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Here are some interesting links from today:

• E-Passports Can Be Hacked and Cloned in Minutes
  Tests have concluded that new e-passports can be hacked within minutes. A researcher cloned the chips in 2 passports and then implanted images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. Both passports passed as genuine by UN approved passport readers.
• Google Search Provides Olympic Event Schedules Inline
  Find out when events in your favorite sport are going down in a single Google search: Simply enter the event name and “Olympics” into the Google search box to see upcoming dates and times, like tennis Olympics, or diving Olympics.
• SlingPlayer 2.0 beta goes public | Crave, the gadget blog – CNET
  The beta version of the SlingPlayer 2.0 software is now available for Windows users as a free download from Sling Media’s Web site. The software, which allows owners Slingbox products to access their TV programming via any broadband-connected PC…
• Watch the Olympics Online
  The 2008 Beijing Olympics will happen while most Americans are sleeping. While NBC will be providing thousands of hours of content on the web, the only way to truly ensure you won’t miss any action is to take advantage of the many video outlets online.

Despite being able to defeat The Joker, time and time again… Batman, like the rest of us, can’t win at the pumps.   You know it’s bad when Bruce Wayne can’t even afford to fill up his gas guzzler.

However, I hope he didn’t make a rash decision and did the proper calculations to determine if downsizing really makes sense in his case.  You can find out if trading in your gas guzzler is a smart move by using this calculator.

His new SMART Coupe doesn’t appear to carry nearly the same firepower as the Batmobile either.  Hope that doesn’t come back to bite him later.

For more Bataman humor check out this funny Dark Knight by kids trailor.

Photo Source: Rebecca via email (original source unknown)

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch thinks it can be a reality and he’s setting his sights on making it happen. I agree that it could be a great product if done correctly. However, I think it may be a while before decent components will be cheap enough to stay under the $200 goal.

I’m tired of waiting – I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500. Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel. It doesn’t exist today, and as far as we can tell no one is creating one. So let’s design it, build a few and then open source the specs so anyone can create them.

Check out the rest of what Michael has to say about it.

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• Hi-tech is turning us all into time-wasters
  the beeps notifying the arrival of email are said to be causing a 0.5 per cent drop in gross domestic product in the United States, costing the economy $70bn a year
• Computer mouse heading for extinction > News > PC Authority
  Are the Wii MotionPlus and iPhone examples of how we'll be using PCs in years to come? Experts say, the computer mouse is set to die out in the next five years and will be usurped by touch screens and facial recognition, analysts believe.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Is a Google Talk Contact Invisible?
  Sometimes error messages can reveal more than they were supposed to. Rahul Bansal writes about a simple trick that helps you find out if one of your Google Talk contacts is offline or uses the invisible mode. The trick takes advantage of Google's off the
• Tech Vloggers Are Phoning It In
  Cell phones created a big buzz in tech lately, and YouTube's tech vloggers have been working overtime to unbox, critique and compare the latest models.
• Has Blogging Lost Its Relational Focus?
  I’ve always kept an eye on my competitors in the past so that I could gain an advantage over them but bloggers seem to be doing something that is counter-intuitive to me yet it seems to benefit them at the same time. I wonder if you could write somethin
• Windows Vista tip of the week
  Oh, Windows. If there's one aspect of this operating system that's been a constant disappointment, it has to be its complete and utter inability to "remember" window settings. You know the drill: You go into, say, the Documents folder and customize the wi
• A Detailed Explanation Of How The BSA Misleads With Piracy Stats
  I'm still hopeful that eventually the BSA will recognize that it's doing more damage to its own position by publishing obviously bogus numbers. So, with the organization releasing another bogus stat today, it's time to explain why it's wrong and misleadin