http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/02/geography/usa-surnames-interactive
It’s eerie… Nelson seems to hover above St. George, where I live. I didn’t think there were that many of us here. Christensen, Jensen, and Hansen seem more common.
Summary: Super easy to install. Works great. I’m quite impressed.
Longer:
See the summary… I’ve got shows to watch (-:
Oh… okay. On the recommend of Glenn Reynolds I snagged a Roku streaming player from Amazon Prime. It cost about $70 bucks. It arrived in 2 days, shipping free.
I took it home and had it installed to my HD TV in about 2 minutes. I had it on my wireless network in about 3 minutes. And I had it updated and browsing channels in another 5.
It required I get an account at Roku.com, which was easy.
I then hooked it up to my Hulu.com account, my Amazon account, and our Netflix account. Again, super easy and very well thought out.
I sampled some of the HD trailers on each system, and they all look great and are flicker free.
I also added Pandora Radio, and links to Picasa and Flickr for picture viewing.
Then I bought Season 1 of a show I’ve started liking recently for $10 bucks and I’m watching Episode One.
Come on… leave me alone, I’ve got TV to watch (-:
Update: A couple days later, and I’m still very happy with it. In fact… my TV hasn’t switched back over to Dish/DVR yet. I’m sure it will. I’m very impressed with Amazon Video. It has amazing, flicker / halt free HD programming. Hulu+… well, it works well enough, but I have seen irritating pauses / restarts. This matches my experience with Hulu+ on computer and iPad.
http://www.productusp.com/best-tablets-at-ces-2011.html
has a rundown of new Android tablets introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show.
This Lenovo LePad has a very cool concept. A Netbook sized Windows computer, with a detachable monitor that becomes an Android pad when detached. That is COOL.
2011 will be the Year where pretty much everybody got a tablet.
So I missed this job ad from a 1994 pre-launch Amazon.com:
What I did paid off pretty well, but probably not as well as having early equity with Amazon would have. (-:
I also had a chance to work for Microsoft in the early 90′s. Oh well, life is full of Woulda coulda shoulda, but I like my life, and absolutely no regrets!
The absolute best thing invented in the 2000′s.
Amazon released its Cyber-Monday stats, and they are impressive:
Amazon this morning announced that on its peak day for this year, November 29, customers ordered more than 13.7 million items worldwide across all product categories, which translates to a – self-proclaimed – record-breaking 158 items per second.
Oddly… I wasn’t one of them, I’d done most of my shopping well before Cyber-Monday. I did order some odds an ends all the way up to the last day for Amazon Prime to get it to me in time.
BTW: My personal Amazon record is 3 items in one minute.
The artist is Lei Wei. Not sure how he does it, but the models live for other shoots, so it must end well.
More pics here.
Facebook intern mapped Friend connections by locations. The resulting graph is above.
Click here to see it bigger.
Source: Mashable
Compare and contrast this 1956 5MB memory stick (IBM 305 RAMAC):
with a new 8GB model:
H/T Lou
Here is how the contestant did it…
As to my wife… she could easily do this. She is really good at Wheel of Fortune, Pictionary, and other linquistic guessing games. I refuse to play Boggle with her.
This Dale Peterson guy seems tougher than the typical fellow…
My work PC, a powerful quad-core running Windows Vista with a 24″ monitor lasted longer than any recent work computer. I’m hard on them. Two years in, though, and it was starting to groan under the stress of what I do to it each day. And it was getting slower and slower. So I got a new PC.
The new one is a quad-core iMac with a 1 terabyte drive and 4GB of RAM and a 27″ monitor. It is totally silent, blazingly fast, and capable of running the native Mac, and a virtual Linux and Virtual Windows PC at the same time without my noticing a performance hit. As I write this, I’m porting my old PC over to a virtual PC clone of it on this new iMac using VMWare’s Fusion PC Migration tool. It will take 18 hours but is a hands off affair – most of the time is spent copying data. When done, I will have my old PC available as needed, but running in an emulator on this iMac. Slick!
At the same time, I moved all of my e-mail off the local machine, and use the cloud now – in particular Google’s WebApp’s service. I love that I can access mail from any of my devices – my work PC, my laptop, my iPad, or my Android phone with ease.
My next project will be to move my important data off my local PC and into a cloud file server. I’m talking about pictures and work documents mainly. This will make them easier to backup and less difficult to move from machine to machine. For this I’ll be using Picasa for the pictures, and Dropbox for the documents.
At that point I will be basically machine neutral. Whatever works, I’ll use, where it is, or I am.
You see them at trade shows, parks, and in malls. But not this big….
It’s in Holland. At 121 feet high, it has some easy routes (5b-6a) and some tough ones… 6c to 7c. Climb ratings are explained here.
Think of it as a Segwayish Jazzy Unicycle. Looks cool. I’d like one with rugged tires.
Google Creative Labs has a nifty presentation of things they believe are cool on the web and in tech these days.
Visit it here.
I liked user generated starwars… It takes a common sound track and pieces together 15 second clips of fan films to make the classic movie.
