Ralph Nader Enters Presidential Race

Nader has announced today that he will be entering the 2008 presidential election, the fifth race that he will fail  to be elected. Doesn't he have anything better to do?

RIP HD DVD: We hardly knew ye.

Toshiba announced yesterday that they will no longer produce products for their HD DVD format. Now, we are only left with Sony's expensive, complicated Blu-ray format. Both HD DVD and Blu-ray were claiming to be the successor to DVD. Because the players use blue lasers, which have a shorter wavelength than DVD's red lasers, more content can be stored on the same amount of physical space. While many regard HD DVD to be more consumer friendly, possess more features, and have better image quality, Blu-ray was technically superior because it could hold 25 GB of data vs. HD DVD's 15 GB. It also garnered much more support from movie studios. If you have already bought an HD DVD player, here are five suggestions on what to do with your player.

1. Swap out the internal HD DVD drive bay for a Blu-ray drive, and modify the other hardware components accordingly to transform your now obsolete HD DVD player into a Blu-ray player.

2. Gut the player out, and use it as a case for the MacBook Air because the laptop's aesthetic thinness causes it to be very fragile, in addition to the poor quality of Apple products.

3. Relegate the HD DVD player to shady DVD watching, such as viewing pirated porn, that you do not want to risk breaking your practical Blu-ray player for.

4. Give it to a child in Africa, even though he does not even own a TV.

5. Devise a security system in which the HD DVD player smashes into thieves' heads.

The MacBook Air's Thinness

Every laptop can fit inside a manila envelope, as demonstrated by this IBM (now known as Lenovo) ThinkPad.

My Spanish Fitness Project from Last Year