Thanks Laura, this is pretty great.

IE launches today - I hadn't realized.  MS hasn't made a browser I cared about beyond cross browser testing for a few years now.  But after reading what Walter S. Mossberg of the WSJ has to say, I will be checking it out.

Bottom Line
Internet Explorer 8 is a well-done advance on an important product used by most people to surf the Web. If it were faster, I would say it was the best browser currently available for Windows. But even so, it will be an improvement for current Internet Explorer users, and might even tempt some folks to switch.

I flipped over to Fallon last night right in the middle of the DeNiro interview, and the good news is I never have to do that again.  It's not that the interview was flat and lame, it was, but I just found Fallon downright annoying.  After what seemed like 20 minutes (probably closer to 7 minutes)  both my wife and I were sick to our stomach and changed the channel.  So good news is, there is only one late night option for me - Letterman.

So, after the late night reshuffle I will once again be one of those guys who can talk about how good it was in the old days...Let's see how did that go again: "I remember when the Tonight Show was great with Carson at the helm. I can't stand that Leno guy. I remember when Late Night used to be about seeing who was on Letterman and who was on Conan and making some hard choices."

I feel good about Conan on the Tonight Show and will pleased to get back to the business of Carson and Parr

Joe sent me over a link to a clip for iReport about the snow accumulation on Long Island, NY. It's a bit subtle, but very cool.

It's easiest to watch the edge of the pool to see the growth.

John was telling me about this house that was moved across a frozen lake in Minnesota.  It sounded crazy but then he sent me over a photo from the StartTribune.  Check it.
 

Same folder from 2005, interesting tidbit in wired about different ways sound quality breaks down from recording to your stereo. 

I'm sure today's lust for high-fidelity and improved data storage on all kinds of medium have addressed some of these failings of sound reproduction. I'll trust the chase-out on that to my audiophile friends.

I am cleaning out my clippings folder - ah less paper - and found this tidbit I'd clipped from Wired (in August of 2005).  Lucky for you, it's online on the Wired site.  It's a key-chain that interacts with wireless sensors in your home and takes a snapshot as you walk away.  I was checking out the website of the company that makes it, Eaton - Home Heartbeat, and it looks like they have water sensors that will trigger a water shut off valve in the case of leak or flood.  That's pretty cool.

As I become more neurotic and irrational the idea of a device that senses if my door is closed or the iron off has a certain appeal.  My current solution is to just  about face and walk up 3 the three flights and double check.  Ah neurosis my old friend - like a warm blanket of senility.

All right, it's a marketing video and it's got all kinds of marketing schlock going on... Yeah I watched the whole thing.  Kinda cool.

I spotted it on a slashdot post.