Is XBMC any good for streaming, e.g. from Hulu, Netflix, etc and live TV/DVR? I looked into XBMC once, and it seemed to be primarily for stored media, and not TV or internet streaming. For example, there wasn't an official browser plugin to go to the various sites I use. Has this changed, or are there other options for this?

Did you actually try clicking the link? If you identify yourself as a Home/HomeOffice user, it says "The product you have selected is not currently available for online purchase in the segment you have selected." IIRC it turns out to be easy to "pretend" to be a small business on Dell's site, so you can still get it from Dell Business, but this is far from a mainstream solution.

Additionally, the price is $329, probably $150 over a typical TFT 1920x1080 monitor, a premium you're paying mostly for the monitor being IPS, even if all you wanted was the higher resolution. As 1920x1200 resolution is increasingly "relegated" to the premium market, it becomes increasingly hard to find it on inexpensive mainstream monitors.

this. I have twin 1920x1200 screens, which I bought a few years ago when they were abundant. They're a *lot* harder to find now, and typically are more expensive higher end models, e.g. IPS. On the chart labelled "Windows 7 screen Resolutions" it shows 1920x1200 is ~1-2% of Win7 installs, reflective of this. Relative to 1920x1080, I feel 120 pixels is a lot to give up. Surprisingly 1920x1080 is only 8%, which speaks to the broader trend of how more than 50% of installs are on cripplingly low resolutions. I think this is a combination of factors: fewer desktops/more laptops, and work environments that won't ever spring for more than bottom of the barrel monitors. I checked my work monitor, and even though I use medical apps to view radiology/echos etc, the resolution is a meager 1280x1024.

daytum.com (acquired by facebook) is personal tracking gone mainstream. they have iphone/android apps so you can easily track things throughout the day, and then can generate pretty reports of your activity. one of the co-founders has been putting out his "annual reports" for a number of years, see http://feltron.com/ar11_02.html for an example. his report includes things like number of days spent in NYC, servings of coffee during the year, etc...

wow. mike nelson posted to the that thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3450845&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=4#post398052361

dexpot is free (though not open source) and very customizable. It has a few idiosyncracies (e.g. can't drag a window by a title bar to a different desktop), but even with them, it's better than the many other solutions I've tried.

The addon Mr. Tech Toolkit has this option. Under its options Misc -> XPI install options -> Enable Addons Compatibility checking

It's not another link to the original site, but in the NYT recently Errol Morris was researching an unrelated Civil War story, and one of the sources was David H. Kelly, who did major work deciphering the Mayan script. In passing Errol asked about the 2012 thing: http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/whose-father-was-he-part-four/

area. the mass is minimal. from a bbc article "Indeed, so feeble is the ring that scientists have calculated that if all the material were gathered up, it would fill a crater on Phoebe no more than a kilometre across."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8291905.stm

To help with the window management required to do this (and if you run windows), look into the freeware app Gridmove. You can divide up your screen real estate into many different chunks, and have all sorts of handy ways of resizing your windows.

But the upgraded/final release came out just now and Penny Arcade covered that as well (just 6 days ago).

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/1/9/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/9/

also you find what a rhombus is.