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10 Interesting Links From January 29th

January 30th, 2010 Greg Smith No comments
  • Demolition of 107-year-old home in Denver historic district angers neighbors – The Denver Post – About two weeks ago, a neighbor, Camille Palmeri, noticed that the north wall of the brick structure had been broken through, leaving a gaping hole roughly 10 feet square exposing the entire interior to the elements. Burbano told the city the wall fell down on its own.
  • KOB.com – ‘How-to’ sex article raises eyebrows – The column that appeared in the campus paper last week is essentially a graphic, how-to-guide for having anal sex. It's more than 700 words dedicated to a subject you would expect to find in an adult book store.
  • Rank-and-file county staff reveal fear of Sheriff Joe Arpaio – Fears first spiked in December 2008, when county administrators spent $10,000 to sweep county offices for illegal wiretaps they worried had been installed by Arpaio. None was found. But rank-and-file workers still became terrified of possible surveillance, lawsuits or even arrest. Arpaio's frequent retort to critics that the innocent had nothing to worry about did not allay their concerns.
  • Southwest taking Wi-Fi fleetwide – Dallas Business Journal: – Dallas-based Southwest (NYSE: LUV) is scheduled to begin installing the equipment in the second quarter of 2010. It will do so on about 15 aircraft per month, with the goal of fitting Southwest’s entire fleet of 540 plans with Wi-Fi service by early 2012.
  • 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
  • Apple A4 SOC unveiled – It’s an ARM CPU and the GPU! – Bright Side Of News* – A4 is a System-on-a-Chip, or SOC, that integrates the main processor [ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore i.e. Multi-Processing Core, identical to ones used in nVidia Tegra and Qualcomm Snapdragon] with graphics silicon [ARM Mali 50-Series GPU], and other functions like the memory controller on one piece of silicon – not unlike what Intel is trying to achieve with its future "Moorestown" Atom processor that debuted inside LG's Smartphone.
  • Target says no to farmed salmon – Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal: – Target consulted with the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, Calif., on a better option, and decided to go with wild-caught salmon from Alaska, which is certified as sustainable to the standard of the Marine Stewardship Council.
  • The 2010 Sonic Blast – Intel blew out the fourth quarter and is firmly on the way to historic high earnings in 2010. Wall Street initially bid the shares to a new 16-month high but reversed into a long weekend presaged by Friday's options expiration. A record 65% gross margin and 29% higher revenues than the year previous were ignored as investors decided this is as good as it gets; that its all down hill from here. Looking at the nation's dismal political news, steamrolling a health care bill few want and ignoring China's blatant attacks on American high technology, it's easy to put on the dark glasses. However alluring it is to take the past year's gains to the bank and seek safer haven, this ignores an expansive global economy and multiple technology product cycles from which Intel and other chipmakers will handsomely benefit these next several years.
  • What analysts should ask Apple | Mac | MacUser | Macworld – The point is that Apple isn’t just being contrary when it fights to keep its plans secret. If you announce a good idea a year before you can implement it, you had better be the only company in the world that could implement something that customers will think is a “good enough” version of what you promise. “Good enough” plus “cheaper” or “for sale sooner” is how the world got stuck with Windows. Apple has some precedent here. Enough said.
  • Clearwire submits flurry of wireless permits in Chandler – A company's flurry of requests in Chandler for wireless communication permits could be a sign the city – and perhaps the Valley — will soon become part of the first nationwide WiMAX wireless broadband network planned by Kirkland, Washington-based Clearwire Corporation. But company officials aren't talking.
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    9 Interesting Links From December 11th

    December 12th, 2009 Greg Smith No comments
    • KOB.com – Albuquerque non-profit provides protection for women – Imagine having your own personal bodyguard outside your home all day and all night at no cost. That’s what an Albuquerque non-profit group is providing, specifically for abused women.
    • The Official Site of Rio Rancho, NM – Outdoor Lighting Task Force – The task force will provide the Governing Body solutions to address existing outdoor lighting concerns, feedback regarding existing outdoor lighting ordinances, and recommendations to regulate outdoor lighting in future development areas while taking into consideration safety, reduction of light pollution, aesthetics and energy conservation.
    • 300 competing in Lego championship at ASU – Arizona State University is hosting the First Lego League robotics championship this Saturday where 300 students ages 9 to 14 statewide will be vying for a chance to compete in the national finals in Atlanta.
    • Man dies after sitting in recliner for eight months – KSN TV – In March, Webb's 550-pound husband, Tillmon, sat down in a recliner inside their trailer in Greenwood. Wearing nothing but a blanket, the 33-year-old didn't move from that recliner for the next eight months.
    • Supreme Court dismisses challenge to Illinois forfeiture law | csmonitor.com – The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a victory to the Cook County State's Attorney and the Chicago Police Department when the justices unanimously dismissed as moot a challenge to Illinois' controversial forfeiture law.
    • Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) » The Seven Words You Can’t Say In A Dragon iPhone App – Friends, this screenshot represents my g*ddamned best effort to get the Dragon app to properly parse the spotlight lines from George Carlin’s “Seven Words” routine. The seven naughty words appear twice in this passage. In the final sentence, I simply read them naturally. But when I spoke them in the second sentence, I spoke with the measured tones and eloquent baritone of Frasier Crane, enunciating carefully and confidently, over and over again, one word at a time, coaxing the Dragon to do the right thing and giving the software the best chance possible. What you see there in the second sentence is the very best I could do to get Dragon Dictation to correctly transcribe some extremely naughty dictation.
    • Intel scraps graphics chip based on Larrabee| Reuters – Intel decided to scrap plans for the graphics card because Larrabee's silicon and software development are behind where it had hoped they would be at this point in the project, spokesman Nick Knupffer said.
    • Pearl Harbor Day 2009: three enduring mysteries | csmonitor.com – A better explanation for the enormity of the US defeat might be that the attack was a so-called black swan event: something so far outside the realm of expectations that Americans could not conceive of it occurring.
    • Intel: Initial Larrabee graphics chip canceled | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News – Intel said Friday that its Larrabee graphics processor will initially appear as a software development platform only.
      This is a blow to the world's largest chipmaker, which was looking to launch its first discrete (standalone) graphics chip in more than a decade. "Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where we hoped to be at this point in the project," Intel spokesman Nick Knupffer said Friday. "As a result, our first Larrabee product will not be launched as a standalone discrete graphics product," he said.
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    9 Interesting Links From May 30th

    May 31st, 2009 Greg Smith No comments
    • Astronauts Spot Mysterious Ice Circles in World’s Deepest Lake | Wired Science | Wired.com – Astronauts aboard the International Space Station noticed two mysterious dark circles in the ice of Russia’s Lake Baikal in April. Though the cause is more likely aqueous than alien, some aspects of the odd blemishes defy explanation.
    • Groceries for iPhone Review | Software | iPhone Central | Macworld – I don’t really get excited about single-purpose utilities for the iPhone and iPod touch. But Sophiestication Software’s Groceries app merits the excitement. It makes grocery lists easy to create, manage, and—dare I say—a little fun.
    • Pro AV Products and Providers – Lectrosonics, Inc. BUCKCHERRY ROCKS OUT WITH LECTROSONICS – Rio Rancho, NM – May 2009… Buckcherry, the Los Angeles, California-based hard rock band that achieved critical acclaim with the 2006 RIAA platinum, Grammy-nominated album 15, is back with a vengeance and touring once again in support of their latest album Black Butterfly. Consisting of Josh Todd (vocals),Xavier Muriel (drums),Jimmy Ashhurst (bass),Keith Nelson (guitar), andStevie D. (guitar), Buckcherry is in the midst of an extensive tour that has them travelling both domestically as well in Europe. No matter where the tour takes them, guitarist Stevie D. and his guitar technician Dean Mitchell rely on a wireless setup to deliver Stevie’s signature guitar sound while providing the mobility to roam freely about the stage—and for this, they count on Lectrosonics.
    • New Mac clone maker to open retail store in Calif. | Apple – CNET News – "It's exciting. We are trying to stay as close to Apple as we can with our products," Rashantha De Silva, Quo founder, told CNET News. "We are trying to mimic things as much as we can. I'm hoping that Apple sees the value in what we are doing."
    • Patients On Hookworm Therapy Swear By Treatment – cbs5.com – Musician Scott Richards and artist Debora Wade are two Bay Area patients on the hookworm treatment. Richards and Wade both suffer from an inflammatory bowel disease called Crohn's. When faced with using a parasite as therapy, both patients felt they had nothing to lose.
    • How To Tell If You Have Religious Food [Get Rich Quick] – Over the weekend, I picked through a bag of Cheetos—or "my retirement chips" as I was calling them—looking for any recognizable icons I could sell. My theory was that any average bag of Cheetos should contain at least one auction-worthy chip. I had mixed success—out of one bag, I found four recognizable icons, but only one of them was definitely religious in nature. I have emailed Frito Lay to inquire about a buy-back program, but have yet to hear from them. I'd really rather not bring eBay or PayPal into this.
    • Atlantis, crew land in Calif. after Hubble mission : NPR – Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned safely to Earth on Sunday, detouring from stormy Florida to sunsplashed California to end a 13-day mission that repaired and enhanced the Hubble Space Telescope.
    • News : Officials consider raising speeding fines – Rio Rancho Observer – Speeding over 35 miles per hour over the posted limit could net you a $459 fine, that’s more than double of the $225 fine levied now.

      Drivers going 10 miles per hour or less than the speed limit will be fined $159, opposed to $50 it now costs.

    • www.KOB.com – 4 Investigates: Swimming pool drain covers – It was a horrific accident for a 6-year-old Minnesota girl named Abagail Taylor that drew the nation's attention to pool drains.
      In 2007, the girl had 21 feet of her small intestine sucked out of her body when she sat on a kiddy pool drain.
      "You don't think about your child being disemboweled in 18 inches of water," her father, Scott Taylor, said.
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