This Week in Tech 31

• Patrick is racing in Baja.
• Prager is off at Crea824
• Best booth at Podcast Expo: iLounge
• Dvorak's take on the Sony fiasco is on CBS Marketwatch (free registration required). He refers to Mark Russinovich's blog entries at Sysinternals.
• Dvorak was at the Panda Labs when this broke
• Security expert, Bruce Schneier's blog asks why anti-virus and anti-spyware companies ignored the rootkit for so long
• Xbox 360 shortages may make the Tuesday launch a bust.
• It comes with Tetris - Alexei Pajitnov works for Microsoft now.
• The full version supports 720p component out of the box
• Bunnie Huang cracked the original Xbox in a week. How long will it take them to crack the 360?
• Office 2006 abandons menu bars - read PC Magazine's review
• It's the same program under the hood - so the UI redesign is just a way of interesting people in an upgrade
• Powerpoint really needs something new
• Leo prefers Apple's Keynote
• Edward R. Tufte is the guru of the visual representation of data
• Never give a speech without slides
• When is someone going to challenge Powerpoint?
• Ovation is a start
• Google Base is live - we still don't get it - maybe the Metafilter folks do
• ICANN will retain control of the Internet
• Think Secret joins other Apple rumor sites in saying that the first Intel Macs will debut in January at the MacWorld Expo.
• Leo's LifeDrive died, but Steve likes the new Tungsten TX. Leo's eyeing Steve's and wishing he hadn't wasted his money on the Lifedrive.
• What's Dvorak grateful for? Cal 27, Stanford 3.

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