A double murderer who says he's too fat to be executed humanely has passed a pre-execution exam and is cleared to receive a lethal injection Tuesday.

h4Intel will not own SCC, UMPC, MID biz/h4 pCan ARM mount a serious challenge for Intel's Atom processor family? Market watcher ABI Research thinks so - it has forecast that almost half of all UMPCs, SCCs and MIDs will be ARM-based come 2013..../pa href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/hardware;sz=468x60;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/hardware;sz=468x60;ord=123456789?" width="468" height="60" border="0" alt=""/a

h4No cables required/h4 pSony has confirmed that PSP users will soon be able to access the PlayStation Store directly from the console, thanks to an impending firmware update..../p

Ed sent us a link to this amazing retro-looking gas powered bicycle. It gets 120+ mpg and does 40 mph. [Thanks Ed]

The frame is from a '90s vintage Huffy cruiser I got at a flea market for $25.00. The front fork is a reproduction Schwinn style springer. I fabricated "leaf springs" for the look, but their only function is as fenders. The wheels are from Husky- very heavy duty with thick steel and 11 ga spokes. It has a high quality coatser brake, but it also has calipers front and rear which is what I generally use for braking. The tires are all-white vintage style from Kenda.

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NYT: a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/us/politics/14race.html?_r=1oref=slogin"A new generation of black elected officials are wooing white voters and winning local elections in predominantly white districts across the country./a br /

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A Russian Soyuz craft carrying an American computer game designer and two crewmates docked with the international space station Tuesday.

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14th October 2008: Acoustica has updated Mixcraft to v4.2 b102. Changes: Now renders internally at 44k and if rendering to lower sampling rates, down samples. This was done for better compatibility with VST effects an...

14th October 2008: FabFilter has updated FabFilter Pro-C to v1.11 and Volcano to v2.02. Both plug-ins now work correctly in MOTU Digital Performer 6, and the Audio Unit versions support mono-to-stereo channel configura...

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h4They did it all for the lolz/h4 pProof that PR companies are starting to understand which techie buttons to push comes in the form of a video of Windows Mobile apparently running on an Apple iPhone, despite the insanity of such a proposition..../p

One in four charities has suffered a fall in donations in the last year as the credit crunch bites, according to the Charities Commission.

Alexei Cherepanov, 19 years old and already one of Russia's top strikers, dies after collapsing during a game.

h4Eases off on cable outlay/h4 pVirgin Media has persuaded banks to hold off calling in billions of pounds of debt from 1990s cable rollouts until 2012..../p

pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portablevideo/" rel="tag"Portable Video/a/pimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/shiro_220.jpg" alt="" /You probably don't want to be seen at the beach with most a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/20/sorbo-unveils-a-range-of-alt-power-pmps/"solar-powered PMPs/a, but Shiro's SQ-S is superior in functionality if not in appearance. It can store 16GB of APE, FLAC, MP3, OGG, WAV, or WMA files, receive and record FM radio broadcasts and play video on its itty-bitty screen. Unfortunately only its backside is adorned with solar panels -- four hours of tanning on a beach towel will get you up to 35 hours of music and 7 hours of video, but you won't be operating it while it's lying on its face. No word yet about price, availability, or a flesh-and-blood photo, but let's hope it looks as good in real life as it does in this render.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.pmptoday.com/2008/10/12/shiro-sq-s-mp3-player-comes-w-solar-cell/"PMP Today/a]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=11876amp;cid=2Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/shiros-sq-s-pmp-will-go-sunbathing-with-you/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1340813/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/shiros-sq-s-pmp-will-go-sunbathing-with-you/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=G6bpps"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=G6bpps" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=xXHcm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=xXHcm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=QJd5m"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=QJd5m" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/420379318" height="1" width="1"/

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