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Awesome.

Impressive.

Via Ace.

Tomorrow is an important holiday. Be sure to remind your special lady.

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Take a few minutes and read this great story about the SR-71 spy plane.

Major Brian Shul: “I loved that jet”

John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War is now available in eBook format for free! I’ve really enjoyed this one and the sequels. More free eBooks coming, just follow the link.

Here are my predictions.

I don’t expect a 2nd generation iPhone yet… but do think a refresh to the current model is likely.

1st Prediction: iPhone RAM increase to 16 GB.

Looking at Apple’s history with the iPod, they followed the initial model design with a smaller version. I think this is likely with the iPhone, for a few reasons. First, some folks just don’t need the Internet access. Second, a lower-priced model would expand the market.

2nd Prediction: iPhone Mini (my name, yeah it sucks, I’m sure Steve and company will come up with something cool)

Lots of press about iTunes movie rentals. This seems likely, so I’ll go along with the crowd.

3rd Prediction: iTunes movie rentals (although I can’t see the reported 24 hour time limit being right, that’s just too short).

But just doing rentals with the existing hardware (iPods, iPhone, AppleTV, and of course Macs) seems incomplete. I think there will be something new here, something using AppleTV and FrontRow, but more interesting to a larger, iPod-savvy market. DVR technology is cool, but the technical issues for Apple to provide a solution that works with OTA, cable, and satellite are significant (witness Tivo’s struggles).

4th Prediction: An AppleTV line, probably three sizes of flat-screen, that includes the existing AppleTV functionality plus much larger hard-disk, and tight integration with Leopard and iDisk.

How about you? I’ve opened comments… Let’s have some fun!

This is pretty cool.

Via BoingBoing.

My step-daughter’s 9th grade English teacher, “Zrinka”:

She’s the first lady to appear on stage (the tall blonde) on this first video clip.

The next three clips are fairly short… appear to be some sort of amazon-fetish kind of thing…

A coworker did a hilarious music video for today’s Halloween contest at the office.

He won.

Great job, Garth!

Update: For my iPhone-enabled readers, who can’t get to the embedded YouTube content, here’s the link to the video.

Via PowerLine:

I liked this so much I bought the Saxophone Colossus (with Bonus Sampler) on iTunes. Great stuff!

Here is amazing video of a three kite performance by multiple kit world champion Ray Bethell.

Something light and fluffy to end the work week.

I’ve previously blogged about the sci-fi series Firefly. Great show, unfortunately only 15 episodes. Plus a cool movie.

Now comes news that Universal HD will broadcast the show in 1080i high definition. I’ll be setting our DirecTivo HD receiver to record them all.

This is pretty cool… I’ve already created and downloaded several. Nice quality too.

WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music