Chuck Carroll notes Apple's Tablet, Craig Reynolds, Dan Grostein File

Chuck Carroll forwarded a Newsweek story that starts out about Apple's forthcoming tablet, and morphs into a meditation on the death of print.

Craig Reynolds checks in:

• This technology could be used by firefighters to find people trapped in burning buildings, or by Terminators to relentlessly track down their human victims: http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=100509-1. more: http://span.ece.utah.edu/radio-tomographic-imaging
• Obama to deliver clean energy speech Friday at MIT
• The Boston Globe ran this collection of Saturn equinox pictures
• Crystals hold super computer key
  Tiny crystals could hold the key to creating computers with massive storage capacity, scientists believe
• Record 12-Million-Digit Prime Number Nets $100,000 Prize
  Mersenne.org Wins EFF's Cooperative Computing Award

Dan Grobstein File

• From The New York Times:
  
  When Love Is a Schlep
  
  With singles living all over New York City, willingness to take a
  couple of subways for a date can be a token of high esteem.
• US
| October 18, 2009
In California, a Fight Against Faux Disabilities and Fake Permits
By JESSE McKINLEY
Officials say masses of people are falsifying, misusing and abusing special license plates and placards meant to provide easy access to parking for disabled drivers.
• BUSINESS
| October 19, 2009
Media Decoder: Times Says It Will Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs
By Richard Perez-Pena
The New York Times says it will trim 100 newsroom jobs by the end of the year, a reduction of about 8 percent.
• OPINION
| October 19, 2009
Paul Krugman: All right? Not alright, if you ask me
By Paul Krugman
The Who versus The Times.
• From The New York Times:
  
  ON THE RECORDS: He Was There. Now His Papers Are, Too.
  
  Walter Cronkite remembered the University of Texas at Austin in his
  last will and testament, even though he dropped out as a junior and, by his own admission, was not a stellar student.
• ARTS / TELEVISION
| October 23, 2009
Soupy Sales, Slapstick Comedian, Dies at 83
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Mr. Sales's zany television routines turned the smashing of a pie to the face into a madcap art form.