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• Wanted: Recommendations on 32″ LCD HDTV We’re moving into a new house this weekend and we’re pondering an upgrade to a wall-mountable, LCD, HDTV, 16:9, something reasonable like 32″, and somewhere south of $1500. If possible, I’d like something with an HD-tuner already built-in. Any thoughts? Here’s what I’ve found thus far that looks promising: Hyundai ImageQuest Q321 Samsung LNS3241D Sharp LC-32D7U AQUOS Vizio L32 Jen and
• Amazing Race Season 9 Episode 6 I’ve said it before, BJ & Tyler are the best AR team yet; well-traveled, playful, multi-lingual, beards. The fake sign-up list was brilliant. Also brilliant - the Dentists requesting a clue not from the designated grounds keeper. Detour: Big Fish or Little Fish Big Fish. Big Fish. Running through the city with swordfish is much more effective
• Tivo Time Travel to Late 80’s Videoblogs  Some how, early last month, Tivo found a Saturday Night Live from 1989 and obediently recorded it. Dana Carvey, Dennis Miller (does the map behind him remind you of Rocketboom?), Al Franken’s one-man mobile uplink (early video-blogger?). This is the SNL I caught on satellite TV working late as a farmhand. Low budget effects, talent cracking
• Amazing Race Season 10 - Episode 2 Outer Mongolia. It’s a threat in my mind. Somehow worse than Siberia. A place where you “get sent”. A bit of romance there if only for the seemingly still nomadic lifestyle. Until the rain storm, seemed like a nice, quiet vacation spot. Like northern Wisconsin in autumn. Remote. If only I had a hand-cranked Russian
• Putting the Digital Video ‘in’ Digital Video Recorder Back in December 2005 I wrote: “Now, despite the TiVo being a Linux box and hooked up to my network - I can’t easily send video to it. To be clear - I don’t want to get video off it - I want to put video on it. Easily. As easily as setting up a Season