Almost Exciting!

Disturbing information about a drug in Australia called Stilnox.

It’s called Ambien, here in the United States.

Robert Wechsler is creative. My favorites are the toaster, and the shopping carts.

Oh, and here’s a list of ten name-brand foods you should never eat. Unless you’re me, and your metabolism runs faster than you do. I’m still going to eat what I want, but some of these are surprising.

More info than I can describe in just one headline today.

First up: Here’s a link to the article about BluRay/HD-DVD’s not working in Vista. Something you should definitely know about.

Here are some quotes from the article:

This protection, known as high definition content protection (HDCP), must be present throughout the entire system — usually the computer, or a television. If it is not, Vista will disable the connection

Almost no computers using digital connections have HDCP, according to computer experts, although those that do are being phased in

Any computer which has an LCD monitor is potentially at risk of not being able to play this content

I absolutely, positively can’t stand this. I think that if I payed to own the movie, I should be able to watch it on any player in my house, especially at it’s intended quality! I don’t want to fight for the rights to make things easy to pirate or steal, but if I own it, I should be able to watch it - period.

In other news:

Intel announces Quad-core. There it is, monk!

Also, a brief mention on BoingBoing.net about Target and Best Buy’s pricing, and how to know if you can get a discount on an item - or if it’s already (or not actually) on sale.

And, have you ever seen a picture of a photo ID, credit card, checking account number, etc., where sensitive or personal information is blurred out? I can’t believe I didn’t think of this: Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea.

For the arts-and-craft kids, you probably already do this, but I thought that How to Make a Folded Paper CD Case might come in handy. Be sure to check out the ever-popular papercdcase.com where you can make your own PDF with fold lines, artist/track information, etc., if you’re the lazy do-it-yourselfer.

DailyTech reports that Seagate recently confirmed 1TB drives for consumers. Awesome.

It was a while ago, but PC World wrote a cool article on 50 Years of Hard Drives, as the storage medium recently celebrated 50 years of service.

Firefox Cheat-sheet - I know you can find most of this in the Help file, but ’sheets are cool to look at. And I was too lazy to ever know that hitting CTRL+L got me into the address bar, or CTRL+K for the Search bar. Oh-how-I-wish-I-knew-that-before! Don’t miss the link to the PDF version, in case you’re into that.

Weird, entirely unrelated news coming soon.

I always wondered how Firefox generated revenue for Mozilla. I can’t believe I didn’t figure it out. I also find the amount incredible, yet somehow believable.

Here’s the article I found, and a link to the original post on mozillazine.org.

I know this is terrible, as I normally like to expound on things, but it’s late and I don’t want to wait until tomorrow - so consider this a draft!

Kottke just posted his Best Links of 2006 and I highly recommend browsing it if you have free time to read. And I expect you do, as you are here.

Bonus points for Kottke today, since I also can’t help but linking to the list of Addictive Little Online Games.

Go read, go play, whatever. That’s a draft.