Heh...read the article...why am I not surprised that the little angels are home-schooled?

Wonder what their "pastor" has to say.

Wah. I LOVE my Swatch Smartwatch--I can get my Office calendar on it, which means that on days when I have back to back meetings, I can get on-the-fly room updates so I'm not running around our corporate campus like a lost chicken. Leave it to MS to kill the one product they have that actually works.

*pokes out eyes, pours in lab-grade LSD mixed with battery acid to permanently erase the idea of just how badly a live-action GITS will suck*

A very close friend of mine is on the US promotions team for the Wii Fit, and she's had one at her apartment for months.

Bottom line: It is the shazbit. YOU WANT ONE. In addition to the "normal" exercises, lots of the games (like becoming an anthropomorphic penguin and "bobbing" an ice floe to catch fish in midair) are just a silly hoot. Or, more to the point, silly hoots that you do for HOURS while working up a sweat in the privacy of your own book-and-tech-strewn hovel.

I want.

Link? Can't find it on the site.

Schweeet! I see that the Film Fest overlaps the Music Festival, which I will be in town for. I so hope that I can catch this! Teh kewl. Mkaythxbye! :D

Dear Sweet Hopping Spaghetti Monster, people. It's a CAKE. For a CELEBRATION. It's PRETTY. It's SWEEEEEEEEEEEET. It's FUN!

Sheesh, lighten up.

The only thing that would be cooler than getting one of these cakes made for me would be a matching set of Katamari cupcakes (roughly spherical and covered with diverse sorts of crap molded out of fondant) to hand out as favors/post-dessert desserts.

:)

Ooooh, my second-fave city after my hometown of NYC!

Must-do's:

--Yes, get a currywurst from one of the guys toting around a hot grill strapped to their nether regions. For a Euro you can say you did it. Gives new meaning to the phrase "weenie roast."

--Hit the Unsichtbar restaurant. The food and the experience were great.

--Find the current location of White Trash, this always kitschy, always fun crazy bar that is half-expat and half everything else. The last time I was in Berlin I actually met up with one of the members of Einstuerzende Neubauten, one of whom also DJs there sometimes. Note to self: A red wine, three cherry bombs, two shots of Jaeger, and one order of onion rings with hoisin sauce is NOT dinner.

--For a fabulous sisha (water pipe) AND a glass of absinthe AND light eats AND comfy chairs and wood furniture AND a funky world music soundtrack AND your Internet fix, go to Cafe Al Hamra (if it's still there). It's at 6 Frauenparkplaetze. I spent my best afternoon there writing in a real paper journal after getting a laptop with Net access for an hour. I smoked my shisha, had an absinthe, wrote, and watched Berlin go by in the freezing rain. LOVED IT.

--Get a hangover hot lunch at Keyser Soze, a cafe in Mitte. I got a great German lunch with a beer for 3.5 Euros. TuchowskyStrasse at the corner of Augustrasse.

--Hit Tacheles Art Center before it becomes lofts for rich hipsters and Starbuck's.

--Brandenberg Tor. Be sure to hit the "peace center meditation room" when you're there; great place to rest your feet.

--Pick up a copy of Zitty and hit any of the art openings listed therein.

--Hit Hamburger Hof Modern Art Museum.

--Get a MilkBerlin messenger bag.

--Also get a Tasche/Tausche messenger bag--they have interchangable front flaps. I got one of mine with an iconic Berlin symbol (the FunkTurm) on it.

Have fun! WE WANT A FLICKR STREAM AND UPDATES!

Also, if you want more info, your blogadmin Teresa knows where to find me in meatspace; she has my permission to give you my email.

ME JEALOUS.

Rushkoff? Um, no. I've met the guy and sat in with him at focus groups and no matter what the subject, the stench of BS eventually leaks out.

You know, I am a native New Yorker, and I live here now, and I always think that I live in the coolest city on the planet...

...until I read something like this. Dang! We should do that here.

I think a lot of these numbers are due to people who may not be tech-savvy who are taken down the garden path while shopping for a new home entertainment system.

Case in point: A nice but tech-clueless co-worker recently bought and installed a huge to-the-gills new home entertainment TV/Stereo/Personal Death Star sort of entertainment system. She had originally gone in just to buy a new TV.

Among other things, it took 3 visits (billed) from Time Warner Cable and one from BestBuy to hook up all her crap.

Then, she groused that "she didn't see the TV difference" in HDTV...until one day, she came in beaming that "she had discovered all these channels past the digital music channels" that "made all the difference in the world."

Then after a few months of bliss, TWC did something to her system again and now her surround sound isn't working.

My personal philosophy is to never buy anything I can't install and set up myself....

Honestly, I like ye olde keyboard for input. Grafitti was a necessary evil when I had a Palm. If I ever get a Smartphone I may have to pick it up again. However, I can type over 120 WPM even on my compactish Vaio keyboard, while Grafitti just ain't it by any stretch of the imagination.

*le sigh*

I already *have* a "laptop lite," it's called my refurbed Sony Vaio. The thing weighs 2.8 lbs. with the battery in, fits in the front pocket of even some of my girly handbags, and is actually a pretty robust little thing.

What was Palm thinking? Anyone geeky enough to have a smartphone already has a laptop--why would they want an "almost ran?"

OTOH if they had marketed this as "an integrated, affordable laptop and personal communications solution" and sold it for $300 on wired college campuses, they would have made a fortune. I really only use my Vaio to read email, do writing assignments, and start conversations at hip little cafes :D

I already have a tower unit at home as well as a "heavy lifting" laptop (huge 9-lb. Dell thing that really can connect to just about anything or any office system), a work laptop, and my machine at work. I betcha most folks on this board are similarly tricked out. A college student is not--they probably have a machine at the dorm for homework and would love something light just to take notes on.

I had a Palm Pilot back in the beta days, and it's sad to see the brand take a tumble.