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Sony launched its redesigned eBook Store and wow — look at this:

Sony is taking steps towards adding publishers and direct-publishing writers!

http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/sony-eb... 

Sure, you can find most of that ancient medium known as the “music video” on YouTube, but having all those great videos from the 80’s, 90’s and early ’00’s in a neat searchable place is handy.

BTW, here’s a vid for “New York New York” from my favorite singer/songwriter Ryan Adams that was shot just a few days before 9/11. I was living just an hour or so away from the city in Connecticut at the time, so the video had a big impact on me (and still does):

http://www.costpernews.com/archives/mtv-music-portal... 

Great source of access numbers and links, plus an undiscosed access site for FTP

http://secretdatabase.blogspot.com/2007/11/secret-nu... 

This portal offers information and shopping resources for everything related to GSM

http://www.gsminside.com/ 

The site has articles, links, useful calculation tables and more.

http://www.wireless.co.il/ 

Cell-phone users can now make the ultimate long-distance call: to friends in the virtual world.

About 30 new images for upcoming Half-Life 2 Orange. The bundle will include Half Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2, & Portal. The games will be available on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC and is set to release sometime Q3 2007.

We've been bombarded by screenshots from Half-Life 2: Episode Two - and Portal and TF2 - and, with the recent delay to winter 2007 announced, this is likely the most we'll see of Valve's latest for a good few months.

The good news is that the PC-only so called The Black Box will have Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2 while the so called The Orange Box on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 will have all that, plus the original Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode 1. The bad news is that all of these products have been pushed back to late 2007.

Electronic Arts and Valve have announced the naming and product configurations The Black Box and The Orange Box of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, two of the most anticipated action game offerings shipping worldwide this Winter 2007. The Black Box will ship for the PC, and includes Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2. The Orange Box will s