Listening to: EXPOSÉ on the Journal: Chemicals in Food and Jeffrey Toobin - Bill Moyers Journal
Here you go… It’s a gnat’s fart away from Spook Country - you’ve just gotta replace the ubiquitous Google Maps with you’re own massive data overlay system.
After almost a year of strong sales that have made it one of the dominant smartphones in the United States, the iPhone has settled down to a less-than-spectacular pace: roughly 600,000 units a month, according to the company.
Wow… by what measure is that less than spectacular? This one:
…Nokia, the world’s largest maker of cellphones, sells more phones every week than Apple has sold since the iPhone’s introduction.
A photo of the Phoenix parachuting … captured by the MRO. There is something about that photo that transforms my perception of space exploration - not too sure how to describe it. It’s a feeling of watching events unfold, rather than simply experiencing the results… and I know that at 15 light minutes there is no difference between those two positions, but the photo communicates that.
I had an afternoon to kill yesterday so I checked out ‘Iron Man’. Robert Downey Jr was a genius pick for the role of Tony Stark. The movie is great fun and I figure that as geek (anti-)heros go Tony Stark is pretty good. I left with a silly grin on my face.
I then killed the rest of the afternoon by looping around the Bay using nothing but public transport (I needed to use 3 networks… but it’s doable).
Listening to: Running Up That Hill [12" Mix] - Kate Bush
Every 12 months or so I find a game that is so compelling I just NEED to play it… I have found just such a game. Chronotron. Simply awesome! Robots, time-travel, non-linear, brain exploding goodness.
