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img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/emmajane.png alt= pI've been having some random
problems with my RSS reader, a href=http://liferea.sourceforge.net/Liferea/a. I think it was a
permission problem on the settings folder, but it was enough of an annoyance that I started to set
up the Google Reader for my feeds. But I almost immediately bailed. I didn't like how the
application felt at all. I'm so used Liferea after years of using it that it was hard to switch my
mental model over to quot;this is a Web site.quot; It wasn't just the buttons and the GUI, it was
also how the application worked. In Liferea I know when I'm caught up because the stories stop
coming. The data is downloaded to my machine and I can read it and then it's read. But in Google
Reader the data keeps coming. It reaches further and further into the history of the Web site to
pull more and more stories and it feels as though you will never catch up on the news feed. (Being
able to search for a feed instead of having to know the URL for the feed was, however,
ibrilliant/i.) /p pAs I neared the end of my ten minute foray into using Google Reader I started to
think about why I want my desktop experience to be different from my Web experience. Do I want my
desktop experience to be a Web experience? Have you seen the new a
href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wI6Tr0Tz5UgOS/a (links to YouTube demo), a
href=http://www.thinkgos.com/cloud.phpCloud/a (links to site)? (a
href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOS_(operating_system)More about gOS here/a and a
href=http://www.thinkgos.com/here/a. It's based on Ubuntu.) Your computer as a thin client to the
cloud of applications out there. Brilliant, but also really scary to think that realistically my
data IS actually all out there. (I like to pretend I'm in control at least once a week.) So
although I have switched back to my desktop application, Liferea to keep track of news, I've
started thinking a little bit more about applications and data and access and status. (Have you
watched the Van Jacobson talk yet? He talks about a
href=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840amp;q=engeduaccessing data/a too.)
/p pSo let's look at the quot;statequot; of my computer. A while ago Mark blogged about the new a
href=http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/233user switching status applet thingy/a. Now that
I'm using 8.10, I'm also using this little widget. Was it a
href=http://mjg59.livejournal.com/Matthew/a who was talking about wanting a system that just
iknew/i when he was on a plane and therefore turn off the wireless when booting? (I think so...I
think it was part of the power management talk and how things just ought to know without you having
to tell them.) Regardless of who said it first, quot;statesquot; are definitely of interest. I am
almost finished writing a href=http://safari.oreilly.com/9780137007752Front End Drupal/a (and will
begin the editing process this weekend) but for the last month (or three) I have been almost always
set to quot;awayquot; in a href=http://www.pidgin.im/Pidgin/a (I don't like the red icon for
quot;do not disturbquot;, so I use quot;awayquot; instead). Not because want others to leave me
alone, but because the little clock icon reminds me that I ought to be working. Years ago I had
very interesting conversations with sociologist a
href=http://www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/people/bios/GaleMoore.aspxGale Moore/a about interruption and
instant messaging. And now here I am thinking about how I do, or do not, want to be interrupted.
quot;Statequot; isn't just the status of me or my computer, it is the status of
quot;wequot;...that's me, me and my computer and you and me. /p pThere are currently four states in
the status switching applet:/p ul liOnline/li liAway/li liBusy/li liOffline/li /ul pBut what if I
could define my states? I think my list would look like this (yours would probably be different, we
should be able to define these states):/p ul libSocial/b (all on)/li libWorking/b (please try not
to distract me too much)/li libOn the phone/b (you will not get my full attention)/li libAway/b
(AFK)/li libUnplugged/b (gOS-cloud-esque to optimize for battery power)/li libOffline/b (no
internets)/li /ul pAnd when I switch to different states my whole computer ought to shift with me.
Social, for example, should have Pidgin set to quot;onlinequot;, Liferea open and checking for new
stories, IRC open and sending alerts, and why not have Skype open too because I use that for
specific contacts. Working should set Pidgin to quot;Trying to get the mortgage paidquot;, Liferea
should be disabled. etc. So a state is not just a status, but a whole suite of how I want to be
interrupted and interact with people and my computer./p pWhat are your states?/p
div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"a target="_blank"
href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/"Microsoft/a has seen the future of the
datacenter, and oddly enough it#39;s missing a roof./pp align="right"a
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width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The
company#39;s future a target="_blank"
href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/120408-gartner-top-10-disruptive-technologies.html?informamp;ap1=rcb"datacenter
design/a, which will be its de facto standard in five years, is a cross between an electrical
switching station, an RV-park and the closing quot;warehousequot; scene from the 1981 film
emRaiders of the Lost Ark/em ./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Stay ahead of advances in
technology with InfoWorld#39;s a href="http://weblog.innfoworld.com/yager/?source=fssr"Ahead of the
Curve blog/a and a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"newsletter/a. ]/b/pp page="1"
class="ArticleBody"The company envisions a set of prefabricated containers the size of a
semi-trailer filled with as many as 2,000 preconfigured servers. The containers can be parked next
to and plugged into pre-built mechanical, electrical, cooling and security components. In essence,
it is a giant collection of a target="_blank"
href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2008/082708-tech-update.html"boxes and pluggable
components/a that can grow and shrink based on need./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The container
portion of the idea is nothing revolutionary. Microsoft is installing them in its Chicago
datacenter. a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/sun.html"Sun/a introduced a server
container called Project Blackbox in 2006 and a target="_blank"
href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/google/"Google/a received a patent in 2007 on its
quot;mobile datacenterquot; stored in a standard shipping container, which unlike Sun#39;s
Blackbox, could be clustered in the same modular fashion that Microsoft is proposing./pp page="1"
class="ArticleBody"The container idea also has its a target="_blank"
href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/050908-why-microsofts-approach-to-data.html"critics/a
who say they are rife with electrical and mechanical concerns, have power management and cooling
issues, present a single point of failure, and are susceptible to damage during shipping./pp
page="1" class="ArticleBody"Microsoft, however, is not just talking about containers, but the
configuration of the entire datacenter./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The company this week
unveiled what it is calling its quot;Generation 4 Modular Data Centerquot; plan, a blueprint that
will define its cloud datacenter infrastructure in the next five years./pp page="1"
class="ArticleBody"The datacenters have four walls and a sophisticated perimeter security system,
but are open to the elements as they lack a roof. Trucks wheel the boxes into the enclosure where
they are connected to power/cooling stations before being brought online./pp page="1"
class="ArticleBody"It#39;s a bold plan to drive industry thinking about how to construct and
operate datacenters in a world of capacity spikes, real-time needs for computing power and
expanding green initiatives./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;We believe it is one of the most
revolutionary changes to happen to datacenters in the last 30 years,quot; said Michael Manos,
general manager of global foundation services for Microsoft, in his blog introducing Microsoft#39;s
Generation 4 plan./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"emBusinessWeek/em reported last month that
Microsoft said it was going to quot;reinvent the infrastructure of our industryquot; by building
some 20 datacenters that can carry a price tag as much as $1 billion apiece./pp page="1"
class="ArticleBody"quot;In short, we are striving to bring Henry Ford#39;s Model T factory to the
datacenter,quot; Manos said. quot;In our design process, we questioned everything. You may notice
there is no roof and some might be uncomfortable with this. We explored the need of one and
throughout our research we got some surprising (positive) results that showed one wasn#39;t
needed.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Microsoft says all the pieces needed to construct the
datacenter would be built off-site and assembled once they arrived at the datacenter location, much
the way planes, cars, and computers are built today. The company says the process would mean a
target="_blank"
href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/062608-microsoft-sees-little-data-centers.html"less
time and money/a to erect a new datacenter. #160;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"And Microsoft
expects efficiencies in power usage that blow away even the best-rated facilities today based on
PUE (power usage effectiveness), a metric developed by The Green Grid and used to determine the
energy efficiency of a datacenter./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;A key driver is our goal to
achieve an average PUE at or below 1.125 by 2012 across our datacenters,quot; Manos said on his
blog./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Achieving such a low PUE average would be a breakthrough given
that the typical datacenter has an average PUE of 2.5, according to the Uptime Institute. The
Institute says that a best-case scenario today could produce a 1.6 PUE average if the datacenter is
using the most efficient equipment and best practices./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Manos added:
quot;More than that, we are on a mission to reduce the overall amount of copper and water used in
these facilities.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Operationally, the datacenter would offer
different classes of service defined to meet the needs of applications and services deployed and to
create cost efficiencies. The classes include ala carte options, such as uninterruptible power
supplies and backup generators, temperature controls, and redundancy./pp page="2"
class="ArticleBody"Microsoft says the varying configurations will drive engineering innovations
that will lower operational costs for applications./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"And to show that
Microsoft is aiming toward industry interoperability the datacenter#39;s containers would have
common interfaces so others can plug their wares into them including computer vendors, UPS vendors,
and generator vendors./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Manos admits that a 2005 memo written to
Microsoft employees by now chief software architect Ray Ozzie was the trigger for thinking about
how Microsoft would evolve deeper into an operations company rather than a provider of packaged
software./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"What grew out of that were Generation 2 facilities, now
operating in Quincy, Wash., and San Antonio, Texas, which took into account sustainability, energy
efficiency, and total cost of operations./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Generation 3 facilities,
which are represented by Microsoft#39;s mammoth datacenter in Chicago, feature containers and a
modular design./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Microsoft has posted a short a target="_blank"
href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-usamp;vid=b4d189d3-19bd-42b3-85d7-6ca46d97fe40"video/a
to show how its Generation 4 datacenters would be constructed and how they would operate./pp
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pa href="http://www.myspace.com/diplo" target="_blank"Diplo/a's resume includes producer, DJ, Mad
Decent label boss, and extreme globetrotter. Now we can add Grammy Nominee to the list too, as the
man born Wes Pentz has just been nominated for a Record of the Year Award. The nomination comes for
his work producing M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes," off her 2008 album iKala/i./p pThe Grammys air February
9, 2009 on CBS./p
Une "bulle spéculative" consécutive à la "hausse vertigineuse des prix" plane,
depuis 2001, sur le marché de l'immobilier à Dakar-Plateau, Grand-Dakar et la
banlieue de Dakar, indique une étude publiée, jeudi à Dakar, par la Direction
de la prévision et
On the December 3 broadcast of The War Room, co-host Rose Tennent read from an
article about Deborah Lawrence, an artist who submitted an ornament for the White House
Christmas tree
celebrating, among other things, Rep. Jim McDermott's (D-WA) support for a resolution to
impeach President Bush. Tennent read a quote from the article in which Lawrence said of the
attention surrounding her ornament: "It took on a life of its own, obviously. In a way, I'm
speechless." Tennent responded: "Good, stay that way. Don't talk," to which co-host Jim Quinn
added, "That's right, don't talk. Shut up, bitch."
According to
The Washington Post, first lady Laura Bush "asked members of Congress to pick local
painters" to decorate ornaments for the White House Christmas tree. McDermott "contacted a local
arts organization, which asked Lawrence, a collage artist, to create the local entry."
Media Matters for America has documented that Quinn previously introduced a
segment on Sen. Hillary Clinton by playing Elton John's "The Bitch is Back." Additionally, on October 7, Quinn asserted that Rep. Nancy
Pelosi, whom he referred to as "the Queen Bee," "hated" Clinton "because she didn't want Hillary
to be the most important woman in Washington," adding, "I'm sorry, but it seems to be the nature
-- I shouldn't say the nature of all women -- but it seems to be a trait that flows through, for
whatever reasons, the gender, if you will." Quinn has also stated that to feminists, even "a childless
feminist who looks like a Bulgarian weightlifter in drag" can be a "real woman," and has
repeatedly referred to the National Organization for Women as "the national organization for whores."
Talkers Magazine lists Quinn & Rose among its "Heavy
Hundred," which it describes as the "100 most important radio talk show hosts in America."
According to the show's website, it airs on 18
radio stations and XM Satellite Radio.
From the December 3 broadcast of Clear Channel's The War Room with Quinn & Rose:
QUINN: She needs something --
TENNENT: She sounds frightening.
QUINN: -- to become gainfully employed somewhere doing something for her fellow man besides this.
TENNENT: Argh. Yup, that's right. So, anyway, so she thought that she was making a very brave
statement -- turns out that the White House has decided that, "You know what, don't think that's
appropriate, we're not gonna hang it on the Christmas tree." So, but you know what? They have a
luncheon -- I didn't know this -- for all of the artists, then -- a Christmas luncheon. Guess
what? She jumped on the plane and flew to D.C. -- D.C. to go to the luncheon.
QUINN: Oh yeah --.
TENNENT: Yeah, she's there.
QUINN: She's there for the free meal.
TENNENT: Can you believe it?
QUINN: She's probably homeless and lives out of a shopping cart.
TENNENT: I just think that's a shame -- that's a shame.
QUINN: Well, you know --
TENNENT: Well, she said -- oh, she said, "An artist doesn't always get this kind of attention."
This is the artist speaking.
QUINN: Yeah, 'cause they're hardly ever that stupid.
TENNENT: Plus, like, you're weird. Like, now I'm starting to think that there's something really
wrong with you. That's the attention you're getting right now, sweetie. She said, "It took on a
life of its own, obviously. In a way, I'm speechless." Good, stay that way. Don't talk.
QUINN: That's right, don't talk. Shut up, bitch.
TENNENT: She said, "It's disappointing that I won't get to see it on the tree." And did you think
you would?
QUINN: Yeah, you know, I'll tell you what. There's -- there's always Photoshop. You know, you
could take a picture of it and --
TENNENT: She's an artist. She can figure all of that out, right?
QUIINN: Sure. Take a picture of the White House tree, put your little ball on it --
TENNENT: Yeah.
QUIINN: -- put it up on the morning of December 25th -- you know, the winter solstice celebration
-- and I'm sure you'll have a great time with it.
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/GizmodoGalleryAnnex.jpg"
style="display:block;" /For a few weeks you've been hearing about the Gizmodo Gallery in NYC,
catching a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/gizmodo-gallery/"plenty of teasers/a for the cool
stuffmdash;contemporary marvels, homemade wundergear and pieces of historymdash;we're showing down
at the Reed Annex on Orchard St. from today 12 noon through Sunday 4pm. Now, for the first time,
we're revealing ithe whole list/i. And it's annotated, for your pleasure./p pbStuff You'll Never
Own/bbr a href="http://gizmodo.com/5098715/at-giz-gallery-103+inch-plasma"Panasonic 103-Inch TV/abr
The biggest production HDTV in the world, this 103-inch diagonal plasma is coincidentally the
largest set we could fit into Reed Annex./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/372072/sony-xel+1-oled-tv-review-verdict-small-on-size-large-on-beauty"Sony
11-Inch OLED TV/abr OLED technology will power all flat-screen TVs in the future, but the
beautiful, high-contrast wafer-thin screens are still excruciatingly expensivemdash;in this case
$230 per diagonal inch, or $2500 for the set./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5042268/draganfly-x6-uav-ufo-thingy-packed-with-carbon-fiber-hdnight-cameras-and-gps"Draganfly
X6 RC Helicopter/abr A carbon-fiber remote-controlled helicopter designed to be stable in 18mph
winds or even if some of its motors die. It's GPS enabled and can be armed with a high definition
camcorder or night vision. And it looks like a Terminator./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/341896/hands-on-with-optimus-maximus-keyboard"Optimus Maximus Keyboard/abr
A keyboard with little OLED screens under each key, which can be programmed to display whatever
character, picture or animation and trigger any keystrokes you want./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/carbon-butterfly-gallery-rc-plane-lighter-than-a-sheet-of-paper-251243.php"Carbon
Butterfly RC Plane/abr This remote-controlled airplane is lighter than a piece of notebook paper
because of lightweight balsa, carbon fiber and Swiss-made gears./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/curvaceous-cell/new-au-infobars-shave-corners-just-need-lube-303709.php"Au
Infobar2/abr Despite it lacking a lengthy feature list, the Infobar2 is the most beautiful phone
from Japan's AU company and I think maybe the most beautiful in the world. On Loan from Gizmodo
Japan and Au./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/nab07-hands+on-red-one-4k-digital-cinema-camera-gallery-252750.php"Red
One Movie Camera/abr A digital movie-making revolution and a future-proof modular platform, the
10-lb. digital video camera shoots pristine 4K-resolution movies with its 12-million-pixel "ultra
high def" sensor./p pbStuff You Might Convince Your Mom To Buy You/bbr a
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/yamahas-ysp+4000-flagship-surround-bar-does-upscaling-hdmi-xmipods-288971.php"Yamaha
YSP-4000 Surround Sound Bar/abr This soundbar is a 5 channel surround sound system that uses cold
war submarine sonar tech to bounce beams of audio against walls and to your ears from different
angles./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/amazon-kindle-live/amazon-kindle-e+book-reader-launch-live-324292.php"Amazon
Kindle Ebook Reader/abr The first wireless E-Ink ebook reader with a cellular connection, so you
can buy and download books without the need for a computer. It bests the paperback but can't be
safely read in the bathtub./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5038693/review-pentax-w60-waterproof-camera-catching-whale-sharks"Pentax
W60 Waterproof Camera/abr I've had many happy times in Hawaii with this camera. It's my favorite
because it works to 30 feet and yet is small enough to pocket without causing a bulge./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/380767/hands-on-yamahas-tenori+on-synthesizer-we-love-it"Yamaha Tenori-On
Music Maker/abr A revolutionary rethinking of the music keyboard, this 16x16 pad of light-up keys
interprets a player's finger strokes and performs a light and sound show in response./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5096518/at-gizmodo-gallery-weird-japanese-usb-gadgets"USB Heated
Gloves/abr Thanko's Gloves use the power from a computer's USB ports to warm your fingers on cold
winter mornings./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5096518/at-gizmodo-gallery-weird-japanese-usb-gadgets"USB Neck Tie/abr
Thanko's USB powered neck ties have a built in fan for hot office afternoons./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/once-upon-a-time/using-belkins-weird-powerstrips-289558.php%3EBelkin%20Power%20Strips%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3EThe%20only%20power%20bricks%20we're%20proud%20to%20display%20have%20clever%20cable%20organizers%20and%20closing%20panels.%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20href="Wicked
Lasers Torch/abr Currently pending Guinness records for being the most powerful flashlight of its
kind, the 4100 lumen Torch can easily set paper on fire./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/will-it-blend-crazy-old-man-blends-everything-in-powerful-blender-215611.php"Blendtec
Blender/abr We don't know if Blendtec makes the best blenders, but if they can shred bananas the
way they can shred gadgets on their famous YouTube videos, we're sold./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/383843/casio-exilim-ex+f1-slow+mo-super-cam-full-review-verdict-totally-unique-shockingly-powerful"Casio
Exilim EX-F1 Super-Slow-Motion Camera/abr The first consumer-grade camera to deliver
1200-frames-per-second slow-mo, it can also shoot 60 full-resolution stills per second./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/359388/hands-on-chumby-wi+fi-widget-beanbag-cuddly-in-more-ways-than-one"Chumby/abr
It's an internet machine disguised as a pillow. I use it to check the snow report, play internet
radio, tell the time, check the surf and read the news, but it can run hundreds of additional
widgets./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5099074/aiptek-pocketcinema-v10-pico-projector-review"Aiptek
V10 PMP Pico Projector/abr Battery-powered mini projector plays movies from an SD card, using an
LED to project a picture up to 50" on the wall without burning your hand. One day, all cellphones
will have these./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/wild-charge-hands+on-really-does-charge-wirelessly-227215.php"WildCharge
Charging Station/abr A charging matt that uses nubs on a matt instead of wires to charge your
devices./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5100801/at-gizmodo-gallery-a-never-seen-before-tokyoflash-watch"Tenmetsu
Tokyo Flash Watch/abr Tokyoflash's Tenmetsu watch is one of the cleanest designed of their
collection, and has never been seen before the Gizmodo Gallery./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5018137/3800+piece-death-star-diorama-is-coolest-star-wars-lego-ever"Lego
Death Star/abr This Lego diorama includes 3800 pieces, 21 minifigs and is one of the biggest sets
ever made. It's also the only one that can destroy entire brick planets at will./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/tokyo-found-godzilla-beer-dispenser-roars-when-you-pour-225195.php"Godzilla
Beer Pourer/abr This Japanese gadget looses a Godzilla roar when you lock in a can and serve beer
from its mouth./p pbStuff You'd Have To Make Yourself/bbr a
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/mods/samus-wii-mod-tucks-rolls-explodes-with-goodness-303933.php"Metroid-Modded
Wii/abr Samus tucks, rolls and explodes out of this yellow light-up Wii./p pa
href="http://benheck.com/original-atari-2600-vcsp"Ben Heck Custom Atari VCSp/abr Almost a decade
ago, Ben Heckendorn sparked an entire underground scene of custom, hand-built game consoles when he
deconstructed the classic Atari 2600, transforming it into the Atari VCSp, complete with built-in
screen, sound amplifier, battery power, and aluminum frame. On loan via Ryan Block, gdgt./p pa
href="http://www.coin-operated.com/projects/ipomadness"Jonah's Slot Machine/abr This web 1.0 bubble
art project checked for short URLs and if you land on an available address, you've hit the
jackpot./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5098617/at-gizmodo-gallery-free-diy-laser-etching"Make's
Phil Torrone and His Laser Etcher/abr Yes, our friend Phil from MAKE Magazine is showing up with
his laser etching device to brand custom images onto any and every surface./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5099673/at-giz-gallery-reader-meetup-with-a-back-to-the-future-delorean"Back
To the Future-Modded DeLorean/abr Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads. Oh wait, yeah we
domdash;this mod is pre-Mr. Fusion./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5057856/nes-bong-is-one-third-party-nintendo-accessory-you-wont-find-at-gamestop"NES
Bong/abr A Nintendo controller modified into a contraption for smoking tobacco and only tobacco. On
loan from some stoner./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5020490/msi-wind-running-mac-os-x-also-thinks-its-a-mac-pro"PC Running Mac
OS X Using Hackintosh/abr We're partial to Macs at Gizmodo, but there's plenty of nice PC hardware
that we'd love to run Mac OS on, like this MSI Wind Nettop that uses Hackintosh to get it done. On
Loan from Brian X. Chen of WIRED.com/p pa href="http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/"Limor's
Wave Bubble Radio Jammer/abr An open source radio wave jammer that will disable connections like
those from Wi-Fi, GPS, cellular and RF. Illegal. Small enough to hide in a pack of cigarettes./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/super-tv+b+gone-bulked-up-to-90+foot-range-184527.php"TV B
Gone/abr This pocket sized remote spams IR power codes of common TVs to shut off different makes
and models. Not recommended for trade shows. Trust me./p pbThe Stuff of History/bbr a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5091517/at-gizmodo-gallery-ancient-apple-phone-prototypes"Apple Phone
Prototype/abr In the early 80's, Frog Design and Apple collaborated on this phone prototype with
electronic check payment and a stylus for use on the monochrome screen./p pa
href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffudder.de%2Fartikel%2F2007%2F07%2F17%2Fdie-design-vorfahren-des-iphone%2Fsl=detl=enhl=enie=UTF-8"Apple
Tablet Prototype/abr From Frog and Apple's "Snow White" design language comes this tablet, looking
very much like a cousin of the IIc./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5098364/at-gizmodo-gallery-the-original-sony-walkman"Sony's First
Walkman/abr The TPS-L2 Walkman did not record and was panned by the press before its release in
Japan in 1979. Right before becoming a huge success. On loan from Sony Tokyo Archives./p pa
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica"First Sony Digital Mavica Cam/abr This 1988
electronic camera paved the way for modern digital cameras. It wrote to a floppy disk and had a TV
output cable./p pa href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blickensderfer_typewriter"Blickensderfer
Portable Typewriter/abr George Blickensderfer's portable typewriters, introduced around 1892, were
advertised as "The Five-Pound Secretary." The Model 6, first sold in 1906, offered an aluminum
framework, at that time a relatively expensive and rare metal. On loan from Christopher Bonanos./p
pa href="http://www.clickondavid.com/polaroid.html"Polaroid Land Camera, Model 95/abr In the fall
of 1947, the chemist Edwin Land brought a few dozen new cameras and a pile of film to Boston's
Jordan Marsh department store, to demonstrate the instant-photography system he'd developed./p pa
href="http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/83celltech.html"Bell Labs Briefcase
Phone/abr First used in 1984 as an early example of a transportable cell phone (most other cell
phones were car only phones). On Loan from the ATT Archives and History Center./p pa
href="http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/70picture.html"Bell Labs Picturephone/abr
The first Picturephone test system, built in 1956, was crudemdash;it transmitted an image only once
every two seconds. But by 1964 a complete experimental system, the "Mod 1," had been developed and
wasbr displayed at the New York World's Fair, paired to a model at Disneyland. On Loan from the ATT
Archives and History Center./p pa href="http://www.dyson.com/about/story/"Dyson G-Force Bagless
Vacuum/abr James Dyson invented a bagless vacuum, which no one would manufacture because it would
kill bag sales. It was picked up in Japan in 1983, though, and James used the proceeds to launch a
company that today builds the world's suckiest vacs./p pa
href="http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press_Archive/200001/00-002E/"Sony Aibo ERS-111/abr Sony's
first revision of their 1st generation robot pet was able to learn and grow from having puppy-like
logic to dog-like logic. They were too unsophisticated to run or seem very lifelike, but they paved
the way for true robotic toys like the Pleo dinosaur./p pa
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn"First Cameraphone Prototype/abr Philippe Kahn
built the first cameraphone in 1997 out of a digital camera, a laptop and a Motorola handset with
some clever software. To date, well over a billion cameraphones have been sold. You do the math./p
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width="1" height="1" //divpThe England captain, Kevin Pietersen, is adamant that a favourable
report on security considerations in India will see the team return to the country to resume the
tour, with no dissenters. However doubts remain that all the players are fully committed to going
back, no matter what assurances are given./ppTheir reticence will not have been helped by the high
state of alert placed on a number of city airports across India, including Chennai, venue for the
first Test due to start next Thursday, because of an apparent warning of an airborne attack./ppThe
managing director of England cricket, Hugh Morris, sitting alongside Pietersen at a Heathrow
airport hotel today, said he was in the process of accessing more information. "We are obviously
concerned," he said, "but what we need to do is find out about the situation. I have spoken to our
security team in Chennai and when more information is fed back to me that will form part of the
security audit."/ppSpeaking before boarding a flight to England's holding camp in Abu Dhabi,
Pietersen said the trip to the Middle East "buys some time" for his team, allowing them to make a
decision on Sunday whether to continue on to Chennai or abandon the tour. An interim report,
submitted last weekend by the ECB's security adviser, Reg Dickason, is said to have suggested that
there were concerns that a sufficient level of security, as requested by the ECB, could be
implemented in the short time available./ppHowever Dickason has since travelled to Chennai and
Mohali, where the second Test is to take place, and is compiling a full report, early indications
of which are said to be more positive. This will be reviewed in India by Hugh Morris and Sean
Morris, the chief executive of players union the PCA, both of whom travelled there yesterday, and
then presented to Pietersen's team on Sunday./pp"We will assess the situation on Sunday night,"
said Pietersen, "but I am confident we will have 15 lads who are going to play a Test match next
week. We can buy ourselves some time in Abu Dhabi and I think it is fantastic we've got a bunch of
players who went to India initially and now want to go back there. It's important that we go back
and rub shoulder to shoulder with the Indian people in their time of need and show our support,
hopefully by going back there to play some Test cricket." Given the private army that will surround
the team should they return, rubbing shoulders with anyone other than a commando would seem to be
out of the question but the thrust is clear./pp"There is a collective now," Pietersen added. "The
guys are just waiting on the reports from Reg Dickason on Sunday night. If there are any major
catastrophes or alarm bells ringing I think Hugh Morris will be ringing the board to say that the
collective decision will be to come home. But at the moment we are very focused on going to Abu
Dhabi and on starting a Test match on Thursday. The guys just want to get out there and play
cricket. That's what we love doing and it's a huge stance by this team to jump on a plane and go
and do the business."/ppPietersen was at pains to stress that no player had to be persuaded to
rejoin the tour, specifically Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison, about whom there had been
speculation that they might not want to tour. "I didn't persuade anyone," Pietersen said. "I
respect everyone's individual concerns. They are men and make decisions for themselves." Flintoff
and Harmison, he said, "have become a lot more open-minded in the last couple of days. They are two
big players and we certainly want them in our team."/ppHowever all that has happened so far is that
the team have agreed to go to Abu Dhabi. Beyond that depends upon Dickason's report and the
personal decision of each individual. "One thing we do not want to do is twist someone's arm up
their back," said Hugh Morris. "Over the next couple of days we will be collecting absolutely
up-to-date information and presenting that to the players. I would like to think that if our
security team came back and said it was safe and secure, we would all go over there."/pdiv
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/General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner has arrived in Washington to deliver testimony at Senate hearings
scheduled for today and tomorrow, and as we a
href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/03/wagoner-driving-volt-mule-to-congress/"reported late
yesterday/a, his transportation this time was not a private jet, but rather a series hybrid a
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Volt mule/a in the body of a a
href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/03/paris-2008-chevrolet-cruze-meets-an-eager-europe/"Chevy
Cruze/a. Ford CEO Alan Mulally also ditched his private plane for a ride down to DC a
href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/mulally-chooses-escape-hybrid-for-d-c-road-trip/"in a Ford
Escape Hybrid/a, while Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli made the trip in a Chrysler Aspen Hybrid. UAW
President Ron Gettelfinger flew down, but on a commercial flight (he never had a private jet in the
first place and it likely would've been awkward if he chose one automaker's vehicle over the other
two).br /br /Testimony will be given by the four men and a number of other witnesses today and
tomorrow, though it still appears as if there aren't enough votes in the Senate to get federal aid
for the automakers passed immediately. Even if aid in the form of government loans is approved,
there's still the matter of where the money will come from. The only two options on the table are
converting $25 billion in already approved loans for investment in green technology to be used by
the automakers to keep their businesses afloat, or carving out the money from the $700 billion in
aid that Congress has already approved for the financial industry. We'll be keeping an eye on
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Carl Dietrich always dreamed of building a flying car. Instead, the pragmatic inventor ended up
creating what he calls a roadable aircraft, a plane that folds up its wings on landing and takes to
the highway. In 2010, after three years of development, his vehicle, the Transition, will be
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pWell, this was unexpected. Perhaps coming to terms with the fact that increasingly few people give
a shit about a href="http://www.grammy.com/"strongthe Grammys/strong/a, the Recording Academy
tonight announced its list of nominees for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, and those nominees
were...shockingly relevant. (Read the whole list a
href="http://content.grammy.com/grammy_awards/51st_show/list.aspx"strongHERE/strong/a.)br / br /
You know who got the most nominations? Lil Wayne! He's up for eight Grammys! That's right, not the
Eagles or Bob Dylan or John Legend or U2 or some boring old fart your dad likes. Lil Wayne! Pretty
risque move, Grammys. I like it.br / br / While it would be pretty awesome if the Grammy for Album
of the Year went to an album with a
href="/article/news/49855-dear-god-please-let-this-be-the-lil-wayne-album-cover"strongTHIS FUCKING
COVER/strong/a, it probably isn't going to happen, as Weezy has some pretty stiff competition in
that category: Coldplay's emViva La Vida or Death and All His Friends/em (which will probably win)
Ne-Yo's emYear of the Gentleman/em (!),em /emRobert Plant amp; Alison Krauss's emRaising Sand/em
(which will win if Coldplay doesn't), and-- hey why not?--Radiohead's emIn Rainbows/em. Yes, Lil
Wayne and Radiohead are competing for Album of the Year. Please dear god, let those two pair up for
one of those collaborative medley things that the Grammys always do. Please!br / br / But you know
what's even crazier? M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" is up for Record of the Year! It totally won't win
(it's up against Coldplay, Robert Plant amp; Alison Krauss, Leona Lewis, and Adele), but can you
imagine if it did? Can you imagine if the entire Grammy telecast ends with M.I.A., Diplo, and
Switch up there at the podium? How cool would that be? Also: this is the only Grammy nomination
that M.I.A. received. Weird, huh?br / br / All in all, Coldplay are up for seven awards, Jay-Z,
Ne-Yo, and Kanye are each up for six, Alison Krauss, John Mayer, Robert Plant, Radiohead, and
Jazmine Sullivan (hey, there's a party!) are all up for five, and Adele, Danger Mouse, the Eagles,
Lupe Fiasco, George Strait, and T.I. each got four noms. Not bad, right? br / br / As usual, there
are some pretty interesting nominations in the genre categories as well. Daft Punk, Robyn, Moby,
Kylie Minogue, Cyndi Lauper, and Brazilian Girls are the noms for Best Electronic/Dance Album, Daft
Punk, Hot Chip, and Sam Sparro will duke it out with Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Rihanna for Best Dance
Recording, Death Cab for Cutie is up against Radiohead, Coldplay, Springsteen, and Kings of Leon
for Best Rock Song, Beck, Death Cab, Gnarls Barkley, My Morning Jacket, and Radiohead are the
Alternative noms, while Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Lupe Fiasco, Nas, and T.I. are up for Best Rap Album.
Stephen Colbert and David Sedaris are up for Best Spoken Word Album, Flight of the Conchords got a
Best Comedy Album nom, and Jonny Greenwood's emThere Will Be Blood/em score is up for Best Score
Soundtrack Album. br / br / No Age get to fight Metallica for Best Recording Package, while
Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are both nominated for Best Boxed Set or Limited Edition Package.
Danger Mouse and Nigel Godrich are up for Producer of the Year, Justice got a Best Remixed
Recording nom for their mix of MGMT's "Electric Feel", and Cornelius is up for Best Surround Sound
Album. Weezer, Gnarls Barkley, Erykah Badu, and Radiohead are up for Best Short Form Music Video,
as is that Jack White and Alicia Keys James Bond song, which is weird, because that video is
emterrible/em.br / br / The Grammys air on CBS on February 8, 2009. I can't wait to see what M.I.A.
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The engineering intelligence team at Airbus assembles a stunningly thorough report on every aspect
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pEditors note: Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to Antarctica to explore a
mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet. Following is the seventh of her updates on the
effort as part of ScientificAmerican.coms in-depth report on the quot;Future of the
Poles.quot;/ppMcMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA--Thanksgiving weekend was long and gray.nbsp; All work
stopped in the U.S. Antarctic program.nbsp; While the holiday feasts and polar companionship are
wonderful, the associated delays are difficult. More than two weeks behind schedule, the British
Antarctic Survey Otter, a bright red plane with skis, was hopping between skyways and fuel caches
when it was stalled by the holiday at the South Pole. The South Pole turkey was delicious and the
staff incredibly generous, but the downside is there was no fuel available until the end of the
weekend.nbsp; Our survey plane was similarly tripped up.nbsp; We had planned to fly on Sunday
evening once the airport opened again, but we were grounded.nbsp; Our fuel tanks were empty.nbsp;
The skyway was open but the fuel pits were not.nbsp; Unable to fly on fumes, we had to wait till
Monday. a
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