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I read a fascinating book about salt a couple of years ago and I would highly recommend it for anyone interested in salt and its effect on the history of the world.

I was teased while I was reading it ("you're reading a book about *salt*?!), but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

http://www.amazon.com/Salt-World-History-Mark-Kurlansky/dp/0142001619/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-7795182-0512831?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180404850&sr=8-1

(disclosure: I don't get anythign from linking this, nor do I get anything from anyone buying it.)

If I won this, I'd blog about it and link to Engadget Mobile a lot. Please. :)

I never really liked Peter Pan...I'm more of a Jif guy on the odd occasion when I want some peanut butter. So for me it's a moot issue.

If I pretend that it was Jif that had the problems, I probably wouldn't buy any more. It'd be one thing if they had an issue and dealt with it, but as far back as the problem's gone, I don't think I could go back.

Go watch the keynote again. Yes, Steve said it was a "widescreen" iPod. He didn't say it was 16:9. during the keynote where he showed Pirates, he switched it from its native mode to letterboxed mode.

I don't think I've ever been 'cool' so I'm not a good judge about what is or isn't cool. I rarely step into a Starbucks anymore though.

For me, Starbucks was like coffee school. I grew up thinking coffee sucked because the coffee my family drank sucked (Folgers and Hills Bros).

Then I discovered Starbucks sometime after high school (early 90's sometime) and learned that coffee can be interesting and doesn't have to suck.

Then I discovered small, independent cafes and I learned that good coffee can made into a cup full of wonders or a cup of crap depending on the skills of the barista so I started looking for independent cafes with good people at the controls (this was about the same time all of the local Starbucks' switched from the LaMarzocco machines to the super autos...turning their baristas into mere button-pushers).

Then I discovered home roasting and learned that really really fresh coffee is a lot different and opened up a whole new world of tinkering around with how I want my coffee to come out. It's also pretty much made me take my coffee exclusively at home.

So Starbucks got me started with my love of coffee which evolved into something that Starbucks wasn't up to anymore. I'll still drop in occasionally if I'm in the mood for an iced Americano, but I don't really seek them out anymore.

That's something I've been learning as I've been researching high end audio. It doesn't take much to drive the right kind of speakers. You can clear a room with a 5-10 watt tube amp and the right speakers on it.

Am I the only one that never uses the rumble in the controllers?

First thing I do when playing is turn that off. I hate it. Always have, always will. Takes away from the gaming experience as far as I'm concerned.

There's an ice cream shop in Rehoboth, DE called Udder Delight that has a Viagra ice cream flavor too. They have a lot of other odd flavors too like bacon, Memphos BBQ, and cucumber (which is actually quite good).

http://udderdelighticecreamhouse.com/Icecreamflavors.html

Aside from the whole security/trust debate....

There's a big difference between banning a piece of hardware from being used for classified data and banning hardware from unclassified data. The hardware will go somewhere and get used for something else.

The article actually says that out of the 16,000 batch, 900 were tagged to be used in classified data.