rip
rudi stern / the let there be neon dude
sp
ence vineyards
this small howell mountain vineyard is owned by my brother johns friend allen spence. they are starting to get some attention for the $65.00 cabernet sauvignon . johns working on some of the product and web design. they should have a new sight up in the fall. so i guess hes getting paid in grape. and hes been warned about flash.
Cable Industry May Need to Spend
Heavily on Broadband Upgrades
Cable-television operators may require another round of multibillion-dollar network upgrades to keep up with rivals in the fast-growing high-speed Internet hookup business, a report from the industry's research arm suggests.
OMFG, we have a
Fucktard-in-Chief
Well, he's a history major, not a geography major.
Rockstar Supernova is a reality TV show where contestants battle it out to become the lead singer in Tommy Lee's new band Supernova. Somewhat interestingly, I went to high school with one of the contestants:
Storm Large. That really is her name, and she is in fact quite large (well, tall at least.) I have to confess I haven't seen it yet though.
Jim, I got the first season of Lost on DVD. Watched the pilot last night. Pretty wild stuff! They're in an errant node in the space time continuum, right? Don't tell me!
USDTV: Low Cost, Little Interest
service: small set of cable channels for low price
technology: compressed digital video (h.264) transmitted over terrestrial TV channels using the spare capacity on local TV stations' digital carriers
similar predecessors: "wireless cable" (aka MMDS) offerings by telcos in the mid-90's, based on re-use of community/educational TV spectrum for MPEG-2 signals.
outcome:
Chapter 7.
Very involved
food blog via Atrios.
weve been getting a burnt rubber smell blowing through since yesterday.
Until Recently Full of Promise,
Satellite Radio Runs Into Static -- paid subscription required
When iconic morning host Howard Stern moved from regular radio to satellite earlier this year, it was supposed to be a coming of age. Instead, the industry's two rivals, XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., are still reporting heavy losses, despite a few years ago telling investors they would need four million customers each to break even. XM crossed that mark more than a year ago; Sirius hit it earlier this year. Last year, XM lost $667 million, and Sirius lost $863 million. And Sirius is facing a potential exodus of subscribers as a clutch of promotional one-year trials soon comes to an end.
Death by podcast.
Google's gift
INFORMAL TEST RUN GOES SMOOTHLY FOR FREE WIFI SERVICE, BUT DON'T EXPECT LIVE HUMAN TECH SUPPORT
Verizon launches the three-channel DVR Verizon has a fiber-based IPTV system, which uses MPEG-2 video.
This
description of an installation may give you an idea why the FIOS system will cost Verizon billions more than the SBC/AT&T approach: plain old twisted pair, plus advance modulation and advance video compression.
I registered this domain 7 years ago today.
joe klein: professional wanker
beerfest starting august 25th
a fun dave 3m0ry tin foil hat thread
blogofascist humorYou know, some might argue that Chuck Roberts blows retired crack whores in exchange for their used Burger King collectable cups. Not ME, mind you -- I'm just sayin' some people might argue that.
I watched without sound, so I must have missed something, but apprarently
this film sent to me by the JPost proves that the rumors of a protracted Israeli attack on Lebanon over the past month are completely false.