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way off topic... one of my friends showed this to me... such a waste of time, but so funny if you're into cartoon network http://www.nd.edu/~comet/stuff/sounds.html

Two industrial designers at Purdue won Microsoft's ID competition for PC's . The winning design is this hot looking bookshelf-style PC: ...it's great the to see the innovation keep coming from Purdue!

...so after a bit of fiddling with the community server settings, people should now be able to comment without having to sign-in. enjoy!

Virgin Records in India is distributing some regular CD's with copy protection on them . Being someone who works on a product that suffers from billions of dollars of loss due to piracy every year, I should be sympathetic to this, but frankly I think...

eHomeUpgrade has a write up about some legislation restricting the use of recorded analog brodcasts. Not sure how real this is, but sounds pretty frightening. I think this is all part of a massive conspiracy that tv and movie studios have put together...

way off topic... I'm a sucker for cool stamps... so this is really exciting for me. It seems the postal service is going to have some stamps with DC comics characters on them. The design weblog has more info...

I finally got around to reading Paul Thurrott's write up of the December CTP of Windows Vista . I was pleasantly surprised to see that he likes the new Window frame colorization feature we have as part of Aero. With this feature, we reprise some functionality...

Daniel Lehenbauer has updated his 3D Tools Workspace to work with the December CTP bits.

Guy Kawasaki makes some interesting comments on PowerPoint presentations he sees on a regular basis. His 10/20/30 rule is great for anyone doing exec presentations.

HowardForums has some info indicating that the new Windows-based Treo is coming out on January 5th . Now if only I can find a way out of my cingular contract... ;-)

I got sick this weekend, so couldn't really go to BestBuy and stay out in the cold for the "next shipment"... oddly enough, I went to the Best Buy store in Bellevue, WA this past Monday afternoon to get a CD and I notice a guy in a necktie handing a little...

I saw this on one of the gadget blogs I read... red maloo makes some pretty cool laptop sleves...

...even getting notified of when xbox360 is in stock at your local retailer...

yeah I know everyone already subscribes to gizmodo, but I thought this record player with built-in cd-burner was particularly cool... pricey, but sure would be nice to get my records into my media cener...

Cool Hunting points to " Tile Toy " a concept toy that combines programmable LED displays and every kid's favorite toy: "blocks". This looks really fun - wish I had something like it when I was 4...

Microsoft Max now lets you add ink notes to the photos you are sharing. They were able to do this with the ink support that is built into Avalon! Adding ink to your own applications is fun and easy with ink canvas ...

If you use Windows XP Media Center Edition to record television, then this is for you: Creative has just marked down their portable media center to $299 after rebate.

Business 2.0 has an entry on their blog about what its like to be interviewed by Sergey Brin, and also links to Xooglers .

Omar Shahine says he found a plays for sure device that measures up to ipod ... I wonder if it is more scratch resistant than my nano.

The folks behind GeckoTip contacted me and pointed me to a better link for it, along with a newer version that has some important improvements. To get the right/latest one, go here: http://geckotip.mozdev.org

... its very light on content but AOL HI-Q video's picture quality on my toshiba m200 tablet pc is incredible... check it out.

life just got easier . there's now an extension that will make the tablet TIP work properly with firefox. TabletPCBuzz has a thread about it.

George Ou at zdnet has posted a great write up regarding Windows Vista and graphics hardware. One of the most common questions I get about Windows Vista is "will foo graphics card work on Windows Vista?" or "Do I need to get a new graphics card for Windows...

eHomeUpgrade has the story . This fills a big gap in media center edition's hd playback story....

Fruitcast is advertising simple way to make some income from their podcasts by offering to append advertisements to your podcast and then sharing in the profits. Interesting business model...