RSS: How Apple Will Change TV in 2007

Apple TV has a DVR -- it's called podcasting.

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Convert video for Apple TV

Get DVDs and other video on your hard drive to play through Apple's set-top box

But before you dive in, remember that this is a gray area, legally speaking. Because ripping commercial DVDs circumvents the copy-protection system employed on these discs, it’s questionable as to whether the use of this type of software is legal—even if you own the DVD and are ripping it only to watch it in another form. You’ll have to assess the risks yourself; if you decide to take the plunge, read on.

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$27 million anti-evolution museum to open soon

Well, this pretty much explains what's wrong with our country and its leadership. Aren't these the same people who voted for our dunderhead-in-chief?

When the Gallup Poll asked people about their views on the subject last March, 47 percent of Americans polled said that God created humans pretty much in their present form some time in the last 10,000 years. That belief was strongest among those with less education, regular churchgoers, people 65 and older, and Republicans.

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Does it suck?

When you enter a search term, sucks/rocks searches the web for several positive and negative phrases using that term. The score is the fraction of positive results to the sum of positive and negative results, normalized to 10.

sucks/rocks definitely, er, rocks. Try a few of the examples, then make your own list. Like this one: schools, or this one: readers

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K-Fed Launches His Own Search Engine; Internet Loses Yet More Dignity

Yes, the guy who somehow escaped his marriage with Britney Spears looking like the sane one now has his own branded search engine that offers you chances to win prizes (going to Kevin's birthday party, OMG!) every time you search.

Hmm, they use Yahoo's search engine, but their contact email is at gmail.

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Notice how the men's gaze lingered on the crotch of this tree

There are some interesting findings for Web news page designers in the Online Journalism Review's recap of a recent eyetracking study, but the one everyone will remember is that if there's a crotch anywhere on the page, men will look at it.

Oh, this was just too good to pass up.

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Not Getting Things Done

Watch this video! NGTD is a great method I use everyday.

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