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The boys at Fez-o-rama have strapped on their dance shoes for The 24 Hour Cancer Danceathon, an event to raise funds for the City of Hope for cancer treatments and research.
Toward that end, the Fezmonger has designed a special edition Atomic Fez and I placed my order today. You know I'll post a photo here when mine comes off the line.
Bob lives in Madison, WI, where it's damned cold. And every morning (and every evening) he hops on his bicycle and peddles pedals five miles to work. Whatever the weather, no matter how cold. Or so he says and I want to believe him. I don't know how you ride a bike in ass-deep snow but Bob says you can (special tires?).
He snapped this photo this morning. It was a few degrees below zero. Note his rosy cheeks.
When it's that cold, what happens when you sling a bucket of warm water into the air? It freezes before it hits the ground.
Update: Willie Lohman "peddles" like his life depends on it. Thanks, E. for the reminder.
I stumbled across an early video effort I'm not sure I've shared. We'll call this a re-run, just in case.
I'd been drankin' a little and set up my camera in the engineering workshop area at work. I ad libbed the full ten minutes and did it in just two takes. You'll see that my character swung from Sling Blade to Ratzo Rizzo and back. The sound sucked because of some equipment sitting next to the work bench.
Some researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have constructed "a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver, orders-of-magnitude smaller than any previous radio, from a single carbon nanotube. The single nanotube serves, at once, as all major components of a radio: antenna, tuner, amplifier, and demodulator."
"The nanotube radio's extremely small size could enable radical new applications such as radio controlled devices small enough to exist in the human bloodstream, or simply smaller, cheaper, and more efficient wireless devices such as cellular phones."
They've provided short videos of this little bugger playing Layla, Good Vibrations, and the Star Wars theme. [Thanks, Trish]
I've always been a cynic when it comes to politics. I recall saying something derisive along the lines of, "I think it's precious that you believe it makes a difference who is in office" when someone would praise or knock a politician.
George Bush and Dick Cheney have burned that cynicism right out of me. It does matter. And while I don't know which candidate --if any-- can get us out of the jam Bush and his buddies have put us in, it's time to stand up and be counted.
I'm voting for Obama. If he wins and makes things worse, you can send me a link to this post and hold me accountable. And I promise not to hide. Funny, but I can't find a Bush supporter anywhere these days.
This post is just for the record. No need for comments. I urge everyone to pick a candidate and support them.
I'm looking for someone with Deadwood DVD's. Not sure which season it was in (I saw it in 2005), but the scene where Swearengen passes the kidney stone. If you have it (own or rent), please get in touch. I've got a busted link in a post from 2005 that I need to fix.
Arianna likens McCain to General Buck Turgidson, George C. Scott's war-loving character in Dr. Strangelove. "I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed - tops!"
On the other hand, the training of the Iraqi army seems to be going well.
When you find yourself in the Fraternal Order of the Eagle Banquet Hall in Jefferson City. That's Missourinet reporter Brent Martin. The faces say it all. [Photo by Jon Allison]
Bob Cesa was live blogging last night's State of the Union. The nugget that caught my eye:
According to the OMB website, in 2005: "there were 13,492 earmarks totaling $18,938,657,000." That was a Republican Congress and the president signed everything that was dumped on his desk. If Hastert dropped a Polish sausage on the White House lawn, the president signed it.
Wisconsin State Journal: "The two candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court will debate for the first time today -- but it won 't be face to face. The candidates will square off during a one-hour Internet radio debate hosted by a UW-Milwaukee student.
The debate is thought to be the first of its kind in a Wisconsin political race, said Kyle Duerstein, the journalism student who is hosting the program. Listeners will be able to hear the candidates debate and call in with questions. It will be the first forum featuring both candidates."
I'd love to know the back story on this. Was there no interest in such a debate by mainstream media? Did Mr. Duerstein just ask the candidates and they agreed? [Thanks, Jackie]
Update: WRN News Director Bob Hague talked with Mr. Duerstein about the debate.Download/Listen to interview (MP3)
A week ago I posted about doing an iChat consultation with my new doc. Tonight I found this story about a doctor in Washington who has taken his entire practice online:
Dr. Howard Stark's office is quiet. Very quiet. No patients sit in his waiting room. No receptionist answers the telephone. Stark does not have a receptionist. Instead, he and his assistant Michele Norris-Bell check e-mail alerts on handheld devices and -- between seeing patients in person -- on a desktop computer.
Stark has moved most of his practice, based in Washington, onto the Internet and he couldn't be happier. Since he started his Web-based service two years ago, he has received 14,000 e-mails. And yet, he feels more like an old-fashioned family doctor in a small town than a modern, harried physician.
' "That's 14,000 phone calls that we did not have to answer and that patients did not have to make," ' Stark said.
He does not charge for answering an e-mail. "You have to come in one time a year for an annual exam," Stark said.
The idea --which makes more sense if you read the full story-- came to him while booking a flight.
"I was sitting here and making a seat assignment to go to Miami. And I said, 'why is it I can make a seat assignment four months in advance and my patients can't book a half-hour appointment? I started thinking of other things that could be done online."
For instance, written instructions on how to prepare for a colonoscopy, general health tips, or information on Lyme disease.
Which reminded me of the Living Healthy Podcast.
I really think we'll be seeing more of this.
For all the whiners bitching about the MacBook air. [Rodrigo via Cult of Mac]
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Can anyone tell me why she would pick a song from 30+ years ago? Could it be because that's where you find the best rock? Hmm?
My friend and co-worker Darin managed to snag a seat in Obama's plane last night but left his mic cord at home so we don't have what I'm sure was a fine report. Darin is trying to scare up fodder for a new podcast called Press Pass.
I found the following comment on one of our network blogs:
"i was looking online for a school project and ran acrost a small comment by obama that said"band all semi atomatic weapons" banding ALL semi auto guns wouldnt make a differns. that wont stop kids from coming to schools with guns! in some case's it will just agrravate them to do it more as an act of rebeling."
I don't know which frightens me more... the thought of this little fucker with a gun or that he's a product of our education system.
Doc Searls says the Net makes radio and TV transmitters obsolete the moment high-enough-bandwidth wireless connectivity becomes ubiquitous.
"We’re one good UI away from the cell phone becoming a radio. (Thanks to the iPhone, it already serves as a TV.) And we’re one smart cell company away from radio- and TV-as-we-know-it from being replaced entirely -- or from moving up the next step of the evolutionary ladder. Public broadcasters know that. That’s one reason they now call themselves “public media”, a move that separates the category from its transport methods.
Will this someday be an issue for our networks? Radio Iowa. Wisconsin Radio Network. Nebraska Radio Network. Time will tell.
One of my earliest posts (2/18/02) was a gush about the 1993 film True Romance. I titled the post: "It Ain't White Boy Day Is It?" ...one of many great lines in the movie.
Of the 3,000+ posts here at smays.com, that one still gets the most comments. But I'm more proud of the fact that this post is the #1 Google search result for "white boy day."
Out of how many results, you ask? Put quotation marks around the phrase: 5,490. No quotation marks: 9,880,000. This is why we blog.
CNN just bailed on Hillary's "concession" speech. In fact, it was a rambling stump speech that sounded really lame coming on the heels of Obama's ass-kicker. (One part JFK, one part MLK). HRC should have said congrats and thanks headed for the locker room. And did you see the grim faces of the folks sitting behind her? Last time I saw faces like that was in the witness room at the execution I attended some years ago.
Jim Lipsey was one of Learfield's first employees. He was part of the KLIK gang (Derry Brownfield and Bob Priddy) that helped Clyde Lear get the company up and running. No way Clyde could leave Jim out of his History of Learfield posts on the company blog. There's also a summary on the corporate site.
On Friday we got Clyde, Jim and Bob in a studio to talk about those early days and Jim's contributions (there were many). Jim will be 87 his next birthday. I want to be him when I grow up. When I joined the company in 1984, Jim showed me the ropes of affiliate relations. It was a privilege to work with him. Here's 10 minutes from a half-hour chat.
I never visit the J-Walk Blog without finding something interesting. Today it was sleevefaces. 
There are hundreds of these. Too many to browse in one sitting and the J-Walk'er picked a couple of good ones. Dog lovers might enjoy this one.
I'm selling I have sold my beloved Marantz PMD660 Digital Recorder. It's in mint condition, I just want something smaller. You can see all the specs on the 660 here and if you happen to be in the Jefferson City area, I'll let you take it for a test drive.
The PMD660 sells for between $450-500, and I'm starting at $225. If there are any budding podcasters out there, this would be a good recorder. You can reach me at stevemays@gmail.com.
UPDATE: That didn't take long. And we have found it a good home with a podcaster who wants to crank out more programs. More on that later.
Cult of Mac: "During Macworld, Steve Jobs told the New York Times that Apple will not make an e-book reader like Amazon’s Kindle because Americans don’t read any longer. He cited a specific number: 40 percent of Americans read a book or less a year, he said." [emphasis mine]
"Jobs may have been referring to a November report from the National Endowment of the Arts, To Read or Not To Read, which found that nearly 50 percent of 18-24 year-olds do not read at all for pleasure. Described as the most complete survey of reading trends, the report says Americans aged 15-24 spend two hours a day watching TV, but only 7-10 minutes reading. This includes reading for school or college."
Six out of ten Americans don't read one book a year? That amazes me and it doesn't.
Kennett (Missouri) police recently assisted a U. S. Marshal in apprehending 66-year-old Pearl Elizabeth Martin, who escaped from a Georgia prison. In 1969. How did they track Ms. Martin down? Last Wednesday afternoon, she backed into a parked Kennett police car that was parked in the Kennett City Hall parking lot. A computer check eventually revealed that she was wanted for the escape 40 years ago.
Fluorescent light diffusers are those plastic panels that cover the fluorescent tubes in the ceiling of your office or cube. The clever folks at Sky-Scapes have created some cools scenes to add a little fun and/or beauty to that space above your head.
You can get blue sky with clouds; jets streaking across the sky; ocean scenes that make it appear you are under water... or you can have your favorite Dilbert character peering down at you.
Not sure I can get approval for my office but I'll post a photo if I do.
My friend Chuck understands the power of new media as well as anyone I know. Not in the abstract. He lives it and breathes it. He's posted 100+ video clips on YouTube that have --collectively-- been viewed 170,000 times. One of those --a John Deere product introduction-- has been viewed 15,000 times.
Question for anyone who thinks they're in the "media business" in 2008: Do you know how to post a video clip on YouTube? If you don't, you aren't.
Good post by Terry Heaton that speaks to the "accuracy" of stories reported online. His case in point was the early --and inaccurate-- report that Heath Ledger died in the apartment of Mary Kate Olsen.
"What people are seeing now is an old-fashioned process -- reporting -- as it unfolds in real time. If the public wants its information as raw and immediate as possible, it’ll have to get used to a few missteps along the way, and maybe even approach breaking stories with a bit of skepticism, like a good reporter would.
So a part of the “process” of news is mistakes, and the ethical question is does it matter in a world of news-as-a-process? I’m not so sure it does, as long as mistakes are corrected -- just as, I might add, they are corrected in the news gathering process in professional newsrooms."
Jeff Jarvis is attending Davos08 (a "World Economic Forum), where "small video cameras are the hot thing," and he's posted a short video clip (with the editor of a big German newspaper) he (Jarvis) shot with one of the little FlipVideo cameras.
These things --which are cheap and the video isn't too bad-- seem to have been designed for making it easy to shoot video and put it up on the web. The camera even has a little flip-out USB connector you just slot into your computer.
From the image on the website, it looks like there are just three buttons on this thing. I was skeptical until I saw the video Jarvis posted. If you're looking for something easy and fun, this might be it.
Missouri governor Matt Blunt met with reporters at the Capitol this morning to discuss yesterday's surprising announcement that he will not seek a second term. Blunt says he has accomplished the goals he announced for his administration during the 2004 campaign and feels it is time to move on and to spend more time with his wife and son.
When this story broke late Tuesday, I Googled around and found this highly produced video on YouTube. (I found it interesting the governor chose to to break the story on his own YouTube channel) Here's a photo our reporter shot at this morning's news conference. I'll ask around the newsroom, but can anyone tell me why the governor would video the event? Do the record all news conferences? If so, why?
Update: Don't know why it didn't dawn on me that this was some news photog. There were a dozen or so covering the news conference. The gov's staff shot some stills but no video. Never mind.
I think this (deciding not to run for a second term) adds weight to my theory (which I've posted previously) that Republicans are quietly and secretly fleeing the planet. I've lost track of how many have mysteriously left congress ("to spend more time with my family").
I'm convinced there's a Starship being readied at a secret base in the New Mexico desert. One by one ("let's not all leave at once") the GOP is getting out of Dodge (or Earth in this instance) before the shit hits the fan. If you have a more plausible theory, comments are welcome.
My former family physician was/is a very wired guy. Very web/tech savvy. That was handy because I could shoot him an email when I had a question and he'd respond. When he hung up his stethoscope, I gave up any notion of finding another doc similarly disposed.
I'm pleased to report that my new doc (who must remain nameless) is equally geeked out. So when he suggested we might try a "virtual office visit," I was surprised and delighted.
We did a little trial run this morning (not him or me in the photo). I had a few questions and he answered them. It was like sitting in his examining room. Of course, there will be times when he'll need to lay on hands but for a lot of doctor-patient communication, video chat works fine.
Is this the future of medicine? Who knows. Certainly not for everyone. But for the right physician and the right patient... it's a pretty efficient use of resources and time.
My pal Jamie is not a professional interviewer but did a first rate job with this podcast (from 2005) featuring screenwriter, director and filmmaker (and brother-in-law), Tom Sylla. I especially enjoyed hearing Tom talking about some of the sound work he did for Ben Burtt on the early Star Wars movies and the first Indiana Jones film. (Some nifty Star Wars trivia in this podcast)
Maybe it's just my love of video shot with cheap, hand-held cameras, but I really enjoyed Cloverfield. (Has anyone ever made a good monster-destroys-Manhattan movie?) You can watch the trailer at the official movie website and get all the particulars at IMBD.
I loved the camera work. From the get-go, I was there. At the party. In the street. A little motion sickness but nothing I couldn't live with.
Rating on IMDB is 8.1 (out of 10) and (so far) nobody has posted a plot synopsis (I was tempted but didn't know what to say). I enjoyed this movie. Running time: 15 minutes.
Update: The story is supposed to have been shot with a cheapo handheld consumer camera. Convincing the audience of that point was one of the movie's most successful angles. Here's the camera they actually used.
Update: Here's what William Gibson had to say about the movie:
"I saw Cloverfield last night, and nothing about it bugged me more than those quotes around "Central Park" on the DoD evidence tag that opens the film. It immediately tells us that this film has not been made by native science fiction minds. If Central Park is no longer called Central Park, but is officially referred to as "the area formerly known as 'Central Park'", but the DoD still exists, we know that this is not a *far-future* evidence tag. So if Central Park is now known as "The Killing Fields", or "The Ghastly Black Glass Ocean", then *tell* us. Those quotes are extraordinarily clumsy (and the card itself is typographically unconvincing). Very first thing in the film. Matters. Hugely."
Mr. Gibson (my favorite author) obviously has a greater eye for detail than I. Would love to know what he thought of the rest of the movie.
Old pal Trish sent along this excerpt from an essay by Albert Einstein (Living Philosophies):
"My passionate interest in social justice and social responsibility has always stood in curious contrast to a marked lack of desire for direct association with men and women. I am a horse for single harness, not cut out for tandem or team work. I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or state, to my circle of friends, or even to my own family. These ties have always been accompanied by a vague aloofness, and the wish to withdraw into myself increases with the years.
Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it, to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions, and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations."
I'm thinking AE didn't participate in the Secret Santa program either. I feel better.
Oliver Stone's next move is "Bush," a film focusing on the life and presidency of George W. Bush. Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men) will portray W. In an interview in Variety, Stone says he wants to present a "true portrait of the the man."
"How did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world? It's like Frank Capra territory on one hand, but I'll also cover the demons in his private life, his bouts with his dad and his conversion to Christianity, which explains a lot of where he is coming from. It includes his belief that God personally chose him to be president of the United States, and his coming into his own with the stunning, preemptive attack on Iraq. It will contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors."
I think Oliver Stone is capable of making a good (or great?) movie. I loved Platoon and Wall Street. JFK, not so much. But it sounds like they're trying to get this movie in theaters by November and that makes me a little suspicious. Why not wait until the guys is out of office?
PS: Bet W loves the choice of Josh Brolin ("Damn! It's like lookin' in a mirruh!")
"Andrew Curry, in “Intel Inside,” Wired 16 (February 2008), describes how efforts are being made, with the help of computers, to put back together Stasi files shredded as the Iron Curtain crashed. The Stasi, the East German secret police, sought to destroy its records, shredding by machine and ripping by hand 45 million documents into 600 million paper scraps. In May 2007 German computer scientists announced they had developed a way of doing this digitally, and that they could do it in five years – an amazing accomplishment if it is done given that the documents are “made of everything from carbon paper and newsprint to Polaroid and heavy file folders.” [from Reading Archives]
I was feeling pretty good, reading about this project, until I came across this little nugget near the end:
"In November (2007), the first children born after the fall of the wall turned 18. Evidence suggests many of them have serious gaps in their knowledge of the past. In a survey of Berlin high school students, only half agreed that the GDR was a dictatorship. Two-thirds didn't know who built the Berlin Wall."
No matter what kind of evil shit a government pulls, just one generation later and people don't remember or don't care. I think W will be okay.
"A man with a chainsaw attacked four people at KNLJ Channel 25 Saturday, leaving two critically injured. Police say twenty-eight year old Matthew Watkins is originally from the St. Louis area and authorities say he's been staying at the homeless shelter that sits on the grounds of the T.V. station for the past couple weeks.
When deputies arrived on the scene just after two o’clock p.m.Saturday they found the suspect wielding a chainsaw. Deputies then arrested the suspect at gunpoint." More on the story at KRCG Online.
I only mention it because it happened just up the road in New Bloomfield. (For the record, I didn't write the last sentence in the first 'graph.)
Update: “One of our staff members apparently had a mental breakdown - I guess you could say he went ballistic,” Tom Branham, an employee, tells the Fulton Sun. “First he was running around poking people - he poked a guy in the neck with, I think, a pencil - then he came after people with a chainsaw.” [USA Today]
Broadcast Engineering reports the findings from a new Sacred Heart University poll showing a significant decline in the percentage of Americans who say they believe all or most of media news reporting (compared to a 2003 poll).
"Currently, 19.6 percent of those surveyed said they believe all or most news media reporting, down from 27.4 percent in 2003. Just less than one-quarter in 2007 said they believed little or none of the reporting, while 55.3 percent suggested they believed some media news reporting.
The poll revealed that Americans generally gave the national news media poor ratings in six different areas measured. The average positive ratings were:
* Quality of reporting -- 40.7 percent
* Accuracy of reporting -- 36.9 percent
* Keeping any personal bias out of stories -- 33.3 percent
* Fairness -- 31.3 percent
* Presenting an even balance of views -- 30.4 percent
* Presenting negative and positive news equally -- 27.5 percent
Additionally, the poll showed a growing perception that the media try to sway public opinion, 87.6 percent, up from 79.3 percent in 2003, and public policy, 86 percent versus 76.7 percent in 2003."
Hmm. Only a third of those surveyed think the media keeps personal bias out of stories. In 35 years, I've never met a reporter who didn't believe he or she was totally objective and free from personal bias. Wonder who's right?
I didn't think anyone could match Henry for nature photography but Jim Goldstein comes pretty close. Different style but that same amazing knack for capturing an image.
Take a few minutes to browse Jim's flickr photostream. He was at Macworld, too. Watch for the nice shot of Steve Job's checking email with Robert Scoble in the background.
Microsoft is developing what a British newspaper (TimesOnline) describes as "Big Brother" software that will allow employers remotely to monitor their workers' productivity, competence and physical well-being to a degree never before seen.
Among other data, wireless sensors will provide employers with workers' heart rates and stress level, and determine whether they are smiling or frowning.
"The systems work not only through desktop or laptop computers but even through mobile phones or handheld PCs, meaning that even out of the office the employee can still be monitored. In its most advanced format, the system will monitor users’ private interests.
The system works by recording and analyzing what words and numbers are used or websites visited, and by watching the user’s heart rate, breathing, body temperature, facial expressions and blood pressure. The patent application explains: “The system can also automatically detect frustrations or stress in the user via physiological and environmental sensors and then offer or provide some assistance accordingly.”
This just seems to far-out and scary to be true. For the record... I am happier than I appear.
A really clever ad for Apple Leopard appeared on the NYT homepage. It was gone by the time I heard about it but found this screen-shot on digg. What a brilliant way to extend the highly recognizable and effective "Get a Mac" TV spots. Makes the typical web page ad look pretty lame.
In the January issue of Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi asks why the media insists "on reducing one of the most exciting presidential primary seasons in American history to a simple horse race." I've highlighted my favorite (?) points.
"Every reporter who spends any real time on the campaign trail gets wrapped up in the horse race. It's inevitable. You tell me how you can spend nearly two years watching the dullest speeches known to man and not spend most of your time wondering about the one surefire interesting moment the whole thing has to offer: the ending.
Stripped of its prognosticating element, most campaign journalism is essentially a clerical job, and not a particularly noble one at that. On the trail, we reporters aren't watching politics in action: The real stuff happens behind closed doors, where armies of faceless fund-raising pros are glad-handing equally faceless members of the political donor class, collecting hundreds of millions of dollars that will be paid off in very specific favors over the course of the next four years. That's the real high-stakes poker game in this business, and we don't get to sit at that table.
Instead, we get to be herded day after day into one completely controlled environment after another, where we listen to an array of ideologically similar politicians deliver professionally crafted advertising messages that we, in turn, have the privilege of delivering to the public free of charge. We rarely get to ask the candidates real questions, and even when we do, they almost never answer."
Encountered something new during security check-in at the San Francisco airport on Thursday. They made us pull anything even remotely "electric" from our carry-on bags. This included power cords, iPod cable, ear buds, and god knows what else. Heretofore, we could leave those in the computer bag and just put the laptop in a separate tub.
Don't know if this is a permanent hassle or something isolated, I couldn't find anything on the TSA website. But it's all a hand-job. No sensible person believe we are really any safer for all this bullshit.
Hit the comment link if you know more about this.
July 1939. Gordonton, N.C. You really have to see the full-size image (at Shorpy) to appreciate this photo by Dorothea Lange (for the Farm Security Administration). [via J-Walk Blog]
Writers strike? What writers strike?
I mentioned a couple of posts back that, even at 4:30 in the morning, there was a long line of Mac faithful already in line for Steve Jobs' keynote.
People kept coming and getting in line behind us for hours, so I have no idea how long the line finally got.
Winding down here at Macworld. Hit the exhibit floor again and watched a very cool demo of Photoshop Elements 6 for the Mac. Out in March. Show continues through Friday but I head home tomorrow.
Last night our gang attended a Devo concert at the historic Warfield Theater. I lasted about 15 minutes. Not sure if it was the head-exploading decibels or the depressing sight of a bunch of guys my age (or very close) dressed in yellow coveralls and orange plastic hats.
Dinner tonight at some fancy-pants French restaurant. More on that later.
Following the (MacWorld) keynote, Steve Jobs brought out Randy Newman for a couple of songs. A Few Words in Defense of Our Country is classic Newman satire. I liked it a lot more than the Wonkette did. There's a better version on YouTube.
In line at 4:30 a.m. for Jobs keynote. Waited in the cold and dark for a couple of hours... and a couple more inside the convention center. Got in to the keynote room just as Jobs began speaking. If we (Mark Snell was with me) had gotten in line 5 minutes later, we wouldn't have gotten in. We would have stood in line for almost 5 hours...for nothing. Glad I had the experience. But the keynote looks pretty good online. I'm just saying.
After the keynote, we had lunch and then hit the exhibit floor. The Hot New Thing was/is the MacBook Air [Ad - Tour]. They have a long (150 feet?) table set up with 40 or 50 of these little beauties on display. But for the first couple of hours, you couldn't get close. The crowd was three deep with people who just wanted to see, touch and hold The Worlds Smallest Notebook Computer. We got a few minutes with it and I must say it is impressive. But I am easily impressed.
Lots of other interesting stuff in the keynote but others will report on those. I'm looking forward to renting movies from iTunes. If it works as advertised, this could eliminate the need for Netflix.
I have some video of the day's adventures and will post that later.
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