Public Secrets

This weekend I watched George Clooney in Solaris. Good movie, slow but interesting. And I have to say Clooney is more of an actor than I expected.

On the BBC news website.
High Court judges ordered two men to pay the British Phonographic Industry between £1,500 and £5,000 for making thousands of songs available online.
(link)
What they did was wrong, but mabe the industry should also look at all the taxes we pay to compensate the music ‘theft’. We pay tax on cassettes, blank [...]

How Geek can you get?
A LCD Frame which is WiFi connected with Gmail and Flickr. (link)

You can find some nifty new Vista tools on the web. Two of them I will mention here; sidebar and a Photo organizer/editing tool (Microsoft Max). You can find Microsoft Max at this site where you can download a version. It reminds me a bit off Picasa. The free Google tool (link). I personally use [...]

Is tumbled across this truly nice device; Kiss DP-600 (link here).

On its website it says;
First release of a new generation of Networked DVD and Media Players, the DP-600 will seduce you by its quality and its ability to playback video in High Definition. Its Ethernet and Wi-Fi Network Connectivity will amaze you, giving you ability [...]

Apple sets the Intel free? I think the other way around is more precise.
Apple can finally catch-up with the ‘Windows’ platform on speed and price. Although, speed Yes, price No. You are still paying way to much for an Apple like a MacBook Pro.

Current hot topic in Dutch politics is whether we should send troops to Afghanistan. As you might have read in the newspapers, the USA has requested NATO to take over some of its activities in that region as its resources are stretched.
The Netherlands, as a loyal member of NATO, has been asked whether we could [...]

The first Intel based Apple is out; MacBook Pro.

If it only ran Windows, I would almost think of getting one.

One of the blogs I read on a regular basis is Dooce by Heather B. Armstrong. She and her husband are writing, on their individual blogs, about their problems with getting healthcare coverage now that they are not working for ‘the boss’ anymore. It is scary to read how people are being denied access to [...]

As a result of a recent earthquake Greece moved 6 meters closer towards Africa. Normally the Greece plate moves 4 centimetres south every year. Because of the quake the displacement was extra large.
The quake which took place in the south of Greece lasted 30 seconds and was also felt in Athens.
(link here)

The Sony reader which was presented at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas is the result of an invention by the Dutch firm Philips. The reader uses a display technology which is called ‘Electronic Paper Display’.

Looks like a cool gadget and I think it can be used in more ways then just for reading [...]

Bugatti Veyron 1001PK.
400 km/h, 1001 pk, way too expensive but lots of fun, more at these links; link1 and link2.