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Here’s a flowchart that might help you.

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This is an awesome new feature from Google Maps:

As you drag your new destination point, the route changes on the fly to give you an idea of how your new point will change your route. It’s always been a little annoying—especially when you want to send a map to another person—when you know the default directions don’t highlight the best route, so this excellent and easy-to-use feature will certainly come in useful. To undo your changes, just right-click the new destination point and select “Remove this destination.”

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WANT!

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I suppose this is one way of dealing with information overload.

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Television Without Pity was bought by Bravo.

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New targeted advertising in 4 cities for MINI drivers — as a MINI owner, you can create a message to be displayed whenever you drive by one of their billboards. A little key fob with a RFID chip triggers the message when it comes within range of the billboard.

Sounds like an interesting way of reinforcing the MINI brand, especially after hearing about the build/buy process from Rita.

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Seven Habits of Highly Successful Websites

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CD-ROM drive tray + Linux = computer controlled cat feeder.

Not necessarily because you should, but because you can.

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Ugh. This makes my brain hurt.

(Stolen from Slashdot):

“Following a previous story on Washington State making online gambling a felony, the Seattle Times reports that the first legal salvos have begun. ‘The first casualty in the state’s war on Internet gambling is a local Web site where nobody was actually doing any gambling. What a Bellingham man did on his site was write about online gambling. He reviewed Internet casinos. He had links to them, and ran ads by them. All that, says the state — the ads, the linking, even the discussing — violates a new state law barring online wagering or using the Internet to transmit ‘gambling information … Telling people how to gamble online, where to do it, giving a link to it — that’s all obviously enabling something that is illegal.’”

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Congress Readies New Digital Copyright Bill
CNet (04/23/06) McCullagh, Declan

Despite several years of pressure from technology companies and academics to moderate the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Congress is poised to move in the other direction with an expansion of the bill’s prohibitions against software that evades copy protections.

Major copyright holders such as the Recording Industry Association of America have already voiced support for the draft legislation, which also expands the wiretapping and enforcement powers of federal police.

The proposed legislation, drafted by the Bush administration and supported by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), would create the new federal crime of intentionally bypassing copyright protections that would be punishable, regardless if the piracy was successful or not, by up to 10 years in prison.

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Aside from the readily available sushi and sake, and the advanced electronics that we get 3-5 years later, I present you with yet another reason to live in Japan:

Asahi robot bartender.

After dispensing it’s 6 internally-stored frosty beers in perfect pours, it will track down Sarah Connor.

Sweeeeet.

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MPAA admits to unauthorized movie copying.

ON PREVIEW: Okay, so I lied. I couldn’t help myself.

Three things come to mind:

1. DOOOOOOO’OOOOOH!

2. Does this mean that they’re going to have to sue themselves?

3. What does this mean for all of the pending lawsuits, where the RIAA is suing people based on the intent of finanial gains?

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So Apple was trying to be all sneaky and be like:
We’re expecting the new Intel-based Macs in June 2006.

But then today at MacWorld, Apple was all like:
Bla-am, suckers! Fooled you! They’re on the store now!

So they certainly look pretty. And they’re 4-5 times faster than a Powerbook. And it’s a dual-core system. And it runs OSX and *nix, and should be able to run Windows natively. But it’s still $2000 for their entry model, which only has 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive.

And no comparative benchmarks vs. a non-Mac system, which is what they need to do to win the converts.

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PCWorld (via Yahoo) has an awesome article on the 50 greatest electronic gizmos of the last half-century. Each item is presented with a breif description as to why it had such a large impact on the world technological culture.

Of course, you may disagree with some of the items on the list. I certainly do.

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Here’s an interesting article reflecting on the social ramifications of wireless technology as well as its affect on the boundaries between work and play.

*Article actually has nothing to do with yermoM. I just whipped her out for fun.

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