Jeff P. Henderson

"Sure when you go to a carrier's website you can see a map of their coverage and it usually looks pretty awesome. What about in the real world? DeadCellZones catalogs user-reported dead zones to show you real-world coverage. Plug in a zipcode, city, or street address into DeadCellZones and it scours the 100,000+ entry database of user-submitted dead zones. You can filter the results by viewing all carriers, individual major carriers like AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon, or you can—less helpfully—see a generic "other" category for smaller carriers." - Jeff P. Henderson from Bookmarklet

It would be a big shame if the CrunchPad does not make it. I am really looking forward to this. They could always sell it in the UK and do the normal cross the pond type of pricing, ie sell it for the same number they do in the states, therefore making up to twice as much for it. - Travis Koger

"Our Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, vetoed a California legislative finance bill – AB 1176. The letter is terse and to the point. And the first letter of each line in paragraphs 2-3 are even terser and more to the point. Schwarzeneggers battles with the state legislature are epic. But this just goes way beyond epic. It’s something for the history books." - Jeff P. Henderson from Bookmarklet

I say it's "E". - Jeff P. Henderson

"According to Einar Rosenberg, Apple has begun experimenting with putting RFID chips with the possibility of a wide range of uses, such as doubling as a credit card, assisting in identifying lost or stolen devices, paying for mass transit, or possibly even using it to sync with a Mac. The source adds that there seems to be a decent chance that we will see it in the next iPhone." - Jeff P. Henderson from Bookmarklet

"Toyota U.S.A. has removed a photo feature from one of its Web sites and apologized to Flickr photographers whose images appeared on the site without their permission. Flickr users recently noticed that a Toyota 4Runner site was running some outdoorsy photos that appeared to be copied from Flickr. A Flickr forum soon lit up with gripes about the Toyota site, including complaints from photographers who said they hadn't given permission for their pictures to been used in an ad. Flickr user Jakerome identified over 40 Flickr images used on the 4Runner site and compiled them in three galleries. Photographer Michael Calanan, who found one of his pictures copied (seen in the image above), has been tracking the developments on his blog. He labels his photos on Flickr as "All Rights Reserved" and says he was never contacted about the use of his images on the Toyota site. Late Wednesday, a Toyota rep posted an apology on the Flickr forum:" - Jeff P. Henderson from Bookmarklet

"Crazy story over on Design Boom about artist, Stephen Wiltshire who is currently drawing the Manhattan skyline from memory. Wiltshire who was diagnosed with autism when he was three also has an extremely powerful photographic memory, allowing him to memorize building shapes and their relative placement having only looked once at the actual city. Amazing." - Jeff P. Henderson from Bookmarklet

Goes to show that we humans are far from completely understanding the brain and the complexity of its actions. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

That is absolutely incredible. - Nicholas Kreidberg

"Even vegetarian zombies crave these brains!" - Jeff P. Henderson from Bookmarklet

Awesome! - Nicholas Kreidberg

"What could be a better feeling than beating a world record? Beating your own world record. The Tesla Roadster has put an extra exclamation mark on its world-conquering single-charge antics by raising the bar from 241 miles back in April to an even more impressive 313 this week. As you can see in that homemade "world record" sign above, that's 501 kilometers in metric terms, or pretty much the exact distance between Paris and Amsterdam. The Global Green Challenge in Australia -- where this feat was achieved -- allows only production battery-powered vehicles to compete, meaning that the new record is down to driver skill on the part of one Mr. Simon Hackett, and not some newfound techno mojo. Kinda makes those long recharge times seem like less of a burden, no?" - Jeff P. Henderson from Bookmarklet

fyi your link does not work. but I saw it at Best Buy today. Almost bought it at the site but it was *really* loud. the frames per second is nice but the shutter is loud. beware! Viewfinder very nice. Really dig it - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"According to a poll conducted in the UK, people who admit to illegally downloading music also spend more money on music every year than those who don't. None of this changes the legality of downloading copyrighted content, of course, but if the same is true for most file sharers across the globe, it seems like something the music industry and the RIAA might want to consider in their crusades against file sharing." - Jeff P. Henderson from Bookmarklet

"Way back in January of 2007, we reported on the Strange family, who were suing Sacramento radio station KDND-FM for the wrongful death of Jennifer Strange, who was found dead in her home after competing in a contest to try to win a Nintendo Wii. The contest -- "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" -- involved seeing who could drink the most water without urinating, and Jennifer, who did not win, left the studio and later died. Her autopsy later showed signs of water intoxication. Yesterday, a California jury ruled a wrongful death in the case, and ordered Entercom Sacramento LLC, a subsidiary of Philadelphia-based Entercom Communications Corp., to pay $16.5 million dollars to her family as a result of the actions of the radio station's employees." - Jeff P. Henderson from Bookmarklet

@Fioriulanti - I think these kinds of morning DJs are generally jackasses with no brains, so... BTW, it wasn't mentioned in this thread so far, but when the DJs were told by callers about the dangers, one of them replied "Yeah, they signed releases, so we're not responsible. We're OK." http://cbs2.com/nationa... - Andrew C