The other day, after a fun day of attending a multi state professional responsibility exam review class, I ate for the first time at the Banana Bean cafe, which is in German Village here in Columbus. I had read and heard good things about the place which serves Caribbean/Floridian food. I hadn’t really known anything [...]
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The Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice was on Fox News the other day and made some startlingly historically inaccurate and stupid analogies about the current situation in Iraq and Europe in 1945 following the fall of Nazi Germany. Keith Olberman took this to task and rebuked her on his show, pointing out the gross inaccuracy [...]
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Steven Rinella, author of the Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine, put out the menu for a dinner he was making for some friends. The menu included some far off specialties from around the world, but also some local fare including “squirrel hasenpfeffer, for one, and grilled sparrows wrapped in prosciutto, skewered along with zucchini and [...]
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Up in Alaska a seemingly adicted gamer was caught in the parking lot of the local library (closed at the time) playing online games (Online gaming it should be noted has ‘ruined’ the lives of some who find themselves devoting a huge amount of time to playing in their virtual world. The Alaskan fellow wasn’t [...]
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Fon (what is Fon? see this) is running a campaign right now “Welcome to Fonbucks, where FON + Starbucks = cash for you. If you live above or next to a Starbucks (or any cafe/coffee shop for that matter!), you are eligible for a free wireless router that will earn you cash from the minute [...]
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The $1.52 billion verdict, the largest ever in a patent dispute, was handed down yesterday at the US District Court in San Diego, ruling that Alcatel-Lucent’s patent on MP3 technology that was developed by Bell Labs among others. “At issue is the way the Windows Media Player software from Microsoft plays audio files using MP3, [...]
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I know a few people who’ve picked up Slingboxes with the hopes of enjoying local programming somewhere else. As this blog post that I came across warns, the broadband provider that is connected to the slingbox may clamp down on your bandwidth basically ruining the functionality of the Slingbox. Word to the wise, read your terms [...]
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“ One of the last places you might expect to find copyright violations is on a Web site backed by Time Warner and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner.” (A new copyright battlefield: Veoh Networks) Veoh a privately held company backed by many entertainment insiders (suprisingly enough) has plans to distribute full length videos and has [...]
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Interesting article about living in China and watching the NFL over the internet there. The NFL this year added for international viewer the ability to subscribe to online streaming coverage if you ponied up the cash ($250 for the season – clearly aimed at passionate expats and not the casual newcomer to the game). The [...]
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No need to boycott them really, just that if you were say against the homogenization of America, or the constant spiral to low prices (both a good and bad thing you may say), but we often forget about Sysco, the company that is behind the scenes providing for our almost every meal out at a [...]
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