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Video and Pictures from Microsoft Store Grand Opening in Scottsdale
Many thanks to Chris Hunkele for the pics and video’s from the grand opening! If you live in Phoenix or Scottsdale you like saw the news that Microsoft has opened it’s first (new) Microsoft Store in the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall and from the looks of things, it was a huge hit. With a few hundred [...]
Continue reading...Antarctica is HUGE – Bigger Than the US
Oct 20, 2009 
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Saw this on TwitPic, it’s the United States superimposed on top of the land-mass that is Antarctica and holy-hell, I honestly didn’t realize it was so big.
Continue reading...I’m a Closet Artist… Apparently
Aug 27, 2009 
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I’ve always identified myself as a “scientific person”. I have a Computer Science degree (virtual high-five to Laurence Hartje), I’ve been obsessed with computers and technical gadgetry since I was 10 (virtual high-five to Grant Gochnauer) and I glommed onto software development at the age of 12 and have loved it ever since. I pretty [...]
Continue reading...World Map of Undersea Cables from 1901
Feb 9, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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(Click Image to Enlarge) This absolutely fascinates me… what you see above is a world map from Eastern Telegraph from 1901 showing the break-down of the companies world-wide wiring networks. You think of what we have today, and I’m still impressed that ships can spool out and drop down enough cable, long enough, to run wires across [...]
Continue reading...Video Games Show First Signs of Dominating Entertainment Market
Jan 24, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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From cdfreaks.com: At least in terms of consumer spending, retail video games were more popular than DVD and Blu-ray discs in 2008, according to an international research group. Games accounted for 53 percent of entertainment software spending worldwide, Media Control GfK International said. These figures do not include movie or game rentals. The momentum is clearly in video [...]
Continue reading...Fulfillment by Amazon / Easysell – Interesting Idea
Jan 24, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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As a long-time customer of Amazon and general lover of the company (both for buying, selling and computing platform), I was recently posting a slew of things to the Amazon Marketplace (a damn-easy way to sell things you have, by finding the listing in Amazon, and clicking “Sells Yours Here” on the product page) and [...]
Continue reading...Visualization of the World’s Air Traffic – Unbelievable
Dec 12, 2008 
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This comes in courtesy of Robert Heron. It’s a fascinating animation of the world’s air-traffic. I cannot believe how much air traffic takes place over the US and during any given day, I don’t think I really ever see an airplane in the sky or hear one.
Continue reading...Meteor (Aliens) Crash Down Over Edmonton, Canada
Nov 23, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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Uhhh… did no one here see War of the Worlds? Isn’t that sort of how it starts in that movie too? Ok that first bit was mostly sarcastic, but if you are interested in this kind of stuff, and the increasing trend recently of “lights in the sky” sightings has you intrigued, Google for “2012” and if [...]
Continue reading...Controlling the Future of Gaming and Entertainment Starts with Game Consoles
Nov 20, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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A study by JPR found the PC gaming market to be 2.6x larger than console gaming market… that includes every Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii together (totally somewhere around 74.7 million units worldwide) with an estimated 196 million “gaming machine” class of PC shipped world wide. Yet, big companies and analysts have been claiming that [...]
Continue reading...Obama Team Names Net Neutrality Advocates for FCC Review
Nov 16, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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Slashdot reports that the Obama-Biden transition team have named two long-time Net Neutrality supporters to head up it’s FCC Review team. The two chosen were Susan Crawford, a University of Michigan Law School professor, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC member and Wharton professor. This choice by the Obama-Biden team sends a clear message that [...]
Continue reading...30 Year Study – Happy People Socialize, Unhappy People Watch TV
Nov 15, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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A University of Maryland study of 30 years worth of national data confirmed that watching television may provide temporary pleasure, but lead to long-term depression while socializing with friends and reading lead to longer term happiness. The study also found a direct correlation between watching TV and times of economic crisis (e.g. now), with many people [...]
Continue reading...Barack Obama Opens up Governmental Proceedings Using YouTube
Nov 15, 2008 (Click to Rate!)
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In a move that I can only describe as “This is why I voted for Obama”, President-elect Barack Obama has announced that the weekly Democratic address will not just be recorded on radio (what’s that?) but also on video that will be posted to YouTube and cross-posted to Change.gov along with weekly presidential updates. In addition [...]
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Oct 22, 2009
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