http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904800304576474373989319028.html
""When a country is corrupt to the point that a single lightning strike can cause a train crash, the passing of a truck can collapse a bridge, and drinking a few bags of milk powder can cause kidney stones, none of us are exempted," wrote one Chinese Internet user after Saturday's accident. "China today is a train traveling through a lightning storm. None of us are spectators; all of us are passengers." "
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/07/25/china.train.accident.outrage/
"By the time the railway ministry held its first press conference more than 24 hours after the collision, the public had seen not just reports of passengers trapped inside dark trains or images of a mangled car dangling off the bridge --but also bulldozers crushing mangled cars that had fallen to the ground and burying the wreckage on site. "How can we cover up an accident that the whole world already knew about?" said a defiant railway ministry spokesman Wang Yongping. "They told me they buried the car to facilitate the rescue effort --and I believe this explanation."
Wang was terse when reporters asked him to explain the fact that a toddler girl was being pulled out of the wreckage alive 20 hours after the accident --and long after authorities declared no more signs of life in the trains..
"That was a miracle," he said."
He used the Unabomber's manifesto and did a search and replace, replacing "black people" with "muslims".
Suspect's 'manifesto' plots 'civil war'
http://bit.ly/qO1niv
http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2011/07/goldie-hawn-bailing-on-broad-beach.html
Love this site.
"Just like an epic mansion appearing in the pages of Architectural Digest sometimes signals that it will soon hit the market, a Buddha statue in the entrance hall or by the pool is a strong signal that a home is owned by a celebrity or someone else involved in the entertainment and glamour-puss professions. Anyhoodles poodles, getting back to the matter at hand..."
Are you talking about me, princess teri? The one with a Buddha in the front yard? Why yes, I do work in a glamour-puss profession. How do I know? Well, I work with a bunch of guys and Just yesterday someone complimented me on the feather in my hair! And we had a conversation about shoes! And interior decorating! And we've been noting the colors of each other's shirts. I'm not lyin'! It's all just TOO much.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/12/the-engadget-interview-hps-stephen-dewitt
"I think that the future of computing is going to be about maintaining your state, about taking everything that matters to you, your content, your apps, and holding your state against any screen you look at. That's the future of computing. In order to get from where we are today, the devices, the technology, the platform, the developer community, all of the global ramifications to that, you're not going to do this in a federated model, you're going to have to do this with a well-orchestrated, global community that can drive this. I think that's as big an opportunity and forward pass as anywhere in the industry, and that's why I'm fired up to do it."
Fireworks, a comet, and lightning... Amazing digital composition.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1tYZHZ/apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070205.html
http://singularityhub.com/2011/07/06/google-is-awesome-facebook-maimed-twitter-mortally-wounded/
"Clearly Google+ has a long way to go to compete with the Facebook incumbent. And yet Google+ has quite a bit of mojo of its own that Facebook does not have. In the coming year we will see Facebook copy many of Google+´s innovations, while Google+ will likely roll out every single one of the missing components just mentioned. One year from now, we will likely have two social networks that are similar in many ways, and if Google+ proves compelling enough it might even close the user gap significantly.
Yet Google+ has a secret weapon that even the mighty Facebook will be hard pressed to combat over the long run. That secret weapon is everything that Google has that is not Google+. A formidable armada of Google products including Gmail, Picasa, Calendar, Docs, Maps, Search, News, Youtube, Chrome Web Browser, Blogger, Translation, Android, and more stands at the ready to assist and join Google+ in the battle for the future of social networking. These products are best in class, extremely difficult to replicate, and are used by more than a billion people across the planet. As these products are seamlessly integrated with Google+, we are about to witness an incredible two way explosion of value and utility. Google´s products will gain all of the powerful attributes that social networks deliver –virality, discovery, crowdsourcing, sharing, "liking", and so much more. Meanwhile, Google+ will be given a steroid boost of products that deliver content, tools, and capabilities to its hungry hordes of social minions."
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Ipad: 25million sold
Gtab: 2million
PlayBook : 500,000
Xoom: 250,000
But... 500,000 android device activations per day... Obviously not tablets...
http://m.bgr.com/2011/06/17/android-tablet-makers-shifting-focus-back-to-cell-phones-report-claims/
"Thus far only Samsung has been able to make a real dent in Apple's stronghold on this new market, capturing a 10% share with its Galaxy Tab Android-powered tablet. While 250,000 XOOM tablets shipped in two months and 500,000 PlayBooks shipped last quarter are respectable figures, it's hard to call those products a success when Apple has sold 25 million iPads in just 14 months. As a result, companies that planned to attack the tablet market aggressively may now be pulling back some of that investment to focus on another new market: supersized smartphones."
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Apple iPad apps: 100,000
Android tablet apps: 1350.
HP Palm touchpad apps: 300
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/30/apple-ipad-apps-100000-android-tablet-apps-1300/
"product placement of the highest order " - lol
How many cardinals does it take to teach a Pope to tweet?
FORTUNE TECH | JUNE 29, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI sits at an iPad to launch -- via Twitter -- a Vatican news portal Product placement of the highest order. ... read more
This looks like fun. Anything with party in the name sounds like fun. Signed up for the beta. Maybe they will give priority to famous bloggers.
Pool Party: Google Has Their Own Secret Photo-Sharing App Too — Built By Slide
TECHCRUNCH | JUNE 30, 2011
Back in March, we first exposed Disco, a group messaging app that the Slide team within Google had built. And that's not all ... read more
Top websites, by traffic. Google still number one. facebook number two.
LA's J. Paul Getty Museum partners with Google to 'Goggles-enable' its entire permanent collection
http://pulse.me/s/q3Qj
Los Angeles area art fans: you've now got your own personal curator right in your pocket.
http://m.androidcentral.com/android-central-editors-app-picks-june-25-2011
I just downloaded Jorte myself and I love it. Syncs great with Google calendar. See review below.
"If you're discouraged by the lack of customizations for Sense's calendar, or by the rough-and-tumble appearance of Motoblur's, you have to give Jorte a try. Of all the personal organizers that swamp the Android Market, I'll deem Jorte my favorite. Sure, calendars are pretty straight forward and standard, but Jorte's customizations are unmatched.orte gives you the choice of just about any size widget you can think of, and with different themes, color options, and styles to choose from, you can match your widget to the rest of your UI, eliminating the sore thumb that is your phone's standard offering. Choose which of your personal calendars to display, which holidays to include, and even which day to start the week with. Jorte also comes with an easy-to-use scheduler and to-do list, and it supports importing these elements as well. If you choose to create them on the app, you can export as a CSV file to your computer or other devices. Even if you're happy with your phone's standard calendar (though, I doubt you are), give Jorte a shot. It's free, it's useful, and it's pretty. Case closed."
Interview with Salon.com Writer MaryElizabeth Williams
DILBERT.COM BLOG | JUNE 22, 2011
http://pulse.me/s/kNO4
I've read Scott Adams for a long time and have always been disturbed by his juvenile attitudes towards women, and relations between men and women. Everyone has a right to their opinions, but I can't stomach his. I also don't think he realizes or cares that these opinions are losing him readership. Hiding behind "I'm just kidding" or attacking his critics, rather than intelligently defending himself, just reinforces that he knows what he is saying is indefensible. But what does it matter? Look at the website traffic! Mission accomplished.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/06/201161664828302638.html
"Japan's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters finally admitted earlier this month that reactors 1, 2, and 3 at the Fukushima plant experienced full meltdowns. TEPCO announced that the accident probably released more radioactive material into the environment than Chernobyl, making it the worst nuclear accident on record.
Meanwhile, a nuclear waste advisor to the Japanese government reported that about 966 square kilometres near the power station -an area roughly 17 times the size of Manhattan -is now likely uninhabitable.
In the US, physician Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay shedding light on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown, and may well be the result of fallout from the stricken nuclear plant. The eight cities included in the report are San Jose, Berkeley, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Portland, Seattle, and Boise, and the time frame of the report included the ten weeks immediately following the disaster. "There is and should be concern about younger people being exposed, and the Japanese government will be giving out radiation monitors to children," Dr MV Ramana, a physicist with the Programme on Science and Global Security at Princeton University who specialises in issues of nuclear safety, told Al Jazeera. Dr Ramana explained that he believes the primary radiation threat continues to be mostly for residents living within 50km of the plant, but added: "There are going to be areas outside of the Japanese government's 20km mandatory evacuation zone where radiation is higher. So that could mean evacuation zones in those areas as well."
Gundersen points out that far more radiation has been released than has been reported. "They recalculated the amount of radiation released, but the news is really not talking about this," he said. "The new calculations show that within the first week of the accident, they released 2.3 times as much radiation as they thought they released in the first 80 days.""
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