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...kinds of video files so that they look decent on the Sansa. I loaded up AVI, QuickTime MOV and WMV files, in addition to several different types of MPEG video, and the system didn't balk at any of it. I even loaded a full-length feature film - Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle - and though the system divided it up into small chapters, I could watch the whole movie. It wasn't easy to make out a letterboxed widescreen film on the Sansa's 1.8-in. screen, but the action was surprisingly smooth. Battery life wasn't even...
...Stephen Colbert Funny? If you didn't laugh at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the bloggers insist, you're a White House lackey...
...acknowledges that "any discussion of wealth or inheritance tax immediately turns into a discussion about envy." In the U.K., by contrast, the big debate about inheritance tax is taking place on the left, in Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party. It was prompted by a former Cabinet minister, Stephen Byers, who called for inheritance tax to be abolished, arguing that it was now hurting middle-class homeowners, including those in marginal electoral constituencies. It was a politically charged call because Byers is a close ally of Blair and an outspoken opponent of his likely successor Gordon Brown, the Chancellor...
...peace plan for Lebanon calls for 15,000 peacekeepers led by a sizable French contingent. Turns out in French, sizable translates as 200 guys in rubber dinghies. It's no great loss. Honestly, the difference between 200 French troops and 15,000 French troops is just fewer French prisoners." --STEPHEN COLBERT...
...future of Stephen Spielberg's Minority Report, televisions and computers have been replaced by transparent screens on which life-size images appear to be floating in thin air. Watching Tom Cruise operate this fictional technology, David Lauren, Vice President of Ralph Lauren, was inspired to develop similar screens, but with a retail spin - his version would be implanted behind a store's glass window and would be touch sensitive, allowing window shoppers to interactively browse through Lauren merchandise and purchase what they saw using a built in credit-card swiper. The first of these screens was inaugurated on August...