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Parallels Desktop For Mac

This is a GREAT product. I am a PC guy, a Windows guy, and I got the certifications to prove it. Back in the day when the Mac IIs were all the rage across university campuses, I worked on them in desktop publishing. The GUI interface, then a relatively new phenomena on the desktop PC, was vastly superior on the MAC compared to the MS-DOS 5.1 and Windows add ons.

But as the PC and Windows encroached more and more into the business field and M$ swallowed up more and more of the competition I left the Apple world to the Apple folk.

Today, with OSX running on Intel boxes and many cross over applications hitting the scene I got to install and run Parallels for Desktops and I love it. Essentially, it is a virtual Windows XP OS running as a separate process on a Mac.

It runs XP better than my Dell does! I still have to perform MS updates and install antivirus protection just like on a Dell box, but I can still have a fully functional Mac OSX running and any number of virtual XPs that my hardware will allow.

In a college environment where the official university OS is Windows the Mac user now has a powerful tool to allow them to access all of the software the university negotiates special discounts yet still retain the use of the powerful Mac platform.

A rare Win/Win in the PC vs. Mac arena.

Yes! It is time for another update. And yes, there is some text on the back of this picture.

And translated:

Everybody, thank you for viewing! I’ll introduce this week’s delicious recipe. Please make sure to keep this one cold!

*Skinless chicken breast - 2, cut in halves
*Soumen (a kind of japanese noodle) - 10 oz.
*Watercress - 1/2 cup cut into small strips
*Turnip - 1/2 cup, thinly sliced
*Shiitake (japanese mushrooms) - 1/2 cup
*Chicken stock - 1/3 cup
*Sake (japanese rice wine) - 2 tbsp.
*Sugar - 1/2 tsp.
*Ocean-bottom crab - one

In a small saucepan, stir together 1/3 cup water, chicken stock, sake, and sugar. Chill it until it becomes cold. Grill the chicken breast on both sides for about 8 minutes, and then chill. Boil the noodles for about 3 minutes, and then run under cold water until chilled. Mix the watercress, turnips, and mushrooms into the soumen. Slice the chicken thinly and arrange on top of the soumen mix. Just before you serve, put the crab in the sauce and pour over the noodles generously.

Go go Oishii (”delicious”) Chef!”

(Thanks to cloverfield-movie.com)

Now some research.

A possible second trailer?

Lots of stuff happening. About time too.

With Sony going commercial with their first OLED Televisions this week I got to reading about Organic LED technology. This got me to thinking. What if the substrate used to help hold the organic layers in place were not plastic but human flesh?

Think of it. We already have implantable chips. We have found ways to fuse neurons with computer circuitry and pass signals back and forth. We can grow human ears of the backs of laboratory mice. We can transplant skin and organs. Why not push the envelope and see if OLED technology can fuse with true organic material like human skin?

Imagine a tattoo that can be programmed! One moment it is a wizard, the next it is a lion, the next it is the physics equations for that big exam. Mix in some extra circuitry and programming and have it connected to an implanted chip and presto! Mood Flesh! Angry? Your OLED tattoo flashes red in anger. Sad? A low pulsing blue tone. Talk about the human cuttlefish!

Just an interesting thought experiment. Do you think it is possible? Drop me a note.

Mat Drudge is linking to a Yahoo! News story about a gadget that dances to music played on an iPod on his site today. Neither Drudge nor the Yahoo story had any video so I searched on Youtube for Miuro to see if there is any demonstration video out there.

What I saw was very underwhelming. The little round thing wiggles around as it plays music alright, but I could not detect it keeping any beat. About the only semi-cool thing the machine did was avoid ledges if you had it on a table and avoid walls and feet if it were on the floor. But I have gotten some Happy Meal toys from McDonald’s that could do that.

Here, you be the judge.

I read this story from The Drudge Report about being able to see faces of people from the Streetview feature. Very neat and very worrisome for those who are overly concerned about the so called “right to privacy”.

I was wondering, as I was scrolling along the streets, “what was making the pictures”? I found this image from the Las Vegas street view outside of the Treasure Island Casino.

The shadow of the car recording the images. It looks like some sort of camera on a pole attached to the roof of the car. I am going to keep looking to try to find a big picture window or mirror that is actually reflecting the entire vehicle itself.