Prepackaged Town Halls?
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Chip Reid and Helen Thomas against Robert Gibbs at the daily press briefing on the “tightly controlled” town hall meeting. Gibbs keeps saying “let’s have this discussion after the meeting.” Also look at how she grills George Bush and how he answers. Video after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Article Tags>> bush | helen | obama | politicsTaplet PC Dreamin’
Posted by Rey
I’ve been flitting around tech stores trying out multi-touch capable laptops searching, hoping, for the perfect Multi-Functional All-Purpose Swiss Army Tech Tool. What I’m hoping is that this tool replaces my leather Bible, works as a note-taking tool, allows me to design anything from articles to websites on the run, and has the sheer work-horse power to create and display professional presentations. I dream of a Perfected Tablet PC.
But Tablet PC’s are just not there yet. They offer all the features that you can find on your standard multi-touch smart phone, but I’m not looking for a glorified phone or a laptop transformer—I’m looking for the Future of portable computing. So here’s where I’m thinking the market needs help:
Article Tags>> computing | laptop | pcApple WWDC 2009
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No, I’m not there but I’m following the live feed on The Apple Blog and Gizmodo:
- 15″ Macbook Pro, 7 hour battery life with an SD card slot ($1699).
- 13″ MacBook now MacBookPro, with unibody, SD Card, 8GB of memory, up to 500GB or 256GB SSD drive with backlet keyboard and FW800. $1199
- Uber model 17″ with 500GB HD, at $2499. Yup, still can’t buy a Macbook Pro.
- New Safari does purdee things that are meh. Plugin crash that stops the plugin, not the browser.
- Quicktime X rebuilt from the ground up. Big woop.
- Snow Leopard (Leopard users: $29 single/$49 Family) running all major OSX apps in 64 bit coming out December (Windows 7 should be out October, in case you’re wondering).
- Ms Exchange Support built into Mail, iCal and Address book. This was a Duh, no brainer. Should’ve had that long ago.
- iPhone OS 3.0: 100 new features. cut/copy/paste across aps. Shake phone for undo. Landscape keyboard. MMS available but AT&T MMS later this summer (HA!) HTTP Streaming AV. Javascript performance boost. HTML 5. Form auto-fill.
- iTunes rentals available for iPhone.
- iPhone Tethering now available over USB or Bluetooth. AT&T doesn’t support it at launch (HA!)
- Find My iPhone (new feature): your iPhone floats from the ether, or at least tells MobileMe ($99 per year) where it is. Your family and friends can also track you down with it. (SkyNet coming soon)
- A bunch of boring iPhone Ap stuff. Some random announcment of 16gb 3GS iPhone ($199) and 32GB iphone 3GS ($299) and the base 3G model remaining at $99.
- No Camera on the front of the iPhone. bah.
All in all, no big woop. Maybe some ups for OS3.0 but, with a jailbroken iTouch I’m not overly hyped.
Article Tags>> apple | keynoteLinks N’ Junk: Spring Is In The Air
Posted by Rey
- russia. American capitalism is gone with “a freeman’s whimper”. i don’t know what that means but it sounds bad.
- gotham. five super powers you can have.
- dc. sotomayor’s record on the SCOTUSBlog (HT: jeremy)
- lawn. gorgeous desktop photos of the most hated weed.
- art. mail art—I’m tempted but I think I only want to do this with people I know.
- church. with the increase of home churches, I think we’re going to get more stories like this one.
- economy. good-bye paper money? (ht: freakonomics)
- future. brooklyn roof-top farm (ht: kottke)
- life. help wanted: write the book of life.
- ilife. iphone apps to get better ifotos.
- tek. five best netbooks.
MCF’S Another Poll of Randomosity
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MCF’s Questions and answers here and my answers after the jump.
Article Tags>> mcf | randomosityBen Linus Nursery Rhyme
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After the jump:
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Extremely Right (Or Left)
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Did you catch the leaked unclassified Home Land Security report on Right-Wing Extremists? I think the hoopla (especially in the blogosphere) was a bit over the top considering the language in the document.
Article Tags>> extremists | media | newsCADIE is Now Online
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Many of you already know about CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity) which has been in the testing stage for several years. Today, scientists were confident enough to enable the first self-aware computer to see which would be the first tasks that it (she, I guess) would accomplish.
Article Tags>> april fools | artificial intelligence | CADIE | jokesLinks N’ Junk: Conspiracy Theories
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I was just watching a movie that forced me to research creepy stuff which was irksome enough to allow me to create a Links N’ Junk totally obsessed focused on conspiracies. The creepy thing isn’t so much that I’m linking to this stuff; rather the fact that some of this is actually official documents on government websites and news articles that didn’t make a blip on the public radar.
Don’t lambaste me for this; I just managed to squeeze a post out of that movie.
Article Tags>> bilderberg | conspiracy theories | linksWho’s Really Watching Watchmen
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“Justin!”
The group of late high-school age boys yelled from behind my place in the line across to the emptying theater. Minutes before they were snickering at the huge crowd saying things like “check out the seventh graders” and “For all the people who have to be home by ten.”