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That’s right folks, you read it here: “TV Is Gooder Then Books.”

Here are just a few photos from the Pep Boys 500 race held Sunday October 28, 2007 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

There are more in the slideshow.

Nov 8th 04: “I never thought I’d have broadband… Can you say XBox LIVE! Jay, Steven, fire up the controllers…”
April 10th 07: “Rob, are you ready?”
This week he finally got his Xbox LIVE account and tonight we got into some games together online. Not only did I get to introduce Rob to some of my […]

“Whether you read or write your email on your phone or on your desktop, changes you make to Gmail will be seen from anywhere you access your inbox.” [What’s new on Gmail?]
Plenty of you use client email applications on your home computers with Gmail — Apple’s Mail, Microsoft’s Mail or Outlook Express, Mozilla’s Thunderbird, […]

Using the term to describe copyright infringers, be they one-off bootlegging kids or mass-copying black-market companies, is a mistake.
They’re nothing compared to the real thing.

This is scary-interesting, if accurate. From David Weinberger’s post The best Internet candidate, the best Internet non-candidate, the best Internet spouse, and the worst Internet candidate:
Hillary Clinton’s ‘Innovation Agenda’ … Notice what’s missing? That’s right, net neutrality. And here’s a tip as to what she’s really planning… Establish a national broadband strategy called Connect America… […]

What’s even funnier than Toyota’s ad — using World of Warcraft to sell their truck — is that within 3 minutes after the ad airing during today’s Cowboys/Patriots game, YouTube was “slashdotted” and unable to serve it. (To YouTube’s credit, they recovered pretty quickly.)
I guess geeks do watch football.

Bored with the junk on TV these days? Check out TED.
What was said at TED stayed at TED… but now it doesn’t. The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference may be “exclusive” but the rest of us can get a taste as well now, thanks to recordings made available via the web (thanks to BMW, […]

Alpharetta’s Scarecrow Harvest was capped off this morning with a festive family celebration, including face painting, rides in a horse-drawn carriage, goods from local farmers & artisans, and live music provided by High Cotton.
There are a few more pictures over on the flickr site.

At noon, the mayor and city council members took over the stage […]

Each year Alpharetta invites classes in local schools to create scarecrows to decorate Main Street, the Scarecrow Harvest. This is the entry from Hilary’s first grade class at King’s Ridge.

He’s a mixture of the Cowardly Lion (head), Scarecrow (torso and arms) and Tin Man (legs) from the L. Frank Baum’s classic story, The Wizard […]