Oh S$#t!!!!

Bubonic Plague mice missing.

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Tehran says YES to transferring nuclear technology to other Islamic nations that are in need of alternate energy sources much to the chagrin of the Bush Administration and European allies.

Bush's popularity drops. What he needs is country to bomb, that is the Bush Administration policy for dealing with everything. That or WE NEED A TAX CUT. Maybe Iran or China or North Korea is tunneling to the center of the Earth which is knocking the planet off its axis and indirectly led to the hurricane?

I am surprised there is no TERROR ALERT. Bush and his buds usually will put out a press release at around this time.

It looks quiet in Iraq, but its far from it. US soldier deaths are down while Iraqi blood is flowing like beer from a spigot now. Check out this story about 31 deaths today and of course the 12, thats right 12 SUICIDE CAR BOMBINGS yesterday. But like FOX NEWS says, "how come we never hear about the cars that don't blow up". They also feel that we never talk about good weather, just when hurricanes happen.

Google is pushing into BroadBand. They are the new DarkLords of the net.

Gillete's new 5 Blade Razor, I'm holding out for 10.

Hilarious video "Bill Gates goes to College" with that guy from Napoleon Dynamite.

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This guy posted a DIY on building a Cruise Missle. Who says you can't learn anything on the internet?

Apple wants to trademark the term PODCAST.

Read this and understand that we pay 1000's for chips that cost $40 to make. I guess thats how R&D costs are recouped. Those 2 billion dollar fabs don't just sprout from the Good Earth.

Afternoon Update

LA Movie poorly timed after Katrina disaster.

Intel plans entry into the Dual PCIe Motherboard Market.

If you have the PSP check out version 2.0 of the Firmware. You can get it here.

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Digital Rights Management or DRM rears its ugly head. TIVO may be implementing it in version 7.2 of its OS. The change may give broadcasters the ability to prevent viewers from recording and saving a show past a certain date. If they do this TIVO as a company will likely soon be history. The story likely is an aberration but caution is in order, DRM is a nightmare.

Patrick Norton's Digital Life TV is really cool. He was part of the old Screensavers crew. He also works with Leo Laporte on This Week In Tech or TWiT. Digital Life TV has its 5th episode on LIVE today at 9PM Eastern.

L'etoile Restaurant

Tried this restaurant in C'ville recently. Here is the website.

Went ther for dinner. The restaurant is right near the train tracks so if you sit outside be prepared for a bit of a noise every so often as a freight train makes its way down the track. The service is actually pretty good. We were greeted pretty quickly and we came in before 6:00 PM so seating was not an issue. The restaurant is located near Continental Divide (more on this C'ville restaurant next week) on the way to the Downtown Mall.

The menu on the website is not up to date (I don't know if they update the site). I had a salad that was made with greens and Mozarrela in a Balsamic vinegar dressing. It was actually pretty good. We also tried the grilled shrimp. For a main course I tried the crusted catfish (thats not on the website) which was a OK. I was expecting a sauce of some type with it (you know French restaurant....). The desert was good. They recently added a chocolate cake that is warm and a bit gooey which was really good. I had to fight over desert with my wife. It was overall an excellent meal.

Expect dinner for two to run $80-120 with drinks (2 Glasses of Wine).

Rating: 3.5/5

Hollymead Town Center

I found these plans on the internet. Looks like there is tons of space still left to be sold.

Interesting Charlottesville Demographics for the center.

I don't know who this guy is but the story is pretty interesting.

Only in America

Compare these 2 sentences:

Sentence 1 Vs. Sentence 2

Evening Update

John Roberts is dodging questions like an olympic skier going through the gates. I like this guy. Looks like Roe V. Wade may be going bye bye.

I can't believe that Sun thought about running these ads but they are on the Sun site. Looks like an internal URL that the outside was not supposed to see.

This site is awesome. It allows you to text message a Caller ID.

Maybe JetBlue will come to Charlottesville with these planes. They are planning jet service to small airports.

Jury indicts Tom Delay aides.

Bush looks to be in a weak position politically, he even has started to cave in on the Iran nuclear question.

Dvorak is one of my favorite tech writers. He writes a real funny piece on Windows and Microsoft's plan to release 7 versions of Windows Vista.

Careful when you eat oysters.

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This is pretty cool. These guys drew images on a sidewalk that are 2D. But amazingly they look 3D.

MIT has turned one of their buildings into a giant speaker to hear the sounds of the ionsphere.

Washington Post Poll puts Bush at an all time low.
Should they be touching that powerline??



Vice Adm. Thad Allen, left, the new federal coordinator of relief efforts, helps lift a downed power line as President Bush tours New Orleans with Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) and Mayor C. Ray Nagin (D), right. Photo Credit: By Susan Walsh -- Associated Press Photo

The President says race did not play a factor in NOLA, Condi seems to disaggree.

US warns Syria, but what do we do to back it up? Invade Syria?

CSPAN covers Roberts Hearings LIVE.

Court to consider release of Columbine Video.

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Apple still working on porting OS X to the Intel Platform.

Racial divide on Katrina.

Some new photos of the Abu Ghraib mess.