During the 8 min film, at least two pedestrians come within feet of being hit, cars are narrowly missed, and 18 red lights are run. The whole thing was completely illegal.
- Berge Gazen
Hey, it was Gates who released the mosquitoes.
- Anika
"…although a lot of people have it, most of them wouldn't actively choose it." LOL
- Victor Ganata
witty soundbites are all well and good but Firefox has become increasingly unstable in the past few releases. I hope FF 3.5 addresses that.
- jbrotherlove
I write software in my sleep during the busiest facets of my project; and they work in the morning
- RAPatton
RAP- done that myself once or twice :) Creepy.
- Roberto Bonini
Me too, but the software I write in my sleep usually just does stupid stuff that we don't really need. :)
- iTad
I don't know what's freakier, the fact that you write code in your sleep or the fact that you remember it when you wake up.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I dreamed last night that I had to organize a meet up, based on #hashtags, and everyone had the wrong tags. Everyone ranting at me woke me up at 5am.
- Ian May
i was dreaming about new features in feedly last night...but they aren't there this morning.
- Trent Olson
Trent: if you share with us some of those dreams, we will try to look into making them reality :-) Have a great sunday!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
thanks Edwin! to be honest, they weren't very good anyway! you've already implemented my "exclude websites from using mini bar" idea, for which i'm hugely thankful...
- Trent Olson
seen this before.... years ago... made me laugh then and still does..gotta admit it almost rings true!
- Rob Sellen :o)
maybe that's why I wake up at 3 am.
- @CrystalinaB
Searching for something has led me past this post. Was going to press the "like" button and realized I already did. So this is my second "like".
- Sarah Peterman
This is definitely true for me. I sometimes think about programs I'm working on in my sleep too.
- Mike Child
Either a serious addiction to World of Warcraft or could be Bipolar - not that there's anything wrong with that, but it would definitely explain the meltdown... My best guess it that is it's a combination of the 2.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
OR possibly just an extremely spoiled and/or rebellious and/or dramatic teenager... *Sigh*
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
There goes your love life when your crush sees this.
- AJ Batac (/-_-)
In another house, probably far away from this one, a parent would have appeared near the beginning of the video and dude would have caught a bad one. LOL.
- Rahsheen the Dream
“Asphalt Spot” is a combination of a parking lot for 20 cars, a 300 m2 exhibition room and public facilities near Tokamashi in Japan. Designed by R&Sie - http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009...
japan really has extraordinary avant garde architecture. they seem to take chances more than any other group of architects from around the world
- Cee Bee
"CheckMyColours.com by Giovanni Scala is a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits. All the tests are based on the algorithms suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)."
- AJ Batac (/-_-)
from Bookmarklet
"The State Department asked the social networking Web site Twitter last weekend to postpone scheduled maintenance that would have cut daytime service in Iran on Tuesday, just as protests against official election results were heating up, U.S. officials said."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"Twitter, which has emerged as a leading unofficial news source from and into Iran since the Friday presidential election there, is still up and running in the Islamic republic, even though it has reportedly blocked text-messaging services."
- Kol Tregaskes
:-) If you highlight any text *then* click on the bookmarklet that text will automatically be put into the comment box on the bookmarklet.
- Kol Tregaskes
Twitter users screamed about this outage. I think State Dept reacted to that. Sounds like they're taking credit for something they didn't do.
- Kevin Arth
Am I the only person who is troubled by this? The webosphere has completely condemned Yahoo and other companies that conform to Chinese government dictates, but apparently it's OK for the U.S. State Department to, in effect, use Twitter the company to affect foreign policy?
- John E. Bredehoft
John, great point. Sets the stage for shutting Twitter down or otherwise commanding it for State purposes.
- phil baumann
John, it's definetly worth thinking about but i think there are differences in the examples.
- SteVe C
It's probably best for Company X to have pre-established guidelines on how to respond to requests from any government. Under what circumstances will the business cooperate with the request? Under what circumstances will the business refuse to cooperate, for the good of the business? (Note that I differentiate between "requests" and "legal orders.")
- John E. Bredehoft
type specimens represent a whole category of book collecting. i have a few in my design library but i do not collect them per se. accidentally accumulate is more like it. surely designers roger black, jonathan hoefler and matthew carter have many, many fine examples. this particular type specimen comes from a special place and a unique person. i have had it for more than a dozen years. as a student at the yale school of art i became friends with one of my professors, paul rand. mr rand and i both collected all things written and designed by jan tschichold. on a particular visit to mr rand’s home he asked me to sit down, said he had something to show me. he went back to his library and returned with a completely tattered old book. the spine was broken and it was in a horrible state. of course i loved it.
- Cee Bee
"A pair of ultra-luxurious Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman limousines from 1969 and 1971 that belonged to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are being offered for sale by a collector in New Zealand. Hef ordered the 21-ft. long limos with the rare 6-door configuration, of which only 140 were built, new from the Mercedes factory in Stuttgart. The 600 Pullman, last of the hand-built Mercedes models, was the transport of choice for VIPs including the Pope, Coco Chanel, John Lennon, Jack Nicholson, Aristotle Onassis, and Elvis Presley, among others. Both cars are painted black and feature forward facing seats at the center doors, a hydraulically operated reclining seat at the rear, curtains in the rear compartment, tinted glass, a soundproof glass center division with an intercom system for communicating with the chauffeur, and tons of chrome and wood paneling. The 1969 model is finished in black leather and features a refrigerated bar cabinet, while the 1971 has red leather and a built-in television. Both mint condition cars are priced at about $165,000."
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
"Eye-Fi has been building out its product line of memory cards that use Wi-Fi to upload photos directly from a digital camera to the Internet. Now it’s going one step further with the Eye-Fi Pro, aimed at professional photographers and enthusiasts. This new four-gigabyte card has support for a variety of files — RAW, JPEG and various video files — and well as other cool features. You can now geo-tag photos, or mark the exact location where they were taken. You can upload in a peer-to-peer fashion, meaning no wireless router is need to upload data to a computer. And you can gain easier access to Wi-Fi hot spots."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
For "pro" photographers? Not many pros use cameras that support SD afaik -- don't all the full frame cameras use CF? And wouldn't 4GB be a bit skinny from a size point of view anyway?
- Brian Sullivan
love my eye-fi card but geo tagging has been availble and working for some time now. wi fi hot spot service has lacked though so cool.
- adolfo foronda
I've been a big proponent of Eye-Fi for some time and will definitely pick up one of these cards. I shoot with the Canon 1D mark III which uses both CF & SD so the card integrates with the camera nicely. All of the 1D bodies take SD and there are adapters for CF that I am told will work. In the past, I've had my RAW files write to CF and .jpg to SD but this opens up many more options...
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- Rick Bucich
I believe that they have an insert to turn this card into a CF compatible one. Not sure though. 4GB is skinny for sure, but the geotagging capabilities seem pretty cool and as far as I know this is the first time that eye-fi has supported RAW.
- Thomas Hawk
Any idea how the geo-tagging feature works? Where does the location information come from?
- Brian Sullivan
I'm not sure how it works Brian. I suspect though that it triangulates somehow with wifi hotspots and pulls geo information from there. I'd think this could be useful for ensuring that photos in a city that you weren't familiar with were geotagged.
- Thomas Hawk
Geo-tagging comes from wifi networks in the area of where the picture was taken so it does not work in remote or rural areas. The location of the wifi router is established by Skyhook Wireless. The only issue I ran into was from a recent move, all my photos at the new house were geo-tagged to the old address. It was a simple process to update the address through Skyhook however.
- Rick Bucich
I still not sure how this works. Sounds a bit Rube Goldberg to me. I presume the wi-fi hotspot location is for commercial hotspots only? In this situation there is no GPS or cell tower access info -- is that correct?
- Brian Sullivan
@Brian it's based on MAC address of the access point. Publicly transmitted beacon packets
- mjc
The whole way these cards work is a little quirky. One particularly annoying thing is that a file should just be a file as far as getting it from the card to your computer via wi-fi. For example, when I'm on my home wi-fi network, it will upload photos I've taken, but not videos... I still have to drag out the cable, so its utility for me is diminished.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Had a look at their info flash piece -- so from what I can tell they continuously travel around looking for routers and tag their location some other way (via GPS?) and enter them into a data base indexed by MAC address? So the location of the photos is the determined via the MAC address of the nearest Wifi locations where the pictures were taken?
- Brian Sullivan
I believe you are correct Brian - you can read more at http://www.skyhookwireless.com. Logical -Eye-Fi has added a video upload feature that can be added to prior existing cards on a subscription basis. I have my card set to upload via any unsecure network and send a text message to cell if it finds one, very handy to have all my photos uploaded by the time I get home.
- Rick Bucich
Just adding a bit about how we geo-tag -- some of the comments above are correct. The routers can be open, closed, secured, etc... It doesn't matter. The card will still pick them up since routers have a beacon that usually broadcasts 10 times a second. As long as Skyhook mapped that MAC address, and as long as we've picked it up -- you'll get geotagged. If you're in the middle of...
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- Ziv Gillat
apparently this product is actually not available in CF format, only SD.
- Thomas Hawk
Guys, please don't use the CF adapters. Note our site -- they're not supported, and don't work well for various reasons. We know that they exist, but we've tested them, and due to several reasons, are not supporting nor recommending them. Thx
- Ziv Gillat
I hope older cards can be updated by firmware to support these new features.
- Rodfather
@Logical Extremes: Most Eye-Fi Cards support videos as well, not just JPG's.
- Ziv Gillat
@Rodfather: All cards get the Selective Transfer feature for free. Raw, Ad-hoc and movies are not possible as upgrades. Thx.
- Ziv Gillat
With the iphone tether - thinking it is going to be really hard to lose pictures no matter what the issue or person is.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Oh I bet it's possible. They probably just won't give it to us since they want to sell more cards.
- Rodfather
Is it true that the connection can take up to two minutes?
- Michael Fidler
Perhaps 2 minutes from time the picture is taken to it showing on Flickr or whatever site, not sure. Works pretty efficiently in my opinion. Just uploaded from using my cell phone as a network access point: http://www.flickr.com/photos... Not nearly as speedy as using a wifi router but that is probably to be expected.
- Rick Bucich
very cool Rick. to be expected with the upload speed through a cell phone network.
- Jeremiah Njoroge
Skyhook uses WiFi access point information provided by users. You can check the coverage here http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitwo... and you can also submit the location and MAC address of your own router to add to the database. I did this about 2 years ago and I'm still not listed.
- Gilbert Harding
Pictures are rather easy to uderstand but is it bringing the OLYMPIC GAMES representation down to simle CorelDraw (or whatever editor) curves? Dont think this would make a favour for the Games. It's a vast event, I think the posters should implement something to make everyone say WOW, but not only those who are on good terms with those lovely curves and graphic design in general.
- Rinat
Lexus' long-awaited supercar will take the fight to its Italian competitors with a scintillating 220mph top speed Lexus has its sights set on joining the supercar elite! We have it on good authority that Toyota has finally succeeded in its bid to find a higher top speed for Japan’s most expensive, and fastest production car ever, the Lexus LF-A. One source close to the company told us over a year ago that the development team was not happy with the car’s top speed of 199mph, and had sent it back to the shop for fine-tuning. And now, after a year of testing in wind tunnels, strategic revisions to the car’s aerodynamics and minor adjustments to its V10 engine, we are the first to reveal that the R&D team has finally found the extra legs. The LF-A’s 550bhp-plus 4.8-litre V10, channeled through a 6-speed semi-auto transmission bolted to a transaxle, is now capable of over 218mph. That’s faster than the production Nissan GT-R and puts the LF-A on hallowed ground with the likes of Ferrari Enzo, Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 and Pagani Zonda F, that have similar top speeds.
- Cee Bee