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That doesn't mean that Hillary will
withdraw, it just means that she will draw
If the GOP nominee was anyone other than
McCain, Hillary might have a shot. Florida Lawsuit Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |
Comments
things out, hope for a scandal or an Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | By Justin Paulette (Political a similar bind). And, of course, it has
implosion, which is pretty much all she can Comments Machine) nothing to do with the fact that Barack
do. Barring that, the only other option is to Submitted at 3/10/2008 3:31:00 AM
Obama, a black man, is... well, a black
man. Sharpton is only concerned with
Filed under: Primaries obeying the rules.
International Business Machines "Laying the groundwork for a court battle
that could divide the Democratic Party, the Laying aside the question of how Obama
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& volatility spike as shares sell off over Filed under: Misc. Gadgets stunning. There's also a step-by-step
learning mode called Pop Academy, but
Submitted at 3/10/2008 3:02:00 AM
By Darren Murph (Engadget) the scanner, security managed to find an SSD was, but the poor jet-setter most Update: Turns out GPS is indeed included
Submitted at 3/10/2008 12:58:00 AM
enough peculiarities to remove it from the definitely paid the price for trying to slip in this update, as confirmed by by Sprint.
flow, pull it aside and wrangle up the some of the latest and greatest under the
Filed under: Laptops owner for some questions. Apparently, the sharp eyes of the TSA (and cutting it close [Thanks, Joel P.]
TSA employee manning the line was on time, of course).
The TSA has been known to take issue flabbergasted by the "lack of a drive" and Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
with products designed in Cupertino the complete absence of "ports on the [Image courtesy of ABC]
before, but for one particular traveler, it back," and while hordes of co-workers
was Apple's thinnest laptop ever that swarmed to investigate, the user's flight after some more in-the-know colleagues Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
caused the latest holdup. Upon tossing his took off on schedule. Thankfully, said explained in painfully simple terms what
ultra-sleek slab of aluminum underneath owner was finally allowed to pass through
8 Tech Gadgets * Your Click and Print Newspaper
Buffalo announces
500GB MiniStation
TurboUSB external HDD
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Sony confirms Giga Juke SC55PKE Submitted at 3/10/2008 4:30:00 AM
By Paul Miller (Engadget) unit and five wireless speakers. The Although Buffalo managed to squeeze one
Submitted at 3/10/2008 3:30:00 AM
E35HD (pictured after the break) keeps it whole terabyte of storage into its new
wired and boring, with a less sexy screen, LinkStation Mini, the firm is looking to
Filed under: Home Entertainment slower CD ripping and the odd
replacement of the SC55PKE's ATRAC USB TiltStick opens up new world give the bytes within its latest external
drive a bit more breathing room. The
Sorry Sony, but we saw these coming back 500GB MiniStation TurboUSB is a touch
in January. Sony just got around to
confirming its new line of Giga Juke home
support for AAC. Yeah, we're not
following that one, Sony. of accelerometer projects more capacious than the previous 320GB
king, and as with other TurboUSB devices,
audio players -- at least in the UK -- after [Via Wired] By Darren Murph (Engadget) makes for the perfect comrade, and what it supposedly offers up "30-percent faster
letting them float around on the internet for Continue reading Sony confirms Giga Juke Submitted at 3/10/2008 1:27:00 AM
you do from there is really only limited by transfer rates than most USB hard drives."
a good couple of months. The networked SC55PKE and E35HD for the UK your imagination. Granted, only the DIY Additionally, the firm throws in its own
SC55PKE has 80GB of storage, 16x CD Filed under: Handhelds veterans in attendance should give this one Shock Resistant technology along with its
ripping, a 4.3-inch LCD and iPod / Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments any serious consideration, but feel free to SecureLockWare in order to prevent
Walkman support, along with a wireless It's not like the modding community at jump on through the break to catch it "unauthorized access in the event the drive
hookup for beaming to a wireless control large hasn't shoved accelerometers within interfacing with N810. is lost or stolen." Heck, you'll even find
vehicles before, but conjuring up projects Memeo's AutoBackup right in the box, and
that utilize acceleration sensing just got a [Via Internet Tablet Talk] as for the box itself, look for it to land later
whole lot easier thanks to the USB Continue reading USB TiltStick opens up this month for a cool $329.
TiltStick. Reportedly, the minuscule device new world of accelerometer projects
features a two axis acceleration sensor and Permalink | Email this | Comments
emulates a USB joystick in order to play Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
nice with any USB-equipped host. In
particular, a standard PC or Nokia's N810
Modder builds his own coffee table PC, your coffee table still sucks
By Paul Miller (Engadget) This guy built his very own touchable automatically towards whoever is grubbing
Submitted at 3/10/2008 2:22:00 AM
coffee table PC with a 24-inch display and up the display at that point.
a ceiling-mounted camera for tracking
Filed under: Desktops, Displays hand motions. Since it's part of his [Via Geeky Gadgets]
dissertation for his software engineering
While we wait for those Microsoftees to degree, Xylomn also worked up some Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
pull it together and get real with a custom software which allows users to table allows for multiple users at once, and
shippable version of Surface, we can enjoy beam media to the PC via Bluetooth, and the interface part of the software rotates
the valiant efforts of modders like Xylomn. then geotag it on a touchable map. The
Your Click and Print Newspaper Tech Gadgets * Technology * 9
entirely different level. As you can clearly these next weekend. By Thomas Ricker (Engadget) forum jockeys riding the Zuneboards. The
see in the image above, one particular Submitted at 3/10/2008 1:13:00 AM
Tattoo Series is now $10 or $15 for the
engineering soul figured a spare Macintosh Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Artist Series. Custom engravings are still
SE case would look a whole lot better in Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable free. Of course, there's no better way to
Video keep those Zunes original than to charge
cold, cash money for off-the-shelf designs.
It couldn't last forever. Now those free,
laser-etched designs of the Zune Originals [Thanks, Mike]
series will cost ya. Microsoft quietly made
the switch sometime over the last few Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
weeks (if not the weekend) according to
The Best Things In Life May Be Free, But It Cost $400 Million To Get The Beatles On iTunes
By Duncan Riley (TechCrunch) Now give me money Under the deal, the money will be for the Holy Grail of music downloads.
Submitted at 3/10/2008 12:05:08 AM
That’s what I want distributed to Ringo Starr, the families of (via CrunchGear)
That’s what I want, yeah George Harrison and John Lennon, Crunch Network: CrunchGeardrool over
The best things in life are free That’s what I want… Michael Jackson, EMI and Sony, along the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
But you can keep them for the birds and Paul McCartney has signed a $400 million with McCartney getting his share as well.
bees deal with Apple for the distribution of the entire Beatles’ back catalog on iTunes. The deal finally finishes Steve Job’s quest
10 Technology * Social Net * Your Click and Print Newspaper
Digg Users Are Doing Their Best To Kill Watch Out FriendFeed:
An Acquisition Socialthing! Is Even Easier
By Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) one less viewer. Those fuckers taint
Submitted at 3/9/2008 3:25:06 PM to Use
Digg users tend to get pissed off about a
everything they touch.
• Is this for real come on Kevin don’t give
up to digg to these huge companies. What By Mark Hendrickson (TechCrunch)
lot of things. Any story about Microsoft, makes digg so special and fun is that it’s
Submitted at 3/10/2008 1:05:34 AM
for example. Or anything that criticizes independent this is not a good idea.
Apple. Usually, the ability to bury stories • If Microsoft purchases this site, go ahead There are a bazillion social network
about non-mob-approved topics, combined and make your last act to institute a ‘delete aggregators out there (Mike attempted to you’ve become friends with people
with the comment area under headlines, is your account’ function. round up some of the most notable ones elsewhere. In contrast, FriendFeed requires
enough of a release valve to settle things • This is terrible news. Lets see if we can here). FriendFeed is the most visible of you to both explicitly designate friends
down. have yet another viable outlet bought up by them all for two main reasons: it was during the initial configuration (either one-
But not always - and Digg has a track Reddit. I like Digg more, but either of huge conglomerates which try to feed us founded a group of ex-Googlers and, as a by-one or through Facebook/Gmail
record of surrendering to the mob when those scenarios would kill Digg for me.If what we are allowed to think and censor consequence, benefits from a clean and importing) and manually add new friends
things get really bad. MS is in, I’m out. our beliefs. I tell you what. If digg is sold, easy-to-use design. over time.
Based on some of the comments to this • OK guys, Kevin doesn’t give half a shit I’m not coming here anymore! Kevin But FriendFeed’s going to have some Another benefit Socialthing! has over
story about Digg’s officially-not- about you. He cares about what all please don’t let this happen. Tell us this is serious competition from a TechStars FriendFeed is its focus on allowing users
happening (but happening nonetheless) americans care about: $500,000,000 in his about more than money. startup called Socialthing!, which makes it to send data back to social services (if you
acquisition, Digg users are getting all riled pocket. Good old capitalism, eh?Goodbye even easier to get an overview of what want to respond to someone’s tweet, for
up for another fight. Particularly if the Digg… Its been good knowing you… too your friends are doing on the web. example, you can do so directly from
buyer ends up being Microsoft. bad you were gobbled up by corporate So far, the feedback is mostly pleading, not Socialthing! officially goes into private Socialthing!). On the other hand,
A sample of the 544 comments left on that america. I remember back in the day when angry (see this blog post). But as things beta today and will let in the first 1,000 FriendFeed is all about reading data from
story: you were a bastion of free speech and progress, this could turn nasty, and fast. TechCrunch readers who use the invitation services but not about writing it back.
• Don’t sell Digg Kevin! Digg this story unfettered entertainment, but no longer. I Mixx, Reddit and other competitors, I’m code “TechCrunch” to sign up (you’ll have While FriendFeed generally takes more
he needs to know how we feel! guess I will have to revert back to the “best sure, are looking forward to that to wait a few days to get your account, effort, its approach does have unique
• Why not sell digg when you don’t care of” section of Craigslist. Don’t sell your happening, and will be more than happy to however). The service primarily differs advantages. You can follow friends of
about the community. Sell it and we will soul. pick up any stray Digg users who abandon from FriendFeed in the way it determines friends on FriendFeed and see updates
be happy. • As long as they lets us delete our the much-loved/much-hated which of your friends to track. While from services that you don’t personally
• Somehow i think if Microsoft manages accounts D i g g . C r u n c h B a s e FriendFeed actually requires users to use, all because FriendFeed users have
to buy digg a larger revolt than 09 F9 11… • I am new to digg.com and I really like it. InformationDiggInformation provided by create their own list of friends on more independently-defined presences.
will happen, at least i know what i will do If Microsoft were to buy it that would be it CrunchBase FriendFeed, Socialthing! realizes you FriendFeed also supports a wider range of
• I would have to see how things went for me. I will remove it from my favorites Crunch Network: MobileCrunchMobile probably don’t want to create yet another services than Socialthing! (28 vs. 11,
afterward. If Google tried to shoehorn their and never come back. Gadgets and Applications, Delivered list of your friends. So instead of asking although Facebook updates are noticeably
“style” in to Digg’s interfaces (see: • Dude. If Microsoft gets its fucking hands Daily. you to do more work, it automatically lacking from FriendFeed). Time, however,
Jotspot), or if Microsoft tried to turn it in to on this site then you will definitely have detects who your friends are on the social should narrow the gap.
a Windows program, I would switch to services to which you belong. In the end, whether FriendFeed succeeds
more than Socialthing! will depend on
Gigya Gets $9.5M to Grow Widget Ads The distinction may sound inconsequential
but Socialthing!’s method actually makes
whether people are looking for another
community or just a way to easily track
By Kristen Nicole (Mashable!) seeing some good results from its Wildfire I’ve mentioned with several other widget things a lot easier, both for initial set up their existing ones. I suspect the latter will
initiative, reporting hundreds of thousands ad networks, the tracking and analytics are and for longer term maintenance. When be the case.CrunchBase
Submitted at 3/9/2008 2:27:54 PM InformationSocialthing!FriendFeedTechSt
of widget installs per day, tracking over 3 all very important. This is for the purpose you sign up for Socialthing!, you only have
Widget platform Gigya has just raised $9.5 billion widget impressions per month. of providing a viable and attractive to provide it with your credentials to sites arsInformation provided by CrunchBase
million in a Series B round of financing, With the funds, Gigya will focus on alternative to traditional web like Facebook and Pownce. And as time Crunch Network: MobileCrunchMobile
led by Mayfield Fund. Additional growing out its platform, and further advertisements, and a way to offer a more goes by, you don’t have to worry about Gadgets and Applications, Delivered
investment comes from existing investors pushing its core Wildfire technology, as inclusive set of feedback mechanisms for setting up new friends on the service Daily.
Benchmark Capital and First Round well as its ad network. utilizing widgets as advertising methods. because it will automatically know that
Capital. Gigya is really looking at ways in which ShareThis
Just a few weeks ago, Gigya added some marketers can provide more content-rich
major updates to its ad network, and is solutions for their campaign efforts, and as
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Venture Financing For Adult Content Social Network Music discovery social network (most
famous for its Facebook application) iLike
By Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) Facebook investor. Both are investors in likely stay there until early 2009), although will be streamed in its entirety beginning
Submitted at 3/9/2008 12:25:43 AM
Slide. current users are given invitations to give March 24th - a week before is US release
John Malloy of BlueRun Ventures and to their friends. That means that most on April 1st. R.E.M. will also record an
Zivity is an adult content social network Luke Nosek of Founders Fund join Zivity people joining the site today already know exclusive video message for iLike users in
and user generated content site (they call it co-founders Scott Banister, Cyan Banister someone who’s using it, and can add them which they’ll introduce and discuss the
“Promoting Beauty 2.0). It has the (who also models for the site) and Jeffrey as a friend. In my “testing” of the site I album. The album is called “Accelerate”
distinction of being one of the first adult Wescott on the company’s board of noticed that the current users seem active and if you still hope it’ll be better than
content startups to be backed by venture directors. in voting and friending. My guess is that “Automatic For The People,” wake the hell
capital via a $1 million seed round in 2007, The site allows both amateur and building the community slowly but up. It won’t.
and it caused quite a stir at its official professional models and photographers to focusing on active users is a good way to This is cool news for iLike, which has
launch at TechCrunch40. As we mentioned show their stuff. Users vote on those that go. And besides, anyone that really wants really gone a long way. One day, everyone
last month, mainstream press is starting to they like, which channel real dollars to the in can get an invitation on around you is telling you that making
pay serious attention to them. talent. The more votes, the more money. InviteShare.CrunchBase Facebook apps is a waste of time and that
The company will announce a new $7 The basic site is free, but users must pay to InformationZivityInformation provided by it’ll never amount to anything, and the next
million round of financing in a deal led by vote. About 40% of gross revenue is given CrunchBase day a huge rock band is streaming its new
both BlueRun Ventures and Founders directly to the talent. With a recent feature that shows who is adding who as Crunch Network: CrunchBoardbecause it’s album through your service. Next step:
Fund. The company has now raised a total redesign, the site is focused much more on friends, and which models users have time for you to find a new Job2.0 Rolling Stones give exclusive distribution
of $8 million. The social networking social networking - users and talent have voted for. rights for their new album for a plugin of a
experience that these VCs add is profile pages and can add each other as Zivity remains in private beta (and will widget in an iPhone app.
substantial. Founders Fund is an early friends. They’ve even added a news feed ShareThis
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Filed under: OpEd, The Simpsons, Episode Filed under: TV on DVD, Animation,
Reviews Contests and Giveaways, South ParkThis
(S19E14) "Oh boy, dinnertime! The time we've got five copies of South Park
perfect break between work and drunk." -- Imaginationland on DVD for five lucky,
Homer J. Simpson random commenters. The DVD is
Before I get to the review as a whole for available in stores tomorrow.
this week's installment of The Simpsons I
want to talk about one of the most To enter, simply leave a comment below
disturbing scenes that has ever graced this before 5:00PM Eastern, Friday, March 14,
program. It involves Homer, who is simply telling us your favorite quote from
breaking his one millionth diet or South Park. As always, we'll randomly
something. In one scene he's shown choose five winners amongst the eligible
the guys in the control truck to turn the entries. Some other details:
entering a room of a sleazy motel with
what looks like another woman. Turns out
hidden cameras off. Brrr!
Other than that, this was a pretty good • To enter, leave a confirmed comment South Park Imaginationland on DVD
Human Giant: The
it's just a rack of meat (I think it was lamb,
I couldn't hear Homer) dripping in its own
episode. below stating your favorite quote from
South Park.
(valued at $19.99).
TV Squad
juices. He then goes about treating the Continue reading The Simpsons: Dial 'N'
meat like a lover, sucking on the juices, for Nerder
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14, 2008 at 5:00PM Eastern Time. Click here for complete Official Rules. Interview - AUDIO
caressing it, and even bringing it to the
shower with him. I was in total agreement • You may enter only once. By Joel Keller (TV Squad)
Permalink | Email this | | Comments • Five winners will be selected in a Permalink | Email this | | Comments
with the host of Sneakers -- the fictitious Submitted at 3/10/2008 4:02:00 AM
television show that was a parody of the random drawing.
real-life show Cheaters -- when he asked • Five winners will receive a copy of
He's Got in Star Trek If this sounds like an entertaining idea for a
documentary ... too bad. Someone already
By Elisabeth Rappe (Cinematical) made it. Get your own idea. But here's the
Submitted at 3/10/2008 2:32:00 AM
next best thing: If you'd like to organize a
(FREE!) screening of Michael
Filed under: Classics, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Bleiden'sSuper High Me for you and your
P a r a m o u n t , F a n d o m , pals, you can do so starting on (you
Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and guessed it) April 20. You don't even have
SequelsHas there ever been a set more to smoke weed while you watch it! It's
tightly guarded than J.J. Abrams' Star Trek funny either way! (Erik Davis' full review
reboot? of Super High Me will appear on this very
Even Eric Bana was twitchy and guarded blog in the very near future. But here's a
on Jay Leno about his shaved head, as if preview: He liked it.)
we don't already know who he's playing.
Head on over to the official b-side.com/
I respect it. It's nice when everything isn't Super High Me website to check out all the
spoiled right off the bat, but it doesn't seem "Roll Your Own Screening" information.
as though your actors should fear you. Over at The Hollywood Reporter, Screen
Media's Suzanne Blech summed it up
ButEmpire managed to get Simon Pegg, borrowing his wife's "merry [Scottish] nicely: ""It can be difficult to get stoners
who's playing that famous Scottish accent" for the part, but isn't at liberty to off the couch ... The number of people who
engineer, to talk a bit. He revealed he had say whether she's a Highlander, a get stoned in America is quite a large
SXSW Review: The finished his scenes and that he thinks the
movie is going to be "fantastic." A Star
Trek geek himself, the biggest moment for
Lowlander or of that special Glasgow
variety. "I'll get sued," insists Pegg. (That
means it is Glasgow and fans will be
percentage, and all we want for them is to
tell their friends that they have to see this
funny, funny movie." Well, speaking as a
him was "just being there on the big fan of ...comedy, I can agree with
Promotion Enterprise, it was incredible."
Filed under: Drama, Independent, Casting, Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, SXSW: Film
CastingAfter the shock of Heath Ledger's
RumorMongerI imagine that the
posthumous completion of Destino sent death, there were questions about his latest
project, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium
Festival Madness
many a studio into a creative flurry.
"Salvador Dali! Why didn't we think of it of Dr. Parnassus. Then came rumors last By Kim Voynar (Cinematical)
before! Let's get a movie in the works!" month from AICN that Johnny Depp, Jude Submitted at 3/9/2008 12:02:00 PM
Then, of course, the idea spread through a Law, and Colin Farrell would ALL step in
to replace the actor. Well, the site was Filed under: SXSW, Festival Reports,
billion little tentacles and we ended up Cinematical Indie
with what Christopher Campbell said last right! Reuters reports that the filmmaker
year was 9 projects. Some have petered has confirmed the involvement of all three
actors. Saturday was a very busy day here at
off, some have stayed around, and one SXSW. We were up absurdly late on
seems to have nabbed its superstar. Friday night, and then awakened at 8AM
According to a statement from producers:
"Since the format of the story allows for by a car alarm going off outside our
The New Zealand Herald says that Johnny window, followed by all four of my kids'
Depp is holding auditions to find the preservation of his entire performance, am delighted that Heath's brilliant
works. Now, I completely get Depp as at no point will Heath's work be modified soccer coaches calling me from OKC to let
screenwriters for the Peter Rawley- Dali, and think that's as good as you can performance can be shared with the world. me know that today's games were canceled
produced Dali picture. (When CC wrote or altered through the use of digital We are looking forward to finishing the
get for the epic artist. I would also bet that technology." They follow with: "Each of due to cold weather. Thanks, guys, but I'm
about it last year, Rawley was trying to O'Toole could pull off something funky, movie and, through the film, with a in Austin. After the panel this morning, I
woo Depp.) In what I would call the best the parts played by Johnny, Colin, and modicum of humility, being able to touch
but Pacino? It almost sounds like a joke. Jude is representative of the many aspects grabbed lunch with filmmaker AJ Schnack
casting move in eons, Depp will star as Nevertheless, this might just pull me out of people's hearts and souls as Heath was able
of the character that Heath was playing." to do."Read | Permalink | Email this | (Kurt Cobain: About a Son), who also
Dali, and is scavenging the earth for the my distaste for back-to-back biopics on the writes a very excellent blog called All
right writer. A source told the publication same person. Stay tuned! Comments These Wonderful Things.
that Depp is "open to working with anyone For once, it seems like Gilliam's notorious
-- from housewives to pensioners -- if the bad luck will pay off into something
[via Ace Showbiz] special. In the words of the man himself: "I We gabbed about documentaries, traveling
script is right." Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments for film fests, balancing work and family,
and lots of other stuff; he's a supremely
Meanwhile, it also looks like the Al Pacino nice guy and it's always fun chatting with
and Peter O'Toole pics are still in the someone who's as big a dork for
documentary films as I am. Our lunch ran
Can Apatow Reinvigorate Sandler's Career with long due to crowds at all the area
restaurants, so I missed the screening of