President-Elect Barack Obama has pledged to deliver weekly “fireside chats” a la FDR via YouTube, and today he posted his first. The content of the video isn’t unexpected: he calls for immediate help from Congress to aid unemployment insurance, and calls for all Americans to come together to weather the hard economic road ahead. What’s remarkable is how right it feels.
Any old idiot can use a shaker to mix his drink of choice, but it takes a supreme idiot to assemble and operate the Chugulug Drinks Factory. A series of interchangeable tubes connect a variety of specialised compartments (such as the Ice Chamber and Vortex Funnel) to mix and chill your drink through a 10-or-so step process that looks utterly impossible to clean. Then again, at just $US38, it wouldn’t make the worst self-deprecating centerpiece for your next soiree. [BoyStuff via Nerd Approved]
The class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for its misleading “Vista Capable” marketing let loose another scandal when emails between Microsoft and Intel execs surfaced (PDF link), suggesting Microsoft cut Vista’s hardware requirements to help out Intel. Originally, Intel’s 915 series chipsets didn’t qualify for the important “Vista Capable” sticker, but after a scheduling mix-up, Microsoft decided to throw Intel a bone by pretending the chipsets are up to Vista standards.
