Hongyun and I are moving very soon and we've come to the conclusion that we no longer need TV. Here's one reason why:

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And the nice thing is that there is a TON of amazing content on TED, public radio, public TV, and privately produced. Sure we'll still watch shows like Heroes and LOST, but we'll do so online. The only thing I'm really sad about is the demise of my Tivo. But alas, Tivo's time shifting was just a way station to our time-shifting, place-shifting, and even content-shifting future.

So the conclusion came about that we no longer need a TV since everything we want to see is or will soon be online.

We plan on keeping our TV around though. We need something to play video games on once in a while, you see. But I'm thinking of hooking up our home server to the TV so that we use the TV to watch TED and all of the other content out there instead of on our laptop. We'll see how successful that is...

Friedbeef has compiled a tubular (yeah, you heard me) list of resources to get free books. We're talking hardbacks, paperbacks, online, pdf, pda, ymca...oh wait, not that last one.

Anyway, the resource is quite comprehensive and will most likely grow into a full-fledged part time pursuit for Friedbeef. Hit it up: Friedbeef’s Tech - Best Places to Get Free Books.

Aside from today's insane Apple announcement, I have been pretty much holed up and cut off from the world boning up on my high school level math. I figured out that the GMAT really doesn't require much more than this (aside from good verbal skills as well) which lead me to the realization that we should be pushing kids who just completed their first or second year of college to take the GMAT and GRE at that time since this stuff will be fresh in their minds.

Anyway, I vowed never to be rusty again snce there is a growing host of free top shelf educational materials online for free.

I would imagine that in a few years, we'll see a growing number of ultra-genius kids who push their educaiton to the limit with these free resources and earn several degrees by the time they're my age.

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Some really nice (and all free!) tools here to help you debug just about everything there is to debug in Windows.