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Darrin Caddes has his work cut out for him. In the dimly lit backroom of a ritzy Manhattan hotel, a dozen or so gadget bloggers and technology writers have gathered to meet with Caddes, vice-president for corporate design at headset maker Plantronics (PLT). But instead of the form-fitting ear pieces or business communications gear Caddes is known for, the soft-spoken, 43-year-old designer is surrounded by a range of gleaming iPod speaker systems, their LCD displays glowing blue and orange.

If quad-core CPUs are good, six cores must be better -- especially for servers. On Tuesday, Intel announced a six-core Xeon 7400 CPU, positioning it as the premier virtualization and transaction-processing platform.

On hand with testimonial support were the industry's largest hardware and software vendors, including IBM, Dell and Microsoft.

Xeon Virtualization

Jonathan Haidt at Edge:

Jonathan Haidt at Edge:

The ocean isn’t the only focal point for wave-generated electricity. The Kiskiminetas River in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania is about to be home to a new way to create electricity from water.

Who could resist a message headlined "Barack's VP: Be the First to Know"?

Hundreds of thousands of Barack Obama supporters received that tantalizing pitch Sunday night in text messages and e-mails. It's one of several ways the presumptive Democratic nominee is staying in the news even as he vacations and visits relatives in Hawaii.

Ruchira Paul in Accidental Blogger:

What's Really Wrong With Bestiality

Justin E. H. Smith

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Books and articles discussed in this essay:

John Corvino, "Homosexuality and the
PIB Argument," Ethics 115 (2005): 501-34

Cora Diamond, "Eating Animals and Eating People," Philosophy 53 (1978): 465-79.

Lawrence Krader, Social Organization of the Mongol-Turkic Pastoral Nomads (The Hague: Mouton, 1963).

What's Really Wrong With Bestiality

Justin E. H. Smith

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Books and articles discussed in this essay:

John Corvino, "Homosexuality and the
PIB Argument," Ethics 115 (2005): 501-34

Cora Diamond, "Eating Animals and Eating People," Philosophy 53 (1978): 465-79.

Lawrence Krader, Social Organization of the Mongol-Turkic Pastoral Nomads (The Hague: Mouton, 1963).