With consumers spending a fortune on HDTVs and HD Channels, Mark Cuban points out how consumers are being duped by TV Channels who claim to be HD, even though most of the content is not really HD.

Nick Gray’s list of things he noticed about America after getting back from India.

“The suburbs seem dead. I can drive through my entire neighborhood and not see anybody.”

For all you web 2.0 designers out there, a very nifty seamless stripes texture generator.

A 3D visualization of the Twitter public timeline depicting who follows who. A cool way to discover new people, that’s if you are into Twitter.

A very simple site for file conversion. No file size restrictions, allows you to can convert documents, images, videos and audio files; and has tons of file format options to choose from.

A detailed look at the inner workings of an iPhone.

“A self capacitance screen contains sensing circuits and electrodes to determine where a user is touching”

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. It comes with presets for iPhone and PSP, and supports Apple TV. It can handle both PAL and NTSC sources as well.

Google presentation is here, if you log into Google docs, now you will be able to create presentations via the browser. It comes with regular Google docs features like sharing, editing, publishing. It also integrates with Google Talk, so users can chat about the presentation. (review)

Jeffrey Zeldman joins Facebook, and his initial take on the addictiveness of Facebook and a conclusion of how it’s just a way to blow off work.

Facebook is fun when your network is mainly people you know and follow, but if your network starts to have more strangers than people you know, the information you see becomes irrelevant to you, and Facebook can get boring and annoying in a hurry.

Due to online and supermarket competition, Richard Branson has sold 125 of his Virgin Megastores in Britain and Ireland, dropping the brand which launched his Virgin empire when he was 16.

Effective midnight Tuesday night, New York Times will no longer charge for accessing archives, and works by columnists. All archives from 1851 to 1922 and 1987 to present will be free. However, certain archives from 1922 to 1987 will still be charged (not sure why).

Toto’s Washlet, a toilet seat with heated seats, bidet style automated cleaning, and more; promising to make you happier and cleaner than ever before. Well that’s if you want to shell out up to $1000 for a toilet seat, or like the Indians you could just use your hand, the poor mans Washlet.

PS reviews Nike+ and how the neats stats and UI provided by Nike has made running more fun. If you want a cheaper option there is always weendure.

Most of the 27 tips in this list is pretty familiar to most bloggers, but it’s still a good list to find something you might not already know.

jQuery UI 1.0 is out, a set of themable widgets and interactions, built on top of jQuery library, which will allow you to create rich interfaces using jQuery.

The library includes basic interactions like drag n drop, resizing, selecting, and sorting. On top of the interactions it includes reusable widgets like accordion, date pickers, tabs, dialogs etc.