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The Simpsons – The Complete Fourth Season The Simpsons – The Complete Fourth Season — $32.49

[via Amazon.com – DVD]

Bravo Detroit… now don’t screw this up.

The meters are part of a 90-day experiment with battery and solar-powered, online-operated parking meters.

Some issue receipts that drivers leave on their dashboards to show parking enforcers how much time is left on the +space+. Others can be programmed to accept credit cards or allow someone to pay by cell phone. downtown.

Oh wait, they already are.

“You need a master’s degree or something,” said Robert Blackwell as he tried to figure out how to use one of the new meters in downtown Detroit. “All I’m trying to do is not get a parking ticket.”

Link [via All Headline News – technology News and Headlines]

I share this sentiment as well.

The new 3 Mbps broadband line has made me unafraid to download things like 26 MB panoramic photos snapped by the Mars Rovers.

This probably isn’t that new, but I missed until tonight. LegalTorrents.com has added RSS support for all three of there media types.

Music
Movies
Books

A fascinating take on the world’s current events. The battle isn’t between the US and al-Qaida, it’s between the West and the East, Islam and Democratic Liberalism (not the US politcal party).

Al-Qaida, despite its ominous portrayal in the Western press – is no exception. It, too, will succumb, in due time, to the twin lures of power and money. Nihilistic and decentralized as it is – its express goals are the rule of Islam and equitable economic development. It is bound to get its way in some countries.

The world of the future will be truly pluralistic. The proselytizing zeal of Liberal Democracy and Capitalism has rendered them illiberal and intolerant. The West must accept the fact that a sizable chunk of humanity does not regard materialism, individualism, liberalism, progress, and democracy – at least in their Western guises – as universal or desirable.

Live and let live (and live and let die) must replace the West’s malignant optimism and intellectual and spiritual arrogance.

Link [via Blogcritics]

It’s either cool or really weird, probably both. This little Flash site let’s you explore Amsterdam’s Old Church graveyard. You can drill down (no pun intended) to see the headstones of those buried in the Church.

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I’m actually a little surprised by this.

Wireless Internet Popular in SE Michigan (AP) AP – Wireless Internet is spreading faster in southeast Michigan than any other metropolitan area across the country, according to a new national study.

Link [via Yahoo! News – Technology]

Ever wanted that HP sweatshirt? Or how about a floating pen? Yeah, well, here’s where you can get it. Reasonable prices, too. I need to look for a Dell site like this.
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I’m just posting this so I don’t loose it. I need to build a new machine… this seems as good a place as any to start.

The DIY $1000 Athlon XP Gaming Rig Build It: A couple of weeks ago, we built a Pentium 4 gaming PC for $1000. We’ve constructed another one for the same price, this time based on the Athlon XP. Find out which do-it-yourself rig is faster.

[via Extremetech]

I’d burn it up within a week…

I’m having a total geek moment right now. Yes, this is nothing new, but I really love the idea of real digital paper. Tablet PCs seem to be the avenue to this for me, but I wish they weren’t so big. We need something half-way between a large PDA (like an iPaq) and a full-blown laptop; portable yet big enought to write on. Geek moment over.

Link to Gateway’s entries in the Tablet PC market