] In 1989, speaking at the Cannes film festival, Who lead
] singer Roger Daltrey said he wanted to become a doctor of
] Chinese medicine. He said that he never felt that singing
] and acting were proper careers, and that he wanted to
] study herbal medicine and acupuncture.

KKTV | This Week in Entertainment History - 5/16/05 - 5/22/05

] With Elp Corporation's new laser turntable, it has
] blasted vinyl record technology into the 21st century by
] beaming a laser onto the record grooves so that there is
] no physical contract whatsoever with the record. It is
] the only analog record player that does not wear records.
] Musical information is processed in analog, and all
] circuitry is analog as well for completely analog sound
] reproduction. It connects to any phono pre-amplifier
] producing audiophile quality sound in either mono or
] stereo.
]
]
]
] The laser turntable can play 7-, 8.5-, 10-, 11-, and
] 12-in. diameter records. It can playback 33-1/3, 45, and
] 78 rpm records. There%u2019s also a variable speed
] control in 30-50 rpm in 0.1 rpm steps, and 60-90 rpm in
] 0.2 rpm steps. There are a total of five lasers: two
] for the left and right groove walls, two for tracking
] groove pitch, and one for tracking groove warp. No
] adjustment is required for anti-skate, and it uses linear
] tracking to zero tracking error distortion. Since the
] optical pickup is controlled by microprocessors, the
] laser turntable operates much like a CD player with
] cueing to individual cuts, random access, and repeat
] play, and it offers numerous programming possibilities.
] The laser turntable displays elapsed/remaining or total
] time just like a CD player.

2005 Home Entertainment Show Page 6 - Featured Article - Designtechnica

] Big news, dodgeball fans! On May 11th dodgeball.com was
] acquired by Google!

dodgeball.com :: mobile social software

With dmv and my departures from Pittsburgh in the no-longer-so-distant future, we've come to the last installment of Total Information Awareness in its current incarnation.

Listen at www.wrct.org -- 6:00pm edt. Call us: 412-621-WRCT.

TIA -- Last Show for now

] The sauce is named after its score on the chilli heat
] measure, the Scoville Unit.
]
] Reserve scores 16 million units, while a Red Savina, the
] world's spiciest pepper, measures just 570,000.

Chilli sauce is real killer

] The minute she walked in the door I knew she was trouble

WorkingForChange-This Modern World: Sparky T. Penguin, private eye

] DSLinux Kernel Booting (Started at May 4 2005, 06:08 PM)
]
] The DS Linux team has been making a lot of progress
] lately.
]
] Not only is a kernel booting on the DS, but the SASH
] shell is now running along with a few text games.

That's right. I want linux on my DS to play... text games.

Actually, put the HitchHiker's Guide game, and... hmm.

DSLinux.org

] PodShanking can be declared a "hack" in the basest sense
] of that word: as in hackey. This is a jury-rigged,
] stop-gap solution to a sticky technical problem. Throw
] more hardware at this problem and you'll solve it better.
] Throw more software at this problem and you'll also
] improve it - or do a quick and dirty solution that gets
] you the same basic results now. The hack? Direct iPod to
] iPod transfers.

The Mod Gods: PodShanking: physical pod on pod penetration.

] Complaint: Failure to incorporate an apostrophe during
] the contraction of "that is", a misdemeanor; improper
] usage of the possessive "your" during the contraction of
] "you are", also a misdemeanor; failing to notice this;
] permanently affixing said errors to both sides of an
] article of clothing; exposing public to said errors by
] wearing said clothing in front of photographers while
] repeatedly seeking attention.

T-shirt: THATS HOT, YOUR NOT

Banterist - Grammar Cop: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow?

] The lawsuit, filed one day before Apple released Tiger,
] sought an injunction on behalf of TigerDirect.com, based
] in Miami, to stop Apple from using the word "tiger"
] because it infringes on its trademarked name.

Which is bogus, but I guess a trademark lawsuit is cheap marketing.

] The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the
] District of Florida, also claims that Apple engaged in
] deceptive and unfair trade practices. TigerDirect, an
] on-line retailer of computer parts and accessories, says
] Apple's use of Tiger "is causing confusion, mistake and
] deception among the general purchasing public."
]
] TigerDirect's contention is that Apple's use of the word
] "tiger" has knocked the retailer from the top of search
] results on Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Oh no! It is called web marketing, and SEO. If you need to be at the top of a generic word like Tiger, buy the adword. If you own your market, you'll still be the top result for your industry; and if someone is looking for Tiger, they won't be a lost customer of Tiger Direct if they go to an Apple site, just like if they went to a zoo site, or whatever.

] "This lawsuit is a load of codswallop," said Mr. Young.
] "Nobody and no company should have the exclusive use of
] the word 'tiger.'"
]
] Mr. Young has offered to license the Hamilton Tiger-Cats'
] historical use of the word Tiger to Apple free of charge.

Globetechnology: In a snarl over 'tiger'