Sharp LC42SB45U 42″ Widescreen LCD HDTV for a low $799.00 Free Shipping. Tax in most states.

1920×1080 @ 1080p; 3 HDMI; HD tuner.

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Via Josh Anderson.

Also, beautiful design on Quantum of Solace, the book, by Penguin Classics:

Via Kottke.org.

It runs on a GPU with various chipsets provided by others, including ASUS. Sick.

Flickr find: Faroe Islands (via A Continuous Lean):

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The Space Needle in 1962:

A genetic study of 3,200 Europeans shows the mix of genes of various citizens of the continent. The map on the left shows you the color-coding of countries, and those colors correspond to their citizens shown on the genetic map on the right. It shows that physical barriers such as the Alps and the Pyrenees limit the mixing of cultures, and geographically-isolate cultures, genetically.

via Microsiervos

How to combat procrasti…

Why Apple Won’t Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone - Flash would be the new preferred development environment, allow alternative music/video services that would cannibalize iTunes.

VERY interesting. I hadn’t thought about this angle.

Railroads brought us standardized time zones in 1883

Outliers: The Story of Success

Here’s what NYT had to say in its review:

Malcolm Gladwell’s two humongous best sellers, “The Tipping Point” and “Blink,” share a shake-and-bake recipe that helps explain their popularity. Both popularize scientific, sociological and psychological theories in a fashion that makes for lively water-cooler chatter about Big Intriguing Concepts: “The Tipping Point” promotes the notion that ideas and fads spread in much the same way as infectious diseases do, while “Blink” theorizes that gut instincts and snap judgments can be every bit as good as decisions made more methodically.

“Outliers,” Mr. Gladwell’s latest book, employs this same recipe, but does so in such a clumsy manner that it italicizes the weaknesses of his methodology. The book, which purports to explain the real reason some people — like Bill Gates and the Beatles — are successful, is peppy, brightly written and provocative in a buzzy sort of way. It is also glib, poorly reasoned and thoroughly unconvincing.

The San Francisco chronicle gave the book a glowing review, due to their not being bound to kowtowing to literary snobs, as is the New York Times.

This is a book you should definitely read.

The Bacon iPhone Sleeve

Wallet, Keys, Cellphone, and Flash Drive:

Meaty iPod Sleeve

Now you can floss those meats out of your munchers with bacon-flavored floss! (why didn’t I think of this?):

Mario Lopez’ War on Sleeves continues:

Dear A.C. Slater,

P.S. How much are we talking for you to show up to my work and call people “Preppy?” Five, ten bucks? Shoot me a figure which I’ll continually reject until you settle for a McMuffin.

You can now order Domino’s pizza through your TiVo (Praise the lord! Domino’s be thy name!)

Obama on 60 Minutes:

Barack Obama: My hope is that over the course of the next week, between the White House and Congress, the discussions are shaped around providing assistance but making sure that that assistance is conditioned on labor, management, suppliers, lenders, all the stakeholders coming together with a plan: what does a sustainable U.S. auto industry look like? So that we are creating a bridge loan to somewhere as opposed to a bridge loan to nowhere. And that’s, I think, what you haven’t yet seen. That’s something that I think we’re gonna have to come up with.
Kroft: Are there a lot of people that think that the country would probably be better off and General Motors might be better off if it was allowed to go into bankruptcy?
Barack Obama: Well, you know, under normal circumstances that might be the case in the sense that you’d go to a restructuring like the airlines had to do in some cases. And then they come out and they’re still a viable operation. And they’re operating even during the course of bankruptcy. In this situation, you could see the spigot completely shut off so that it would not potentially permit GM to get back on its feet. And I think that what we have to do is to recognize that these are extraordinary circumstances. Banks aren’t lending as it is. They’re not even lending to businesses that are doing well, much less businesses that are doing poorly. And in that circumstance, the usual options may not be available.

Bailout vs Bankruptcy, Obama Edition - Felix Salmon

Peek WANTS YOU to hack/improve their device. Wish Apple and Google would roll like this.

http://streetstyl.es/ - a street fashion photography aggregator. Now you don’t have to check 5 sites.

Send this to your Grandmother (or anyone you know still using an aol.com/hotmail.com/msn.com email address:

How to ditch your old email address (and jump into the 21st century)

Via The Big Picture.

Barack Obama’s campaign was actually just a Nigerian scam: he’s just left the country with $85 million, originally raised for his presidential campaign

HTC Touch HD reviewed:

American Airlines is getting into mobile boarding passes.

Hey Google, nobody is going to do this because nobody wants to look like they’re talking to themself.

Regional wireless player Cricket is growing, going national

Watch out for these guys.

Kobe Bryant is fielding offers of $30 million to play pro ball in Greece and possibly Italy, where he was born.

The new MacBook is now $1099 at Fry’s on Black Friday. You know where I’ll be at 5AM that morning.

     – William Shakespeare