Sadly, the Presses ARE STOPPING...

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Newspapers in search for a business model
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Westphal/Ryssdal interview
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"The recession has only
exacerbated the problems facing
the newspaper industry. Veteran
journalist David Westphal talks to
Kai Ryssdal about what the
industry is doing to meet the
challenges it faces."

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Link to Interview:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/02/25/pm_newspaper_q/

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Google is now Putting Ads On it's News Page.

San Francisco Paper failing..

Rocky Mountain News going Down..

Even the New York Times
is cutting back,

the Internet is taking away
their Advertising Markets.

Wingman

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Buehler, Buehler, Buehler?

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Buehler, Buehler, Buehler?
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Link:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/02/former-usc-kick.html
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From the Site Linked Above:
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Former USC kicker David Buehler turns heads at NFL combine
1:41 PM, February 25, 2009

Former USC kicker David Buehler, who seems like a linebacker and could have been a fullback or safety, wams up for football by playing volleyball with a soccer ball. Naturally. Usually, the only guy on a football field who can't kick anyone's tail is ... the kicker.

Kickers aren't required to lift at the NFL Combine, but Buehler did -- outperforming many linebackers, tight ends and even offensive linemen. He bench pressed 225 pounds 25 times in a row -- which would have made him the strongest cornerback, second-strongest wide receiver, third-strongest safety, fourth-strongest tight end, sixth-strongest running back and eighth-strongest linebacker at the weeklong event. He actually lifted more than a couple linemen who are projected as first-round picks.

His strong legs are also quick legs. Buehler ran a pair of unofficial 40-yard dashes in 4.56 and 4.63 seconds, easily ranking among the best tight ends, linebackers and broadcasters.

Wingman, on the sidelines.

Infrastructure: What Does It Mean?

infrastructure
=============================================== n 1: the basic structure or features of a system or organization [syn: substructure] 2: the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan" [syn: base] -- From WordNet (r) 2.0 ===============================================
That's the Dictionary talking, a simpler explaination would be: "Putting shovels in the ground to build or repair bridges, roads and buildings that have been neglected too long..." Yesterday on the History Channel, I saw another version of the meaning of Infrastructure:

The Building of the Alcan Highway in 1942.

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BACKGROUND:
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Alcon Highway was 1,522 mile long Alaskan Highway and took 11,000 soldiers to build.

7 regiments of soldiers.
of the US Army personnel, 1/3 were black.

Distance from Washington DC to Denver Colorado.



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Link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/277490/Construction-of-the-Alcan-Highway-1942
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Link Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Highway
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Wingman

Beating Up Bernanke

THE CLOWNS ARE STILL RUNNING THIS CIRCUS

This should be in Vegas, not Capitol Hill.

Bernanke is Grilled and Roasted on Capitol Hill. Explaining the unexplainable to our Elected Representatives.

I'm reminded of Shakespeare's "Full of Sound and Fury, signifying.....nothing."


Too much Talk about what we "Think" went wrong, and "How" we should be fixing it.

Even a Pop Magazine like Wired
is offering what they call
The Secret Formula
That Destroyed Wall Street.

(Note: called the Gaussian-copula function -- the cover showed a reduced version, the Full Formula is on the bottom of page 4)


Wingman

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And The Winner IS...Bollywood.

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Link: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/awards/2009/02/live-reports-fr.html
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At a very well produced Oscar Telecast, the Real Winner this Year is The Movie Viewing Public.

Hooray for BOLLYWOOD


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Link: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/awards/2009/02/live-reports-fr.html
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Following a Year of Very Fine Pictures and Performances such as: Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, Frost/Nixon, Doubt.

Wolverine's Hugh Jackman, hosted the Award'a Show and received high marks too!

OntheRedCarpet.com is ABC7.com stories covering the proceedings.

Wingman

Climbing the Apps

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Climbing the Apps
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From Slashdot.org
We're Just Not That Into You, iPhone Apps
Link:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/21/2157206

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/adokxp
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It seems Free Apps for the iPhone and Ipod Touch, just don't have a lot of loyalty, according to a recent Study on the Subject. (The Link Above).


Wingman

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The Circus is Going Audible

What is the Sound of One Mouth Podcasting?

See that funny enclosure link up there by the Title?

Guess What It Does!

The Media Circus is Going to Podcast these Wonderful proceedings.

Gosh! Virginia, it's kinda like the "Radio..."

Yep!

Wingman talking.

The Day the BigBopper Hit the WALL

I Never was at a loss for Words, so the Twitter Limit of 140 charcters to have your say has been Limiting...

Enter TwitWALL.com, an add-on program for Twitter (The New Darling of the Media like CNN) and a whole New Wall (like Facebook's) is ready for posting Longer, an Uncut Prose from yours Truly!

Here's my My Link: http://tinyurl.com/c9gbsw

Wingman, Flying Low.

Post -- 323 -- Lost in Space

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Post -- 323 -- Lost in Space
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It's probably not necessary to remind ourselves that we've been in Space for quite some Time now. About 50 years.

In that time we've, shall we say, Lost a few things Out There. Wired Science has seen fit to tell what some of those "Things" are, in an article Linked Below.

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WiredScience Link:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/spacestuff.html

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/cgxazk

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Wired gives us 8 Weird Pieces of Stuff.

As a Sneak Peek Item 4, is a 1,400 pound tank of AMMONIA.

Wingman

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Mapping the Digital Domain -- of DTV

Good Bye Old Rabbit-Ears

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MC2 Blogger Post Number: 322
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Mapping the Digital Domain -- of DTV
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DTV Reception Maps (FCC)

show the Good, Bad and No-Signal

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Gizmodo TinyURL Link:
http://tinyurl.com/dlpe3w

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FCC Reception Map Link:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/maps/

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Wingman

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Happy Valentine's Day, Valentine!

Life is Like a Box of Chocolates,
You never know what you're going
to get.
But if You're Very, Very Lucky
You Find Someone that
Is Unbelievably Sweet.

Just Like I Did.

Wingman, AKA: bigbopper.

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Ultrasones $1,499 Dollar HEADSET

Ultrasones

$1,499 Dollar

HEADSET

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Edition 8 makes it special, I guess...

Engadget had this story that I JUST-COULD-NOT-BELIEVE.

Now I like Hi-Tech Gadgets just as much as the Next Guy, but really. You have to at least Read about this puppy.

Link Below

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The orig URL topped at 100 chars (tsk-tsk)

This is much better: http://tinyurl.com/bwz654
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Wingman

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What and Why is JQUERY

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Why JQUERY
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Quote from Site below:

"jQuery is ideal because it can create impressive animations and interactions. jQuery is simple to understand and easy to use, which means the learning curve is small, while the possibilities are (almost) infinite."

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The Important Parts of the Puzzle:

javascript and Best Practices
Unobtrusive DOM Scripting
The Bottom Line: Accessible, Degradable Content

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Link Downsized: 78->25 with TinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/6bm5s9

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IQUERY Blog Post Screen Cap of Website cited:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mc2master/3274813215/

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/bzkzub

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Wingman, Coding again...

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Sneaky, Sneaky Dell's Hybrid Windows-Linux Laptops

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Sneaky, Sneaky Dell's Hybrid
Windows-Linux Laptops
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Original Source.

Cnet Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10162275-64.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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TinyURL Link: http://tinyurl.com/awthsw
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What happens when you cross a Laptop with a Windows and Linux OS?

A faster, more safe and power saving System, that's what

Wingman

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SanDisk’s New Technology

(Picture of Older Technology)

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XBit Tells Us:
SanDisk’s New Technology
Opens Doors to New Capacities of Flash Devices

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XBIT Labs LINK: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/display/20090210185230_SanDisks_s_New_4_Bits_Per_Cell_Technology_Enables_Unprecedented_Capacities_of_Flash_Devices.html

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Looks Like 64GB/8GB flash memory chips
are just around the Corner

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And speaking about "just around the Corner..."

I have to finish Michio Kaku's "Physics of The Impossible (audible book)" real soon, because Science just can't stand still.

Example is ths Story at Science Daily:

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Scientists Read Minds

With Infrared Scan:

Optical Brain Imaging Decodes Preference

With 80 Percent Accuracy


ScienceDaily Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210092730.htm

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John Grisham Close to signing Deal
to release Most of his Book
As Ebooks
Including the Kindle Format.

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Wingman

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Crashed my Fedora installing Ubuntu

Yes, I got a blip on the Hard Drive as I was installing Ubuntu (Which I'm currently using) .

But all my Blogger updating tools are Ready to Rumble.

Lamar, Lamar, Lamar

Lamar Odom and Lakers Shine

Lamar Odom had 28 points and 17 rebounds as he Lead the Lakers to a Win against the Cavaliers and brought the Lakers Home after a 5 game win-streak.

Wingman.

Gene Roddenberry was right: Space, the Final Frontier.

Above you see a typical Web Page. At least, what it is today: WEB 2.0 and counting.

It sort of reminds me of a routine that George Carlin would do about "Living in A Box within a Box".

Here, we'll call it a Waste of Space within the Browser.

The Most Important Part of a Web Page is the Content.
(The Main reason Twitter is so popular is Because it's "Just Content"--No Fluff)

The Problem with The Current State of the Web Page is that it has become a Blog Page.

Which means it gets filtered by the Idea that One Bag Fits All.

And in so doing the Content (which is King Remember) gets cluttered up with Designer Foolery Like Over-Dominant Headers, Footers and the meaningless Blank Space on the Sides for who knows what.



Here's the same page with the Blog Non-Sense taken out. Big Difference , huh.

So why do we put up with this non-sense?

To Please the Blogger Gods???

That's my 2 cents, what's yours?

Wingman, Stuck in A Blog.

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The New Face of hi-rez HD Camcorders

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The New Face of HD Camcorders:

Panasonic HDC-HS300
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From Trusted Reviews:
Link: http://www.trustedreviews.com/camcorders/review/2009/02/07/Panasonic-HDC-HS300/p1

Twitter TinyURL Link: http://tinyurl.com/d7em5n

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People often ask me why do we need so much Storage, like a 2TB and up Hard Drive?

You are Looking at the Answer right Now. A Top-of-the-Line HD Camcorder that pushes the Envelop to the Next Level.

Quoting TrustedReviews: "With a bit of interpolation, still images can be snapped at up to 3,984 x 2,656 pixels, although only when the camcorder is in photo mode. Otherwise, the upper limit is 3,840 x 2,160 pixels...".

This Snow covered branch 8MP Canon Powershot Picture is 3264 x 2448.

Scaled for Blogger to 800 x 600:

The Branch that Gagged Blogger.

The Flickr Link is Here:

(This picture comes from a fill-in link to my Flickr account)

The Max Size at Flickr is 1024 x 768, so you need to triple the Rez to get the Idea of how much detail an HD Camcorder gives you.


No Price stateside yet on the Panasonic Camera, but the reviews are Glowing...

I'll keep you posted:

Wingman.

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Will the Real Kindle 2 Step Forward

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Will the Real Kindle 2 Step Forward
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The New, Some say, Cooler Kindle 2 will be announced at
10AM ET Monday morning --
and, maybe Bezos will announce some other colors.

Pictures Leaked on the following Links,
which I got first fromfollowing
Kevin Rose on Twitter and clicking a TinyURL.

Samples of How Good TinyURL's are,
are also linked below,
which will be on my
Twitter Link: http://twitter.com/bigbopper

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Link To Pictures: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/06/official-looking-kindle-2-pictures-and-pricing-leak-out/
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Links for Use on Twitter:
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TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/cxbljl

Preview TinyURL: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cxbljl
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Give Me an Android/DOLL BOT

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Give Me an Android/DOLL BOT

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Wired Magazine tell us
Today Playmates are More Fem-Bot Like
than we'd like to admit:

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Link: http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/st_infoporn_1702
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Link: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/08/31/the-lure-of-the-fembot/
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Link: http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/st_infoporn_1702
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Tonight On FOX (what else: Dollhouse (after Sarah Connor Chronicles)

Link: http://www.dollverse.com
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link: http://www.fox.com/programming/shows/new/dollhouse.htm
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Wingman

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Samsung Memoir 8 megapixels

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Samsung Memoir 8 megapixels

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It was only on Father's Day that I was "pleased as punch" to get a Canon Powershot A580 8 megapixel digital camera.

Head on over to Engadget.com and see what Samsung has released on a t929 Memoir cell phone with T-Moble 3G band (still funky), a full touchscreen, integrated AGPS, full HTML Browser and an 8 megapixel camera with xenon flash.


Sweet!

Link: http://www.engadget.com/

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Keep Your Friends Close, But give them a Little Latitude

Keep Your Friends Close,

But give them a Little Latitude

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10155946-94.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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Google Latitude, that is.

A New App for mobile phones lets users
share their location with close contacts
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And:

Google Earth 5 released:
Google Goes Under Water and to Mars!
And Why Google Thinks it Matters.

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Link: http://news.cnet.com/Google-takes-you-under-the-sea%2C-out-in-space/2009-11395_3-6248873.html?tag=rtcol;newsNow

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Wingman, on the Blog

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Mission Control: iTunes Upgrade, We have a Problem!

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Mission Control: iTunes Upgrade,

We have a Problem!

Link: http://cultofmac.com/iphone-update-creates-headaches-for-itunes-users/7721

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Patch 2.2.1
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After updating my iPod Touch yesterday, I went online and googled about the update to see what it was for and found downloader were having problems syncing to iTunes after the update.

Other sites say the problem has something to do with DRM songs.

Other sites suggest that you "Don't Download" Music from iTunes until a New fix is installed, and syncing problem is fixed.

No Word from Apple yet.

Wingman.