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From Ars Technica ’s wonderful Infinite Loop , we have “ Macworld 2008 keynote now available as podcast ”: In addition to the stream , Apple has now also posted the video of Steve Job’s keynote as a podcast , ready to be synced to your iPod, iPhone or AppleTV. (Link opens in iTunes.) I’m reposting it here, because I couldn’t find a link to it on the iTunes store yet. Technorati Tags: repost , Apple , Macworld , keynote

One of the things it’s clear to me I don't understand is where the world of video is going. There seem to be a lot of different options floating around right now, and they all seem to have good ideas, and yet all have pretty obvious failings that mostly let us know that this is not where things are going to come to a rest. Apple & iTunes ITunes has been great for me for music. I don’t watch music videos, and only occasionally to the radio, so I am admittedly not a major music connoisseur. However, there have been many times while watching Scrubs or the like that I find I enjoy the song playing. A quick search on Google to match the lyrics finds me the name of the song, and another quick search on the iTunes Music Store finds me the song. And if I’m lucky, there’s a DRM-less version (I don’t want to be able to copy it all over the place, I just want to be able to play it on my TiVo without having to burn it to a CD first. And maybe TiVo will release an update someday so I ...

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition , from Ars Technica: “I usually take some time to ease into these reviews, give some background before really dissecting them, but as you can already tell, Lost Planet has some issues that just confound me. I’ve never played a game that was so promising but ended up shipping with such serious and blatant flaws.” (Mostly posting this for my local affine , who is obsessed with this game despite the fact we have nothing to play it on.)