The "Twilight" books and Stephenie Meyer

My daughter just started in on the "Twilight" teen-vampire books. To get in the loop I found this overview of who's who in the "Twilight" novels from Entertainment Weekly to be handy.

No doubt a road trip to Forks, WA will be in in our future.

Bwa Ha Ha... Chris Brown hit song is a commercial!

Wow, clever these marketers are.

We will no doubt see a lot more of this.

The audio cassette slips further away

I still remember my first mono cassette recorder/player from the early 70s. It was amazing to be able to record my voice or the radio and play it back right away. And then came stereo, and Dolby, and all those blank TDK, Maxell, Memorex, and BASF tapes I bought over the years.

I still have a few hundred cassettes - mostly spoken word stuff and radio airchecks - that really, I'm going to convert to MP3s... someday. Here another publisher says goodbye to the once cool cassette.

How cool will Cuil be?

Maybe really cool, since it's a new search engine built by ex-Google engineers.

8/13/08 - or, maybe not so cool at all...