Monday, December 29, 2008

Filmmaker Magazine: ThinkFilm Default

Filmmaker Magazine: Blog: "Anthony Kaufman details the efforts of some filmmakers to receive the overdue minimum advances they are owed by THINK."

Sunday, December 28, 2008

GSR, SSR, SCR, PASP

Biosignal Analysis and Medical Imaging Group paper:

"GSR is also known as, or closely related to, the sympathetic skin response (SSR) and skin conductance response (SCR). In clinical neurophysiological literature, the response is known also as the peripheral autonomic surface potential (PASP)."

Two Guys in a Canoe on a Lake of Toxic Sludge

The TVA Disaster

Brought to you by citizen reporters, because the 'real' reporters are apparently too scared of big media, with its close ties to big coal, to go and tell it like it is.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Tiny rural WISP FAQ

Tiny rural WISP FAQ:

Great how-to for unlicensed rural WISP. Very cool stuff!

"I started with Rubbermaid food containers for enclosures."
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Deliberant AP Solo

Deliberant AP Solo

Nice unit with Linux OS.

Bring Broadband Wireless Internet Service to Rural Areas

How to Bring Broadband Wireless Internet Service to Rural Neighborhoods, Cities and Towns

Collection of relevant info.

YouTube - Teedra Moses - Be Your Girl

YouTube - Teedra Moses - Be Your Girl

Another one to watch when I get some broadband.

Lots more in this cool list.

YouTube - Vivian Green - Emotional Rollercoaster

YouTube - Vivian Green - Emotional Rollercoaster

Blogging this so I can watch next time I get me some big thick broad-bandy net connect.

ClearShot Communications, for rural Wimax?

ClearShot Communications, LLC:

"develops individual towers and tower network projects independent of a prior 'build-to-suit' or lease agreement with a carrier in certain high-potential areas."

First Step for Cherry Valley WiFi? A New York Made Monopole

Monopoles Design Fabrication and Installation | Fred A. Nudd Corporation

Stick it on our hill, attach T1, turn on the wiMax. How hard could that be?

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Notebook shipments exceed desktops for first time - ZDNet.co.uk

Notebook shipments exceed desktops for first time - ZDNet.co.uk:

"Sales of notebook PCs exceeded those of desktops for the first time ever in the third quarter of 2008,"

And off-lease IBM ThinkPads with XP are a steal these days.

MySpace.com - Ashley Phillips - Philadelphia, Soul / Pop

MySpace.com - Ashley Phillips - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Acoustic / Soul / Pop - www.myspace.com/ashleyphillipsband

Flood of sludge breaks TVA dike | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Flood of sludge breaks TVA dike | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean:

"Millions of yards of ashy sludge broke through a dike at TVA's Kingston coal-fired plant Monday, covering hundreds of acres,"

And how many days did it take NBC to report this? Wasn't even headlines on GE's network Nothing But Crisis by Wednesday evening. GE is big into 'clean coal' don't you know.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

WiMAX laptop clients and embedded mobile PCs drive the device market

WiMAX laptop clients and embedded mobile PCs drive the device market: "“WiMAX will grow by meeting pent-up demand and offering users a lower cost alternative to existing services,” says Daryl Schoolar, In-Stat analyst. “There will be different classes of operator control over devices. Despite what some technology advocates have said, not all WiMAX devices will follow the Wi-Fi model of full consumer ownership and control.”

Recent research by In-Stat found the following:

- Annual WiMAX device shipments will break the 10 million mark in 2010.
- Future trends with WiMAX devices are multi-band radios and chipsets that support both LTE and WiMAX.
- Challenges to WiMAX device growth are current 3G services, LTE, and the current economic climate."

Monday, December 22, 2008

Microsoft again extends Windows XP drop-dead date

Microsoft again extends Windows XP drop-dead date:

"computer dealers that build PCs to order -- will now be able to obtain Windows XP Professional licenses through at least May 30 and likely long after,"

Scientists Hack Cellphone to Analyze Blood, Detect Disease, Help Developing Nations

Scientists Hack Cellphone to Analyze Blood, Detect Disease, Help Developing Nations:

"cellphone hack could bring cheap, on-the-spot disease detection to even the most remote villages on the planet."

Bush to Women on his way out: "FU!"

Cecile Richards: Bush's Parting Shot Undermines Health Care:

"doctors and health care workers of all kinds can deny patients vital health care information and services, without the patient even knowing. No patient is exempt from the reach of this rule: sexual assault victims could be denied information about emergency contraception that could prevent unintended pregnancy, moms hoping to time their pregnancies can be denied contraception at their local pharmacy, young adults hoping to be tested for sexually transmitted infections could be denied treatment by health care employees who oppose premarital sex."

That's how much he cares about the individual rights and beliefs of his fellow Americans.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

THE CRASH -- What Went Wrong

THE CRASH -- What Went Wrong - washingtonpost.com

Shouldn't that be WHO went wrong...

"With these deals, known as collateralized debt obligations, the world glimpsed the raw power of unchecked financial markets operating full-throttle to the point of self-destruction. The cascading losses on CDO bonds have undermined the solvency of several large banks and obliterated the trust that is the bedrock of all functioning markets. The debacle also has called into question the competence of Wall Street, the independence of bond-rating firms, the prudence of insurers and the foresight of regulators."

HughesNet Satellite Internet [is misleadingly called] Broadband Internet Access

HughesNet Satellite Internet - High-Speed Broadband Internet Access: "Therefore, we do not recommend the following applications for use over HughesNet:

* Real-time online gaming, particularly 'twitch' games such as Quake, Diablo etc.
* Real-time collaboration and conferencing, such as NetMeeting or videoconferencing
* VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) Internet phone service
* Online day trading

In addition, connecting to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) with the HughesNet service is not recommended....HughesNet Technical Support does not provide configuring or troubleshooting support for subscriber's issues associated with VPN connections."

YouTube - HughesNet Commercial

YouTube - HughesNet Commercial

Probably the most deceptive ad on television today. Hughesnet is not broadband. When that woman says "You're welcome" most Hughesnet users see red and scream!!

On the Hughesnet web site, where they sell the service, it says: "we do not recommend the following applications for use over HughesNet:

* Real-time online gaming, particularly "twitch" games such as Quake, Diablo etc.
* Real-time collaboration and conferencing, such as NetMeeting or videoconferencing
* VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) Internet phone service
* Online day trading

That's Hughes talking. So Hughes admits the service is not broadband as most people understand that term. Yet they continue to runs adds where they assume the viewer is going to say "Thank you" for selling me this?

Let us be clear:

* Hughesnet does not support VoIP or telecommuting via VPN.
* It is not a substitute, or viable alternative, to wired or WiMax land-based broadband connectivity.
* You cannot watch a full length hi-def movie on HughesNet or play Internet radio all day.*
* You cannot keep your operating system and applications automatically update on Hughesnet.**
* You cannot watch YouTube for a couple of hours.**

And you can't do anything on HughesNet when the weather is bad or there is ice on the dish. And it will cost you $80 a month for 5 gigabytes of traffic per montn, that's 425 megabytes of daily traffic (for reference, one hour of Internet radio=50 megabytes, one 5 minute Youtube video=40 megabytes, the last Mac OS upgrade was 600 megabytes).

**If you exceed 425 megabytes, for example if your operating sytem does a 500 megabyte update in bakcground mode, then your connection is throttled for 24 hours and won't get more than dialup speed during that 24 hours.

Jerry Beranek's Working Climber Video

At Bailey's - Jerry Beranek's Working Climber - from the 3 DVD set
Awesome videos -- can you watch the second one without getting dizzy?

Forest Industry Network - Rope, Tree Climbing

Forest Industry Network - Rope, Tree Climbing
Cool stuff for tree farmers!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Hot Winches

3700 DC WARN Works Winch from GoWarn
Pull yourself together!

Warn PullzAll Video

Warn PullzAll (video Santa-directed Object)

THE CRASH -- What Went Wrong - washingtonpost.com

THE CRASH -- What Went Wrong - washingtonpost.com: "The Merrill Lynch bond deal known as Mantoloking has ended up with a different punch line: proof of the frenzied, foolhardy drive for upfront fees that helped bring down the world's financial markets and trigger the largest federal bailout in history."

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

ROSA LOVES ♥ Stories ♥ Hope Transfusion

ROSA LOVES ♥ Stories ♥ Hope Transfusion
Great shirt for a great cause!

All About Symbian Review: Nokia E71

All About Symbian Review: Nokia E71: "In some ways the E71 is the iPhone's nemesis - using almost the identical dimensions in a totally different way, for a totally different set of users. The iPhone excels at media consumption (Music/photos/video/web), while the E71's strengths are in media creation (typing documents, Office work, camera, camcorder, and so on - the usual Nokia/S60 strengths). Both devices can do most of what the other does, just not as well. The attempted crossover is evidenced by the iPhone 2 platform adding enterprise features while the E71 now plays DRMed WMA music, etc. Then there are the starkly different form factors. And the different target markets (personal vs company use). Add in the elegantly-simple- but-not-as-deep UI of the iPhone compared to the useable but-you-need-to-be-fairly-tech-savvy-to-find-everything approach for S60 on the E71, and I can only emphasise once again that they're polar opposites."

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

post-click marketing - Google Search

post-click marketing - Google Search

Handy set of results.

Q-Tip – Listen free at Last.fm

Q-Tip – Listen free at Last.fm:

"Q-Tip was born Jonathan Davis in New York City, 1970. He's an American rapper, actor, and record producer, and is the former leader of the group A Tribe Called Quest, from which he was also known as “Abstract”. He converted to Islam in the mid-1990s, and changed his name to Kamaal Ibn John Fareed. The Q in Q-Tip’s stage name stands for Queens, the borough of New York City from which he hails. It is also said to be a name that represents his ability to get into one’s ears. He also refers to himself as The Abstract (originally The Abstract Poetic) and Kamaal the Abstract."

Monday, December 8, 2008

Dell: Want XP? That’ll be $150 please!

"How much extra will people people pay to avoid Vista? Dell has pushed the price of avoiding Vista up to $150." Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com

And worth it! A new machine with XP installed is hard to find and I am hearing horror-stories from folks trying DIY retro-fitting of XP on machines that come with Vista.

An alternative? You can pick up an off-lease IBM Thinkpad running XP for about $350. I just ordered one for a family member. Will report back on the results.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Nigeria 'child witch killer' held

BBC NEWS | Africa | Nigeria 'child witch killer' held: "Police in south-east Nigeria have arrested a man who claimed to have killed 110 child 'witches'.

'Bishop' Sunday Ulup-Aya told a documentary film team he 'delivered' children from demonic possession.

But after his arrest, he reportedly told the police he had only killed the 'witches' inside, not the children.

Child rights campaigners say children are frequently abandoned, hideously injured and even murdered because their families believe they are witches."

Bush's Radical Alternative ot Social Security for Boomers

ABC News: Transcript: Charlie Gibson Interviews President Bush: "...wouldn't it be interesting for baby boomers not to retire in nice places, but to retire -- during their retirement, go help people deal with malaria or AIDS. In other words -- and I'm not suggesting that's what I'm going to do, but it is the kind of thing that intrigues me."

Intrigues him? Like, wouldn't it be intriguing to ship a bunch of boomers to malaria infested swamps?

The Doghouse--Now this is clever advertisinf

The Doghouse campaign from Jacques Pennay. (To be honest, I buy my shirts and jeans there, but not gifts from SO.)

Transfer Palm Treo Data to Blackberry Curve ~ Turbulent Sky

Transfer Palm Treo Data to Blackberry Curve ~ Turbulent Sky

Adobe Photoshop Elements for Macintosh

Trial version: Adobe Photoshop Elements for Macintosh. Wonder if it is a good substitute for PaintShop Pro on Windows boxes.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

WSJ: Boomers relocate to retirement homes and cemeteries

The Future for Home Prices - WSJ.com: "Dowell Myers, a professor of urban planning and demography at the University of Southern California, warns that the retirement of boomers over the next two decades is likely to depress house prices in many areas. As boomers relocate to retirement homes and cemeteries, there will be a lot more sellers than buyers in parts of the country, he says."

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Black Friday (shopping) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Black Friday (shopping) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "JANUARY 1966 -- 'Black Friday' is the name which the Philadelphia Police Department has given to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. It is not a term of endearment to them. 'Black Friday' officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing.[12"