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Stephen and Charlie discuss the possibility of buying a Jaguar and driving cross country, recent birthday parties, Charlie’s favorite southern restaurant and more!
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Stephen and Charlie discuss issues with the latest version of Firefox, Charlie’s new book club, and Stephen is finally getting his house in order and buying new furniture.
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Gather round, Adobe CS3 users: here’s more fetishistic drivel for us to put in our pile of steadily accumulating stuff, even during the worst recession in the nation’s history. Unlike those excellent Adobe CS4 pilliows, these are coasters, reminding us that we have to chase away the Gombeen man by slaving away on Photoshop and other Adobe applications all day long.
But I like to be reminded of that when tanking up on some frosty cold ones. And, I’ve grown to love the Adobe-conic chiclets from CS3, which along with everything else, I’m still digging a heckava sight more than the loathsome, crash-prone, slow-as-Christmas Adobe CS4.
I guess this means Adobe’s not going to be inviting me to any more of its luxury junkets. Oh well. Unlike myself, these coasters are for sale — a set of six is yours for a mere $25.
Herman Miller makes upscale chairs like the iconic Aeron Chair and the odd-looking Embody in which I’m sitting right now. But the company wanted to make a more reasonably priced throne, resulting in the Herman Miller Setu. It’s rather attractive, isn’t it?
Its $650 price is a less than half of the outrageous $1600 to plunk down for the Herman Miller Embody, and this one has a comfortable features of the embody doesn’t have: look at that version in the middle of it as the headrest. Too bad the unpadded arms look so uncomfortable.
Arcos rolled out next product in its line of handheld media players, and this one’s even bigger than the 5-inch-screened Archos 5 or the 7-inch-screened Archos 7. In fact, the Archos 9 is big enough to call itself a tablet. Guess how big its screen is. Yeah, 9 inches.
The Archos 9 is fitted with an Atom Z515 processor running at 1.2 GHz, powerful enough for Windows 7. Didn’t Archos get the memo about UMPCs a couple of years ago? They’re too small to be laptops, but too big to be useful media players. And then there’s the problem the keyboard. What where you thinking, Archos?
I’ve tried a both of the latest Archos products, the Archos 7 and the Archos 5, and both did a decent job of playing back some crispy looking video. However, they were both too heavy, and got too hot to handle after watching video for a half-hour or so.
Mimoco is turning its Mimobot flash drives to the dark side with the company’s fourth Star Wars collection. In this batch, the Sith Lords make an appearance as Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker, Captain Rex, and Darth Maul devices.
Completing the cycle later this summer as a San Diego Comic Con exclusive, Mimoco will release a third, limited-edition version of Darth Vader Unmasked. When the helmet is removed, the unmasked visage will be the face of Luke Skywalker, as Luke imagined himself on Dagobah in Star Wars:Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. Only 500 Darth Vader Unmasked Luke Skywalker MIMOBOT drives will be produced and they will only be available at Mimoco’s Comic Con booth #2913 in the STAR WARS Pavilion on July 22 – 26.
The Captain Rex drive also has a removable helmet, featuring the scowling face of Rex underneath.
Of course, none of the readers of Coolness Roundup are in peril of losing all of their TV when that digital transition is complete on June 12. But tell grandma, she can check this DTV map, and find out how strong those sweet digital signals will be when they shut off the analog.
Might I also recommend firing your cable provider and watching all your TV over the air, which is much less compressed than that stomped-on crap companies like Time Warner will send you? While you’re at it, maybe you could buy grandma a new digital TV. The cheapest one is less than a hundred bucks.
Note to whoever created New Book Smell aerosol: You nailed it. The only thing I miss about real books when I’m reading my Kindle is that unmistakable smell. But what’s up with these four other scents: Classic Musty, Crunchy Bacon Scent, Scent of Sensibility, and especially Eau, You Have Cats? Somebody actually wants the smell of cat urine on their books? Surely, you jest.
For some Luddites, an article doesn’t exist unless it’s printed. These clowns printed up every single one of the featured articles in Wikipedia, and look at the result: 5000 pages of Wikipedia goodness. And these are only the featured articles, not the entire online encyclopedia. That would probably be 10 times higher.
My advice: Stop printing. Just stop. Read stuff on a screen. The resolution is good enough, it’s bright, and you can probably place your laptop on an end table and read comfortably right there on your couch. Heck, you can even read articles on your iPhone. Anything but printing. Please.
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Hurry up, before you miss it: today is National Doughnut Day, a fantastic commemoration that goes all the way back to 1938. Go ahead, splurge. Its National Doughnut Day! Where else can you get gobs of grease, starch, and sugar all fried up together in one delectable delight?
