Harry Potter fans, listen up: among other interesting items, this article tells us that JK Rowling finally has a website.
We hear the phrase "Potemkin village" thrown about a lot. Here's the derivation: "A Potemkin village is so called after Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who had elaborate fake villages built in order to impress Catherine the Great on her tours of the Ukraine and the Crimea in the 18th century."
This is going too far: Intel has built a surfboard with a wireless laptop embedded. Don't believe it? Click for images.
Posted by Linkmeister at June 17, 2004 10:24 AM