April 16th, 2007
Is it funnier than the iSomething? Not quite; but it’s funny nonetheless.
0 commentsGreatest Class Ever
April 16th, 2007
An MIT lecture on the pro wrestling. With special guest expert . . . wait for it . . . Mick Foley.
0 commentsDept. of Arrested Development
April 16th, 2007
At least he didn’t bite off her hand.
0 commentsApril 16th, 2007
The Washington Post recently conducted a sociological experiment of sorts, in which premier concert violinist Joshua Bell would play for 43 minutes on a Stradivarius at the L’Enfant metro during rush hour. Would anyone notice? The results, as reported by Gene Weingarten, are fascinating.
0 commentsGreat News from PS3 Land!
April 16th, 2007
In a brilliant move, Sony has pulled the plug on their cheaper 20-gig PS3 model. All the better to concentrate on what consumers really want!
All sarcasm aside, there was never any reason to have the $500 20-gig system except to help muddy the price-point waters at the time of launch. It’s a rump system with no wi-fi, limited connectivity, and, if memory serves, limited backward compatibility, too. If you were going to spend $500 on a PS3, you might as well shell out the extra $100 for the full system.
0 commentsThe Writerly Life
April 16th, 2007
The great Andrew Ferguson perfectly captures what life is like as a young writer in Washington:
0 commentsNot long after I came to Wash ington to work as a junior editorial flunky, I went to a cocktail party at a think tank. (Attending cocktail parties at think tanks, I thought then, was one of the great perks of my job, which tells you all you need to know about the life of a junior editorial flunky.) There I met a fellow flunky–a flunkiette, you might call her, since she was even greener than I was, and much, much blonder. Her thankless job was to write speeches, op-eds, position papers, and other encyclicals under the name of the think tank’s president. She was a ghost, in other words. A flunkiette ghost.
Comparing notes, we both mentioned our admiration for the wit, prose style, and intellectual range of a well-known newspaper columnist.
“He’s the best,” I said.
“Fabulous,” she agreed.
Then, after a brief pause and a puzzled look, she said: “I wonder who writes his stuff.”
April 13th, 2007
According to AP, a California woman has given birth to the first baby conceived with a frozen sperm and frozen egg. The process was complex and the event marks a medical milestone. Doctors and scientists are said to be eagerly monitoring the male infant’s development. Understandably, most of the information surrounding the birth remains confidential though we do know the name of the baby, Bobby Drake, and the presiding physician, Dr. Victor Fries.
0 commentsMore Great News from Sony!
April 12th, 2007
Facing the PS3 debacle, Sony is casting about for alternate revenue streams from the $600 game console. And they may have found one: Pimping out your PS3’s Cell processor to do networked computing aps for other companies while you’re not using it Awesome!
Galley Friend K.N. sends us the dirt from the FT:
Sony PlayStation 3 users may soon be asked to share the supercomputer power of their video game consoles with companies that lack their own technology to run complex research projects, the Financial Times was told.
Sony Computer Entertainment is in discussions with a number of companies about possible commercial applications for the PlayStation 3. This comes in the wake of its non-profit partnership with Stanford University in March that harnesses the spare computing capacity of registered PS3s for the analysis of protein cells.
However, because this would be a commercial proposition that would benefit profit-making organisations, Sony is studying whether it would need to offer incentives, such as free products, to persuade PS3 owners to participate.
Another PR coup for Sony!
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