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diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.26.07/Tue/else.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.26.07/Tue/else.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..61e6491 --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.26.07/Tue/else.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Elsewhere on Wired: + +* 27B Stroke 6's Luke O'Brien that pure [analog TVs will disappear from stores][1] starting this Thursday. As mandated by Congress every TV "shipped by manufacturers to stores must include a digital tuner." Grab your analog collectors item before they fade so you can go blue in the face explaining to your hipster friends twenty years from now that no, you didn't just buy an analog TV as part of the new fade, you've had it this whole time and were just waiting for it to become cool again. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/02/analog_tvs_go_r.html "Analog TVs Go Retro, Officially" + +* Gadget Lab's Mike Ansaldo [reports][2] that Japanese telco DoCoMo has struck a deal with McDonald's that will "let consumers buy from the popular fast-food chain using specially equipped handsets." + +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/02/order_mcdonalds.html "Order McDonald's On Your Mobile" + + +* Epicenter has [another look at Steve Jobs' DRM letter][3] and concludes that the real problem with digital downloads is the crappy quality of files. Epicenter's Fred Vogelstein suspect that Apple's DRM doesn't play nice with higher quality files. + +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/02/what_steve_jobs.html "What Steve Jobs really wants" + +* Sex Drive's Randy Dotinga has word of a study that says [people can distinguish between real humans and fake CG images][4]. Dotinga points out a few caveats though, the study is extremely small, the subjects had the most trouble identifying human images that were computer generated in 2006 and, oh yeah, the head of the study is also advising prosecutors in a child porn case that would likely be settled in the prosecutions favor if the study were accurate. + +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/sex/2007/02/study_people_ca.html "Study: People Can Tell Real Images from Fake"
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