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Today’s New York Times profiles KFC’s new advertising campaign promoting fried chicken as healthy eating. From one of the ads: “The secret’s out. One Original Recipe chicken breast has just 11 grams of carbs and packs 40 grams of protein. So if you’re going low-carb, high-protein, go KFC.”…
PublicRadioFan.com indexes public radio programs’ audio feeds….
Car manufacturers are starting to pay attention to fine tuning the roar of an engine or the smell of its interior, according to today’s New York Times….
Longhorn Developer Center is now live….
There is now an Aeron wheelchair….
Fox News Threatened to Sue The Simpsons over their parody of the cable news channel….
Enterprise Charter School in Buffalo, New York has started using radio frequency ID tags to scan their students. If this had happened to me while I was in school I would have invented a way around it so it should be interesting to see how it all turns out. “”” The charter school’s 422 students wear small plastic cards around their necks that have their photograph, name and grade printed on them, and include an embedded RFID chip. As the children enter the school, they approach a kiosk where a reader activates the chip’s signal and displays their photograph. The…
Bill Thompson of BBC News writes about flyblogging: spamming weblog comments….
Ask Yahoo! : How do I start my own blog?…
Google considers online IPO auction “Google executives, led by George Reyes, chief financial officer, met a number of leading investment bankers last week to sound them out about an IPO. The meetings marked the start of a process that is likely to lead to a stock market listing by about March next year, a person familiar with the IPO said.”…
Check out the HP Tablet PC on the table in front of George W. Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr�tien during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting on October 21. Bankok Post has a full story on the HP sponsorship of the event and the special voting software provided by Microsoft….
In Berlin some clubs have started showing porn and allowing patrons to add their own soundtrack. Fun idea!…
Amazon.com has a new service allowing you to search the full text of over 120,000 books!…
Today’s New York Times reviews Apple’s latest operating system upgrade, Panther….
Acer President Wang Chen-tang recently commented about why Acer’s Tablet PCs account for only 5% or its notebook sales. It’s due to the price of the OS. “The cost of a tablet PC is $200 (7,000 Taiwan dollars) more than its notebook counterpart. Of this difference, the hardware cost is only between $30 and $60. The majority of the difference comes from the OS license”…
eWeek : Microsoft Opens Windows Source Code to Its MVPs Microsoft is giving its Most Valued Professionals access to the more than 100 million aggregate lines of Windows source code….
An article in Computerworld finds that free hot spots pay dividends. For Schlotzsky’s Delis “Wi-Fi service brings in more than $100,000 per year per outlet in return for an investment of about $8,000 per restaurant for wireless infrastructure.” That’s for a T1 connection too!…
Microsoft Office 2003 is now available. I have already ordered my upgrades and I eagerly await the chance to upgrade and develop….
What is your career anchor?…
Knowledge @ Wharton article details some specifics about outsourcing to developing nations: specifically India. “According to a NASSCOM-Hewitt Associates survey, the average salary of a call center worker in India is $180 a month. This is five times the country�s per capita income. For a fresh college graduate, a call center job pays about 2.5 times as much as other job openings.”…
A recent article in Molecular Brain Research claims to identify 54 genes in mice that determine our sexual differences. The study discounts the idea of homosexuality or transgendered persons facing a choice and favors gene determination….
According to Rolling Stone Vanessa Carlton’s new album will be “goth.” “”I’m twenty-three now, and I think I’m more evolved, more secure in who I am. I’m beyond the diary-confessional chapter of my writing.” Should be interesting at least. I saw Vanessa play 3 times last year and I was always pumped to see her play Rolling Stones’ Paint It Black….
Bill Gates claims that developing Longhorn will cost as much as the first moon mission. Wow….
BBCi – The Big Read. Which is the best loved book in Britain?…
The first release candidate of FeedDemon is now available….