Current time in the US (an experiment with SSI and javascript):

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TDK has created a supertough, fully transparent coating for delicate displays and optical media. I so need this. With the way the spousal unit abuses various form of media, I’m lucky if a CD lasts 3 months in the car before I have to burn another copy. And let’s not go into the subject of my collection of Final Fantasy games, half of which won’t boot up past the opening movie when you start a new game. Grr. [via /.]

Refresh, refresh, refresh.

Count on Anil for smart, non-partisan * summation of the issues. Though I don’t quite agree with his position on offshoring, that may just be my knee-jerk protectionism resulting from one of the 800,000 jobs that went poof in the last four years having been mine, which now belongs to five, no doubt lovely, people in Manila.

* And plus, he’s funny: Despite all this, I’m voting. […] I don’t want to be part of the mass bloodshed when P. Diddy has to murder 60 million people tomorrow night.