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December 3, 2008

• 9:09 PM osagi on Cheapest gas; 30 good gas-saving tips; gas prices worldwide (12 cents to $6.48 a gallon)

  include the hypermiling techniques on saving gas.

  
  

  December 1, 2008

• 11:26 PM Sheila Lennon on Kale & Squash Gratin, Pecan Pie wowed 'em at Thanksgiving

  Thank you, penny.

  
  

  December 1, 2008

• 5:24 PM penny on Kale & Squash Gratin, Pecan Pie wowed 'em at Thanksgiving

  Always love reading your column and great receipes.

  
  

  November 30, 2008

• 10:57 AM Sheila Lennon on Hot-selling Blu-ray video: What it is

  Dave, you seem to have angrily repeated every point this post made more calmly -- and somehow decided I'm in sales. Walter Mossberg is more effective, imo, on the upscaling issue, and Kyle Buckley lots cooler in rejecting buy-in. So with all your points already covered here, what got you so fired up? Or did you only read the headline and paste in a standard rant? (Reporters coming back from stores saying "Lots of people were buying Blu-ray today," could answer your "Where?" question but not "How many units, exactly?" That's not their job.) Later... Full disclosure: I don't have a dog in this fight. I got a DVD player as a Christmas gift a few years back, but seldom use it. The kids do, sometimes. I only like to watch movies once, so I don't collect them. I forget to rent/return them, don't need more clutter, and am happy to stream what comes on HD cable TV, what others bring over or what's in the theaters. Blu-ray's selling point to the movie studios may have been the DRM in Blu-ray discs, called BD+. That has also been cracked (BluRay's BD+ DRM broken), but, after Googling around a bit, it looks like making Blu-ray backup discs is not easy. The 2007 context at Ars Technica fills in some of the blanks: Adult film industry embracing HD DVD. Because it can be made more cheaply, with existing processes. And,

  A spokesperson for one adult studio told TG Daily that HD DVD is easier and cheaper to produce and that it was the industry's belief "there are more HD DVD players in homes than there are Blu-ray players, for example in the Xbox 360.

  
  

  November 30, 2008

• 8:53 AM DaveBG on Hot-selling Blu-ray video: What it is

  Hot-selling Blu-ray!? Where? How many units, exactly? Blu-ray is so "hot-selling" that the BDA (the Blu-ray Disc Association, the group of companies dedicated to over-seeing, developing and promoting the Blu-ray Disc format) refuses to allow verifiable sales numbers. The exception is the Nielson numbers which are heavily weighted towards the early adopter and Blu-ray and against the mature market that DVD's is. DVD sell 1.7 billion discs in the USA alone & over 7 billion discs worldwide. Blu-ray does not even exceed 2% of those numbers anywhere. You'll not be seeing titles' annual sales comparisons anywhere anytime soon, they know it instantly robs them of the illusion of growth and progress compared to DVD they have spent the last 2yrs crafting. You need a huge HD TV to even 'see' 1080p (at normal viewing distances) and you need a full and very expensuive set of audio kit to even hear the latest standards of audio Blu-ray can offer. Compared to upscaled DVD on the sort of HD TV most buy (32" - 42") Blu-ray offers very little for the price and an AC3 Dolby Digital home theatre receiver & speaker set-up will sound exactly the same. Anyone who imagines the current economic climate is going to see Blu-ray genuinely going 'mass-market' is either laughably deluded or trying to con people by spinning ridiculously out-dated PR BS. Even Warner are now waking up to this going horribly wrong “We think this is a do-or-die time for Blu-ray,” said Ron Sanders, president of Warner Home Video. “We must get it established as a favorite holiday item.” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/business/21dvd.html?_r=2&hp No-one in their right mind (excepting the PS3 game console fanboys) seriously thinks Blu-ray is about to become "established as a favorite holiday item.” Wake up. Quit trying to sell people a format with very little or no future.

  
  

  November 27, 2008

• 1:02 PM Rachel Stallman on Organic Thanksgiving dinner costs $100 more, so try cherrypicking

  The benefits to buying organic go far beyond a lack of pesticide use, particularly when discussing organic meat and poultry. Someone above mentioned the distress of turkeys on conventional farms. That is all true, but here's a fun fact: Any conventional turkey that you've eaten recently in the United States was the result of artificial insemination, because turkeys here have been bred to have such large breasts that they physically cannot get together and mate. American turkeys can't even have sex because they were bred to be so large, so that more can be charged per turkey. That's motivation enough for me to spend the extra money.

  
  

  November 26, 2008

• 11:15 AM Andrea on Thanksgiving Chocolate Mousse; Truffles from France, $125 oz.; Fantasy draft for T-day dishes

  Ummmmmmmmm I think I'll save that chocolate mousse recipe for the post-thanksgiving weekend. Thank you, Sheila, for tracking it down.. I'm sharing it with Rich and Sue.

  
  

  November 24, 2008

• 9:14 PM Karen Anne on Organic Thanksgiving dinner costs $100 more, so try cherrypicking

  Go vegetarian and save $70. It is shortsighted on Money mag's part to only count the upfront cost. What about the offshore dead zones in the ocean caused by fertilizer runoff? Or pollution of fresh water? Health effects of chemicals? Distress of conventionally raised turkeys, living with their top beaks and claws cut off so they don't injure their neighbors?

  
  

  November 24, 2008

• 5:04 PM Sheila Lennon on Organic Thanksgiving dinner costs $100 more, so try cherrypicking

  Silas, here's the Library of Congress Pesticides and Food index. Google Scholar has a huge index of Toxic effects of pesticides studies. People don't buy premium food out of fear so much as out of a desire for quality as they perceive it. At Thanksgiving especially, the feast is usually the best you can provide, however you define that. I don't think most expensive is necessarily best, though. Good enough is good...

  
  

  November 24, 2008

• 1:42 PM Silas Scarborough on Organic Thanksgiving dinner costs $100 more, so try cherrypicking

  I admire your diligence in taking care of your family but I've got to wonder if any harm has ever been documented in a scientific journal regarding any injury to humans as a result of chemical residuals on foods. Anecdotal information is all very well for reports of flying saucers but surely there has been some real science on this subject or why would someone pay five times as much for a turkey?

  
  

  November 22, 2008

• 11:34 AM Janice B. Tehie on Dave McKenna, jazz pianist and Woonsocket native, dies at 78

  I worked as a home caregiver aide for Home Instead Senior Care in State College PA and Dave McKenna was one of the persons I helped. He was a dear, dear man; very warm, loving and caring and I will always cherish the memories of the time I spent with him. He made me feel very welcome and was always great to be around. I had to stop working for the agency when my own dad, who will be 92 on Dec 11, 2008, became sick himself, and I knew Dave was ill with lung cancer. I had been always meaning to stop by and see him, but never "got around to it", something I'll regret for the rest of my life. My sincerest condolences to his friends and family. Janice B. Tehie State College, PA

  
  

  November 21, 2008

• 3:04 PM Sheila Lennon on 2008 Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections, Part 4

  Thanks, Matt. Good catch, and thanks also for posting the comment so we could all get there.

  
  

  November 21, 2008

• 2:48 PM Matt on 2008 Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections, Part 4

  The link to the Esquire article is borked. Here is the correct link: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/recipes-from-1984/recipes-from-november-1984

  
  

  November 20, 2008

• 7:02 PM Free Wii on Looking for Nintendo Wii Fit? eBay 'Power Sellers' cornered the market

  I'm really sorry this is off topic, but how awesome does his house look? I want that seat! :p

  
  

  November 19, 2008

• 9:50 PM Sheryl roehl on Let Obama keep his BlackBerry

  Wonder how President-elect Obama will deal with the unpleasant withdrawal symptoms from his CrackBerry addiction? Read a tongue-in-cheek fantasy letter to the President-elect on how to cope (from one addict to another) at http://www.justmypointofview.wordpress.com.

  
  

  November 19, 2008

• 12:23 PM Sheila Lennon on Looking for Nintendo Wii Fit? eBay 'Power Sellers' cornered the market

  Tiny Pam, let's make clear you're no couch potato. This is for the sluggish among us.

  
  

  November 19, 2008

• 11:17 AM Pamela Reinsel Cotter on Looking for Nintendo Wii Fit? eBay 'Power Sellers' cornered the market

  Here's my take on Wii Fit, from a Fitness standpoint: http://fitnessblog.projo.com/2008/09/new-to-working.html

  
  

  November 18, 2008

• 4:52 PM Laura on 2008 Thanksgiving recipes from newspaper food sections, Part 2: Veggie sides

  Thanksgiving is my fav. holiday and I found these great recipes from Shante (Snoop Doggs wife) I just thought I had to share them with everyone! http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/snoopdogg/recipes/index.jsp

  
  

  November 16, 2008

• 4:27 AM Steven on One+ jazz painting, 50 strange buildings, 14 slick photographers

  Nice right-braining. That Jazzy site of paintings is fantastic.

  
  

  November 14, 2008

• 1:30 PM Isanne on Friday cat blogging: A lion on horseback

  If you also find this a gruesome act, please go to: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/hope-for-horse-made-to-carry-lion and sign the petition! If you choose to leave a comment, please refrain from abusive and/or insulting language towards the Chinese, as these signatures cannot be submitted. thank you.