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Clive Thompson / Wired News:
Monsters of Photorealism — My hat is off to whoever designed the new King Kong game for the Xbox 360, because they've crafted a genuinely horrific monster. When it first lurched out of the mysterious tropical cave and fixed its cadaverous eyes on me, I could barely look at the monstrosity.
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Cathode Tan
Daniel.Turner / Behind the Curtain at TCG:
NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox — A little birdie told me today that NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer. Now, if you are an employee of NASA, every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how risky it is to run scripts.
Newsweek:
Google: Ten Golden Rules — Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google. — By By Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian — Issues 2006 - At google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood …
Geraldine Geraldine / LES BLOGS 2:
Opening remarks: welcome to Les Blogs 2.0 ! — On behalf of Six Apart, the entire team who organized les blogs that I will introduce you in a few minutes and all our partners, welcome to Les Blogs 2.0, welcome to Paris. — I can't believe you have made it all here today ! Here is where you are from to begin with.
Tom's Hardware Guide:
Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered — Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now — Intel was surprisingly talkative when it came to future technologies and products this year. As a result, most of the technical audience is up to date regarding the upcoming micro architecture based on the 65 nm Merom design.
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Have you updated your buzzwords? — You may think you're appropriately buzzword-compliant, but this is internet time, baby, and last month's 2.0 buzzwords are outdated (but not in that retro-cool way). If you're doing a VC pitch and building to flip, it's crucial that you sound as current as possible.
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Life On the Wicked Stage
blogspot.boekhoff.org:
Saga of Circuit City False Advertising and Customer Abuse — A few weeks ago we were really impressed with the great service we got at Circuit City when purchasing a new car stereo and a new DVD player/recorder/VCR combo. So when we decided to replace our 4-year-old laptop computer, we agreed that we would go back to Circuit City.
Timothy L. O'Brien / New York Times:
Gone Spear-Phishin' — ABOUT a year and a half ago, Amnon Jackont, an Israeli mystery novelist and Tel Aviv University history professor, became ensnared in a mystery of his very own: friends and students were receiving e-mail messages from him that he had never written.
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Cheryl Isen / bizjournals:
Churchill's words guide 180Solutions — Editor's note: This is the first monthly column written by Seattle marketing and public relations firm founder Cheryl Isen. It's based on monthly presentations by local entrepreneurs at Northwest Entrepreneur Network events. — To know 180Solutions is to have an opinion.
Anina .Net / LIFEBLOG.anina.net:
FASHION BLOGGER! — tonight i met with marc canter for dinner. it was supposed to be a simple, small, dinner, and instead it exploded into a full 20 person + dinner! robert scobble showed up with his wife, hugh was there, suw with kevin, and many more! it was fascinating pre-blog conversation.
Robert Hof / Business Week:
Froogle: Shopping Made Complex — It's not hard to see why the test version of Google's shopping service has yet to gain widespread acceptance — but it does show promise — THE GOOD Fast searches, nice integration of local searches with Google Maps — THE BAD Limited filtering tools, sparse local product listings
Heather Timmons / New York Times:
Branson in Talks to Sell Virgin Mobile Stake — LONDON, Dec. 4 - Sir Richard Branson is in talks to sell his stake in Virgin Mobile's British business to a British cable and phone provider, NTL, an executive involved in the negotiations said today. A deal would create a one-stop shop …
Bill Christensen / livescience.com:
New Soft Helmet Turns Hard in Crash — Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have discovered a complex elastomeric compound they call d3o that is both soft and hard. — A shear thickening material, it is flexible when moved slowly, but when it is compresssed by an impact, its molecules lock together.
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Gizmodo
Dhiramshah / New Launches:
42 inches tall iTower Ipod Speaker System — There are several speaker systems out there that are designed especially to use with the iPod, but the iTower makes them all look cheap and paltry in comparison. At 42 inches tall and 9 inches wide, the iTower is sleek and shiny.
