SubscribeMonthly Archives: April 2008
Try Microsoft’s Surface Computing for Yourself at AT&T Stores
Interestingly enough, after just posting my previous post about what Microsoft’s next big thing could be, one of the things I mentioned, Microsoft Surface, is now on display in a few select AT&T locations around the United States. Put Your Hands on Microsoft Surface and Experience It for Yourself I was really hoping I might get lucky and there would be more than there are and one of them would be here in Indianapolis. No such luck. Here… More »
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End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers
Twitter Metrics. 1million+ users globally. still niche, but a growing one
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The Trouble With Agencies
A challenge to agency model. Change the way we do things, let agencies work on strategy, don’t change them all the time. Agencies – differentiate yourselves
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Hitwise Intelligence – Heather Hopkins – US: Twitter Gaining Momentum But Still Niche
Another Twitter metrics report. Growing slowly and surely but still niche, according to Hitwise.
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New Contest: Sudoku for Haiku
Okay, new contest. Sudoku for Astronomy Haiku.
It’s easy. Write me haikus and you could win your very own Sudoku Hand-held Game!
So, anyway, here is the deal:
I have somehow ended up with two very nice hand-held electronic sudoku games. One of them, the igadget sudoku, even has a backlit screen. Fancy.
The other one is called a Sudoku Advance. I am giving them away to the authors of the two best haikus. … More »
Turtle Cosmology: infinite regression
Many of you have probably heard this story, but I am going to blog about it for the heck of it because I love this story so much.
The most famous version of this story is pretty much the way it appeared in Stephen Hawking’s 1988 book A Brief History of Time, and it goes like this:
“ A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits… More »
New Ifbyphone Widget For Facebook
Now, call your Facebook friends for free. With the recent release of Ifbyphone Facebook App called Phone-Me-Now allows users to place free calls from their friends’ Facebook profile pages, without revealing either party’s caller ID.
“Even In this age of online social networking, there are times when only a real-time personal phone call can convey the right message between two people,” said Irv Shapiro, Ifbyphone CEO. “Phone-Me-Now makes it easy to connect privately with a friend by phone, without automatically divulging… More »
Why Can’t Microsoft Twitter
I’ve been spending more and more time in the Web 2.0 world and immersing myself in more social networking applications. One of the most popular right now is twitter. I got to thinking recently though about why it is Microsoft couldn’t develop an application like twitter? I don’t think it’s because Microsoft doesn’t have any really outside of the box or creative thinkers. Would they have the possibility of it being more likely if they promoted and/or fostered the… More »
Yes, Words Matter
Some people throw out ideas in roughly-hewn sentence fragments, using whatever words come to mind. Others obsess over finding le mot just. Their dictionary is not far away, and they are constantly rediscovering turns of phrase that they read or heard years ago, and trying them out. There is generally no definitive way of writing or speaking. One can be more “correct,” if grammar and established usage is your goal. Being imprecise, or grammatically challenged doesn’t mean you can’t communicate…. More »
McKellen to Reprise Gandalf Role
Image details: The Laurence Olivier Awards: Arrivals served by picapp.comIan McKellen has confirmed he will don his wizard’s garb again to play the role of Gandalf in upcoming movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbit. McKellen told Empire Magazine Gandalf is not the kind of part you turn down. Guillermo del Toro will direct two prequels to The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Peter Jackson executive producing. Filming is expected to start in 2009 with the first movie coming sometime… More »
Yahtzee On Chains of Olympus and Me On Yahtzee
Yes. Take that title in any sexual manner you like. I have a fever of about 100 and I’ve been cheated because I feel like shit, but I’m not hallucinating.
Yahtzee has posted his usual Wednesday rant, this time for God of War: Chains of Olympus for the PSP.
Yahtzee’s kind of an interesting individual because I find him hilarious and irritating at the same time. Like…a mosquito in a clown suit. Sorry, I think my metaphor machine grinds to a halt… More »
"Elegy" Gets Picked Up
A stellar cast including Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard and Deborah Harry are starring in Lakeshore Entertainment’s Elegy, hitting theaters August 8, 2008, after a run in film festivals around the country. Cruz plays a Cuban student whose professor (Kingsley) attempts to seduce her. An adaptation of Philip Roth’s short novel, The Dying Animal, the drama premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival and also at the Tribeca Film Festival this week. According to… More »
Back to You: 1.12 ‘Two Steps Forward, One Step Back’ Recap
Original Air Date: April 30, 2008
Picking up right where the last episode left off, KELLY wakes up from her faint, and she and CHUCK clarify for Gracie that the two of them conceived her the “old-fashioned way.” When Chuck admits to GRACIE that he didn’t tell her he was her father because he didn’t know himself, Gracie gets angry that her mother lied to her, and then she runs upstairs.
As Chuck and Kelly repair Gracie’s science project, which was… More »
Video game consoles, then and now
Did you know that there have been at least 63 video game consoles and personal computers in the past 50 years? Well, I didn’t … honestly. So imagine my surprise when I came across this video:
The author of this mish-mash, however, missed the entire Apple line of personal computers. I owned an Apple IIc, so I know first-hand that a lot of video games can be played on the machine—that is, if any Apple computer is still intact to this… More »
Blast from the past: Egad! It’s the Coleco Telstar
Here’s another video featuring a television commercial for the Coleco Telstar Arcade, my first video game console. Sigh, wish my Coleco Telstar Arcade’s still in pristine condition. But that’s all it is, a wish, since the cartridges that contain the video games have been lost. So here’s a toast to this personal trip down memory lane:
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Dexter Season 2 on DVD in August
Those of you who’ve been watching the edited version of Dexter’s first season on CBS can jump straight to the non-bowdlerized version for Season 2 when it comes out on DVD August 19.
The box set costs about 40 bucks retail, but Amazon is taking pre-orders for $26. Even better: You can download the second season right now from Amazon $19 — five bucks less than on iTunes — and get the first episode download for free!… More »
Next on Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii
Doctor Who: 4.2 The Fires of Pompeii Air Date: May 2, 2008 on SCI FI Channel A visit to ancient Rome puts the Doctor and Donna in Pompeii just ahead of what the Doctor calls “Volcano Day,” which is the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Catherine Tate, David Tennant — BBC Photo … More »