Obama has a new wireless broadband initiative. I don't know enough about it to know what to think. So I'll delay linking until I sort out what it means. Mainstream press coverage of technology usually sucks anyway.

Escalation in Sony v. Apple?

Patent attack launched on Google's open video codec -- The article points out how Google is working both sides of the street. Flash (with h.264) allows certain "features" (e.g ad insertion in youtube videos). WebM allows them to be open-sourcey.

Nokia + Microsoft. This makes a lot of sense, because Nokia is very strong in Europe, and Europeans fucking loves them some Microsoft.

Got a Verizon Moto Droid 2 on a work account. It's got GSM so I can use it in Europe. I've got the "mobile hotspot", so I can use wifi tethering for other devices. I watched a couple of episodes of Futurama from Netflix on my wifi iPad using the mobile hotspot. I felt very geeky.

The slide out keyboard on the first Moto Droid sucks ass. The Droid 2 has a good one. For long-form email (with paragraphs 'n shit), I prefer a keyboard. The touch screen is great for short stuff.

Counting personal and work related mobile devices, my current inventory is:

iPad (2 each)
2nd gen iPod Touch
4th gen iPod Touch
Xoom (for just a few days more)
Moto Droid
Moto Droid 2
Moto Atrix (coming soon)
Intel Atom/Ubuntu netbook

Super mobile geeky.

Frugal Jerry

Silver XOOM, WiFi-only Xoom

panasonic 42" plasma tv $480.00

"Aaron Barr believed he had penetrated Anonymous... But had he?"

chef'n citrus squeezer

"Dual gear-mechanism increases pressing power"

tablet comparo

timeouts 100 best british films

Does Apple get 30% when they start selling indulgences?

Marjorie Cameron: The Wormwood Star

via kembra fb

ah the good old days of no kids, no health concerns to stay alive for the kids, and when Lupa was on fire!!

TOP TEN MEALS OF 2002

#1 Da Guido (Piedmonte, Italy)

#2 Taubenkobel (Burgenland, Austria)

#3 Kai (NYC, NY)

#4 Zur Rose (Sud Tyrol, Italy)

#5 L'Astrance (Paris)

#6 Temple Club (Saigon)

#7 Jewel Bako (NYC, NY)

#8 Altwienerhof (Vienna)

#9 Locanda Dell Arco (Piedmonte, Italy)

#10 Lupa (NYC, NY)

Interesting Neal Stephenson article about the history of rockets and the strange lock-in we can encounter along paths of technical innovation.

To employ a commonly used metaphor, our current proficiency in rocket-building is the result of a hill-climbing approach; we started at one place on the technological landscape—which must be considered a random pick, given that it was chosen for dubious reasons by a maniac—and climbed the hill from there, looking for small steps that could be taken to increase the size and efficiency of the device. Sixty years and a couple of trillion dollars later, we have reached a place that is infinitesimally close to the top of that hill. Rockets are as close to perfect as they're ever going to get. For a few more billion dollars we might be able to achieve a microscopic improvement in efficiency or reliability, but to make any game-changing improvements is not merely expensive; it's a physical impossibility.

There is no shortage of proposals for radically innovative space launch schemes that, if they worked, would get us across the valley to other hilltops considerably higher than the one we are standing on now—high enough to bring the cost and risk of space launch down to the point where fundamentally new things could begin happening in outer space. But we are not making any serious effort as a society to cross those valleys. It is not clear why.

OMAP 5 - TI's 4 core processor for tablets

The Daily

Oh, good, I was worried about Arianna's retirement fund.

Xoom Superbowl Ad

more my speed and hopefully my price is the (the little white one)
2012ish Audi A1 All Electric
yes i am studying up for the learners permit!!

google tablet

Intel throwing down the gauntlet in the mobile space?

MS gets 264 back into Chrome.

iPad the second rumors