Linked List: May 20, 2008

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Roku Netflix Player 

$100 Apple TV competitor from Netflix:

Setup is simple, and—if you’ve got a solid broadband connection—picture quality is acceptable and streaming performance was almost entirely lag-free.

Those looking for the HD video quality and polished interface of Apple TV and Vudu will be disappointed. The Netflix Player is strictly barebones—you’re not intended to do anything more than just dive in and watch the movies and TV shows you’ve already queued up via your online Netflix account.

How to Assign Command-G to ‘Find Next’ in Word 2008 

The explanation, delivered scathingly by Pierre Igot, is surprisingly long. Hilarious, for me at least, in that I haven’t used Word in years.

Can the OLPC XO-2 Deliver? 

My guess, given their track record to date: no.

Senator Ted Kennedy Has Malignant Brain Tumor 

John Sullivan, The New York Times:

Tests performed over the weekend at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston indicated that Mr. Kennedy, 76, has a type of cancer known as a malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe, the upper left portion of his brain.

Damn it all.

iPhone 2.0 FUD-o-Rama 

The Macalope reads the jackasses so you don’t have to.