Steve Job's Paris keynote is available online in mpeg4. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
I also checked out this comparison report from gateway.
Intresting Stuff from the keynote:

• Magnifying glass works well while video is playing
• Sherlock channels + webservices (at minute 28)
  • Stocks with refresh
  • movie channels
  • picture search
  • They are using web services to build local computer application level user experiences of things normally internet only. 
• Rendevous
  • itunes integration - peer to peer Streaming and metadata
  • network printers
  • Printer vendors signed on
  • phillips adopting (to do what?)
• Address Book (shared across apps) (at  min ~45)
  • Actions + custom data
  • Bluetooth phone integration
• ichat has a much better looking interface then existing apps ( at ~53 min)

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G.O.P. Wields Iraq as an Issue in Fall Races for the Senate. Republicans have gone on the offensive on Iraq and related national security topics in a handful of tight Senate races in recent days. By Alison Mitchell. [New York Times: Politics]

One of the more sick and perverting thing in politics is to question the patriotism of your opponent. It's flat out stupid and a childish form of name calling. Anyone running for a major office has  ton of community service and work behind them and cares about the country, why would they bother with the job if they didn't? This years new political issue, is to tie any weapons/military view not in lock step with the administration as anti-military and hence unpatriotic. The sad part is that Conservatives seem to eat this crap up.
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