I finally saw Supersize Me and I was blown away. It's kind of like
a jokey, dumbed-down version of the book Fast Food Nation, but really
drives the point home. Last year I cut out some junk food from my diet
("french fry free in 2003" was my personal slogan) and lately I've
been exercising a ton, but not losing any weight. After seeing this
movie, I was reminded why. I've been lazy in the past couple months
and I probably eat fast food of some sort 3-4 times a week.
"Drive-thru no more in 2004" is my new personal slogan.
It's great to hear
the movie is doing well, though I would have guessed that it did
more business already. I hope everyone in America gets a chance to see
it, it'll open your eyes, make you laugh a little, and blow your
mind.
Last year, when I heard that TechCentralStation was a lobbying
group that participated in some shady campaigns disguised as
journalism, I didn't pay it much mind, since beyond simple politics,
it didn't seem to result in a spate of bad articles there. Well, I
guess that time has passed, when I found their
concerted effort to discredit Morgan Spurlock's film Supersize
Me.
Supersized layoffs at AOL Music?12/09/2003 07:23 PM A BoingBoing pal who prefers anonymity says "AOL @ Music office NUKED
today.. ops, QA, eng, PMs all let go." Link
Gateway's supersized laptop
Gateway's supersized laptop11/10/2003 11:05 PM Gateway is the latest to jump on the supersized laptop bandwagon.
Their new M675XL has a 17.1-inch widescreen LCD, a 3.2GHz processor,
512MB of RAM, a 60GB hard drive, a DVD-R/RW/CD-RW combination drive,
and built-in 802.11g. Read...
The Vosonic X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 is 40GB external
hard drive that is clunky, cheap-looking, has a crappy text-only
integrated screen, plays MP3s, but not WMA, AAC, or OGG Vorbis, and
can only read from one card from its card reader at a time. So why
would any photographer want it? Because it's cheap, it does the
primary job it was designed to do (act as remote backup for memory
cards), and can accept as many additional 2.5-inch laptop hard drives
as you want to swap into it, meaning that all other things aside, you
can purchase this single $335 drive and continue to upgrade it for
only the price of additional hard drives. Read -
Hard disk: X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 [BIOS]
MCE slot-loading drive replaces original iMac drive
MCE slot-loading drive replaces original iMac drive06/14/2004 02:50 PM MCE Technologies is now offering an internal 24x slot-loading CD-R/RW
drive for replacing the tray-loading CD-ROM drive in the original iMac
(233, 266, and 333MHz, Rev...
Console Drive makes hard drive removable or external
Console Drive makes hard drive removable or external06/04/2004 03:52 PM Addonics Technologies announced on Friday the release of its
Console Drive, which turns a standard 3.5-inch hard drive into
either aremovable internal hard drive cartridge or an external hard
drive thatconnects to your Mac via USB 2.0 or 1.1, FireWire, SCSI or a
PCMCIA slot,depending on the model you choose. Internally, the Console
Drive can connectto a Power Mac's Serial ATA slot. In addition, the
Console Drive acceptsAddonics' series of Pocket CD, DVD, CD-RW and
DVD+/-R/RW drives, all ofwhich are Mac compatible.
TikiMac Unveils "Big Tiki Drive", the World's First Hi-Speed USB Flash Drive in the Form of a Grinning, Glowing Tiki Idol
Seems CES does not consider Endgadget a weblog so they have full
access to CES and have lot's of really good CES news. Check out their
review of the new Hard Drives announced by Hitachi. [Endgadget]<
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Lite-On 4x DVDRW drive to 8x, double layer DVDRW drive possible
Oops, I almost forgot about these new cameras
announced from JVC - the ones they've been hyping up to no end as
their big "mystery product." Basically, they're camcorders with hard
drives in them - a 4GB microdrive, to be exact. They look pretty cool
and everything, but they're really most interesting because they are
the first consumer camcorder with a built-in hard drive, not because
they do anything particularly unique. That being said, I fully support
this idea, and think most consumer recording technology should move to
hard drives as soon as possible (I'll be waiting until you can get
something with a bigger hard drive than 4GB for less than $1,500,
though).
Both models (the GZ-MC100 and the GZ-MC200) can record up to 9Mbps
in MPEG2, though, which is DVD quality.
IDE to USB 2.0 drive adapter01/03/2005 07:18 PM It's not Firewire, but it's USB 2 and dirt cheap: PCMS IDE TO USB 2.0
drive adapter PC/MAC. The USB 2.0 IDE Adapter turns any IDE drive into
a convenient external drive. The adapter supports all existing
IDE/ATAPI devices such...
I purchase a lg cd-r/rw drive that also came with the lg ner
The Bigger Drive02/19/2004 11:21 AM The New York Times finally notices the Bigger Disk, LaCie's new
external hard drive which holds a full terabyte of data. Read...
An Ode To The Hard Drive
An Ode To The Hard Drive05/27/2004 09:35 AM You know it's likely to be a slow news day when the first thing you
turn up is, basically, an ode to the unsung hard drive.
Hard drives are, admittedly, a fairly unsexy business. Then again,
you might think the same thing about semiconductors - and they seem to
get plenty of attention. Either way, storage is very important to
consumers - as the article notes in looking at how quickly people
focus on the size of their iPod hard drives or just
how much space their Gmail account really has. Even the leading
people in the storage business are quite colorful and certainly
unique, which should get them much more attention. However, when it's
all said and done, no matter how important your hard drive is (just
think how people react when their hard drives die), and no matter how
quickly they improve in just how much data they can hold, not too many
people find themselves particularly interested in the "boring" hard
drive business.
VTEC 1GB V-Drive
VTEC 1GB V-Drive11/11/2003 10:25 AM vnunet.com Nov 11 2003 9:28AM ET
New: 400 GB DiskGO drive04/12/2005 08:33 AM Edge Tech expanded its line of portable 3.5-inch external drives with
a 400 GB DiskGO drive that features FireWire and USB 2.0 ports.
SAP, IBM help drive SOA uptake
SAP, IBM help drive SOA uptake04/04/2005 08:30 AM As SOAs (service-oriented architectures) continue to gather steam,
vendors are moving to help enterprises embrace the new infrastructure.
When I go on the road my laptop has a 40 Gig drive but that is just
not enough and I carry a 60 Gig Firewire external just to have all of
my data with me. Finally someone has developed a 100 gig 2.5 inch
hard-drive. Time will tell how these will perform. Japanese techies
are going to get a shot at them first but they will not be cheap. [Engadget]
Test-Drive That New Car
Test-Drive That New Car07/16/2004 08:30 AM The test-drive is an important part of the car-buying process.
” In April, 2000, when eBay (EBAY ) started selling used
cars, skeptics thought the online auction giant had gone too far.
Buying collectibles sight unseen was one thing, but purchasing an
automobile on the Web? That would never work. It turns out people are
just as willing to bid for used cars as they are for Beanie Babies. In
fact, last month, eBay Motors sold its 1 millionth car. And with 12
million auto…
R-Drive Image
R-Drive Image07/27/2004 04:24 AM TechTree Jul 27 2004 8:43AM GMT
Drive-Thru Supergrocery
Drive-Thru Supergrocery12/22/2004 01:30 AM Xeni Jardin:
Coming in late 2005: the world's first drive-in mega grocery store.
Think Sam's Club/Costco meets McDonald's. One less reason for America
to get up off of its increasingly fat ass!
Among the more than 17 classifications of products and services that
AutoCart said it will offer at the proposed supercenters are grocery,
pharmacy, banking, movie and game rental, bakery, office supplies,
florists, photography development, dry cleaning, liquor, and lottery
sales.
Free registration is required to read the article. “LIKE most
cities in Silicon Valley’s outer stratosphere, Santa Cruz has a
district dedicated to an odd marriage of high and low tech, where
lumber mills and cement factories squat beside gleaming software
business parks. But the geeks and hipsters who parked their bikes on
this slab of broken land and sneaked past the ‘no
trespassing’ sign were not here on business. They were going to
the…
You Probably Don't Want to Drive Behind This Guy (Reuters)
New: Drive Vaccine08/18/2004 10:41 AM Drive Vaccine is a cross-platform protection system that makes it
possible to have computers automatically rolled back to their original
configuration on a restart.
Toshiba Corp. has developed a hard disk drive for notebook
computers that can hold 100GB of data. The company expects to begin
selling it later this year, it said Thursday.
The new drive offers a quarter more storage space than the
company's current highest capacity notebook drive and is the first
2.5-inch drive from any manufacturer to store 100GB, according to
Toshiba.
drive the car around the world08/17/2004 03:18 PM So we're back from vacation. 2200 miles of road trip, one book
signing, several tourist traps, and not a single comfortable bed
later, we're home.
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