For $100, starting in September, you can buy an Alpine KCA-420i and plug in your dock-equipped iPod to get sound from your AiNet-equipped Alpine stereo.

The DNC has nicely posted a QuickTime (and WMP) version of the speech by Barack Obama which has been heralded by many as the best speech at the DNC this year (or at least on Tuesday night).

An article from the Washington Post today tells us that Bob Edwards, nearly-25-year host of NPR's Morning Edition, will be back on the air this October. But, not with NPR. NPR itself is carrying an article about his departure and subsequent arrival at XM Radio for a new show slated …

Last night I tuned in for more of the DNC, watching a number of the lead-in speeches to Mr. Edwards, and then the night's big event, the Senator's speech. It's pretty clear from his delivery that he feels very comfortable talking to large groups (and it doesn't get a lot …

Wired has an article about the JibJab version of Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land which stars George W Bush and John Kerry exchanging political barbs. If you haven't seen the short (on the JibJab site), you might want to take a peek before they get shut down by …

eWeek claims (in this article) that it is code-named Antares. IBM will likely call it the 970MP, but in the end, it's like two, two, two chips in one. Taking a page from the book of the bigger brothers to the 970, the Power4, IBM appears to be planning on …

A New York Times article discusses a move by Chicago to shut down 60 underperforming schools and replace them with 100 new schools, more than half of which would be run privately and outside of the current teacher's union contract. The move, called Renaissance 2010 is intended to replace larger …

Carol and I watched about two hours of the Democratic National Convention on Monday night (sorry, I'm not quite enough of a political junky to watch the entire thing). Unfortunately, I didn't take notes, but the speeches of Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter are very fresh in my mind still …

The XPrize folks have announced that two teams (Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne and the Canadian da Vinci Project) have officially announced that they will compete this fall to launch competitors for the prize. SpaceShipOne will have its first official flight on or about September 29th, which gives it until October 13th …

In another of what has been a steady stream of product delays by Microsoft, CNet is reporting that the 64-bit version of Windows XP will be delayed until the first half of next year, along with 64-bit versions of Windows 2003 server and the 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows …

NASA announced that they have redesigned the bipod fitting between the external tank and the main body of the shuttle. In response to concerns over falling debris from the previous design (which involved foam insulation around the bracket in order to keep the bracket from icing), the designers have now …

Apple, creator of the iPod and iTunes has announced with Motorola that they will be supporting iTunes on Motorola's next generation of phones. With this, users will be able to play iTunes tunes (including those purchased from the iTunes Music Store) on their handsets.

Drive manufacturer Seagate announced that they will be offering a 5 year warranty for their disk drives sold through retail and distribution channels (not through OEM's, though, those are still the responsibility of the OEM to handle). Let the warranty escalation begin!

According to a report from PCWorld (among others), Real Networks (makers of RealPlayer) has stated that they will support downloading songs from their Rhapsody service to the iPod starting with the 10.5 beta version of their software. The trick basically is to modify their files to be in the …

Peter Gabriel, musician and co-founder of OD2 (recently acquired by Loudeye) is interviewed by CNN on the topic of digital music. He's happy with the movement towards disintermediation and is willing to give Apple a pat on the back for pushing the industry forward.

Thanks to Amanda for forwarding along this article from the National Review which sheds some more light on the situation on NW 327. It appears the band was accompanying Nour Mehan[n]a, a Syrian artist. The remainder of the article goes on to state that he thinks the original …

Many of you may have seen the article by Annie Jacobsen in from Women's Wallstreet wherein she describes a harrowing account of Northwest Airlines flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles. So, is this a prelude to a new terrorist attack, or just a sign of the paranoia created by …

Blackwater USA (a security training firm in the USA) has posted a document (PDF form) that shows X-Ray pictures of one of the cans from Coca- Cola's Unexpected Summer advertising campaign that involves a cell phone and GPS device in a Coke can. You may recall some fervor (courtesy CNN …

The famous 16th-century bridge at Mostar, destroyed during the war in former Yugoslavia, has been rebuilt and opens today. BBC News reports (with pictures) about the reopening and its meaning to a city with a history of multi-ethnic occupation and turmoil. Even with the sordid history, it's good to see …

Will Smith stars in the namesake of Isaac Asimov's classic book of short stories, I, Robot. I say namesake, because even the credits admit that this film is "suggested by" the book. With that said, on its own, the film is ok. I say "ok", because I didn't find the …