Best C.E.O.'s? Er, Never Mind
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It used to be so easy for business magazines to assemble a list of celebrity chief executives to champion as the best of the best.
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Review Can it appeal to novice and pro alike?
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Some last minute advice about the hot tech toys
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The unconventional Oslavje Bianco from Radikon. (Courtesy of pedrelli.com) Iâm about to go on vacation, so this will be my last post until after Labor Day. As Iâm about to leave Iâm thinking about some wines that Iâve enjoyed in the last week or so and how inadequate our usual descriptive language is to characterize their [...].
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Our countdown to next week's CES centers now on whether the CE industry will at last reach a solution to the DRM conundrum. The new trend toward DRM-free music doesn't appear to be shaking the Blu-ray and HD DVD folks, who continue to cling to proprietary disk formats. Will consumers seek a video alternative, and might it come from China?
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Tycho:  I've been au Canada at Hothead since Monday, making a final pass on the entire script and writing new stuff for things we managed to fit into the first ep.  After two days of this process, I feel as though my brain has been dragging a plough through a stubborn field.  Like every other part of this adventure, it's been profoundly educational.  I enjoy it, but there is a constant electrical hum in my skull that I assume is the byproduct of creating a universe in real time.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes for eWeek, &#147;GNOME is nice, KDE is fine and the forthcoming Looking Glass may be wonderful, but the best Unix desktop is the one in the Macintosh.&#148; [Oct 14]
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The most desired electronic gift item for this holiday season is a plasma TV. You might, however, want to consider something that wasn't even in the running: L.C.D.
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Tycho:  The memories of those who came of age in the eighties have become a kind of ghastly rummage sale, a tilled up cemetery where icons lay tilted over bones draped in ancient finery.  Pork caught a preview of Transformers on Monday, and he claims that it is not, in fact, heresy - but I don't know how calibrated our respective tastes are.  I was going to make a statement about how any constantly shifting image could entertain him, enthrall him, command him, until I realized that this viewing was late at night, in the twilight period we call Pork After Hours, when his medication wanes and his blood is frenzied by some dark moon.  For him to have focused on anything at any time after nine o'clock is actually high praise.
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It's all about the Booleans for these hacker MCs: Sample some of the sickest flows to ever come out of the BBS ghetto. By Roger Thomasson from Wired magazine.
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Tycho: The whole reason I wrote that other post was to link the new article about it at 1up, and I didn't even manage to do that - here you go. In a way, I'm glad I didn't link it before - in the intervening period, a new episode of the 1up show has dropped that has a ton of interview and video material for every part of Episode 2 - including TF2 and Portal. It's the top video on this page. Unbelievably delicious.(CW)TB
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Which conferences do CEOs and other C-suite occupants consider the most beneficial?
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Mac computers, according to Gregg Keizer , âare the most reliable and its support the most dependable of the five top [computer] vendors. In fact, Keizer reports that in its annual report on reliability, Rescuecom, âa national chain of computer service shops,â found that Apple âblew away the competition this year by posting a score of 51% higher than next-best Lenovo.â The score, explains David Milman, CEO of Rescuecom, âtakes into account not just the quality and reliability of the equipment but also the quality of service.â
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Tycho:  Our newest comic is available here, regarding the blogger that Nintendo fired recently.  As usual, Gabriel and I disagree absolutely on virtually every point of this discussion, my own perspective favoring greater liberty while he presents a naked defense of fascism.  The two universal axioms we were both able to agree upon were that:
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Love del.icio.us or hate it? Last week, we asked readers to send in their picks and pans, and we got a ton of responses. Mike Calore sorted through the results and created a list of rankings, including some surprises. In Monkey Bites
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(InfoWorld) - Strange but true, some people -- certified techies among them -- prefer to turn it all off when theyâre on holiday. [See also: Great escapes for geeks | Top 10 vacations] Stanton W. Schmidt writes, âI really do want to leave it all behind when I go on vacation. With that in mind I would recommend the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. There, you cannot get a signal for your cell phone, no matter which provider you have. You don't drive in, you paddle in (no boat motors allowed either). And they don't even allow you to carry in cans or bottles. And no matter where you go, you are likely not to see another human being for most of your trip.â âI purposefully select vacation choices where it's extremely difficult to geek out every day,â replied Ed Kummel. âMy last vacation was in Durango, Colo. Sure, there are coffeehouses in town that have Internet access, but the bike ride down and back up the mountain is not worth it! I learned to make do with my BlackBerry for that week!â For those who would brave the mountain for some quality Internet time, hereâs your real cold turkey, from Gregg Cooke: âThe banks of West Virginia's Greenbrier River, most of which lies inside the National Radio Quiet Zone, so named because it is a 13,000-square-mile âholeâ in the eastern part of the state centered over the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). Even the slightest radio transmissions are hunted down by a team of radio detectives and silenced â¦ they even find malfunctioning microwaves and mistuned automobiles. (Your tax dollars go toward this, you know.) The result is blissful radio silence for the gi-normous radio dishes the NRAO operates to scan the skies and look deep into celestial radio sources. You'll get no cell or wireless signal here, guaranteed!â
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Q. Please tell me how to put my Internet Favorites list in alphabetical order. I did it once, and now I cannot remember.  _Claire Lichtenstein @yahoo.com  A. This sounds simple as falling off a rock, until you try to write about it in a newspaper, Ms. L.