Reuters reports that a pod of dolphins protected swimmers from an attacking great white shark off the coast of New Zealand's North island:

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Nice story, but I’m not sure I believe it.

Casey Chesnut, who’s my favorite Tablet PC programmer because he does all this stuff apparently without realizing that it’s supposed to be hard, has written a neural network based character recognizer for the Tablet PC ([via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Tech Blender]). He normalizes an ink stroke in x …

Time magazine today named the Intel Centrino mobile technology wireless surfboard as one of the Coolest Inventions of 2004…
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Lordy, lordy, lordy. When [this]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} counts as the coolest thing that done with a technology, we …

::: {.Section1} There’s an early Simpsons where Mr. Burns somehow comes to believe that Homer is a fellow predatory capitalist. When he asks Homer how to improve the working environment, Homer says that he’d like the fish sticks in the cafeteria to come with more tartar sauce. Burns marvels …

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Seagate 100GB 2.5" IDE for \\(194: "Amazon.com offers the Seagate 100GB 2.5-inch IDE 5400 rpm drive for notebook computers, model no. 9W3277-556, for \\)193.99 with free shipping, as a reader found. [Via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"} [Tablog PC]

Without an optical drive to boot from, how would …

Julie points out that if it ain't got Intellisense, it ain't a productive programming environment. Now,

• Pynk doesn't even have cut-and-paste yet, so that comes first; and
• It *should * be possible to use reflection to get, not quite Intellisense, but something like a list of properties and methods that might …

James Kendrick nailed it. You can edit the Shark keyboard to use full words:

Making a syntax-directed programming editor that much easier to contemplate.

Tech Blender points to this rumor that Longhorn will require 64-bit hardware. You know, one of the fairly easy lessons to draw from the 16- to 32-bit change is that it happened too late, that there was a great deal of pain because everyone tried to live with side-by-side APIs …