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“Pictures of TV”
Sometimes, while walking around town, I’ll see ridiculous ad copy on canopy signs or store fronts, and I’ll read them out loud in my radio announcer voice: “Natural Natural Natural Natural Food Snacks Groceries”. I think I’m going to start doing that with TV too.

“RISC vs. CISC in the mobile era”
“Unlike 1998, though, RISC vs. CISC actually matters, now. A close look at the design of Intel’s newest mobile architecture, officially named Atom, will show why the decades-old “RISC vs. CISC” debate is suddenly interesting again, and in some entirely new ways. In this article, I’ll talk about the penalty that Intel’s new Atom ultramobile processor pays for its CISC legacy, and how Intel plans to reduce the impact of that penalty with simultaneous multithreading.”

Wedding Pictures from the Sichuan Earthquake
Moving pictures from the earthquake in progress. Makes rain-on-your-wedding day, which isn’t at all “ironic”, also seem not very bad.

Zero Punctuation: Painkiller
I hate posting something on the same day as Gruber, but he’s out of date on this one, having linked to a review from two weeks ago, and I’m not going to abandon my pre-existing idea just because he gets to post one link at a time while I’ve got to type up like a dozen. Yesterday Zero Punctuation reviewed Painkiller, one of Matt’s favorite games: “Right in the beginning you get a gun that shoot giant wooden stakes, and when you hit the bad guys with it they’ll fly like 40 feet and get pinned to the wall… The physics engine is what makes the game fun.”

R. Kelly: Jury selection and the trial itself
“As R. Kelly’s child pornography trial is about to start, the judge’s media liaison gathers all of the reporters together to announce that we’ll be watching a sex tape in open court. He then delivers stern advice about doodling. ‘I am here to warn you,’ says Terry Sullivan, ‘that anyone who draws a depiction or a simulation can be committing the act of child pornography. … You don’t want to be doing that.’

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