It's thanks to Charlie and Travis's guidance and support I was able transition onto the Gizmodo staff quite quickly and easily all those years ago. And with Charlie's departure, I'm now the holder of the title of "Guy Who's Been At Gizmodo the Longest"; something I'd happily give up to have either of these guys back again.

Here's an example of why Charlie was an extremely valuable member of the team. At CES, two years ago, Mark and I were eyeing this extremely beautiful lady at some bar. Charlie sees this, and the three of us were all quite tipsy, Chuck had the providence to say "guys, you don't want to do that, trust me on this." Several trips to the clinic later, we wish we had.

All of us at the Giz wish Chuck a bright and successful future wherever he's going (although he doesn't need our help—he's already super successful already). Good bye and good luck Charlie!

Also, Travis Hudson, whose no-nonsense voice has become the heart and soul of Gizmodo, is graduating from Kansas State University soon, and his last day at Giz is on Friday.

You may not realize it, but Travis isn't just the youngest fellow on staff. He's been here two years, which makes him the resident veteran (two years is like 12 blogger years). He's been dependable like a clock through that time. His exponential growth and rock-solid posts have been a major factor in Gizmodo's success.

He's been consistently productive here while many of his collegiate colleagues spent time hugging toilets and doing bong hits. I mean, what were you doing in college? Frankly, when I was his age, I was playing Starcraft down at the Boston U SMG computer labs, and drinking a lot of gin.

Travis, Gizmodo will never be the same without you. We'll miss you, buddy.

Readers, love him while you can. In his own words, GFY. – Brian Lam

A new version of its video editing application Final Cut Pro.
Long overdue, so likely.

Accelerated video and graphics from NVIDIA in the 8-core Mac Pros
Interesting to think the machines that were just launched in April 4th could get a revision already. We heard a rumor about hardware h.264 decoders (and encoders, I'd assume) but there's no evidence.

New Cinema displays.
I like it. The rumors about iSight enabled super monitors have been floating since before the iPhone was unveiled. The chunky price cuts on the day the 8-core Mac Pros launched give us some hope.

Stick with us tomorrow and through the rest of NAB. Charlie's on the floor with a couple of friends who helped at CES, and he's no stranger to NAB, having gone every year since 1994. He'll keep you up to date on the latest from Apple and lots of others, too. The fun starts tomorrow.–Brian Lam

NAB [Gizmodo]

The Gurus of Cool also present their rollicking Rapid Fire Roundup of Cool Products, burning through the week's top 10 best examples of coolness in the fastest three minutes on Sirius Satellite Radio.

If you're not a Sirius listener, catch the Coolness Roundup podcast here, or find out about the hottest and most up-to-date gadgetry on Coolness Roundup Daily.

Show Notes [Coolness Roundup]

As icing on this multi-tiered cake, they also run through their patented Rapid Fire Roundup® of Cool Products they've seen during the week, nailing down the top 10 best representatives of coolness in the fastest three minutes on Sirius Satellite Radio. It all happens tonight (actually, tomorrow morning) at 12:30a.m. Pacific Time on Sirius Stars 102. If you're not staying up that late, listen to the Coolness Roundup podcast here, or catch up on the hottest and most up-to-date gadgetry on Coolness Roundup Daily.

Show Notes [Coolness Roundup]

In many ways Charlie White described himself with the last three words above. Spur of the moment, off-the-cuff, exciting and quick. But Charlie White is much more, really.

Much, much more. They didn't even cover "sexy", "very sexy", and "really really sexy". Go over and have a look. – Jason Chen

Blog Spotlight: Charlie White of Gizmodo [Associated Content]

Photo credit: Wikipedia

How about a guy who automatically updates a website every five minutes, 24/7, using a PC connected to a wireless weather station? Or walks around with a GPS unit strapped to his wrist and Nike + iPod shoes on, uploading all his exercise data to the web on a daily basis (okay, okay, snobs, he wears a solid gold Rolex when he's not exercising)? Or a guy who controls his four-zone climate control system in his test lab via a web browser? Or was seen driving around with four GPS devices blaring at him at the same time, all yelling at him to "turn left! turn left!," which he promptly disobeyed.

Dependent on machines, but not so dependent he doesn't know when to tell them to STFU. That's our Charlie! – Jason Chen

Cool Geek of the Week - Charlie White [Born Rich]

But these phones all come with some "unwelcome surprises." Besides the cost of music downloads, they often require special headphones (run-of-the-mill headphones won't fit in many cell phones) and extra memory cards for holding music files.

Those kind of "gotchas" point to growth pains for mobile phone companies, said Charlie White, associate editor of Gizmodo, a tech and gadget blog.

"There's still kind of a problem with the cell phone companies. They want to make some money from selling music. ... There's a little bit of an awkwardness there," White said yesterday from Milwaukee.

More schooling to be had on the Post-Gazette's site.

Musical phones tagged with extra expenses [Post-Gazette]

His favorite of all the gigs is, of course, Gizmodo. But even we have to be careful when we're asking him for information:

So, what Web sites do the Gizmodo guys turn to when tracking down the latest tech news to cover? If he told you, he'd have to, well, explode you.

– Jason Chen

Writer juggles testing, reviews [The Technology Tailor]

In it Chuck talks about how he came to Gizmodo, what he's doing when he's not Gizmodo-ing, and how he killed a monkey with his bare hands. Oops, didn't mean to give away the ending there. Head on over to check out the rest! – Jason Chen

The Digital Life of Charlie White [The Blog Reader]

Apologies to Charles Schulz and White for my nonexistent Photoshop skills