Know your neighbors
This site will tell you who the registered sex offenders are who live in your neighborhood, and even show you on a map where they live, and their photo.
http://www12.familywatchdog.us/
Fortunately our immediate neighborhood doesn’t show any threats. How about yours?
Today’s Anagram – Don’t be evil
Google’s corporate motto is “Don’t be evil.” Their hypocrisy with the Chinese government censorship demands inspires today’s anagram.
A brief history of hard disk drives
In college, around 1982, I was taking a graduate-level computer graphics software programming class, and we were using an expensive minicomputer that was considered advanced for its time (I don’t remember the brand or model though). The system had a large cabinet on the side for the hard disk system, and there were removable packs [...]
Maybe Clinton was onto something…
Former President Bill Clinton’s reputation as a formidable and empathetic speaker is well-known. Of course, he’s also known for his formidable and enthusiastic inability to “keep it in his pants,” so to speak.
Well, there is news today of a new study:
Forget pretending you are talking to one person or concentrating on a single point in [...]
Disney’s purchase of Pixar is deja vu all over again
Lots of folks are weighing in on the prospects for Disney following the purchase of Pixar.
I think the deal could be hugely successful for several reasons, most of them have been discussed ad infinitum by many analysts and bloggers, so I won’t repeat them here.
One point that hasn’t been made is that Steve Jobs [...]
MPAA gets caught making unauthorized DVD copies
The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is the organization which rates movies in the United States. They also are active in fighting piracy of movies. According to the MPAA’s website,
Movie pirates are thieves, plain and simple. Piracy is the unauthorized taking, copying or use of copyrighted materials without permission. It is no different from [...]
Behinds the scenes at the hi-def Super Bowl
Here’s an interesting article about preparations for high-definition broadcasting from this year’s Super Bowl.
In addition to just about every camera being high-definition, there is some interesting prototype technology being used.
ABC Sports will field test the Sony advanced prototype HD super slo-mo camera system, according to Robert Willox, director of marketing for content creation at Sony [...]
Tivo getting a recycle bin
Tivo Series 2 devices will be getting a recycle bin as part of a future update. Which is a nice feature, but unfortunately, DirecTV isn’t planning any updates to their DirectTV Tivo boxes, so this will be yet another nice feature we won’t get.
Google capitulates to Chinese censorship, tells US to stuff it
So, Google will comply with Chinese requirements for censoring access to unacceptable content.
But they refuse to provide aggregated statistical data on search terms used, with no personal or tracking data included, requested by the US Government to better target pedophiles. Read the explanation provided by the Department of Justice for the request.
Oddly, this behavior seems [...]
Guy’s rules for giving a great demo
Guy Kawasaki has written several great books over the last few decades. He’s now got a blog, and is posting articles daily with great advice for entrepreneurs.
Today’s post, How to Be a Demo God, is a must-read for anyone who does software demos.
Back when Guy was CEO of ACIUS he gave a class on [...]
LCD HDTV prices will fall in the coming months
More news today of additional LCD manufacturing capacity, this time from a joint venture between Panasonic, Hitachi, and Toshiba, and sooner than originally scheduled. Previous announcements of capacity increases in the last few weeks were made by Sharp, Samsung, LG. This added capacity will accelerate the price drops seen over the past few months.
Meanwhile, production [...]
Useful Mac OS X function key tricks
From Appleology.com, here are some useful function key tricks: Navigate through the dock, menu bar, and open windows with your keyboard.
the F2 key enables you to navigate with the left side of the menu bar.
the F3 key enables you to navigate the dock, using the left and right arrow keys to move between icons and [...]
Southpark takes on Scientology
This is absolutely hilarious.
Blogger helps put a wanna-be terrorist out of business
Rusty Shackleford of the Jawa Report has a post today about his role in helping the FBI nab a potential terrorist. Quite an accomplishment, and there’s also insight into how the Patriot Act provided the FBI with the ability to close the deal, so to speak.
Shining the light on Saddam’s links to terror
A few weeks ago, I wrote about emerging evidence about Saddam Hussein’s links to terror training camps.
New information about the impact of these links is discussed in an article by Thomas Joscelyn.
THE REVELATION that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq trained thousands of Islamic terrorists has important ramifications for European counterterrorism efforts. According to officials, one of [...]