Unseasonably warm.
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Seattle Times article about Seattle’s plans
The good:
The effort includes public-service announcements on television and radio, repainted crosswalks, billboards and signs encouraging safe driving, and stepped up enforcement of pedestrian-safety laws.
The really, obscenely bad:
The city also will start installing traffic cameras to photograph cars that run red lights.
I won’t go in to the whole “anti-red light [...]

Blackened Chicken Breast Recipe
I didn’t feel like signing up just to rate the recipe (what’s with having to sign up for everything lately, sheesh), so I’ll rate it here: It’s very good. I had to make some changes to the recipe, for various reasons:

Changed paprika from 1/2 to 1/4 teaspoon
Skipped onion powder — I just [...]

ZAP Issues One Billion Dollar Purchase Order to DaimlerChrysler Group for Smart Cars
ZAP reported that it has received over $1 billion in advance purchase orders for the Smart Car Americanized by ZAP from U.S. auto dealers, and continues to receive more as a result of its marketing efforts.
..however..
ZAP has not agreed to accept all Smart [...]

This opening day crowd is much smaller than I saw for Episodes 1 + 2, outside the same theater at the same time.

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Sony’s PlayStation 3 Coming in Spring 2006
Here’s the most interesting thing about the PS3, IMO:
The PS3 is going to support the highest hi-def display resolution of 1080p, on up to two HD screens.
This ought to be great for racing games, as well as first person shooters, fighting games (a first person fighting game might be [...]

Bush Aide Says Newsweek Report Damages U.S. Image

“This report has had serious consequences,” White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said today in West Point, Virginia, where the president was giving a speech. “It has caused damage to the image of the United States abroad and people have lost their lives.”

The lies spread by the [...]

Recently, my Treo 600 died. It was acting like the battery was shorted. It would power on while on the charger, but as soon as you removed it, it would die. I took it down to the Sprint store where I bought it. Turns out, they have an on-site technician. An hour later they handed [...]