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DONZ Panels. A DONZ 3-screen display system can display 3840×1024 (3.9 million) legible pixels, and a 5-screen display system can display 6400×1024 (6.5 million) legible pixels. Such high legible resolutions are impossible to achieve on any single CRT monitor. [For those who don't have everything, but want to see everything at the same time.]

Episode II Required Reading. Lucasfilm may love Star Wars geeks, but they are not being very nice to our pocketbooks. On April 23rd, a little less than two months, they are releasing almost all of the Episode II related books at once. From activity books to novelizations to reference materials, it all hits on the same day, and you probably can't afford to buy them all. [Let the Marketing push begin. Again.]

Junk e-mail scourge of cyberspace. Every time Canada's electronic-commerce watchdog signs on to his Ottawa-office e-mail, he faces a number of pressing public-policy issues, such as: “Would you like to jumpstart your desire and enhance your experience?” and “Register to win your Dream Vacation.” [Wow. I just got those same two e-mails, as well as one for Viagra. Again.]

Astin Talks Goonies 2. best part of it is the Goonies are likely to return in a forthcoming sequel says Astin. “Spielberg told me that he's almost happy with the script thatÂ’s being developed. I'm sure it will happen at some point. And all of the Goonies are interested in returning…” [It's about darn time. What else could bring Corey Feldman back from the undead?]

Adobe announces Photoshop 7. As anticipated, Adobe has announced Photoshop 7.0, a substantial upgrade to the industry-standard professional image editing that provides native on OS X support, enhanced multi-processor support and improved interoperability with other native Adobe applications. [Yes, a version is being released for Windows XP, too. Perhaps it's time I abandon my PSP roots in favor for the industry standard?]

Make the world better. If you were given a budget of a trillion US dollars, with the goal of making the world “a better place,” what would you do? [I'd buy flat panel monitors for everyone.]

Intel / Microsoft Wireless. The reference designs, based on the Microsoft® Windows® Powered Pocket PC and Smartphone 2002 software platforms and the Intel® Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel PCA), will promote the rapid development of next-generation wireless applications and services for consumer and enterprise market segments. [Very nice, indeed. I want one. No, I want two.]

Biff to the Future. While driving to dinner last night, Ben and I had our second (yes, second) disagreement in about a month about the progression of Biffs throughout the three Back to the Future movies. [This timeline graphic is a must see. Who is the best Biff? I was always partial to the... wait, they're all one in the same, aren't they?]

Transparent Aluminium. It would appear that the Star Trek dream of transparent “allow-min'nium” (this is from a european site) is now a reality. It's not clear as crystal, but it's here. [Now, if only I could get my mouse to recognize voice commands, I'd be set. Remember how Scotty "hacked" that old Macintosh SE? That was uber cool.]

Cult of the Cluetrain. book is written by a cast of characters who were apparently caught up in the dot-com scene at its peak, and they managed to capture in one book almost all of the lunatic fringe dingbat thinking that characterized the Internet boom. [Dvorak isn't done with us yet. Not by a longshot. What will he overturn next?]

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