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White Space and Free Internet

jordank — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:35:06 +0000

Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing for action in December on a plan to offer free, pornography-free wireless Internet service to all Americans, despite objections from the wireless industry and some consumer groups.
Free filtered internet? Sounds good. Free unfiltered internet? Even better. It seems to me that any effort to “filter” the internet will be met with resistance. It’ll also be pretty difficult.

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Happy Accident Opens Door to Cheaper, Higher-Resolution Cameras

jordank — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:33:09 +0000

Scientific accidents have brought some of the most groundbreaking discoveries — vulcanized rubber, X-rays, penicillin — and now scientists at UCLA have accidentally discovered a material that could make digital cameras as we know them obsolete.

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Alien-like Squid Filmed

jordank — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:09:34 +0000

Here’s a quick properly grain underwater video Shell Oil recorded of a hereto unidentified sea creature. Of some sort.

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Netflix Recommendations

jordank — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:35:03 +0000

Interesting article on how Netflix suggests movie. It also talks about the 1 million dollar contest to make Netflix recommendations 10% better.

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In Case of Nuclear Attack

jordank — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:47:17 +0000

Here’s a photo gallery of an decommissioned underground bunker meant to house 4,000 British civil servents in event of a nuclear attack.

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FlightTrack App for the iPhone

jordank — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:30:10 +0000

There are tons and tons of useless apps for the iphone. There are a few gems thought and this seems like one. The app…

“…provides professional, real-time maps and flight status information.”

Combine this with a good weather app and you’ve got you own little mini flight control tower. I’m sure flight captains everywhere are overjoyed.

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Bonus, a macbook x-rayed.

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Blackberry Storm Review

jordank — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:15:51 +0000

The Blackberry Storm has arrived; RIM’s shot back at the super successful iPhone. Here’s a nice long in depth review. Nothing too surpassing in here. The iPhone seems to come out on top as far as GUI/touchscreen integration. The Blackberry has been well known for it’s superior texting and email capabilities however it seems the touchscreen doesn’t quite seem to mesh as well as it might. Take a look at the review for yourself.

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Some sort of insane Super Cam, Red’s Epic

jordank — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:56:00 +0000

Going through the usual news sources today I ran across Engadgets teaser piece on the Epic digital video camera. Admittedly I don’t know much about video camera’s but this one seems sure to please. With a price tag around what it would cost for a new car I suppose it ought to though.

The exciting thing about this is while it is super expensive it’s still cheaper then the cameras used on the big budget hollywood movies without sacrificing much, if any, quality.

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Blink of the Eye Transmission Speed System On A Chip

jordank — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:09:16 +0000

From the article.

According to Professor Lee, as reported by Taiwan News, the new chip can be used to connect to all domestic audio-visual components like television, stereo, video recorder and transmit to TV screens anywhere in the home instantaneously. In airports and train stations, the SOC could download an entire movie to a cell phone in a couple of seconds and upload thousands of pictures from a digital camera to a computer in a blink of the eye.

This sounds great on it’s own. Sounds even better when you think of the possibility of this working with the newly available White Space.

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Strange Ads

jordank — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:36:21 +0000

Here’s a collection of really strange ads. I think it’s good that some bigger name companies are taking risks on these really odd ads.

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