Cruel, humorous, and all too true.

Via Jay McCarthy
8:11:43 PM    

It's health food, I tell you! Health food! And what's this about wasting it on dogs, anyway? And where do I sign up for those clinical trials?

Ear wiggle to Bigwig
7:48:52 PM    

Too funny. Go read.

Via Ole Eichhorn, in turn from BoingBoing, whose servers seem to be 'boinging' a lot of late.
3:12:34 PM    

There seems to be only limited coverage of this speech by Intel COO Paul Otellini, in which he committed the company to a future chip platform architecture that would include space for software defined radio (SDR). If you don't follow this stuff, that's the idea of implementing the 'air standard' in software, all the way down to the modulation specs. Just the thing to deal with interop issues, let one hardware product handle multiple deployed standards (e.g., Wi-Fi and Bluetooth), and perhaps eventually finesse many regulatory issues.

There are companies out there plugging away on here-and-now inplementations, but at present the cost burden compared to hardwired solutions is sufficient that most of the uptake is by folks like the military and intelligence services, who have serious radio interoperation and legacy problems at the life-and-death level. If Intel follows through on this directional statement, it's a big deal. In the short run, it will give pause to others contemplating investment in the SDR concept. In the long run, the scale economies promised by a platform vendor commitment could bring the advent of practical SDR in by several years.

Hat tip to the WCA, which - for those reading in the Bay Area - will be hosting a talk on the topic on the 18th, in Cupertino.
2:03:18 PM