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No this isn’t some Apple fanboy’s dream of both tech gods facing each other in a Thunderdome ‘Two men enter, one man leaves’ battle royal. No these are the highlights from the D5 conference and the face to face with the two head honchos, along with some old guy who’s lost his hair and some old lady who probably is still rolling with a Commodore 64. Old people (people over 30) shouldn’t really talk tech in public (unless they have a prompter which they undoubtedly had).

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Looks like this weekends weather just might very well be iffy at best, so for those of you that are afraid of the rain or just want to head inside to keep that winter noda-tan rockin here are some things to do.

MOVIES

Judd Apatow (Anchorman, 40 rd old virgin, Talladaga Nights) has his new movie coming out this weekend in Knocked Up

“Judd Apatow is making the freshest, most honest mainstream comedies in Hollywood” David Ansen - NEWSWEEK

“Knocked Up turns out to be not just rude, crude and outrageously funny but a deceptively sophisticated meditation on moral agency — with pot jokes” Ann Hornaday - WASHINGTON POST

If into something a little more Indie, then head down to SIFF and get a ticket to Julie Delpy’s 2 days in Paris

“An utterly charming comedy of sexual manners that should do very well wherever audiences appreciate savvy dialogue and smart, observational filmmaking”
Ray Bennett - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“An entertaining, deliciously played walk-and-talker by helmer-writer-star Julie Delpy and co-star Adam Goldberg.”
Derek Elley - VARIETY

Showings:
Gala Screening
Saturday, June 02, 8:30 PM
Egyptian Theatre

Tuesday, June 05, 7:00 PM
Lincoln Square Cinemas

MUSIC

Artist: John Mayer, Ben Folds, Rocco DeLuca, and The Burden
Venue: George Amphitheater
June 2nd

Artist: Voxtrot, Sound Team, Au Revoir Simone, The Phoenix Foundation
Venue: Crocodile Cafe
June 2nd

Seattle Symphony - Dale Chihuly unveils 6 new works in a concert sated performance of Bartoks opera
June 2nd (Last Performance)

BARS

FX McCrory’s Whiskey Bar - Great food, 30 fresh draught beers on tap and America’s largest bourbon collection. All captured by artist LeRoy Neiman’s famous F.X. McRory’s painting. Best sports bar in town, right by Safeco and Qwest Field.

Oliver’s - Hands down the best martinis on the west coast. Higher end dress and prices, kinda of a meat market so go prepared.

MISCELLANEOUS

Go to a museum, go to an art show, go to a library and read a book. Or just stay at home brushing up on your CSS skills and sleep in both Saturday and Sunday rising only to grab a bite to eat before taking a nap. Whatever you do have some fun and try to get naked somehow even if its streaking like Ichiro with his 25 game hitting streak.

P.S. Kenny Lofton sure is a real buzz kill. Isn’t he like 40? Go climb Everest man and leave Beltre’s homers alone!

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Over the past five years Google and Microsoft have grown into fierce rivals and its the consumers that are benefiting. Microsoft changed the world with its operating system and the results are astounding when you consider that every software company, PC maker, peripheral manufacturer, retail electronic store, and virtually all commerce on the web is due to Microsoft’s innovations. Can you imagine the impact on our economy if they didn’t exist today? And Google, the tiny basic search engine that realized advertising on the web would as big and as profitable as any business before it.

In the past few weeks both companies have unveiled many a press release outlining a new groundbreaking product or enhanced upgrades to their existing products. Case in point Microsoft added a 3D feature (Birds Eye) to its Live Maps that allows users of its satellite mapping program Virtual Earth to see 3D enhanced photo views of cities which a variety of view angles.

Google responded by debuting Street View, a feature that gives ground level views that even show the detail of street sings, license plates on cars and one unlucky guy coming out of a strip club to feed the meter.

While both products are impressive, privacy issues have been raised in regards to the clarity of the Google product. One can surmise that Microsoft was concerned enough about possible litigation that they choose to render the buildings and everything else at street level into ‘photo realistic’ views.

Interestingly enough Google’s director of Earth and Maps advised ‘Beyond the seven communities we cover now, we will soon be expanded to other metropolitan areas’

Not to be outdone Microsoft announced The 3-D imagery of New York City will debut along with similar aerial perspectives of several other Canadian, U.K. and U.S. cities, with many more cities worldwide.

No matter what they announce next we will be the beneficiaries of this competition for web supremacy.

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