Thursday Reading

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  Delicious review of Per Se..
  Makes me hungry!!
  
  
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  Nanny gets fired for blog... then the parents write an article about it for the NYT
  
  link to NYT article
  
  
• Saved from a traffic ticket by Google Maps
  
  Wow, how exhilarating and suspenseful!
  
  
• Microsoft's new technology will downgrade images on your computer.. watch out for Longhorn :( [Engadget]
  

  "So what will happen when you try to play premium content on your incompatible monitor? If you’re “lucky”, the content will go through a resolution constrictor. The purpose of this constrictor is to down-sample high-resolution content to below a certain number of pixels. The newly down-sampled content is then blown back up to match the resolution of your monitor. This is much like when you shrink a JPEG and then zoom into it. Much of the clarity is lost. The result is a picture far fuzzier than it need be."