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Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's only 720p, but its bright, detailed picture is impressive and its vivid color is surprisingly accurate for a set this small. It scores surprisingly well in our video-processing tests, even besting many of this year's small models. Sure, this model is a bit challenged in the areas of de-interlacing 24-fps film-based HD sources and removing jaggies from diagonal lines, but then so are many of the 32-inch and smaller TVs we've tested this year. And who really worries about 24 FPS film sources on a 26-incher besides geeks like us? Unlike many small sets, though, the Samsung's noise reduction performs beautifully. We saw good results leaving it in "auto" for all but the crappiest video, and only had to really adjust for our truly hideous NR test clip. Hardcore testing aside, the Samsung's good NR combined with its great picture and color delivered where it matters the most: Our HD and SD test movies looked awesome, as did satellite HDTV and output from our 360. ?Chuck Cage WIRED: Attractive, simple remote-control. Side ports (HDMI, S-Video and composite) make hooking up a 360 or camcorder a breeze. Optical digital audio out -- perfect for tying into that massive dorm-theater sound system. TIRED: Some video-processing issues. 1366 x 728 native resolution makes it a not-so-great computer monitor unless you're over 40 and want to read without your glasses. Price/maker: $550, Samsung Read our full Samsung LN26A450C1 LCD TV review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : The HP TouchSmart IQ506 is an update to last year's all-in-one touchscreen, the TouchSmart IQ770. This year, HP went for a countertop-friendly design by packing all the components into the IQ506's brilliant 22-inch, touch-sensitive display. As a whole, this makes for a much more streamlined and clutter-free presentation compared to its predecessor. In terms of general ease and responsiveness, the IQ506's touchscreen does a marginally good job. Common maneuvers like double taps and click-and-drag highlighting can be pulled off with minimal hassle. Even problem areas like corners were accessible with relatively effortless finger pokes. Save for a pinch/zoom gesture, however, all the image-rotating fun we were expecting was largely nonexistent. In its defense, leaving notes, creating calendar reminders and a host of other "bulletin board" tasks were a cinch using the TouchSmart dashboard. But even though you can incorporate non-dashboard programs like Firefox into the interface, opening these applications kicks you back out to the Vista desktop. On one hand, the system is a great value when one compares the sticker price to the components, but it's disconcerting that a $1,500 computer lacks the flair and usability of a relatively inexpensive device like the iPhone. We've got our fingers crossed for next year's model. WIRED: Elegant space-saving design. Speaker bar produces booming lows and clear highs. Bright 22-inch screen hides smudges and fingerprints. Integrated TV tuner adds living room chops. Blazing connectivity via gigabit Ethernet and integrated 802.11b/g/n. 500-GB hard drive offers plenty of room for media storage. Whisper-quiet operation. TIRED: Not the smoothest touch-based interface. Handoffs between TouchSmart/Vista programs are slow and awkward. Very limited upgrade options. Midrange GPU puts a damper on hardcore gaming. Retractable bezel feels cheap and rickety. Sluggish processor given its all-in-one class. What? No Blu-ray? Price/maker: $1,500 (as tested), hp.com Read our full HP TouchSmart IQ506 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Dubbed the "Boulder," this angular, candy-colored handset is the offspring of the Gadget Lab's crumpled Type-V, Type-S and Type-SL review units. The Boulder isn't another rugged rehash, though. In fact, Casio finally threw a curve by including some fairly useful multimedia features. Welcome additions like music playback, a more powerful (but still lacking) camera, and zippy EV-DO connectivity fatten up this phone's already rock-solid resume. But let's face it -- Casio is extremely late to the party with these commonplace features. Previous pratfalls like the laughably low-res external LCD, and an annoying light show for incoming calls have returned too. Foibles aside, a lot of the "new" features were actually well integrated into this otherwise hard-knock handset. Tasks like downloading and playing music, mobile messaging and accessing webmail were brisk and painless due to a sensible layout and speedy EV-DO network. Little usability improvements (and smart additions like a waterproof cover for the microSD port) reinforced Casio's obvious commitment to achieving a rugged/user-friendly balance. Casio definitely gets kudos for bringing a tank like the G'zOne into the multimedia era. However, the Boulder is more a patchwork of desirable features, rather than a cohesive marriage of entertainment and durability. WIRED: Armored cross section where mud meets multimedia. External LCD doubles as wanderlust-friendly e-compass. Awesome camera flash/flashlight combo. Expanded memory via microSD card slot. Solid call quality -- even after 12 rounds of tough love. Included cradle doubles as a travel charger. Also comes in "less-flamboyant" black. TIRED: Terrible speakerphone quality for both voice and music. Far too expensive. Annoying multicolored lights show signals incoming calls. No file sharing via Bluetooth. Lackluster 1.3-MP camera sucks for both stills and video. Sweet angles still can't hide a brick-ish profile. Price/maker: $130 (after $50 rebate), Verizon Read our full Casio G'zOne Boulder review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Out of the box and straight up to the eye you'll immediately enjoy the D3's spacious and bright viewfinder. The noticeably improved 51-point auto focus system is whip-fast and works in concert with an outstanding 1005-pixel metering sensor that gets it right in the most challenging lighting. Images are beautifully consistent with a wide dynamic range and improved noise-reduction settings that give the pictures a more natural look. To achieve that end, Nikon pulled back on the sharpening levels, leaving the choice of added "crunchiness" to a photographer's post-production predilections. Nikon's new three-inch high-res LCD is a revelation. If you do take the plunge, be ready to spend a good chunk of time learning the feature set to exploit the D3's capabilities. From resolution to speed, color control, bit-depth and so much more, the D3 is incredibly customizable. Dial it in for lightning-quick 11-fps sports action, superlow-light shooting (ISO up to 25600), handheld or tripod-mounted live view -- you name it, whatever and however you want to shoot, the D3 does it exceptionally well. WIRED: High ISO shooting is fantastic with relatively low noise at settings up to ISO 3200 and beyond. Live view function the best of the top-end DSLRs. Dual CF card capability. TIRED: So many functions it could take a lifetime to learn them all. No in-camera dust-reduction system. Price/maker: $5,000 (body only), Nikon Read our full Nikon D3 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : The U110 ultralight we received looks striking, with a scarlet paisley-etched aluminum lid paired with a shiny jet-black keyboard area. As soon as you open it up and power it on, you come face to face with one of the U110's most interesting yet unsettling features: VeriFace recognition. After booting up, the webcam embedded in the bezel starts scanning the room. When it finds you, it superimposes disturbing cross hairs on your eyes in an attempt to recognize you and unlock the PC. If you haven't registered your peepers, the system will hang, so you have to shut it down, turn the notebook away and open it up again to get it to boot. The 11.1-inch display is bright and sharp, though it can look a bit iridescent at close range. The glossy black keys are big and square but the thin membrane beneath the keys is flimsy and deforms as you type. There is a decent set of ports, but the designers couldn't find room for an optical drive. Seriously, we're pretty disappointed. The included external DVD drive looks cool, but you know what would be even cooler? Not needing an external drive at all. For work purposes, the Lenovo is a capable little machine. The U110 excelled in our PCMark tests, far outdistancing most other ultralights. Overall this is a good PC; it just has a few annoyances. WIRED: Charming good looks will attract the Lenovo faithful who are sick of looking funerary. Excellent business performance will silence office critics of your "red PC (Harumph!)." Delightfully light and slim. TIRED: The keyboard, though pretty, is pretty flimsy. Terminator-style face recognition will give you the heebie-jeebies and make you torch all your Schwarzenegger flicks (Especially Batman and Robin). External DVD means one more gadget to tote. Price/maker: $1,800 (as tested), Lenovo Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Read our full Lenovo IdeaPad U110 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Dishing out a hefty helping of HD, the SR12 is a lot of camera, both in your hand and under the hood with its 120-GB hard drive. The upgraded CMOS sensor and Bionz image processor have significantly improved image quality and stomped out even more noise. Sony?s face-detection system, which works snappily for video and the 10.2-megapixel stills, is very effective both up close and at long range. OK, so it makes great video, but what about the controls? For those who fly on manual, the Cam Control Dial is like piloting an F22. Neatly nestled next to the lens, the silver nubbin is a twisty-twirly festival of videographic functionality, providing quick access to manual adjustments of exposure, focus, white balance and aperture. There?s also an ?easy? button on board. A quick tap on the little blue button and all you?ve got to do is point the camera in the right direction to get the good stuff. In spite of all this Sony video goodness, the SR12 has one glaring flaw ? terribly difficult Mac integration. To get it working you?ve got to have iMovie '08. Previous versions of iMovie don?t have the capability to natively read the AVCHD codec meaning that you had to convert the video to other formats in order to do any post-production. WIRED: Excellent AVCHD video quality got better this time around. Extra-wide 3.2-inch touchscreen LCD is a big bonus. Outstanding sound quality. TIRED: Massive internal hard drive makes it somewhat chunky and a bit of a load to carry. The ?easy? button should be bigger and easier to find. And it should be red. Yeah red and all glowy. $1,400, Sony (Photo by Jackson Lynch for Wired.com) Read our full Sony HDR-SR12 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : With Kensington's Wireless USB Docking Station, the moment you open your Wireless USB (WUSB)-enabled notebook, all your desktop devices are ready to go. We were amazed at how seamless the process is: The station recognized our 20-inch monitor, wireless USB mouse, keyboard and printer. It was as if they were always connected to the notebook. Of course, there are a few gotchas. WUSB is a new standard and some notebooks can't hook up with this docking station. Dell and Lenovo offer a few models, and other companies should be out the gate by this fall. With its plain, geeky looks, the 11.4-ounce antenna-topped station could get lost in a field of wireless routers. But that's not quite enough to put our Battlestar boxers in a knot: The Kensington Wireless Docking Station is a snap to set up and makes mobile computing, well, mobile and hassle-free. You know, the way it's supposed to be. ?Michael S. Lasky WIRED: Drop-dead, simple setup and instant wireless connection of all desktop peripherals makes moving a notebook to and from the desk a hassle-free, nothing-to-plug-in experience. Small footprint means no great loss of desktop real estate. TIRED: Still few WUSB-enabled notebooks on the market. Audio handling could be smoother; default requires USB-powered speakers. First generation device is still pricey. $230, Kensington Read our full Kensington Wireless USB Docking Station review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : This standard-definition lightweight shoots better video and has a much smarter feature set than most of its competitors. In fact, JVC knows that YouTubers can't bear missing the latest police beating or Matthew McConaughey shirtless in the grocery store, so the MS100 is lightning-quick on start up. The 35x optical zoom allows you to capture the crushing blows and bothersome blemishes while keeping a safe distance. Plus, the nifty laser-touch LCD makes you feel like a real cinematographer with speedy access to manual features. While it's nicely appointed, you've got to bridle at a couple things. First, there's no optical image stabilization. But shaky image stabilization aside, the very nature of this camcorder calls into question its usefulness. While neither big nor expensive, there are other, better, ultrasimple run-and-gun camcorders out there. Most are smaller and cheaper, too. With this form factor at this price, the MS100 is kind of stuck in the middle between the svelte flash-based AVCHD camcorders and the shirt-pocket shooters from Flip, Kodak and Creative. WIRED: 35x optical zoom brings the action right to your doorstep. Superb video quality. Formula 1 start-up speed. Easy to use laser-touch LCD. TIRED: No optical image stabilization. Lack of Mac compatibility is inexcusable and utterly perplexing. Three hundred and fifty bones for a camera that's made to record for YouTube? The Flip Mino does the same thing for about half the cost. $350, JVC (Photo: Jackson Lynch/Wired.com) Read our full JVC Everio GZ-MS100 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Through some loophole, wormhole or deal with the devil, Gateway has produced a massive desktop replacement that's fast, good and cheap. How fast, you ask? Fast enough to go toe-to-toe with -- and school -- a $4,800 Alienware Area 51 m15x: In our Quake 4 test, the Gateway posted a score of 167.8 fps to the m15x's 167.2. This is partially because the Gateway's 512-MB Nvidia Geforce 9800M is running the show. The FX also has Olympic endurance for larger-class notebooks, going 2 hours, 23 minutes to play a DVD. And that brings us to the cheap part. The Gateway is just $1,400 -- more than three times less than the Alienware and hundreds (and more hundreds) less than most other desktop replacement machines. Sure, it lacks the latest processor (it's got a 2.27-GHz Core Duo), but it has a whopping 4 GB of RAM to help it attack processing tasks and a spacious 200 GB of drive space for your stuff. The big bummer here is the missing Blu-ray drive, which is what is likely keeping this thing so affordable. WIRED: Some of the best gaming performance ever recorded on a PC. Long battery life for a desktop replacement. Comfy and solid keyboard withstands heavy hands. Multimedia controls and slide volume look cool without glowing too brightly. TIRED: No Blu-ray is a letdown for HD-heads, and you can't configure your PC to include the drive. The battery sticks out a bit in the back, and the power brick is monstrous. Power lights on the front, unlike the multimedia controls, are too bright. Price/maker: $1,400 (as tested), Gateway Read our full Gateway P-7811FX Notebook review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Alienware prides itself on its tower rigs and desktop replacements, but several of its earlier forays in to the mid-size laptops were disastrous; the branding was intact but the performance wasn't. Not so with the m15x. This 15.4-incher is plenty portable, yet it has all the gaming trappings and the performance to back it up. From the unboxing onward, you can tell that you are paying for the experience as well as the hardware. A baseball cap with an alien head on it, an extra battery, VGA-to-DVI adapter, FireWire adapter and entertainment remote show that Alienware will risk no dissatisfied customers due to lackluster goodies. With specs that include a 2.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme processor, 3 GB of RAM, and a 512-MB nVidia GeForce 8800M GTX, the m15x performs impressively, but not out of this world. It all comes down to the loot; this is a luxury item and there are far more affordable PCs with comparable performance. WIRED: Tip-top business and gaming performance. Lots of included extras for gaming elitists. The solid and handsome design will please gamers, and cool lighting effects will titillate geeks. TIRED: Exorbitant price that only a space tourist could pay without wincing. For all the expense, it's not the very best gaming PC. Dual batteries take a long time to charge up. The Blu-ray drive must be removed to accommodate the secondary battery. Price/maker: $4,880 (as tested), Alienware Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Read our full Alienware Area-51 m15x review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : The Archos 605 WiFi is a damn fine portable media player. Now it?s slightly mo' better due to this new GPS accessory, which for $130 adds full-bore street navigation that's on par with a Garmin or TomTom system. Well, a low-end Garmin or TomTom from a few years ago, anyway: This lackluster accessory does not have many of the bells and whistles of modern nav systems, and the one it does have -- real-time traffic updates -- works only in Europe. On the plus side, the software locks in satellite signals faster than NORAD. However, it navigates like a base commander heading home from the officer's club. On several occasions the GPS tried to route us totally out of the way instead of continuing on the road right in front of us. To make matters worse, the software doesn't announce street names, only directions. The GPS Car Holder would look pretty good if this were, say, 2003. And it does get you where you're going, if not always by the fastest or most logical route. At $130, it's a decent deal for current owners, but definitely behind the GPS times. WIRED: Cheaper than a standalone GPS, at least if you already own an Archos 605. High-resolution screen makes maps look mighty purty. Lightning-fast satellite lock. TIRED: The 605 can?t navigate without the car holder, so you can?t go on walkabout. Doesn?t say street names. Requires you to move to Europe if you want traffic features. You have to manually restart the GPS app every time you power on the 605. Price/maker: $130, Archos Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Read our full Archos 605 WiFi GPS Car Holder review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : As one of six new Fujitsu offerings equipped with Intel's Centrino 2, the Lifebook A6120 more than makes up for its dull exterior with features that will have prettier laptops quaking in their neoprene sleeves. Opposite its no frills glossy shell resides a gorgeous 15.4-inch LCD capable of brightening even the darkest depths of Mordor. Battery life and performance are equally impressive. The new 2.26-GHz CPU more than did the job when it came to photo editing, gaming and pretty much every other benchmark we threw at it. What's more, we squeezed a respectable four and a half hours of battery life under normal usage out of A6120. In fact, after playing with the Lifebook for a week, we were hard pressed to find anything significant to complain about. Would Fujitsu be well served by spending a little more time and effort on design and shrinking down that plump chassis? Sure. But this reviewer is more than happy to overlook a 1.7-inch waistline as long as it hides enough goodies. WIRED: Great bang/buck ratio. The A6120 starts at only $1,150 and jumps but $200 for a Radeon HD 3470 card and Blu-ray drive. Sharp, beautiful screen is one of the brightest we've seen on a laptop. Screw the chicklet-style keys found on other notebooks: Fujitsu's old school keyboard provides near perfect "clickiness" (to borrow a term from designer Amar Sagoo). TIRED: Small trackpad makes for a less than thrilling multitouch experience. Runs consistently hot -- don't rest it on your lap for long or risk a scorched crotch. While certainly not ugly, design is blander than a plate of lima beans. Price/maker: $1,350 (as tested), Fujitsu Read our full Fujitsu Lifebook A6120 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : GeTac clearly had utilitarian users in mind with the E-100, which makes for a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to function. On the bright side, this surprisingly light ultramobile PC is military certified to withstand splashes of water, dust, humidity, shock and even freezing temperatures. Even common vulnerabilities like exposed ethernet and USB ports have been sidestepped with a bevy of watertight rubber stoppers. In fact, my review unit was able to smoothly stream South Park episodes while taking repeated tumbles down a flight of stairs. But it was when I looked under the hood that I found kinks in the armor. Mission-critical applications like Office ran at a reasonable clip in a number of bumpy environments, but for the E-100's price I was expecting a little more "oomph." The 100-GB shock-resistant ATA hard drive and 1 GB of RAM tilt the balance a little bit, but honestly, even the unassuming Eee PC comes stock with Intel's newer Atom chips. Mediocre specs aside, this rough and tumble UMPC performs solidly in a number of harsh environments and boasts a host of connectivity options. WIRED: Rock-solid construction, ergonomics and field performance. Responsive 8.4-inch touchscreen looks phenomenal in direct sunlight. Web ready with 802.11b/g, gigabit ethernet and SIM card slot. Waterproof combination SmartCard/PCMCIA slot. Decent battery life at 3.5 hours (WiFi on). 100-GB hard drive has its own heater for cycling up in freezing conditions. TIRED: Too little processing given the amount of buck. Near three grand price tag? Seriously? No option for a solid state drive?! Recessed USB and headphone jacks are a hassle to plug into. Tinny speaker is more of an afterthought. Lose the stylus and you're S.O.L. Looks that only a FedEx driver could love. Price/maker: $2,880 as tested, GeTac Read our full GeTac E-100 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Most of the new mini-laptops look like toys, educational tools or lab experiments in miniaturization, but the MSI Wind is an actual PC. Packing the latest 1.6-GHz Atom processor and a roomy 80-GB drive, the Wind boasts some legit PC cred. Yes, your iPod probably has more drive space, but 80 gigs was plenty not so long ago, and it's not like you're going to be producing HD video on this thing; it's more of an internet lapdog than a laptop. The 10-inch widescreen can display most fixed-width webpages comfortably, and its keyboard is large enough to house decent-size keys so you can type easily without resorting to Homer's dialing wand. While even some larger laptops are short on ports, the Wind finds room for three USBs, an SD slot and a display connector (take note, MacBook Air!). Of course, it's not perfect. We would have loved to see a DVD burner included, and with all its ports, a mini FireWire would be welcome. Also, don't expect high-end performance from the unit or hearty battery life from its slim, three-cell battery. But if you want a cheap and tiny companion for uploading pictures during a Malaysian jungle trek, or just a little buddy to hang out with you on the couch for IMDB searches, it's pretty hard to be against the Wind. WIRED: Grown-up looks (as opposed to "I want to sit at the big kids' table" found in other netbooks). Full keyboard and the largest screen among mini-notes. Plenty of ports to plug away at. 2.3-pound weight and rounded edges make it simple to pack and lug. TIRED: Lack of a DVD is understandable, but it still makes us cry a little. Hard drive sometimes makes mysterious swallowing sounds. Two-hour battery life is OK, but three would be better. $500, MSI Mobile Photo: Jon Snyder/ Wired.com Read our full MSI Wind U100 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Behold, the new Eee Box! Like the rest of the Eee bloodline, these varicolored desktop boxes are small, cheap and adorable (think AppleTV or Mac Mini). Intel's 1.6-GHz Atom processor, up to 2 GBs of memory, four USB ports, an SD card slot, 802.11n and Bluetooth are plenty for the Eee Box to hit that elusive "good enough" mark with aplomb. Once again, you'll get your choice of running either Linux or Windows XP. Then there's the size. While it does have a slightly larger overall footprint, it's much trimmer than the Mac Mini. Not only will this elegant 8.5 x 7 x 1-inch box fit anywhere, but you also have the choice of mounting it directly to the back of any extra monitor you happen to have lying around. To be clear, the Eee Box is not for sweaty frag fests or heavy-duty HD video decoding. But if you have a hankering for a killer kitchen PC or just an über-cheap second or third home PC that runs Linux or XP, it simply can't be beat. WIRED: Small, lightweight and cuter than a bowlful of kittens. More than enough processing power for everyday computing. Cheaper than an ounce of Da Kine bud. The option of running Splashtop for preboot access to Skype, web browsing and IM clients. TIRED: Where's the optical drive? No HDMI output, which actually doesn't matter much because there's also no hardware to decode acceleration. By itself, the Atom processor can barely handle 720p H.264 streams, dashing our hopes of this being the ultimate home-streaming box. $300 as tested, Asus Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Read our full Asus Eee Box review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Iomega's own $190 solution for a filled DVR is a 500-GB drive that plays nice with two DVRs in particular: Scientific Atlanta's 80-GB standard definition 8300 and the more recent 160-GB 8300-HD model. We tested the drive out on the latter model and found it more or less did what it promised. It even worked with a neighbor's Series 3 TiVo, which (to its credit) is known for being something of an eSATA slut. Setup in both instances was quick and painless, and involved simply turning off the DVR, plugging in the Iomega drive, and then turning everything back on again. Voila, no more having to choose between Emmanuelle: The Art of Love and the latest episode of Mad Men. WIRED: Reasonably priced. Your grandmother could probably set it up. Instantly adds an additional 300 hours of SD TV, or 60 hours of HD content. TIRED: Only one way to connect the drive to a DVR (that would be eSATA). Limited compatibility, although Iomega claims the drive will work with future SA eSATA-enabled DVRs. No way of controlling what gets stored on the expander drive and what gets stored on the DVR. Transporting DVR'd content to your computer is verboten, and plugging the drive into a computer will automatically reformat it. $190, Iomega Read our full Iomega DVR Expander Drive review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : The Samsung U900, aka Soul, aka Magical Touch, doesn't really have any supernatural abilities. What it does have is a tiny, touch-sensitive OLED nav-pad that is one of the coolest, most efficient touch interfaces we've seen on a handset. The small display (situated below the main 2.2-inch QVGA screen) features icons that morph based on whatever application is currently on the screen. Switch to camera mode and controls for snapping pictures. Toggle to the music player and buttons for fast-forward, rewind, pause and play pop up. The big selling point is the phone's pocketability. The picture quality and dynamic range could be better (LED flash, we're talking about you), but at 0.5-inches thick and 7 ounces, this slider is more svelte than just about every 5-MP cam we've tested. Ultimately, our biggest complaint is that you cannot use the camera without sliding open the phone first. This design protects the lens from dust bunnies and pocket grime, yes, but shooting with a fully open device was a tad awkward at times. WIRED: External microSD slot makes it a cinch to swap cards on the fly. Bluetooth (+A2DP). Competent image-editing suite. Video editor allows you to layer additional audio tracks. Decent facial detection. Haptic feedback can be tweaked to three different levels of intensity or switched-off entirely. TIRED: Bundled proprietary ear buds sound duller than Ben Stein. No Xenon flash. No GPS. No WiFi. Lower-res video clips. Proprietary headphone jack positioned on the side = hard to pocket when phones are plugged in. Noticeable screen glare when outdoors. $400, Samsung Photo: Issac Brekken/Wired.com Read our full Samsung SGH-U900 Soul "Magical Touch" review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : The biggest selling point of the new Sidekick is supposed to be the customizable "skins" you can order to replace the solid-color ones (we opted for jet black). But apart from flashy aesthetics, the pocket-friendly 2008 is 0.4-inches shorter and 0.9-ounces lighter than the pricier LX. It also packs features that were sorely missed with the tragically minimalist iD. Most notably, a 2.0-megapixel camera that can also capture video clips (albeit crappy ones). Though the 2.6-inch WQVGA swivel screen?s received a slight -- and necessary -- boost in pixels (400 x 240), the resolution?s still not fantastic. And neither is Bluetooth. We found data transfers not only paused the media player (annoying), but afterward, we had to go back and manually un-pause whatever track was playing (doubly annoying). For the price, though the 2008 is a solid option compared to the LX -- but only if you live and die by instant messaging and you don't mind being seen with Paris Hilton's device of choice in public. WIRED: Spacious, comfy QWERTY. 3.5-mm headphone jack. Surprisingly loud, radically clear music player. Wide screen excellent for web browsing. Solid battery life. Quick video recording/sharing. Comes with two skins (we got black and iridescent lime). Bluetooth with A2DP (great to have, even if it does disrupt tunes). TIRED: Screen retains more fingerprints than the Feds. No flash. No WiFi. Mike captures poor sound when recording video. Only 20-second video clips. Only 512-MB microSD card included. Apps are mostly in the $2.99+ range (except for the janky free Calculator). No 3-G. Price/maker: $150 (with 2-year contract), T-Mobile Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Read our full Sidekick review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Cyclists know it's plum foolish to roll around on two wheels sans helmet, but it can be just as dangerous to bike about at night without a light. A good headlight affixed to your handlebars is just the thing to help cut through the murk and get you to your destination safely. Here we pit two of the top dogs on the market against each other and see which comes out on top. ?Eric Smillie Planet Bike Blaze This one-watt LED cannon goes the extra mile, and we don't just mean it shoots light a ridiculous distance. Due in no small part to its particularly aggressive blinking mode, accurately called superflash, it didn?t just help us catch drivers' attentions; it had them anxiously craning their necks to check whether we were trying to pull them over. Drawing on only two AA batteries, this baby cuts down on weight but its CREE XR-E diode, coupled with a specially engineered Fraen lens, still pumps out the brightest light of all the lamps we tested -- enough to bounce off signs, license plates, and other reflective materials up to four blocks away, giving us plenty of time to make an impression. All we have to worry about now is whether some cop-hating, GTA IV-overdosing motorist trying to run us down. WIRED: Recessed switch only works if pressed firmly, which means it won?t turn on in your bag while you jostle your way to the bar, leaving you in the dark at closing time. Planet Bike spends 25 percent of its profits on bike advocacy. TIRED: The brightness and reduced weight come at a price: 20 hours of battery life in blinking mode, and only seven on high. Though it installs without the use of a tool, the handlebar bracket is tricky to tighten and slips easily. $50, Planet Bike Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : While not the sharpest bulb on our handlebars, the WhiteLite HP AA is in it for the long haul. Don?t get us wrong -- just like other 1-watt LED headlamps, this portable, all-in one lamp is more than a glorified blinky. When engineering this light, Topeak got all snippy, cutting the cords to one of its external power-pack lights and reengineered it to accept three AA batteries. Its widely diffused beam covers plenty of surface area and earned our trust by helping us dodge nasty potholes and tree roots on unlit paths. But where this guy really shines is in perseverance, by lasting 30 hours on high and a whopping 120 on flash. WIRED: The mounting bracket screws tight with a finger knob and adjusts five degrees left and right to get a straight aim even on angled handlebars, although it does require an Allen key to tighten. Little red LED signals when batteries are low. TIRED: Blinks come slowly and lack urgency in flashing mode. Pushing the rear on/off push button can rotate the mount and mess up the light angle. Sound like a small problem? It won't be when you look up just in time to face plant into the bumper of a lifted pickup. $60, Topeak Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : The E71 looks more like a Blackberry Killer, but don?t be fooled: This great white hope gives the iPhone a run for its money in a lot of different areas (yes, really). Despite its obvious lack of an oversize touchscreen interface, Nokia wins points for a remarkably trim profile (10mm vs. 12.3mm), decent 3.2-megapixel camera (instead of 2.0), and the fact it's not tied to any carrier (yet). Setting up Nokia's Mail for Exchange program required no IT help or time. QuickOffice let us create, edit and send Word/Excel/PowerPoint files on the fly while we browsed PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Reader. The E71 is stocked with enough apps and goodies to keep even the most overworked road warrior on the ball, but it didn't feel too "business" due to two separate customizable home screens. One is designed to house all of your work apps while the other is geared more toward entertainment with programs for audio, video and gaming. The phone's 2.36-inch, 320 x 240 QVGA display is only slightly smaller than the iPod classic's, and though the resolution can't top the iPhone's, with 15 fps, the E71 is still solid for YouTube clips. Oh, and did we mention the E71's got battery life for days? Yes, literally, three of them. WIRED: Up to 8 GB in an easy-to-access, external microSD slot. Quick and seamless OS. GPS, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth (you name it, it's basically got it). Vivid screen (even in direct sunlight). Textured stainless steel backing prevents slippage. Relatively lightweight (127 grams = six grams lighter than iPhone). Hit any letter on the QWERTY pad and predictive text calls up that section of your address book. TIRED: No standard 3.5-mm headphone jack. 3.2-megapixel camera's optics could be better. LED flash could be way better. N-Gage gaming platform not available. Screen's wide, but not wide enough to do a feature-length film justice. For $500, you could get two 8-GB, 3-G JesusPhones (with $100 left over to put toward AT&T's data plan). $500 (unlocked), Nokia Photo: Max Buck/Wired.com Read our full Nokia E71 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. Wired.Com Gear Gallery: Beautiful Bargain LCD, Touchscreen PC and Nikon's D3 {new window}   Www.Wired.Com - : Think of this 26-inch TV from Samsung as any one of last year's larger models, shrunk down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's only 720p, but its bright, detailed picture is impressive and its vivid color is surprisingly accurate for a set this small. It scores surprisingly well in our video-processing tests, even besting many of this year's small models. Sure, this model is a bit challenged in the areas of de-interlacing 24-fps film-based HD sources and removing jaggies from diagonal lines, but then so are many of the 32-inch and smaller TVs we've tested this year. And who really worries about 24 FPS film sources on a 26-incher besides geeks like us? Unlike many small sets, though, the Samsung's noise reduction performs beautifully. We saw good results leaving it in "auto" for all but the crappiest video, and only had to really adjust for our truly hideous NR test clip. Hardcore testing aside, the Samsung's good NR combined with its great picture and color delivered where it matters the most: Our HD and SD test movies looked awesome, as did satellite HDTV and output from our 360. ?Chuck Cage WIRED: Attractive, simple remote-control. Side ports (HDMI, S-Video and composite) make hooking up a 360 or camcorder a breeze. Optical digital audio out -- perfect for tying into that massive dorm-theater sound system. TIRED: Some video-processing issues. 1366 x 728 native resolution makes it a not-so-great computer monitor unless you're over 40 and want to read without your glasses. Price/maker: $550, Samsung Read our full Samsung LN26A450C1 LCD TV review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : The HP TouchSmart IQ506 is an update to last year's all-in-one touchscreen, the TouchSmart IQ770. This year, HP went for a countertop-friendly design by packing all the components into the IQ506's brilliant 22-inch, touch-sensitive display. As a whole, this makes for a much more streamlined and clutter-free presentation compared to its predecessor. In terms of general ease and responsiveness, the IQ506's touchscreen does a marginally good job. Common maneuvers like double taps and click-and-drag highlighting can be pulled off with minimal hassle. Even problem areas like corners were accessible with relatively effortless finger pokes. Save for a pinch/zoom gesture, however, all the image-rotating fun we were expecting was largely nonexistent. In its defense, leaving notes, creating calendar reminders and a host of other "bulletin board" tasks were a cinch using the TouchSmart dashboard. But even though you can incorporate non-dashboard programs like Firefox into the interface, opening these applications kicks you back out to the Vista desktop. On one hand, the system is a great value when one compares the sticker price to the components, but it's disconcerting that a $1,500 computer lacks the flair and usability of a relatively inexpensive device like the iPhone. We've got our fingers crossed for next year's model. WIRED: Elegant space-saving design. Speaker bar produces booming lows and clear highs. Bright 22-inch screen hides smudges and fingerprints. Integrated TV tuner adds living room chops. Blazing connectivity via gigabit Ethernet and integrated 802.11b/g/n. 500-GB hard drive offers plenty of room for media storage. Whisper-quiet operation. TIRED: Not the smoothest touch-based interface. Handoffs between TouchSmart/Vista programs are slow and awkward. Very limited upgrade options. Midrange GPU puts a damper on hardcore gaming. Retractable bezel feels cheap and rickety. Sluggish processor given its all-in-one class. What? No Blu-ray? Price/maker: $1,500 (as tested), hp.com Read our full HP TouchSmart IQ506 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Dubbed the "Boulder," this angular, candy-colored handset is the offspring of the Gadget Lab's crumpled Type-V, Type-S and Type-SL review units. The Boulder isn't another rugged rehash, though. In fact, Casio finally threw a curve by including some fairly useful multimedia features. Welcome additions like music playback, a more powerful (but still lacking) camera, and zippy EV-DO connectivity fatten up this phone's already rock-solid resume. But let's face it -- Casio is extremely late to the party with these commonplace features. Previous pratfalls like the laughably low-res external LCD, and an annoying light show for incoming calls have returned too. Foibles aside, a lot of the "new" features were actually well integrated into this otherwise hard-knock handset. Tasks like downloading and playing music, mobile messaging and accessing webmail were brisk and painless due to a sensible layout and speedy EV-DO network. Little usability improvements (and smart additions like a waterproof cover for the microSD port) reinforced Casio's obvious commitment to achieving a rugged/user-friendly balance. Casio definitely gets kudos for bringing a tank like the G'zOne into the multimedia era. However, the Boulder is more a patchwork of desirable features, rather than a cohesive marriage of entertainment and durability. WIRED: Armored cross section where mud meets multimedia. External LCD doubles as wanderlust-friendly e-compass. Awesome camera flash/flashlight combo. Expanded memory via microSD card slot. Solid call quality -- even after 12 rounds of tough love. Included cradle doubles as a travel charger. Also comes in "less-flamboyant" black. TIRED: Terrible speakerphone quality for both voice and music. Far too expensive. Annoying multicolored lights show signals incoming calls. No file sharing via Bluetooth. Lackluster 1.3-MP camera sucks for both stills and video. Sweet angles still can't hide a brick-ish profile. Price/maker: $130 (after $50 rebate), Verizon Read our full Casio G'zOne Boulder review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Out of the box and straight up to the eye you'll immediately enjoy the D3's spacious and bright viewfinder. The noticeably improved 51-point auto focus system is whip-fast and works in concert with an outstanding 1005-pixel metering sensor that gets it right in the most challenging lighting. Images are beautifully consistent with a wide dynamic range and improved noise-reduction settings that give the pictures a more natural look. To achieve that end, Nikon pulled back on the sharpening levels, leaving the choice of added "crunchiness" to a photographer's post-production predilections. Nikon's new three-inch high-res LCD is a revelation. If you do take the plunge, be ready to spend a good chunk of time learning the feature set to exploit the D3's capabilities. From resolution to speed, color control, bit-depth and so much more, the D3 is incredibly customizable. Dial it in for lightning-quick 11-fps sports action, superlow-light shooting (ISO up to 25600), handheld or tripod-mounted live view -- you name it, whatever and however you want to shoot, the D3 does it exceptionally well. WIRED: High ISO shooting is fantastic with relatively low noise at settings up to ISO 3200 and beyond. Live view function the best of the top-end DSLRs. Dual CF card capability. TIRED: So many functions it could take a lifetime to learn them all. No in-camera dust-reduction system. Price/maker: $5,000 (body only), Nikon Read our full Nikon D3 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : The U110 ultralight we received looks striking, with a scarlet paisley-etched aluminum lid paired with a shiny jet-black keyboard area. As soon as you open it up and power it on, you come face to face with one of the U110's most interesting yet unsettling features: VeriFace recognition. After booting up, the webcam embedded in the bezel starts scanning the room. When it finds you, it superimposes disturbing cross hairs on your eyes in an attempt to recognize you and unlock the PC. If you haven't registered your peepers, the system will hang, so you have to shut it down, turn the notebook away and open it up again to get it to boot. The 11.1-inch display is bright and sharp, though it can look a bit iridescent at close range. The glossy black keys are big and square but the thin membrane beneath the keys is flimsy and deforms as you type. There is a decent set of ports, but the designers couldn't find room for an optical drive. Seriously, we're pretty disappointed. The included external DVD drive looks cool, but you know what would be even cooler? Not needing an external drive at all. For work purposes, the Lenovo is a capable little machine. The U110 excelled in our PCMark tests, far outdistancing most other ultralights. Overall this is a good PC; it just has a few annoyances. WIRED: Charming good looks will attract the Lenovo faithful who are sick of looking funerary. Excellent business performance will silence office critics of your "red PC (Harumph!)." Delightfully light and slim. TIRED: The keyboard, though pretty, is pretty flimsy. Terminator-style face recognition will give you the heebie-jeebies and make you torch all your Schwarzenegger flicks (Especially Batman and Robin). External DVD means one more gadget to tote. Price/maker: $1,800 (as tested), Lenovo Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Read our full Lenovo IdeaPad U110 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Dishing out a hefty helping of HD, the SR12 is a lot of camera, both in your hand and under the hood with its 120-GB hard drive. The upgraded CMOS sensor and Bionz image processor have significantly improved image quality and stomped out even more noise. Sony?s face-detection system, which works snappily for video and the 10.2-megapixel stills, is very effective both up close and at long range. OK, so it makes great video, but what about the controls? For those who fly on manual, the Cam Control Dial is like piloting an F22. Neatly nestled next to the lens, the silver nubbin is a twisty-twirly festival of videographic functionality, providing quick access to manual adjustments of exposure, focus, white balance and aperture. There?s also an ?easy? button on board. A quick tap on the little blue button and all you?ve got to do is point the camera in the right direction to get the good stuff. In spite of all this Sony video goodness, the SR12 has one glaring flaw ? terribly difficult Mac integration. To get it working you?ve got to have iMovie '08. Previous versions of iMovie don?t have the capability to natively read the AVCHD codec meaning that you had to convert the video to other formats in order to do any post-production. WIRED: Excellent AVCHD video quality got better this time around. Extra-wide 3.2-inch touchscreen LCD is a big bonus. Outstanding sound quality. TIRED: Massive internal hard drive makes it somewhat chunky and a bit of a load to carry. The ?easy? button should be bigger and easier to find. And it should be red. Yeah red and all glowy. $1,400, Sony (Photo by Jackson Lynch for Wired.com) Read our full Sony HDR-SR12 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : With Kensington's Wireless USB Docking Station, the moment you open your Wireless USB (WUSB)-enabled notebook, all your desktop devices are ready to go. We were amazed at how seamless the process is: The station recognized our 20-inch monitor, wireless USB mouse, keyboard and printer. It was as if they were always connected to the notebook. Of course, there are a few gotchas. WUSB is a new standard and some notebooks can't hook up with this docking station. Dell and Lenovo offer a few models, and other companies should be out the gate by this fall. With its plain, geeky looks, the 11.4-ounce antenna-topped station could get lost in a field of wireless routers. But that's not quite enough to put our Battlestar boxers in a knot: The Kensington Wireless Docking Station is a snap to set up and makes mobile computing, well, mobile and hassle-free. You know, the way it's supposed to be. ?Michael S. Lasky WIRED: Drop-dead, simple setup and instant wireless connection of all desktop peripherals makes moving a notebook to and from the desk a hassle-free, nothing-to-plug-in experience. Small footprint means no great loss of desktop real estate. TIRED: Still few WUSB-enabled notebooks on the market. Audio handling could be smoother; default requires USB-powered speakers. First generation device is still pricey. $230, Kensington Read our full Kensington Wireless USB Docking Station review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : This standard-definition lightweight shoots better video and has a much smarter feature set than most of its competitors. In fact, JVC knows that YouTubers can't bear missing the latest police beating or Matthew McConaughey shirtless in the grocery store, so the MS100 is lightning-quick on start up. The 35x optical zoom allows you to capture the crushing blows and bothersome blemishes while keeping a safe distance. Plus, the nifty laser-touch LCD makes you feel like a real cinematographer with speedy access to manual features. While it's nicely appointed, you've got to bridle at a couple things. First, there's no optical image stabilization. But shaky image stabilization aside, the very nature of this camcorder calls into question its usefulness. While neither big nor expensive, there are other, better, ultrasimple run-and-gun camcorders out there. Most are smaller and cheaper, too. With this form factor at this price, the MS100 is kind of stuck in the middle between the svelte flash-based AVCHD camcorders and the shirt-pocket shooters from Flip, Kodak and Creative. WIRED: 35x optical zoom brings the action right to your doorstep. Superb video quality. Formula 1 start-up speed. Easy to use laser-touch LCD. TIRED: No optical image stabilization. Lack of Mac compatibility is inexcusable and utterly perplexing. Three hundred and fifty bones for a camera that's made to record for YouTube? The Flip Mino does the same thing for about half the cost. $350, JVC (Photo: Jackson Lynch/Wired.com) Read our full JVC Everio GZ-MS100 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Through some loophole, wormhole or deal with the devil, Gateway has produced a massive desktop replacement that's fast, good and cheap. How fast, you ask? Fast enough to go toe-to-toe with -- and school -- a $4,800 Alienware Area 51 m15x: In our Quake 4 test, the Gateway posted a score of 167.8 fps to the m15x's 167.2. This is partially because the Gateway's 512-MB Nvidia Geforce 9800M is running the show. The FX also has Olympic endurance for larger-class notebooks, going 2 hours, 23 minutes to play a DVD. And that brings us to the cheap part. The Gateway is just $1,400 -- more than three times less than the Alienware and hundreds (and more hundreds) less than most other desktop replacement machines. Sure, it lacks the latest processor (it's got a 2.27-GHz Core Duo), but it has a whopping 4 GB of RAM to help it attack processing tasks and a spacious 200 GB of drive space for your stuff. The big bummer here is the missing Blu-ray drive, which is what is likely keeping this thing so affordable. WIRED: Some of the best gaming performance ever recorded on a PC. Long battery life for a desktop replacement. Comfy and solid keyboard withstands heavy hands. Multimedia controls and slide volume look cool without glowing too brightly. TIRED: No Blu-ray is a letdown for HD-heads, and you can't configure your PC to include the drive. The battery sticks out a bit in the back, and the power brick is monstrous. Power lights on the front, unlike the multimedia controls, are too bright. Price/maker: $1,400 (as tested), Gateway Read our full Gateway P-7811FX Notebook review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Alienware prides itself on its tower rigs and desktop replacements, but several of its earlier forays in to the mid-size laptops were disastrous; the branding was intact but the performance wasn't. Not so with the m15x. This 15.4-incher is plenty portable, yet it has all the gaming trappings and the performance to back it up. From the unboxing onward, you can tell that you are paying for the experience as well as the hardware. A baseball cap with an alien head on it, an extra battery, VGA-to-DVI adapter, FireWire adapter and entertainment remote show that Alienware will risk no dissatisfied customers due to lackluster goodies. With specs that include a 2.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme processor, 3 GB of RAM, and a 512-MB nVidia GeForce 8800M GTX, the m15x performs impressively, but not out of this world. It all comes down to the loot; this is a luxury item and there are far more affordable PCs with comparable performance. WIRED: Tip-top business and gaming performance. Lots of included extras for gaming elitists. The solid and handsome design will please gamers, and cool lighting effects will titillate geeks. TIRED: Exorbitant price that only a space tourist could pay without wincing. For all the expense, it's not the very best gaming PC. Dual batteries take a long time to charge up. The Blu-ray drive must be removed to accommodate the secondary battery. Price/maker: $4,880 (as tested), Alienware Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Read our full Alienware Area-51 m15x review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : The Archos 605 WiFi is a damn fine portable media player. Now it?s slightly mo' better due to this new GPS accessory, which for $130 adds full-bore street navigation that's on par with a Garmin or TomTom system. Well, a low-end Garmin or TomTom from a few years ago, anyway: This lackluster accessory does not have many of the bells and whistles of modern nav systems, and the one it does have -- real-time traffic updates -- works only in Europe. On the plus side, the software locks in satellite signals faster than NORAD. However, it navigates like a base commander heading home from the officer's club. On several occasions the GPS tried to route us totally out of the way instead of continuing on the road right in front of us. To make matters worse, the software doesn't announce street names, only directions. The GPS Car Holder would look pretty good if this were, say, 2003. And it does get you where you're going, if not always by the fastest or most logical route. At $130, it's a decent deal for current owners, but definitely behind the GPS times. WIRED: Cheaper than a standalone GPS, at least if you already own an Archos 605. High-resolution screen makes maps look mighty purty. Lightning-fast satellite lock. TIRED: The 605 can?t navigate without the car holder, so you can?t go on walkabout. Doesn?t say street names. Requires you to move to Europe if you want traffic features. You have to manually restart the GPS app every time you power on the 605. Price/maker: $130, Archos Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Read our full Archos 605 WiFi GPS Car Holder review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : As one of six new Fujitsu offerings equipped with Intel's Centrino 2, the Lifebook A6120 more than makes up for its dull exterior with features that will have prettier laptops quaking in their neoprene sleeves. Opposite its no frills glossy shell resides a gorgeous 15.4-inch LCD capable of brightening even the darkest depths of Mordor. Battery life and performance are equally impressive. The new 2.26-GHz CPU more than did the job when it came to photo editing, gaming and pretty much every other benchmark we threw at it. What's more, we squeezed a respectable four and a half hours of battery life under normal usage out of A6120. In fact, after playing with the Lifebook for a week, we were hard pressed to find anything significant to complain about. Would Fujitsu be well served by spending a little more time and effort on design and shrinking down that plump chassis? Sure. But this reviewer is more than happy to overlook a 1.7-inch waistline as long as it hides enough goodies. WIRED: Great bang/buck ratio. The A6120 starts at only $1,150 and jumps but $200 for a Radeon HD 3470 card and Blu-ray drive. Sharp, beautiful screen is one of the brightest we've seen on a laptop. Screw the chicklet-style keys found on other notebooks: Fujitsu's old school keyboard provides near perfect "clickiness" (to borrow a term from designer Amar Sagoo). TIRED: Small trackpad makes for a less than thrilling multitouch experience. Runs consistently hot -- don't rest it on your lap for long or risk a scorched crotch. While certainly not ugly, design is blander than a plate of lima beans. Price/maker: $1,350 (as tested), Fujitsu Read our full Fujitsu Lifebook A6120 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : GeTac clearly had utilitarian users in mind with the E-100, which makes for a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to function. On the bright side, this surprisingly light ultramobile PC is military certified to withstand splashes of water, dust, humidity, shock and even freezing temperatures. Even common vulnerabilities like exposed ethernet and USB ports have been sidestepped with a bevy of watertight rubber stoppers. In fact, my review unit was able to smoothly stream South Park episodes while taking repeated tumbles down a flight of stairs. But it was when I looked under the hood that I found kinks in the armor. Mission-critical applications like Office ran at a reasonable clip in a number of bumpy environments, but for the E-100's price I was expecting a little more "oomph." The 100-GB shock-resistant ATA hard drive and 1 GB of RAM tilt the balance a little bit, but honestly, even the unassuming Eee PC comes stock with Intel's newer Atom chips. Mediocre specs aside, this rough and tumble UMPC performs solidly in a number of harsh environments and boasts a host of connectivity options. WIRED: Rock-solid construction, ergonomics and field performance. Responsive 8.4-inch touchscreen looks phenomenal in direct sunlight. Web ready with 802.11b/g, gigabit ethernet and SIM card slot. Waterproof combination SmartCard/PCMCIA slot. Decent battery life at 3.5 hours (WiFi on). 100-GB hard drive has its own heater for cycling up in freezing conditions. TIRED: Too little processing given the amount of buck. Near three grand price tag? Seriously? No option for a solid state drive?! Recessed USB and headphone jacks are a hassle to plug into. Tinny speaker is more of an afterthought. Lose the stylus and you're S.O.L. Looks that only a FedEx driver could love. Price/maker: $2,880 as tested, GeTac Read our full GeTac E-100 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Most of the new mini-laptops look like toys, educational tools or lab experiments in miniaturization, but the MSI Wind is an actual PC. Packing the latest 1.6-GHz Atom processor and a roomy 80-GB drive, the Wind boasts some legit PC cred. Yes, your iPod probably has more drive space, but 80 gigs was plenty not so long ago, and it's not like you're going to be producing HD video on this thing; it's more of an internet lapdog than a laptop. The 10-inch widescreen can display most fixed-width webpages comfortably, and its keyboard is large enough to house decent-size keys so you can type easily without resorting to Homer's dialing wand. While even some larger laptops are short on ports, the Wind finds room for three USBs, an SD slot and a display connector (take note, MacBook Air!). Of course, it's not perfect. We would have loved to see a DVD burner included, and with all its ports, a mini FireWire would be welcome. Also, don't expect high-end performance from the unit or hearty battery life from its slim, three-cell battery. But if you want a cheap and tiny companion for uploading pictures during a Malaysian jungle trek, or just a little buddy to hang out with you on the couch for IMDB searches, it's pretty hard to be against the Wind. WIRED: Grown-up looks (as opposed to "I want to sit at the big kids' table" found in other netbooks). Full keyboard and the largest screen among mini-notes. Plenty of ports to plug away at. 2.3-pound weight and rounded edges make it simple to pack and lug. TIRED: Lack of a DVD is understandable, but it still makes us cry a little. Hard drive sometimes makes mysterious swallowing sounds. Two-hour battery life is OK, but three would be better. $500, MSI Mobile Photo: Jon Snyder/ Wired.com Read our full MSI Wind U100 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Behold, the new Eee Box! Like the rest of the Eee bloodline, these varicolored desktop boxes are small, cheap and adorable (think AppleTV or Mac Mini). Intel's 1.6-GHz Atom processor, up to 2 GBs of memory, four USB ports, an SD card slot, 802.11n and Bluetooth are plenty for the Eee Box to hit that elusive "good enough" mark with aplomb. Once again, you'll get your choice of running either Linux or Windows XP. Then there's the size. While it does have a slightly larger overall footprint, it's much trimmer than the Mac Mini. Not only will this elegant 8.5 x 7 x 1-inch box fit anywhere, but you also have the choice of mounting it directly to the back of any extra monitor you happen to have lying around. To be clear, the Eee Box is not for sweaty frag fests or heavy-duty HD video decoding. But if you have a hankering for a killer kitchen PC or just an über-cheap second or third home PC that runs Linux or XP, it simply can't be beat. WIRED: Small, lightweight and cuter than a bowlful of kittens. More than enough processing power for everyday computing. Cheaper than an ounce of Da Kine bud. The option of running Splashtop for preboot access to Skype, web browsing and IM clients. TIRED: Where's the optical drive? No HDMI output, which actually doesn't matter much because there's also no hardware to decode acceleration. By itself, the Atom processor can barely handle 720p H.264 streams, dashing our hopes of this being the ultimate home-streaming box. $300 as tested, Asus Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Read our full Asus Eee Box review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Iomega's own $190 solution for a filled DVR is a 500-GB drive that plays nice with two DVRs in particular: Scientific Atlanta's 80-GB standard definition 8300 and the more recent 160-GB 8300-HD model. We tested the drive out on the latter model and found it more or less did what it promised. It even worked with a neighbor's Series 3 TiVo, which (to its credit) is known for being something of an eSATA slut. Setup in both instances was quick and painless, and involved simply turning off the DVR, plugging in the Iomega drive, and then turning everything back on again. Voila, no more having to choose between Emmanuelle: The Art of Love and the latest episode of Mad Men. WIRED: Reasonably priced. Your grandmother could probably set it up. Instantly adds an additional 300 hours of SD TV, or 60 hours of HD content. TIRED: Only one way to connect the drive to a DVR (that would be eSATA). Limited compatibility, although Iomega claims the drive will work with future SA eSATA-enabled DVRs. No way of controlling what gets stored on the expander drive and what gets stored on the DVR. Transporting DVR'd content to your computer is verboten, and plugging the drive into a computer will automatically reformat it. $190, Iomega Read our full Iomega DVR Expander Drive review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : The Samsung U900, aka Soul, aka Magical Touch, doesn't really have any supernatural abilities. What it does have is a tiny, touch-sensitive OLED nav-pad that is one of the coolest, most efficient touch interfaces we've seen on a handset. The small display (situated below the main 2.2-inch QVGA screen) features icons that morph based on whatever application is currently on the screen. Switch to camera mode and controls for snapping pictures. Toggle to the music player and buttons for fast-forward, rewind, pause and play pop up. The big selling point is the phone's pocketability. The picture quality and dynamic range could be better (LED flash, we're talking about you), but at 0.5-inches thick and 7 ounces, this slider is more svelte than just about every 5-MP cam we've tested. Ultimately, our biggest complaint is that you cannot use the camera without sliding open the phone first. This design protects the lens from dust bunnies and pocket grime, yes, but shooting with a fully open device was a tad awkward at times. WIRED: External microSD slot makes it a cinch to swap cards on the fly. Bluetooth (+A2DP). Competent image-editing suite. Video editor allows you to layer additional audio tracks. Decent facial detection. Haptic feedback can be tweaked to three different levels of intensity or switched-off entirely. TIRED: Bundled proprietary ear buds sound duller than Ben Stein. No Xenon flash. No GPS. No WiFi. Lower-res video clips. Proprietary headphone jack positioned on the side = hard to pocket when phones are plugged in. Noticeable screen glare when outdoors. $400, Samsung Photo: Issac Brekken/Wired.com Read our full Samsung SGH-U900 Soul "Magical Touch" review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : The biggest selling point of the new Sidekick is supposed to be the customizable "skins" you can order to replace the solid-color ones (we opted for jet black). But apart from flashy aesthetics, the pocket-friendly 2008 is 0.4-inches shorter and 0.9-ounces lighter than the pricier LX. It also packs features that were sorely missed with the tragically minimalist iD. Most notably, a 2.0-megapixel camera that can also capture video clips (albeit crappy ones). Though the 2.6-inch WQVGA swivel screen?s received a slight -- and necessary -- boost in pixels (400 x 240), the resolution?s still not fantastic. And neither is Bluetooth. We found data transfers not only paused the media player (annoying), but afterward, we had to go back and manually un-pause whatever track was playing (doubly annoying). For the price, though the 2008 is a solid option compared to the LX -- but only if you live and die by instant messaging and you don't mind being seen with Paris Hilton's device of choice in public. WIRED: Spacious, comfy QWERTY. 3.5-mm headphone jack. Surprisingly loud, radically clear music player. Wide screen excellent for web browsing. Solid battery life. Quick video recording/sharing. Comes with two skins (we got black and iridescent lime). Bluetooth with A2DP (great to have, even if it does disrupt tunes). TIRED: Screen retains more fingerprints than the Feds. No flash. No WiFi. Mike captures poor sound when recording video. Only 20-second video clips. Only 512-MB microSD card included. Apps are mostly in the $2.99+ range (except for the janky free Calculator). No 3-G. Price/maker: $150 (with 2-year contract), T-Mobile Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Read our full Sidekick review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : Cyclists know it's plum foolish to roll around on two wheels sans helmet, but it can be just as dangerous to bike about at night without a light. A good headlight affixed to your handlebars is just the thing to help cut through the murk and get you to your destination safely. Here we pit two of the top dogs on the market against each other and see which comes out on top. ?Eric Smillie Planet Bike Blaze This one-watt LED cannon goes the extra mile, and we don't just mean it shoots light a ridiculous distance. Due in no small part to its particularly aggressive blinking mode, accurately called superflash, it didn?t just help us catch drivers' attentions; it had them anxiously craning their necks to check whether we were trying to pull them over. Drawing on only two AA batteries, this baby cuts down on weight but its CREE XR-E diode, coupled with a specially engineered Fraen lens, still pumps out the brightest light of all the lamps we tested -- enough to bounce off signs, license plates, and other reflective materials up to four blocks away, giving us plenty of time to make an impression. All we have to worry about now is whether some cop-hating, GTA IV-overdosing motorist trying to run us down. WIRED: Recessed switch only works if pressed firmly, which means it won?t turn on in your bag while you jostle your way to the bar, leaving you in the dark at closing time. Planet Bike spends 25 percent of its profits on bike advocacy. TIRED: The brightness and reduced weight come at a price: 20 hours of battery life in blinking mode, and only seven on high. Though it installs without the use of a tool, the handlebar bracket is tricky to tighten and slips easily. $50, Planet Bike Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : While not the sharpest bulb on our handlebars, the WhiteLite HP AA is in it for the long haul. Don?t get us wrong -- just like other 1-watt LED headlamps, this portable, all-in one lamp is more than a glorified blinky. When engineering this light, Topeak got all snippy, cutting the cords to one of its external power-pack lights and reengineered it to accept three AA batteries. Its widely diffused beam covers plenty of surface area and earned our trust by helping us dodge nasty potholes and tree roots on unlit paths. But where this guy really shines is in perseverance, by lasting 30 hours on high and a whopping 120 on flash. WIRED: The mounting bracket screws tight with a finger knob and adjusts five degrees left and right to get a straight aim even on angled handlebars, although it does require an Allen key to tighten. Little red LED signals when batteries are low. TIRED: Blinks come slowly and lack urgency in flashing mode. Pushing the rear on/off push button can rotate the mount and mess up the light angle. Sound like a small problem? It won't be when you look up just in time to face plant into the bumper of a lifted pickup. $60, Topeak Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily. : The E71 looks more like a Blackberry Killer, but don?t be fooled: This great white hope gives the iPhone a run for its money in a lot of different areas (yes, really). Despite its obvious lack of an oversize touchscreen interface, Nokia wins points for a remarkably trim profile (10mm vs. 12.3mm), decent 3.2-megapixel camera (instead of 2.0), and the fact it's not tied to any carrier (yet). Setting up Nokia's Mail for Exchange program required no IT help or time. QuickOffice let us create, edit and send Word/Excel/PowerPoint files on the fly while we browsed PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Reader. The E71 is stocked with enough apps and goodies to keep even the most overworked road warrior on the ball, but it didn't feel too "business" due to two separate customizable home screens. One is designed to house all of your work apps while the other is geared more toward entertainment with programs for audio, video and gaming. The phone's 2.36-inch, 320 x 240 QVGA display is only slightly smaller than the iPod classic's, and though the resolution can't top the iPhone's, with 15 fps, the E71 is still solid for YouTube clips. Oh, and did we mention the E71's got battery life for days? Yes, literally, three of them. WIRED: Up to 8 GB in an easy-to-access, external microSD slot. Quick and seamless OS. GPS, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth (you name it, it's basically got it). Vivid screen (even in direct sunlight). Textured stainless steel backing prevents slippage. Relatively lightweight (127 grams = six grams lighter than iPhone). Hit any letter on the QWERTY pad and predictive text calls up that section of your address book. TIRED: No standard 3.5-mm headphone jack. 3.2-megapixel camera's optics could be better. LED flash could be way better. N-Gage gaming platform not available. Screen's wide, but not wide enough to do a feature-length film justice. For $500, you could get two 8-GB, 3-G JesusPhones (with $100 left over to put toward AT&T's data plan). $500 (unlocked), Nokia Photo: Max Buck/Wired.com Read our full Nokia E71 review. Check Wired.com's latest Gadget Lab reviews, updated daily.
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]]> News > Breaking News {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - Conservative echo chamber pushes story about Obama's brother, despite brother's reported refutation http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/conservative-echo-chamber-pushes-story-about-obama-20080863539.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/conservative-echo-chamber-pushes-story-about-obama-20080863539.htm Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:58:01 GMT In an August 20 article, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported that the Italian edition of Vanity Fair quoted Sen. Barack Obama's half brother George Obama as saying, "No one knows who I am...I live here [near Nairobi] on less than a dollar a month." Several conservative media figures have recently called attention to the reported quote and suggested Barack Obama is neglecting his half brother. However, these media figures, including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Wes Pruden, and Steve Doocy, have all disregarded subsequent reports, including one in the British newspaper the Times, which quoted George Obama saying: "They say I live on a dollar a month, but this is all lies by people who don't want my brother to win." Further, George Obama said on the August 22 edition of CNN's The Situation Room: "I was brought up well. I live well even now. The magazines, they exaggerated everything." Since the Telegraph article was published and linked to on August 20 by Internet gossip Matt Drudge, several conservative media figures have called attention to George Obama's reported quote: On the August 22 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh claimed: "We found out the other day that Obama -- and [ABC News senior national correspondent] Jake Tapper, by the way, has done some research into Obama's family tree, and so far he's been able to count eight half siblings of Obama. One of them was George Hussein Obama, found in a hut in Kenya, outside Nairobi. And we found that old George Hussein Obama living on less than $1 a month." Limbaugh continued, asking: "How come Barry can't send his half brother a $20 bill and almost double the guy's annual income?" On the August 22 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Sean Hannity said: "Barack Obama's lost brother, George Hussein Anyango Obama, living in a hut in a ramshackle town on the outskirts of Nairobi, who is literally living there on less than a dollar a month." Hannity added: "Even though Obama met with him in 2006, you know, the guy is suffering. And if Obama -- charity doesn't begin at home with Obama, then I guess we've got to do something about it." During the August 25 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy stated: "Down in Texas, the GOP party now has a brand new Web video out -- they have paid for it -- and what they're doing is they're using some information that they gleaned from the Italian Vanity Fair article that came out toward the end of last week regarding Barack Obama's half brother, who lives on a dollar a month just outside of Nairobi." After co-host Gretchen Carlson responded by stating that Obama's half brother lives "[i]n a shack," Fox & Friends aired the ad, produced by the Republican Party of Texas, which shows a picture of Obama's half brother while the narrator asks, "If Obama cares so much about your family, why doesn't he take care of his family first?" On the August 25 edition of the syndicated radio program The War Room with Quinn & Rose, co-host Rose Tennent repeated the Vanity Fair quote, and then said: "I'm going to talk to Vanity Fair, get George Hussein Obama's address. I will send him the same amount that I'm sending that family, also in Africa and Ethiopia -- I will send to George Hussein and I will -- and then -- and get him out of that shack. I'll send him less than $500 a year, and his standard of living will increase like you have never seen before." In response, co-host Jim Quinn asked: "Why can't Barack pull 20 bucks out of his pocket?" In his August 26 Washington Times column, Wesley Pruden wrote: "There's the story now afloat that an Obama half brother is living in grim poverty in Kenya, scratching out a bare living on a dollar a month while the senator lives in luxury on $5 million a year." These media figures did not mention that in an August 22 article, the British newspaper the Times reported: George, 26, had been living a quiet life, studying to become a car mechanic until earlier this week when Vanity Fair tracked him down to Huruma, on the edge of Nairobi. He said that he was furious at subsequent reports that he had been abandoned by the Obama family and that he was filled with shame about living in a slum. "It seems there are people who want to destroy me and my family," he said. "They say I live on a dollar a month, but this is all lies by people who don't want my brother to win." He said that he was supported by his mother, Jael, who now lives in the US, and by a cousin in Huruma. Nor did they mention the following report on the August 22 edition of CNN's The Situation Room: WOLF BLITZER (host): Barack Obama has written and spoken about his relationship with his Kenyan father and his family there, but little has been said about one of the candidate's closest relatives, who lives in a Nairobi slum. CNN's David McKenzie sat down with him in his first television interview. [...] DAVID McKENZIE (CNN correspondent): Some of the neighbors feel that perhaps the candidate Obama should help the brother Obama. EMELDA MARGRETTE NEGEI (George Obama's neighbor): I'd like Obama to visit his brother, to see how he's living, to improve our way of life. See the place he's living. He'll have to come and change the place. McKENZIE: George bristles at the thought. Recent magazine articles, claiming that he is impoverished and desperate, just don't sit well. GEORGE OBAMA: I was brought up well. I live well even now. The magazines, they exaggerated everything. I think I kind of like it here. I'm Kenyan, so definitely I'd really love to live in Kenya. From the August 22 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: LIMBAUGH: But here's -- here's a way of looking at it. We found out the other day that Obama -- and Jake Tapper, by the way, has done some research into Obama's family tree, and so far he's been able to count eight half siblings of Obama. One of them was George Hussein Obama, found in a hut in Kenya, outside Nairobi. And we found that old George Hussein Obama living on less than $1 a month. We also found out that one of [Sen. John] McCain's houses, a condo, is one that they provide for an elderly aunt of Mrs. McCain's. How come Barry can't send his half brother a $20 bill and almost double the guy's annual income? Well, a $20 bill would almost double his brother's annual income, and McCain said to be so out of touch with the common man, he's using one of his houses to house an elderly aunt. From the August 22 broadcast of ABC Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show: HANNITY: Now, you know, we spent a lot of time yesterday on the Rezko hypocrisy. If they want to make housing an issue and the fact -- by the way, it appears that John McCain and his wife, Cindy, use these houses for their family. They actually take care of their family. Which leads us to what we discussed at length yesterday, and that is Barack Obama's lost brother, George Hussein Anyango Obama, living in a hut in a ramshackle town on the outskirts of Nairobi, who is literally living there on less than a dollar a month. Now, I can't get anybody from the Obama camp to give me an address so I can send this man some money. Even though Obama met with him in 2006, you know, the guy is suffering. And if Obama -- charity doesn't begin at home with Obama, then I guess we've got to do something about it. From the August 25 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends: DOOCY: Down in Texas, the GOP party now has a brand new Web video out -- they have paid for it -- and what they're doing is they're using some information that they gleaned from the Italian Vanity Fair article that came out toward the end of last week regarding Barack Obama's half brother, who lives on a dollar a month just outside of Nairobi. CARLSON: In a shack. DOOCY: Yeah. CARLSON: In a shack. He's met his -- he's met Barack Obama twice. Let's watch. [begin video clip] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Barack Obama has viciously attacked John McCain and his family for being successful and living the American Dream. This, even after McCain gave so much for his country. Obama claims he's looking out for our families in an economic downturn. But ask yourself this: if Obama cares so much about your family, why doesn't he take care of his own family first? Barack Obama lives in this house, wants to live in this house, while his own brother lives in this one. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Paid for by the Republican Party of Texas and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. [end video clip] BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): All right, so we don't know how the McCain camp feels about that but we do know this, John McCain went on a day vacation right after he was not able to answer the question how many homes he had. Joe Biden mentioned how many homes he had, how many kitchen tables he could sit at. Everyone's having fun with it, Bob Beckel talked about it all day. Well, John McCain answered that question when Katie Couric asked him about how many homes he had and why he couldn't answer. Here it is. McCAIN [video clip]: We spend our time primarily in Washington, D.C., where I have a condominium in Crystal City [in Arlington, Virginia]; here in this beautiful Sedona that I am blessed every moment that I can spend here; our condominium in Phoenix, Arizona; and a place over in San Diego. The others are also for investment purposes. So all I can say is I am blessed to have the opportunity to continue to be part of a country where you can succeed and do well. DOOCY: So he's the embodiment of the American Dream. KILMEADE: Right. CARLSON: The thing I glean from this is that this getting nasty, folks. DOOCY: Yeah. CARLSON: This is getting nasty. If we go back to that Texas ad where they're bringing up the half brother now who lives in Nairobi. DOOCY: On a buck a month. CARLSON: That's -- it's getting nasty because the minute you bring up the whole house problem, then you can talk about Rezko with Barack Obama, you can talk about his half brother living in Nairobi. Without a doubt, though, that was a gaffe for McCain talking about his homes. KILMEADE: Well, it is. The others are investment properties. And the other thing is, I let Bob Beckel -- Bob Beckel says to me yesterday, "Have you seen John -- has John McCain commented yet on the homes thing?" I said, "Yeah." I showed him on my Blackberry and I showed him that verbatim. He said, "That's a good enough answer." DOOCY: Yeah. Well, it's very complicated because -- KILMEADE: Does it stop the storyline now? DOOCY: -- John McCain's wife is really rich, and because, you know, they keep -- they file separate income tax and all that stuff, so he does not know exactly what his wife's investments are, and it was all lined up in the -- I think it was The New York Times on Saturday. It's complicated. From the August 25 edition of Clear Channel's The War Room with Quinn & Rose: TENNENT: You know, he [Obama] quotes Matthew and he says, whatever you do to the least of these or how -- whatever you neglected to give unto one of these, the least of these, you neglected to do to me. Let me ask you a question, Barack Obama. Your brother, George Hussein Obama, who exists on a dollar a day, we found out, in a tiny little shack -- not even a hut, but a shack -- QUINN: Oh, it's worse -- TENNENT: -- in Nairobi, Africa -- would you consider him, George Hussein Obama, your brother, one of the least of these? QUINN: Oh, it's worse than you just said. TENNENT: Well, I know, and I've got that story, but that's not my point. My point is that you're talking about whatever you do to the least of these -- Barack Obama, would you consider your brother, George Hussein Obama, the least of these? The man is living on a dollar a day in Nairobi, Africa. Here's the story, I'll read the story, you wanna hear how bad it is. This is from the Italian edition of Vanity Fair and it said that they found George Hussein Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town on the outskirts of Nairobi. This Mr. Obama is 26 years old, he's the youngest of the presidential candidate's half brothers who spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender. Indeed, it couldn't be more different. His brother, George Hussein Obama, says, "no one knows who I am. I live here on less than a dollar a month." And according to Italy's Vanity Fair, his two-meter by three-meter shack is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants Milan and also as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world. That poor little guy is probably sitting in there thinking, "Someday I'd like to see one of those beautiful beaches. But, right now I'm stuck in this -- this tiny little wood shack, no roof over it." It's just different pieces of wood and aluminum pounded together for some protection from the elements. Anyway, Vanity Fair also noted that he had a front-page newspaper picture of his famous brother born of the same father, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael. But he told the magazine, "I live like a recluse. No one knows I exist." So he says that, "if anyone says anything to me about my surname, I say we are not related; I am ashamed." For 10 years, George Obama lived rough. However, he now hopes to try to sort out his life by starting a course at a local technical college. He's only met his famous older brother twice. Once when he was five and the last time in 2006 when Obama was on tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi. And also, Obama mentions his brother in his autobiography, describing him in just one passing paragraph as "a beautiful boy with a rounded head." What the hell does that mean? QUINN: Yeah, and -- TENNENT: A beautiful boy with a rounded head. QUINN: And an income of just $12 a year. Now -- TENNENT: Now, here -- I want to tell you something. There's a little family in Africa, in Ethiopia, Africa, not Nairobi, but Ethiopia. And they have a couple of children, and the little girl touched my heart, so I give her $26 a month. That $26 a month goes to school supplies, it gets her into a school, clothes for school. They asked me the other -- about a month ago, "Would you consider helping her brother?" And I said, "Sure, put him on." So, now it's, what, $52 a month. Fifty-two dollars a month I spend to make sure someone is having -- gets a chance, gets a chance to get out of where they are and make something out of themselves. And one year I bought them a cow for the family for Christmas. And the next year you joined me and bought me some ducks -- we bought them ducks and hens to lay eggs. And now this family, on less than what, $400, $500 a year from me -- QUINN: Something like that, yeah. TENNENT: -- OK, is living high on the hog in Africa. So, here's what I'm suggesting. I will -- if they said -- I'm going to talk to Vanity Fair, get George Hussein Obama's address. I will send him the same amount that I'm sending that family, also in Africa and Ethiopia -- I will send to George Hussein and I will -- and then -- and get him out of that shack. I'll send him less than $500 a year and his standard of living will increase like you have never seen before. QUINN: Why can't Barack pull 20 bucks out of his pocket? TENNENT: Why, indeed. What the heck is that all about? So don't -- you know, don't you tell me that as a nation we have failed because we don't live by Matthew. Mediamatters.Org Conservative echo chamber pushes story about Obama's brother, despite brother's reported refutation {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - In an August 20 article, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported that the Italian edition of Vanity Fair quoted Sen. Barack Obama's half brother George Obama as saying, "No one knows who I am...I live here [near Nairobi] on less than a dollar a month." Several conservative media figures have recently called attention to the reported quote and suggested Barack Obama is neglecting his half brother. However, these media figures, including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Wes Pruden, and Steve Doocy, have all disregarded subsequent reports, including one in the British newspaper the Times, which quoted George Obama saying: "They say I live on a dollar a month, but this is all lies by people who don't want my brother to win." Further, George Obama said on the August 22 edition of CNN's The Situation Room: "I was brought up well. I live well even now. The magazines, they exaggerated everything." Since the Telegraph article was published and linked to on August 20 by Internet gossip Matt Drudge, several conservative media figures have called attention to George Obama's reported quote: On the August 22 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh claimed: "We found out the other day that Obama -- and [ABC News senior national correspondent] Jake Tapper, by the way, has done some research into Obama's family tree, and so far he's been able to count eight half siblings of Obama. One of them was George Hussein Obama, found in a hut in Kenya, outside Nairobi. And we found that old George Hussein Obama living on less than $1 a month." Limbaugh continued, asking: "How come Barry can't send his half brother a $20 bill and almost double the guy's annual income?" On the August 22 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Sean Hannity said: "Barack Obama's lost brother, George Hussein Anyango Obama, living in a hut in a ramshackle town on the outskirts of Nairobi, who is literally living there on less than a dollar a month." Hannity added: "Even though Obama met with him in 2006, you know, the guy is suffering. And if Obama -- charity doesn't begin at home with Obama, then I guess we've got to do something about it." During the August 25 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy stated: "Down in Texas, the GOP party now has a brand new Web video out -- they have paid for it -- and what they're doing is they're using some information that they gleaned from the Italian Vanity Fair article that came out toward the end of last week regarding Barack Obama's half brother, who lives on a dollar a month just outside of Nairobi." After co-host Gretchen Carlson responded by stating that Obama's half brother lives "[i]n a shack," Fox & Friends aired the ad, produced by the Republican Party of Texas, which shows a picture of Obama's half brother while the narrator asks, "If Obama cares so much about your family, why doesn't he take care of his family first?" On the August 25 edition of the syndicated radio program The War Room with Quinn & Rose, co-host Rose Tennent repeated the Vanity Fair quote, and then said: "I'm going to talk to Vanity Fair, get George Hussein Obama's address. I will send him the same amount that I'm sending that family, also in Africa and Ethiopia -- I will send to George Hussein and I will -- and then -- and get him out of that shack. I'll send him less than $500 a year, and his standard of living will increase like you have never seen before." In response, co-host Jim Quinn asked: "Why can't Barack pull 20 bucks out of his pocket?" In his August 26 Washington Times column, Wesley Pruden wrote: "There's the story now afloat that an Obama half brother is living in grim poverty in Kenya, scratching out a bare living on a dollar a month while the senator lives in luxury on $5 million a year." These media figures did not mention that in an August 22 article, the British newspaper the Times reported: George, 26, had been living a quiet life, studying to become a car mechanic until earlier this week when Vanity Fair tracked him down to Huruma, on the edge of Nairobi. He said that he was furious at subsequent reports that he had been abandoned by the Obama family and that he was filled with shame about living in a slum. "It seems there are people who want to destroy me and my family," he said. "They say I live on a dollar a month, but this is all lies by people who don't want my brother to win." He said that he was supported by his mother, Jael, who now lives in the US, and by a cousin in Huruma. Nor did they mention the following report on the August 22 edition of CNN's The Situation Room: WOLF BLITZER (host): Barack Obama has written and spoken about his relationship with his Kenyan father and his family there, but little has been said about one of the candidate's closest relatives, who lives in a Nairobi slum. CNN's David McKenzie sat down with him in his first television interview. [...] DAVID McKENZIE (CNN correspondent): Some of the neighbors feel that perhaps the candidate Obama should help the brother Obama. EMELDA MARGRETTE NEGEI (George Obama's neighbor): I'd like Obama to visit his brother, to see how he's living, to improve our way of life. See the place he's living. He'll have to come and change the place. McKENZIE: George bristles at the thought. Recent magazine articles, claiming that he is impoverished and desperate, just don't sit well. GEORGE OBAMA: I was brought up well. I live well even now. The magazines, they exaggerated everything. I think I kind of like it here. I'm Kenyan, so definitely I'd really love to live in Kenya. From the August 22 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: LIMBAUGH: But here's -- here's a way of looking at it. We found out the other day that Obama -- and Jake Tapper, by the way, has done some research into Obama's family tree, and so far he's been able to count eight half siblings of Obama. One of them was George Hussein Obama, found in a hut in Kenya, outside Nairobi. And we found that old George Hussein Obama living on less than $1 a month. We also found out that one of [Sen. John] McCain's houses, a condo, is one that they provide for an elderly aunt of Mrs. McCain's. How come Barry can't send his half brother a $20 bill and almost double the guy's annual income? Well, a $20 bill would almost double his brother's annual income, and McCain said to be so out of touch with the common man, he's using one of his houses to house an elderly aunt. From the August 22 broadcast of ABC Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show: HANNITY: Now, you know, we spent a lot of time yesterday on the Rezko hypocrisy. If they want to make housing an issue and the fact -- by the way, it appears that John McCain and his wife, Cindy, use these houses for their family. They actually take care of their family. Which leads us to what we discussed at length yesterday, and that is Barack Obama's lost brother, George Hussein Anyango Obama, living in a hut in a ramshackle town on the outskirts of Nairobi, who is literally living there on less than a dollar a month. Now, I can't get anybody from the Obama camp to give me an address so I can send this man some money. Even though Obama met with him in 2006, you know, the guy is suffering. And if Obama -- charity doesn't begin at home with Obama, then I guess we've got to do something about it. From the August 25 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends: DOOCY: Down in Texas, the GOP party now has a brand new Web video out -- they have paid for it -- and what they're doing is they're using some information that they gleaned from the Italian Vanity Fair article that came out toward the end of last week regarding Barack Obama's half brother, who lives on a dollar a month just outside of Nairobi. CARLSON: In a shack. DOOCY: Yeah. CARLSON: In a shack. He's met his -- he's met Barack Obama twice. Let's watch. [begin video clip] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Barack Obama has viciously attacked John McCain and his family for being successful and living the American Dream. This, even after McCain gave so much for his country. Obama claims he's looking out for our families in an economic downturn. But ask yourself this: if Obama cares so much about your family, why doesn't he take care of his own family first? Barack Obama lives in this house, wants to live in this house, while his own brother lives in this one. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Paid for by the Republican Party of Texas and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. [end video clip] BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): All right, so we don't know how the McCain camp feels about that but we do know this, John McCain went on a day vacation right after he was not able to answer the question how many homes he had. Joe Biden mentioned how many homes he had, how many kitchen tables he could sit at. Everyone's having fun with it, Bob Beckel talked about it all day. Well, John McCain answered that question when Katie Couric asked him about how many homes he had and why he couldn't answer. Here it is. McCAIN [video clip]: We spend our time primarily in Washington, D.C., where I have a condominium in Crystal City [in Arlington, Virginia]; here in this beautiful Sedona that I am blessed every moment that I can spend here; our condominium in Phoenix, Arizona; and a place over in San Diego. The others are also for investment purposes. So all I can say is I am blessed to have the opportunity to continue to be part of a country where you can succeed and do well. DOOCY: So he's the embodiment of the American Dream. KILMEADE: Right. CARLSON: The thing I glean from this is that this getting nasty, folks. DOOCY: Yeah. CARLSON: This is getting nasty. If we go back to that Texas ad where they're bringing up the half brother now who lives in Nairobi. DOOCY: On a buck a month. CARLSON: That's -- it's getting nasty because the minute you bring up the whole house problem, then you can talk about Rezko with Barack Obama, you can talk about his half brother living in Nairobi. Without a doubt, though, that was a gaffe for McCain talking about his homes. KILMEADE: Well, it is. The others are investment properties. And the other thing is, I let Bob Beckel -- Bob Beckel says to me yesterday, "Have you seen John -- has John McCain commented yet on the homes thing?" I said, "Yeah." I showed him on my Blackberry and I showed him that verbatim. He said, "That's a good enough answer." DOOCY: Yeah. Well, it's very complicated because -- KILMEADE: Does it stop the storyline now? DOOCY: -- John McCain's wife is really rich, and because, you know, they keep -- they file separate income tax and all that stuff, so he does not know exactly what his wife's investments are, and it was all lined up in the -- I think it was The New York Times on Saturday. It's complicated. From the August 25 edition of Clear Channel's The War Room with Quinn & Rose: TENNENT: You know, he [Obama] quotes Matthew and he says, whatever you do to the least of these or how -- whatever you neglected to give unto one of these, the least of these, you neglected to do to me. Let me ask you a question, Barack Obama. Your brother, George Hussein Obama, who exists on a dollar a day, we found out, in a tiny little shack -- not even a hut, but a shack -- QUINN: Oh, it's worse -- TENNENT: -- in Nairobi, Africa -- would you consider him, George Hussein Obama, your brother, one of the least of these? QUINN: Oh, it's worse than you just said. TENNENT: Well, I know, and I've got that story, but that's not my point. My point is that you're talking about whatever you do to the least of these -- Barack Obama, would you consider your brother, George Hussein Obama, the least of these? The man is living on a dollar a day in Nairobi, Africa. Here's the story, I'll read the story, you wanna hear how bad it is. This is from the Italian edition of Vanity Fair and it said that they found George Hussein Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town on the outskirts of Nairobi. This Mr. Obama is 26 years old, he's the youngest of the presidential candidate's half brothers who spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender. Indeed, it couldn't be more different. His brother, George Hussein Obama, says, "no one knows who I am. I live here on less than a dollar a month." And according to Italy's Vanity Fair, his two-meter by three-meter shack is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants Milan and also as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world. That poor little guy is probably sitting in there thinking, "Someday I'd like to see one of those beautiful beaches. But, right now I'm stuck in this -- this tiny little wood shack, no roof over it." It's just different pieces of wood and aluminum pounded together for some protection from the elements. Anyway, Vanity Fair also noted that he had a front-page newspaper picture of his famous brother born of the same father, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael. But he told the magazine, "I live like a recluse. No one knows I exist." So he says that, "if anyone says anything to me about my surname, I say we are not related; I am ashamed." For 10 years, George Obama lived rough. However, he now hopes to try to sort out his life by starting a course at a local technical college. He's only met his famous older brother twice. Once when he was five and the last time in 2006 when Obama was on tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi. And also, Obama mentions his brother in his autobiography, describing him in just one passing paragraph as "a beautiful boy with a rounded head." What the hell does that mean? QUINN: Yeah, and -- TENNENT: A beautiful boy with a rounded head. QUINN: And an income of just $12 a year. Now -- TENNENT: Now, here -- I want to tell you something. There's a little family in Africa, in Ethiopia, Africa, not Nairobi, but Ethiopia. And they have a couple of children, and the little girl touched my heart, so I give her $26 a month. That $26 a month goes to school supplies, it gets her into a school, clothes for school. They asked me the other -- about a month ago, "Would you consider helping her brother?" And I said, "Sure, put him on." So, now it's, what, $52 a month. Fifty-two dollars a month I spend to make sure someone is having -- gets a chance, gets a chance to get out of where they are and make something out of themselves. And one year I bought them a cow for the family for Christmas. And the next year you joined me and bought me some ducks -- we bought them ducks and hens to lay eggs. And now this family, on less than what, $400, $500 a year from me -- QUINN: Something like that, yeah. TENNENT: -- OK, is living high on the hog in Africa. So, here's what I'm suggesting. I will -- if they said -- I'm going to talk to Vanity Fair, get George Hussein Obama's address. I will send him the same amount that I'm sending that family, also in Africa and Ethiopia -- I will send to George Hussein and I will -- and then -- and get him out of that shack. I'll send him less than $500 a year and his standard of living will increase like you have never seen before. QUINN: Why can't Barack pull 20 bucks out of his pocket? TENNENT: Why, indeed. What the heck is that all about? So don't -- you know, don't you tell me that as a nation we have failed because we don't live by Matthew.
Media Matters - Conservative echo chamber pushes story about Obama's brother, despite brother's reported refutation {...} Numerous conservative media figures have promoted a story in the Italian edition of Vanity Fair that reportedly quoted Sen. Barack Obama's half brother George Obama as saying that he lives "on less than a dollar a month," but have disregarded reports that quoted George Obama saying, "They say I live on a dollar a month, but this is all lies by people who don't want my brother to win," and, "The magazines, they exaggerated everything." {...}
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]]> Society > Issues > Business > Media > Bias and Balance {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - CBC's Danny Michel releases tracks from new album for remix http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/cbc-s-danny-michel-releases-tracks-from-new-album-20080827311.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/cbc-s-danny-michel-releases-tracks-from-new-album-20080827311.htm Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:43:54 GMT Chris sez, "Canadian indie artist, and co-host of the CBC radio show Under The Covers, Danny Michel has made the individual tracks from his most recent album available on the web. The raw tracks are provided in a number of formats, ranging from relatively low quality MP3s, up to CD quality WAV files. Danny invites his audience to do their own remixes of the tunes from the album." Danny Michel ?Feather, Fur & Fin? Remix (Thanks, Chris!)... Boingboing.Net CBC's Danny Michel releases tracks from new album for remix {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - Chris sez, "Canadian indie artist, and co-host of the CBC radio show Under The Covers, Danny Michel has made the individual tracks from his most recent album available on the web. The raw tracks are provided in a number of formats, ranging from relatively low quality MP3s, up to CD quality WAV files. Danny invites his audience to do their own remixes of the tunes from the album." Danny Michel ?Feather, Fur & Fin? Remix (Thanks, Chris!)...
CBC's Danny Michel releases tracks from new album for remix - Boing Boing {...}
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Category: Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk

]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - 2 rooms available to share in apartment, Looking for Early 20s females (santa clara) $750 http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/2-rooms-available-to-share-in-apartment-looking-20080852914.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/2-rooms-available-to-share-in-apartment-looking-20080852914.htm Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:00:58 GMT I'm looking for 2 female roommates in their early 20s to share a great 3bd/2ba apartment! The complex is Marina Playa: http://www.marinaplaya.com/ (Catalina floorplan) near El Camino and Lawrence. The complex has 2 pools, gym, tennis courts and clubhouse. There is an in-unit washer and dryer, and a huge flat-screen tv that comes in every apartment! I am taking the master bedroom for $850. The two rooms available are $750, both similar size and share a bathroom. I haven't signed a lease yet, I'd be more comfortable with all 3 roommates present, so you should be able to commit to a year. Attached are photos from the complex website as the specific 3bd/2ba unit isn't available for move-in until September 17th. If you want to visit the complex, they have other units to show to get a feel of what the interiors and appliances will look like. Potential roommates: Fun and outgoing, responsible and clean. We don't all have to be best friends, but I would love to share a meal, go to the movies or enjoy a night out together. With that being said, I don't want a person who just needs a place to sleep. Don't mind if you smoke, as long as it's outside. I'm good with drinking...host a few wine parties maybe? :) I'm also comfortable with overnight guests as long as they don't become a 4th roomie. It would also be great if you have furniture since I don't have any, but it's no biggie. About me: 21 female web producer. I graduated in December from a college in the Midwest. I'm new to the area, so I love meeting new people. My interests include traveling, baking/cooking, staying active, and exploring the nightlife. I work hard on the weekdays, but I'm up for anything on the weekends. I'm really easy to live with and drama-free. If you're interested, shoot me an e-mail telling me a little bit about yourself, your interests and lifestyle. Thanks! Sfbay.Craigslist.Org 2 rooms available to share in apartment, Looking for Early 20s females (santa clara) $750 {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - I'm looking for 2 female roommates in their early 20s to share a great 3bd/2ba apartment! The complex is Marina Playa: http://www.marinaplaya.com/ (Catalina floorplan) near El Camino and Lawrence. The complex has 2 pools, gym, tennis courts and clubhouse. There is an in-unit washer and dryer, and a huge flat-screen tv that comes in every apartment! I am taking the master bedroom for $850. The two rooms available are $750, both similar size and share a bathroom. I haven't signed a lease yet, I'd be more comfortable with all 3 roommates present, so you should be able to commit to a year. Attached are photos from the complex website as the specific 3bd/2ba unit isn't available for move-in until September 17th. If you want to visit the complex, they have other units to show to get a feel of what the interiors and appliances will look like. Potential roommates: Fun and outgoing, responsible and clean. We don't all have to be best friends, but I would love to share a meal, go to the movies or enjoy a night out together. With that being said, I don't want a person who just needs a place to sleep. Don't mind if you smoke, as long as it's outside. I'm good with drinking...host a few wine parties maybe? :) I'm also comfortable with overnight guests as long as they don't become a 4th roomie. It would also be great if you have furniture since I don't have any, but it's no biggie. About me: 21 female web producer. I graduated in December from a college in the Midwest. I'm new to the area, so I love meeting new people. My interests include traveling, baking/cooking, staying active, and exploring the nightlife. I work hard on the weekdays, but I'm up for anything on the weekends. I'm really easy to live with and drama-free. If you're interested, shoot me an e-mail telling me a little bit about yourself, your interests and lifestyle. Thanks!
2 rooms available to share in apartment, Looking for Early 20s females {...}
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Category: Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals

]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - Corsi's previous appearance on "pro-White" radio show was streamed live on "White Nationalist" Stormfront.org http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/corsi-s-previous-appearance-on-pro-white-radio-show-20080829711.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/corsi-s-previous-appearance-on-pro-white-radio-show-20080829711.htm Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:11:14 GMT As Media Matters for America and the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch blog have noted, Obama Nation author Jerome Corsi is reportedly scheduled to appear on the August 17 edition of The Political Cesspool Radio Show. Corsi's previous appearance on the July 20 edition of The Political Cesspool -- during which he promoted The Obama Nation and criticized Sen. Barack Obama -- was streamed "Live" on the self-described "White Nationalist" and "White Pride" website Stormfront.org. Additionally, at several points during the July 20 broadcast prior to Corsi's appearance, host James Edwards and co-host Winston Smith expounded on their views on race. Edwards claimed that "most Jews ... regard[] Jews and whites as two different races," and Smith repeatedly referred to Obama as a "mulatto." According to its "Statement of Principles," The Political Cesspool Radio Show "represent[s] a philosophy that is pro-White." According to a Google cache snapshot of Stormfront.org "as it appeared on Jul 21, 2008 00:01:06 GMT," text under the headline "Stormfront Broadcast Radio" stated: "Live NOW: Political Cesspool BACK ON AIR! - Special two-hour show starting for Internet listeners! - James Edwards, Winston Smith, Eddie 'The Bombardier' Miller! Our featured guest is author and columnist Dr. Jerome Corsi." According to a June 10, 2004, forum post by "Sr. [forum] Moderator" Jamie Kelso, Edwards joined Stormfront.org in 2004 under the screen name "ElectEdwards." Kelso wrote: "Two of the marvelous speakers at the 2004 [European-American Unity and Leadership] New Orleans Conference, Bob Whitaker and James Edwards, registered their screen names since that event. Bob Whitaker is with us under the nom de screen of Bob Whitaker of whitakeronline and Tennessee's own James Edwards joins us as ElectEdwards." ElectEdwards has identified himself as "James Edwards" in several posts, and also stated that The Political Cesspool was his show in numerous posts. ElectEdwards has stated of Stormfront.org that he is a "proud" member and that "[w]hile I rarely have had the time to post on Stormfront, there is never a day that passes that I don't visit this site." After The Political Cesspool temporarily went off the air, Edwards wrote in a February 13 post on Political Cesspool's blog that "Stormfront Radio ... provided tremendous aid to the cultivation of our broadcast. We salute you." On April 4, Edwards wrote that The Political Cesspool "continues to live on in syndication with daily re-runs airing via Dixie Broadcasting Radio, Inc., Stormfront Radio and other networks." In a June 22 Washington Post article, staff writer Eli Saslow wrote that Obama's victory in the Democratic primary has "sparked an increase in racist and white supremacist activity, mainly on the Internet, according to leaders of hate groups and the organizations that track them" and cited Stormfront.org as "a central meeting place for the white power movement." Saslow also discussed Don Black, whom ElectEdwards described as giving him "support": Don Black spends 16 hours each day on his laptop computer reading hundreds of derogatory Obama comments posted on Stormfront.org, a Web site with the motto "white pride world wide." Black, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, launched the site in 1995 to create a central meeting place for the white power movement. In the wake of Obama's securing enough delegates for the nomination, Stormfront, he says, has begun to fulfill his vision. A site that drew a few thousand visitors per day in 2002 has expanded into Black's full-time job, attracting more than 40,000 unique users each day who can post on 54 different message boards, he said. Black has enlisted 40 moderators and his 19-year-old son to help run Stormfront. Posters on Stormfront complain that Obama represents the end of "white rule" and the beginning of "multiculturalism." They fear that he will promote affirmative action, support illegal immigration and help render whites, who make up two-thirds of the U.S. population, "the new minority." "I get nonstop e-mails and private message from new people who are mad as hell about the possibility of Obama being elected," said Black, a white power activist since the 1970s. "White people, for a long time, have thought of our government as being for us, and Obama is the best possible evidence that we've lost that. This is scaring a lot of people who maybe never considered themselves racists, and it's bringing them over to our side." The Google cache of Stormfront.org's website "as it appeared on Jul 21, 2008 00:01:06 GMT," taken on August 14 at 4 p.m. ET: Mediamatters.Org Corsi's previous appearance on "pro-White" radio show was streamed live on "White Nationalist" Stormfront.org {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - As Media Matters for America and the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch blog have noted, Obama Nation author Jerome Corsi is reportedly scheduled to appear on the August 17 edition of The Political Cesspool Radio Show. Corsi's previous appearance on the July 20 edition of The Political Cesspool -- during which he promoted The Obama Nation and criticized Sen. Barack Obama -- was streamed "Live" on the self-described "White Nationalist" and "White Pride" website Stormfront.org. Additionally, at several points during the July 20 broadcast prior to Corsi's appearance, host James Edwards and co-host Winston Smith expounded on their views on race. Edwards claimed that "most Jews ... regard[] Jews and whites as two different races," and Smith repeatedly referred to Obama as a "mulatto." According to its "Statement of Principles," The Political Cesspool Radio Show "represent[s] a philosophy that is pro-White." According to a Google cache snapshot of Stormfront.org "as it appeared on Jul 21, 2008 00:01:06 GMT," text under the headline "Stormfront Broadcast Radio" stated: "Live NOW: Political Cesspool BACK ON AIR! - Special two-hour show starting for Internet listeners! - James Edwards, Winston Smith, Eddie 'The Bombardier' Miller! Our featured guest is author and columnist Dr. Jerome Corsi." According to a June 10, 2004, forum post by "Sr. [forum] Moderator" Jamie Kelso, Edwards joined Stormfront.org in 2004 under the screen name "ElectEdwards." Kelso wrote: "Two of the marvelous speakers at the 2004 [European-American Unity and Leadership] New Orleans Conference, Bob Whitaker and James Edwards, registered their screen names since that event. Bob Whitaker is with us under the nom de screen of Bob Whitaker of whitakeronline and Tennessee's own James Edwards joins us as ElectEdwards." ElectEdwards has identified himself as "James Edwards" in several posts, and also stated that The Political Cesspool was his show in numerous posts. ElectEdwards has stated of Stormfront.org that he is a "proud" member and that "[w]hile I rarely have had the time to post on Stormfront, there is never a day that passes that I don't visit this site." After The Political Cesspool temporarily went off the air, Edwards wrote in a February 13 post on Political Cesspool's blog that "Stormfront Radio ... provided tremendous aid to the cultivation of our broadcast. We salute you." On April 4, Edwards wrote that The Political Cesspool "continues to live on in syndication with daily re-runs airing via Dixie Broadcasting Radio, Inc., Stormfront Radio and other networks." In a June 22 Washington Post article, staff writer Eli Saslow wrote that Obama's victory in the Democratic primary has "sparked an increase in racist and white supremacist activity, mainly on the Internet, according to leaders of hate groups and the organizations that track them" and cited Stormfront.org as "a central meeting place for the white power movement." Saslow also discussed Don Black, whom ElectEdwards described as giving him