Apple also said iTV will boast a comprehensive set of I/O connectors, from the computer-centric Ethernet, USB, and Wi-Fi to yesteryear's component video and today's more advanced HDMI and optical audio standards.

Following a personal preview of the device, Walt Disney chief executive and personal friend of Jobs, Robert Iger, disclosed that each unit will also include a "small hard drive" that will allow for some local content storage.

It'll be interesting to see how this competes with the Microsoft new DRM universe.

AppleInsider | Apple iTV availability to escape Macworld Expo

MADRID, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A study says 94 percent of all euro bank notes currently in Spain have traces of cocaine on them because of their use in drug trafficking.

The BBC said Spain has one of the world's highest rates of cocaine use, and the report discovered that the contaminated bills, which dated no earlier than 2002, carried an average of 25.18 micrograms of the drug.

While many of the bills likely got the cocaine residue from direct contact when they were rolled up and used to snort the drug, experts attached to the study said many others could have been contaminated via counting machines, the BBC said.

The new cocaine study based in Spain, which has 475,000 regular cocaine users, comes after similar studies found similar conditions in nearby countries.

In 2003, a survey found that euro bank notes in Germany showed similar traces of the narcotic.

The BBC said that in 1999 experts in London found that 99 percent of all 5-pound notes had cocaine traces.

United Press International - NewsTrack - Most Spanish euros have cocaine traces

More than one-third of poor, inner-city toddlers are overweight or obese, according to a survey in Chicago and 19 other cities.

This is an evolutionary oddity... Why don't we send our poor to other countries and breed out starvation? Almost like human cactus.

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State :: Poor and overweight

offer my soul to God as a sacrifice, and if He wants, He will send it to heaven with the martyrs,... so let us depend on Him against the unjust nations.

"Hmmm... maybe if I tell God it's a sacrifice I can still get the virgins"

Independent Online Edition | Middle East

I shall not here defend the views held by the scientific establishment. I am among those who have done that elsewhere, in many books. My purpose in this article is only to convey the full magnitude of the error into which, if Burgess and McIntosh are right, the scientific establishment has fallen.

First, the age of the Earth. McIntosh thinks, on biblical authority alone, that it is less than 10,000 years.

Comment is free: Big mistake | Richard Dawkins

And Marcia Mittleman, 88, who took Epoch's course twice, complete with graduation ceremony and medal, said that psychologically, it "filled a void," because "you had to really focusn"
Asked if her cognitive function improved, she replied, "Did it make me smarter? No."
Suddenly, she scanned the room and asked, "Did anyone see my walker?"

Boomers will buy anything. It's a bit to late to do these brain exercises. The rot set in decades ago.

deseretnews.com | Is 'brain training' slowing aging?

Neon America.

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A net phone called the iPhone has been launched by Linksys just weeks before analysts were expecting Apple to release a similarly-named device.

The wireless iPhone allows users to make free or low-cost internet phone calls using the Skype service.

BBC NEWS | Technology | iPhone surprises technology world

Super Mario Hamster!

Heh. The game looks more like Montezuma's revenge. Really neat.

Video Details : Super Mario Hamster

na na na na na na na na na na na na na......its batman, no, its russian intelligence....no.....its batman. Please someone tell me this is a joke

Boing Boing: Russia spy HQ has giant batman mural in floor