Knobbery

My friend Quentin went to the CES in Las Vegas but encountered so much ridicule for coming back without a cool gadget that he went out and bought a knob! Actually, it’s a “USB Multimedia Controller & Input Device”. If you like jog-shuttle controls, then it’s just the thing. It can be a volume control one minute, and a scrolling controller the next. And it glows in the dark with an eerie blue light. All he needs now is a new PowerBook to go with it.

SOTU annotated

I’ve always found found Presidential State of the Union (SOTU) addresses too cloying to watch. They’re all so fantastically complacent, somehow. So it’s nice to know that there are critical intelligences out there who can supress nausea and analyse the bombast. Like James Fallows, who has produced an annotated version of Dubya’s latest effort.