Check out a great post on sushi etiquette here. Watching people dunk the rice of nigiri is a pet peeve of mine. Either way, Sushi Otaku is good blog covering lots of sushi topics.

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Scoop Jackson has a great article on Kobe and game 7 over at ESPN. I think Scoop hits it right on the head. Basically Jordan screwed Kobe by simply existing.

And if you want to see Kobe’s reaction to Barkley calling him a pansy, watch the YouTube video here.

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The bloggers at zdnet think there is going to be a Google Music service. Hopefully it doesn’t use the music interface in Google Desktop, which sucks pretty bad. More rumors from SearchEngineWatch as well. If this and notebook have some decent interfaces, they are going to kick Yahoo! and MS in the pants.

Wow, this is going to annoy some people. Found on Boing Boing:

WolfenGitmo is a Guantanamo Bay mod of the classic 3D first-person game Castle Wolfenstein. In WolfenGitmo, your hands are bound and you have no weapons, so you merely run around and get mauled by dogs and beaten up by soldiers. The game is presently on display at a show in NYC.

Author’s site.

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So I just got done posting about how the porn industry is allowing full movie downloads before Hollywood, and then notice a BusinessWeek article on diggdot on how downloading HDTV is going to choke the Internet. If the average tv actually downloads all 8 hours of tv that they watch everday, the Internet is gonna choke. No kidding Sherlock.

But whats the possibility of that happening? Who needs to watch all their tv in high-def? Do I really need to watch The Sopranos in HDTV? Hell, cable companies can just charge more for those downloads. So how much will it cost to transmit all that data?

But if the customer starts watching Internet TV like the average household watches regular TV, 8 hours a day, BellSouth’s cost would go up to $112 a month, according to Kafka.

Yeah, sure…but this is unlikely to happen:

In fact, he said, Internet traffic has increased much more slowly than the prices of Internet-carrying equipment like switches and routers have fallen, and that trend is likely to continue.

The ISPs just need to get a machine with some gigantic hard drives that cache the tv shows. Hollywood uploads the movies to the ISPs a couple days before they are supposed to be shown…the ISPs propagate the files to file servers close to metro areas and let users download the files as needed.

I guess the ISPs would rather bitch and moan…like me
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Yahoo! has an article about how the adult industry is getting ready to support downloads of DVDs while Hollywood still hasn’t gotten their act together. Article does point out something interesting though: it might not be completely Hollywood’s fault. Hollywood has had to depend on theaters and stores for revenue for a long time and they are all intertwined. If Hollywood wants to change how it does business by directly selling to the consumer, all the theaters and big chains like Wal-Mart are going to get PO’ed.

Seriously, some of studios should sell some of their good older movies online. Seriously doubt Wal-Mart would care if Hollywood sold old Spencer Tracy or Katherine Hepburn movies directly to the consumer. Get mainstream used to the idea and the Wal-Marts of the world will come up with their business model to support downloading.

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Commuting about 60 miles total everyday, I get to enjoy the wonderful Atlanta traffic. Basically, it sucks. I tend to think (or at least hope) that its mainly volume and not stupid driving. Check out the bitterness by putting in the “atlanta traffic” into Google’s Blog Search. But it doesn’t compare to the craziness of India. Check out the video below. Watch out for the white car in the top center of the video, coming out of the alley around the 1:29 mark:

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Honestly, it doesn’t sound like much of stretch. The iPods already support video and can run Linux. Turning iPod into a UMPC seems like the next logical step. Rick Segal (who has a great VC blog), has some interesting news: Apple dropping their current chip supplier for Samsung could be showing us their roadmap. The current chip is good for media related apps, but the Samsung chip could be used for a full-blown UMPC.

Affordable UMPCs could change everything. Palm devices are nice organizers, but their media capabilities are weak. The Archos and Cowon devices are awesome multimedia devices, but have no business apps. Even with their monsterous hard drives, they probably don’t have the hardware for productivity tools or a browser. The top of the line device from Archos, AV700, costs $600, while the latest UMPC supporting Microsoft XP from Samsung (nice to see Samsung covering both sides) costs $1099 from Best Buy. Can Archos or Cowon add the right tools for non-multimedia apps? Maybe, Apple might be better suited to take on Microsoft UMPC platform.

With the 60GB video iPod costing $399 from Apple and Apple already making an OS, they should be able to make a competitive UMPC for less than $1000.

Apple and Microsoft going head to head again? What were the chances?

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Can’t believe I haven’t come across this before. Check out GGG-GMAIL (NSFW). While its just a silly front for NaughtyPoll.com, its an interesting idea. Since google mail has a hosted service service now, maybe they’ll let companies skin a front-end for its users instead of just letting the administrator pick a color scheme from a drop-down. But would we love gmail without its simplicity?

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Went to see some standup at the local Punchline here in Atlanta. Tavan Trevidi was the DJ, along with Raj Sharma and Daniel Nainan, and Paul Varghese as the headliner. Definitely check out the Gurus of Comedy tour if it rolls by somewhere close to you.

The crowd was mostly Indian and the acts were definitely geared towards it. Towards the end of Paul’s routine, someone from the crowd sent up a beer. Paul accepted and asked who it was from. A guy yelled some company name. Funny ass time to promote something like that and Paul handled it pretty well.

Raj was a bit hard to hear at times…he mumbled a bit…I’m going to try to catch Daniel again, dude should headline himself.

AVS (Asian Variety Show) did a feature on them last week and showed a lot of their routine… so don’t watch AVS if you are gonna catch the act.