MSNBC links terror warnings, Bush political trouble

Keith Olbermann writes: Last Thursday on Countdown, I referred to the latest terror threat – the reported bomb plot against the New York City subway system – in terms of its timing. President Bush’s speech about the war on terror had come earlier the same day, as had the breaking news of the possible indictment …

apple validates microsoft?

Over on his media center blog, Matt Goyer wrote that Front Row “really validates what we’re doing converging digital entertainment with the PC in the living room.” So you’re saying that a product that “doesn’t even have feature parity with the first version of Media Center” from three years ago validates what you are doing? …

screen real estate is your friend

Merlin and Danny make the New York Times. Cool. But ever more interesting is this excerpt: But did more screen area actually help with cognition? To find out, Czerwinski’s team conducted another experiment. The researchers took 15 volunteers, sat each one in front of a regular-size 15-inch monitor and had them complete a variety of …

vangroovy

Vancouver named ‘world’s best city’: For the fourth year in a row, Vancouver has claimed the top spot on an international ranking of the world’s most livable cities. Toronto is ranked 9th; Calgary is 10th; no American cities made the list.