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If They Mated - Television And The Internet. How about the Web/TV combination follows its own separate path, becomes a new market, quite different to what's gone before, distinct from both current television and the Web as we know it?

Fairly Unbalanced.. I haven't heard yet from Walter Issacson (CNN), Neal Shapiro (MSNBC) or Roger Ailes(FOX), but that doesn't mean the campaign…

Microsoft Ships Windows 2000 Security Rollup Package. On Wednesday, Microsoft finally shipped its long-awaited Security Rollup Package for Windows 2000, which aggregates all of the security fixes the company has shipped since Windows 2000 Service Pack 2…

Mailwasher…. I watched Call For Help again last night (plus caught the tail end of Screen Savers) and heard Chris Pirillo…

Online Games Go Multicultural. International quests, blood oaths and sword play are coming to online game worlds now that the makers of EverQuest and Lineage have teamed up.

The Incredible Shrinking Hard Drive. The tech industry's story of the incredible shrinking hard-disk drive could be entering a new chapter with Toshiba's recent introduction of 1.8-inch embedded drives sporting storage capacities of 10 GB and 20 GB. The higher capacities and smaller size could clear the way for even thinner notebook PCs, as well as handhelds that pack many more programs and features.

Visual Connections to the Classic Trilogy. Sligty_Worride started this forum thread which has really taken off. Click on the link for piles of visual references connecting Episode II to the classic trilogy. Check it out for comparisons of symbols, characters, ships, locations and more!

Opera for Windows. Opera 6.0 for Windows introduces the looks and the performance of an exceptional Web browser. Opera's user interface has received a major overhaul with the new start-up dialog, and new default…

“Revolution OS” screens at the Miami Film Festival. What is the one thing that Microsoft¹s monopoly will never give you? True freedom. That¹s why a pioneering band of quirky software rebels has been fighting to create an alternative computing universe that no one controls and everyone is free to use. Taking the viewer inside this twenty-year struggle, J.T.S. Moore¹s new documentary film REVOLUTON OS, tells the personal stories of the hackers and programmers who rebelled…

Software bug blamed in radioactive spill. A programming error at a uranium processing plant in Western Australia leads to a failure in a control system and a rupture in a pipe carrying radioactive fluid.

WiFi Metro officially launches: WiFi Metro launches its for-fee service today with about 40 hot spots and 50 more in the works. For $19.95 per month, you get access to their network plus their JumpStart partners. I'm seeing the mesh start to get finer. [80211b News]

WHY - Demise of content sites. It was unbeatable. The royal flush of Web content sites.

More precise disk read / write. ST's L6671 Rotational Accelerometer is a two-part chip that senses vibrations in a spinning disk drive and sends electronic signals to the arm that moves the read/write head across the disk. Informed by real-time data, the heads stay more precisely positioned over the data track. [Geeknews]

States Asked to Examine Microsoft Internet Service. The Electronic Privacy Information Center sent a letter to all 50 state attorneys general, asking them to protect consumers against what it called Microsoft's unfair and deceptive trade practices because the federal government has failed to act. [ActiveWin]

Credit Card Fraud and You. Theft doesn't occur with just the cards you own, but also with the offers you reject.

Free Wireless Networks at Airports. Today's Minneapolis Star-Tribune is carrying an article about the installation of a wireless network throughout Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the first of five such airports across the nation to get a uniform wireless network system.

The Magic behind the Web. Dr. JoAnn Hackos talks about the advantages of content management systems over ad hoc systems to preview her new book “Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery” due in February from John Wiley.

Imaging Resource battery shootout. Kudos to Dave Etchells for posting an excellent (technical and logical) comparison of different brands of high capacity AA NiMH batteries. His comparison (although done outside of a digital camera) measured…

Great Dating Ideas. Being boring is probably the worst thing you can do on a date. At least, that is, if you have any desire to have a second date with the same woman.

3Com Offers Free Hardware. 3Com Corp. is looking for beta testers to evaluate new V.92 modem software that offers 30% to 40% higher throughput with the new V.44 compression standard, quicker connection times, and a Modem on Hold ability, which allows you to “pause the Internet connection on an incoming or outgoing call for a short period of time, then resume it when you are done talking,” according to 3Com.

BBC dumps MP3 for Ogg Vorbis. VNUNet.com reports that “Broadcasting powerhouse the BBC has thrown its weight behind the Ogg Vorbis open source MP3 standard. The BBC opened up live streaming of Radio 4 at the start of this year to test the latest Ogg codecs, particularly the latest Release Candidate 3 which also launched at the start of the year. Ogg is an open source audio compression codec set to rival the popular MP3 format.”