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January 15, 2008
Stand In Awe At Our World
There are many routes for exercise, but there is none so important as the mind. And the conference that takes place in Monterey, California, the TED talks, is a great place to get in shape. It is an invitation-only event that gathers some of the great minds in science, art, and general life to present their ideas and thoughts to each other. The presentations range from the clever, but not overly spectacular to outright mad-scientist brilliance. The great part about listening to these people is that they do try and make it entertaining. You get to learn about the most amazing things and still enjoy sitting and watching the length and learning from these people.
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January 10, 2008
One Small Step For Man, One Frog Leap For Mankind
Today's Leapfrog Day! And if it wasn't before than now it is. It's everything leapfrog you'll ever want to see. You already know about the game leapfrog, jumping over your friend while they duck down and then doing the same for them and on and on until you get sick of it or mess up and fall in a tumble of limbs. What you might not know are the many other uses of leapfrog. In hockey and soccer it is a slang term used for scoring 4 goals in a single game. LeapFrog Enterprises is a company that makes educational toys for children. Pretty exciting. Some better ones though? Leapfrog is a variation of the doggy style position where she angles her body downwards or lies flat and he straddles her legs. In the words of wikipedia: "This position allows for vigorous thrusting."
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January 9, 2008
CES Day Three. More Tech.
Today's news on the CES front:
Sling showed its SlingCatcher and SlingModem, scheduled for release in Q2, which works well for them and us because apparently the SlingCatcher crashed a couple times, while also having sluggish menus and a generally unfinished look and feel.
Samsung presented it's 31-inch and 14-inch OLED's, showing up Sony's 27-inch prototype and 11-inch production sets. Samsung says they have no production plans, but that's a big "yet" seeing as Sony already has their OLED products open for sale. They also showed an HD DVD/Blu-ray Disc Combo DVD player. They've got home entertainment market under wraps. They even have a set-up for 3D capable plasmas, meaning you'll be watching movies in 3D soon. So freaking tight.
Server providers AT&T, Microsoft, and NBC announced that they are working on solutions against P2P piracy and are opening up the option of filtering at the network level. How about buh-bye! Unfiltered networks would take over in a second. The "pirates" are the ones that are spending all day at their computer, fueling the digital economy of the web, etc. Hopefully they do filter though, then some new companies can spring up and offer real customer service. No one needs more corporate big brother in their lives when they have so much already.
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Wii Boxing Orgasm?
Be afraid. Be very afraid...
January 8, 2008
2008 CES Lowdown On Comcast And Others
Okay we get it, Comcast offers faster internet at an affordable price. They have the largest on-demand selection with about 90% of the material begin free. And now apparently that's all going to get WAY better. Introducing Comcast 3.0: it's faster. Unveiled this morning at the Consumer Electrics Show, it's going to offer even more in the way of on-demand, speed (with the new network of fiber optic cables), and, still, a portable DVR/DVD player (talked up yesterday at Panasonic's keynote) to carry around TV shows. And that's about it.
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January 7, 2008
2008 CES Kicks Off Panasonic's New Works
The 2008 Consumer Electronics Show is under way in Vegas again and all the big R&D toys are coming to the stage. This mornings keynote unveiling, information courtesy of Engadget, kicked off with Panasonic's new 150-inch plasma TV. The monster has a resolution set at 4 x 1080p, essentially 4k by 2k. The presenter, Panasonic's AVC President Toshihiro Sakamoto, calling it the "Life Panel."
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January 4, 2008
Old School Revamped
Talk about old school! This must be where that crazy russian got the idea to make a game full of falling blocks. In fact all of those old game programmers were crazy. How could you not be when you're involved in revolutionizing the use of computers and the newly developed consoles. In fact we were too, crazy for the games not crazy. You guys remember busting out the Atari, dropping some asteroids or battlezone. Or maybe you waited till NES Nintendo came out and started in on mr. mario himself. What we're getting at is just how fun those games were. Not so much for their graphics (obviously) but for their uniqueness and simplicity, recognizable now with the graphics of todays games.
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January 3, 2008
Funny Friendships, Really Funny.
Friendships are an amazing thing. A friend is someone you can trust, look to for help, screw around with, and screw with in general. Usually the first three take precedence in the friendship, but every now and then you've got to screw with your friend. You guys are close enough to take a joke between each other, maybe something that you notice about them that they don't quite notice, maybe something they notice about you, or maybe you just make something up to mess with them. There are many routes to take, but as the friendship grows stronger so must the prank. Watch the progression of friendship, it begins here:
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January 2, 2008
Welcome To The New Year!
It's 2008 and we're all still here, guess that means you DO have to go through with those new years resolutions. Yes it sucks, but just think what a better person you'll be after the couple weeks/months that you actually stick with it! Okay fine, maybe you'll stay true through the whole year and good for you, but honestly can the majority of us say we will? Yes, we can say that, but no not honestly. Maybe that's due in part to what we're telling ourselves we're going to do to change ourselves, like "oh i'm going to eat healthier this year" or "I'm going to workout so I can look good" or maybe you thought you'd resolve to help others and the environment, go "more green." If it was the latter then you're on the right track, if not then resolve to find out more.
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