Before you start flaming the guy about "gigapixels", understand that Clifford Ross has built a film camera that records astonishing amounts of detail, including the Mt. Sopris picture. He's an artist, but also has done innovative things with optics and film.

Also, you gotta like a guy who owns the IP rights to both Tom Swift and Babar the elephant!

I wish I could figure out how to embed a url without printing out the entire url.

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A document the company filed with the court was scarce on information as well, so JGR's business, its owners, its location and its plans for the newly acquired patents all remain mysteries.

This sparked my curiousity so I googled them so see if there was any info. Not too much, but I came across this piece in the New York times on the same story, which says

Mark X. Mullin, a lawyer for a Dallas law firm representing a company identified as JGR Acquisitions, put forth the winning bid. Mr. Mullin said he would file further details as required by the bankruptcy court.

The mystery company has a real Mr X working for them (well, kinda stretching it). I was most impressed. Anyway, still couldn't dig up anything on JGR at all.

A NY Times article makes the point that an important factor in this deal was IBM's desire to better position itself in China. I thought it was kind of interesting that the chief executive of Lenovo will be Stephen M. Ward Jr., currently an I.B.M. senior vice president in charge of the PC business. Lenovo's current chief and president, Yang Yuanqing, will become Lenovo's chairman.

The NYTimes article on the deal says that IBM will continue providing support for its PCs.

First this, then the news about math scores. What else is America a leader in, movies?

By the way, the space shuttle uses 8086 chips, and it would be far, far too expensive to retrofit the old fabs with new lithography equipment needed to get the chips down to this size. Not only that, it would probably require a bit of re-engineering, since the chip wouldn't scale perfectly down (trasistors may have decreased in size, but wires have virtually disappeared) and that's worth more than the chip is worth.

It would however be a neat (expensive) little project to make a disk or two of miniscule pentium 2's and use them in a parrallel computing apparatus (something like voice recognition) just to demonstrate how many of those little buggers you could fit in a tight space, but that's about it.

The NY Times just recently published an article about red America's viewing habits. Surprisingly, the States that voted conservative in the last election are the same States where the highest viewing population for "CSI" and "Desperate Housewives" arise. You should read the article before NY Times starts charging for it. What does that say about America's viewing habits? "Do what I say, not what I do?"

Lastly, all this attention on the PTC should not divert attention away from the thoughtless actions of the American Family Association, who according to an NPR report the night of Veteran's Day, were poised with thousands of people ready to lodge complaints to the FCC about stations that were going to air "Saving Private Ryan" in commemoration of Veteran's Day.