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It appears that something is messing up the blog’s formatting all of a sudden. weird. going to look into it when I have a moment…

edit- looks like that Chronotrigger youtube video went rogue.  fixed. well the problem was not fixed, I just don’t have the video embedded any more… so it’s fixed enough.

Note- this has been sitting in drafts for a few weeks (oops), I’ll have another update very soon… 

New- blogs added

• DomainTools Blog- A great blog about domain names. I had to buy a number of domains this week (still have to figure some out) and I remembered just how interesting domaining is. It’s like real estate for internet people…
• Coworking Community Blog- I want to get into some of these coworking dates. This seemed like the right place to start.
• Laptoping- It’s a cool site about laptop news. I’ve been reading it on and off for a long time and finally decided to pull the trigger.
• Grub Street- NYMag’s food blog- it’s the best there is. Another one that I have been reading for some time and finally subscribed to.
• VIA sites- VIA (like the processor/motherboard guys) keeps opening up web properties to talk about their gear. They get good writers and post about some pretty cool stuff. Nothing insanely amazing, but definitely worth checking out. They don’t post a whole lot, so I keep subscribing. Some sites are Technovoyance, Green Lounge, VIA Galleries, Ultramobile Life, UMPC Portal and EPIAcenter. I’m not sure if VIA official owns then or what. Something I need to look into…
• JKKmobile- Another one that I have checked out from time to time.

Hot- sites that have been awesome lately

• Game Life- Wired’s gaming blog. It gets gaming news, filters out all the crap and gives you what you want. Perfect for someone who is intersted by does not have the time to read 40 posts a day from Kotaku, most of which are about cakes that look like game characters.

Not- sites that have been disappointing lately

• Get Rich Slowly- I really enjoyed this ans some other financial blogs for some time, but after a few months it’s just the same stuff over and over again. There are LOTS of links to book and tips on saving money, but in the end it’s the same stuff in a different form.
• Eater- It’s good, but Grub Street is way better.

Removed- unsubscribed

• Adobe Blogs- Cool in theory, but rarely anything too interesting, at least from my perspective. Maybe if I used Adobe products a primary tool for my job (even though I still use multiple ones everyday) it would be more interesting.
• /Message, Stowe Boyd- I just have not been reading it lately…

Trends-

So I’ve been doing some pretty serious reading lately, though I have I have been much more liberal with the “mark all as read” button, this is especially true with my business/financial reading.

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Previous RSS Watch.

http://www.youtube.com/v/YELRuYNBRDk

Once again I will be crying myself to sleep, curled up in a fetal position. The reason this time? Actually the same as last time- abuse by Square Enix. This Chronotrigger refresh looks amazing and the fact that I’ll never play it is hard to deal with, especially since we will probably never see the game on Wii VC either…

http://nextny.jobthread.com/…

Looks like Bug is looking for a customer service person. Could be a nice opportunity if this is your field. Seems like a good chance to get in at the ground floor.

This is nuts.

Watch the whole thing- the ending is the best part.

http://crave.cnet.com/…

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/…

http://www.pcworld.com/… (and Wash Post)

These are just the big ones, there are lots more… Seems like the Air is impossible not to want/love, but it’s just too impractical/expensive for most people…

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/…

The Village Voice has a great post calling out Iron Chef America. We all knew the show was stupid and staged (though the original one was very good), but this is too much… I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I have lost even more respect for the Food Network. I did not even think that was possible…

At one point, with only minutes in the real-time hour to go, one of Nicotra’s sous chefs—an attractive and poised brunette named Lara—was seen kneeling next to the ingredient table, stacking and restacking the spice jars so that the one she had used would fit perfectly back in the shelf. Urgency, indeed!

In most cases, the recipes were being executed a second time for the judges, mostly by the sous chefs, but with help from the Oompa-Loompas. I was shocked. If the actual dishes produced during the contest weren’t being tasted, the competitive validity of the whole show was further undermined: What was the point of the race if the dishes were casually recooked for judging an hour later?

The worst part is that the Food Network managed to drag Alton Brown, probably their best and only respectable host into this charade.