I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. – Neil Armstrong
Archive > November 2005
Begin the onslaught of year-end roundups.
Popular Science takes the early lead with their Best of What’s New awards, a roundup of what they consider the top 100 products and technologies of the year. In addition to the obvious awardees like the PSP and perpendicular magnetic recording, there’s interesting asides like the world’s first programmable wave pool and colored toy bubbles [...]
More Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD.
Here is a good summary of the latest technical wheeling-and-dealing between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Among things that were new to me: the addition of a “red” 9GB HD format to Blu-Ray that would make initial Blu-Ray content (that fits) even cheaper than HD-DVD. Also, more discussion about managed copy (AACS, BD Plus, and ROM Mark) [...]
First Xbox 360 Reviews Hitting the Web
The first reviews for Xbox 360 games are starting to hit the web! 1UP has reviewed Kameo, Project Gotham Racing 3, FIFA Soccer 2006, NBA 2K6, and Amped 3, while IGN has reviewed Madden NFL 06, Kameo, and NBA 2K6. Judging from both sets of reviews, it looks like Project Gotham Racing 3 – which [...]
Quote of the Day
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. – Peter Ustinov
Body image, not menopause, causes lack of desire
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Women who lose their sexual desire as they age may not be the victims of hormonal changes but may be reacting to their own body image, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
The more a woman perceived herself as less attractive, the more likely she was to report a decline in sexual desire or [...]
History reserves a sad place for next Fed boss
The nomination of Ben Bernanke, head of US President George W Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), as successor to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has sparked a hot international discussion about the future course of US monetary policy.
The academic world fiercely debates whether Bernanke will be a “hawk” who is not afraid to fight [...]
LiveJournal Top 40
LiveJournal Top 40, which ranked journals using Google’s proprietary page-ranking system, not sure why I’m not listed just outside the Top 10. In a network of over 2 million active blogs.