Do You Know What Cyberpunk Means, Punk?

Sun 05 Jul 2009 09:33:14 AM PDT
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Do You Know What Cyberpunk Means, Punk?

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Link: http://www.macworld.com/article/141500/2009/07/neuromancer_25.html

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Neuromancer WIKI

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer

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History: July 1. 1984, 25 years ago, Wlliam Gibson wrote a book called

Neuromancer that ran the table at the 1984 Science Fiction Awards

and Won the HUGO Award, the Phillip K. Dick Award and the Nebula Award.

The Book and the Awards said Gibson Created a new genre of Science Fiction

called: CyberPunk.


Gibson does NOT particularly like that phrase, but hey it's a good

tag-line that doesn't fit anybody better.

And while Gibson's modern prose is anchored in Present Time his

depiction of cutting edge Technology and Hackers (Good and Bad) is still razor sharp.


Check him out

He IS a Must Read.

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And in deference of the Terminator Picture I used above,

take this to chew on...

The Top 15 Geek Movies of All Time:

Link: http://www.zaphu.com/2008/02/19/15-top-oscar-movies-for-nerds/

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Wingman

And Yeah, I know Terminator Was based on Harlan Ellison's Ideas...

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I also found a Cool Clip at YouTube (a great resource, by the way) where in 2006.

Harlan was giving out the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and

still being Harlan at the podium.

Linked Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSwmzJSPCE

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The Tina Turner Song Clip at the Video Bar,

Top-Right is still there

because I Like that song.

And I think We Do Need Another Hero,

so There.

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We NEED A Hero: A HTC Hero

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We NEED A Hero:

A HTC Hero

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Link: http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/overview.html

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The New HTC Hero Smart Phone

will be the First to have

Native Adobe Flash

right out of the Box...

Wingman, still searching for My Ultimate Smart Phone.

Google Needs to Go After Microsoft's Bing.


And a Teaser:

A Quick Screen Grab from ABCTV Techbytes:

You Make Music with It!

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Goodbye Ubuntu, I Hardily Knew You.....

Dumped Ubuntu 9.04







and went

Back to Fedora 11

Problems with Firefox 3.x and my massive List of Bookmarks forced the Issue.

Using the same Password for my user and root accounts seemed counter-productive.

After the Big switch via a "Live" CD of Fedora 11, I'm still tweaking the system to my taste. And will be fully installed to the Hard drive when I clean up a backup 160GB hard drive.

Wingman, back home (fedora).

Postnote:

It seems the New iPhone 3Gs is "Hot".... Too "Hot" for some. Apple is Checking that out...

And Dell will be offering a HTC (Google OS) Smart Web Browser Real-Soon-

Now....

Isn't that Smart?

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Too Sad: Apple running Short of iPhones!

MEGA WONDERS 2

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Too Sad: Apple running Short of iPhones!

Link: http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/06/28/apple-runs-short-of-iphones/

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Previous Post Says they Sold out in 21 states...

Link: http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/15/iphone-3g-sold-out-in-21-states/

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Transformers 2: Panned by the Critics

Goes Berserk at the BOXOFFICE

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Post -- 414. Is That a Terabyte in the House?

Is That a Terabyte in the House?

My Youngest Son just ordered a Terabyte Drive from NewEgg for about $100 bucks.

Link: http://www.newegg.com/

My Oldest Son just recently bought his Second 2 terabyte drive that's 4 TB (terabytes of storage) in his house.

My biggest portable storage device is a 16GB (gigabyte) thumbdrive about half the size of a pack of certs.

It cost $40.00.
Pictured here:

So the Question I get most often is:

What IS a Terabyte?

210 single-layered DVD's in 1 Terabyte (TB)

650 to 702 MB to standard CD

Single-layer DVD capacity is 4.7 GB

Blu-ray capacity is 25 GB or 0.025 terabytes

For DVD Dual-layered Media, just Double the Numbers above.

(From Wolfram search)

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History of CDs and DVDs:

excerpt:

Several years after the introduction of the CD, two consortiums started pushing a new standard for a higher-capacity optical media: the MultiMedia Compact Disc, backed by Philips and Sony, and the Super Density disc, supported by Toshiba, Time Warner, Matsushita Electric, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Thomson, and JVC. With a clear memory of the 1980s’ VHS–Betamax video-format wars, IBM’s president, Lou Gerstner, led an effort to unite the two camps behind a single standard. The attempt was a success: the MultiMedia Compact Disc was abandoned in favor of the SuperDensity Disc, becoming the digital videodisc or versatile disc, today known simply as DVD. The new format was supposed to hold 5GBs of data, but Philips and Sony insisted on a different version of encoding, reducing the disc density to a more familiar 4.7GBs—still more than seven times that of a CD. It took several years for the new format to mature, but in late 1996 Toshiba, Matsushita, Sony, and several other companies released the first DVD players in Japan, reaching the U.S. several months later. The first players cost more than $700 on their release, and the first computer DVD recorder, the Pioneer DVR-S10, hit the market in late 1997 with a whopping list price of $16,995.

Link: http://thefutureofthings.com/articles/56/mempile-terabyte-on-a-cd.html

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Picture of IBM Laser Storage Device.

IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit - rolled out in 1956
to be used with the IBM 305 RAMAC
to provide storage
capacities of 5, 10, 15 or 20 MBs

(Credit: IBM).

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Wingman,

Waiting for a terabyte storage for my iPhone Touch.

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As Quick as You Can, Snap the Snapdragon from Qualcomm's Hand...

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As Quick as You Can, Snap the Snapdragon

from Qualcomm's Hand...

Qualcomm Guns for Intel

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Link at theinquirer.net:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1406303/qualcomm-guns-intel

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From TheInquirer:

TELCO CHIP supremo Qualcomm wants a slice of the portable computing market, so expect handbags at dawn with Chipzilla.

Qualcomm, which made its name through the development of CDMA, and set up many of the next-generation mobile networks, has seen Intel muscle into a market which big Q, given its history, should be dominating, according to the Wall Street Journal

Based on an Article at the Wall Street Journal

Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090625-713410.html

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looks like the Smart Phone Space is Heating Up.

Wingman

HP Mini 5101...A NetBook?

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HP Mini 5101...A NetBook?

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Link: http://gizmodo.com/5301782/hp-mini-5101-when-did-netbooks-get-this-nice/gallery/

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/lmtcyh

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The Photo Op of the New HP is at the link above at GIZMODO>COM.

Spooky Entanglement?

Spooky Entanglements ? ? ?


Coupling Your NEMS and QUBITS

Having nothing to do with Scully's studying for an undergraduate degree in physics, where she wrote her senior thesis, entitled Einstein's Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation, which was published in 1986, when she was aged 23.

Linked Here: http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Dana_Scully

But Does Deal with the following study:

Demonstrations of nanomechanical quantum superpositions, what Einstein called

"spooky entanglement".


Yeah, that's pretty much the way Physicists talk.

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090622103909.htm

Wingman, I really Dig this stuff too.

Just finished Michio Kaku's book "Physics of the Impossible", a Audible.com's audiobook. Very Good.

Amazon Book link Here: http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Impossible-Scientific-Exploration-Teleportation/dp/0385520697

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Yes Virginia, You CAN take it With You!

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Yes Virginia, You CAN take it With You!

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Link: http://www.productwiki.com/philips-dcp851-37/

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On Father's Day, yesterday, my brother Chuck had a nifty little Gadget that blew my socks away.

A Portable, Digital-Picture frame styled DVD Player by Philips that was also a iPod Dock.

You can play your iPod iTunes, MPEG 4 Videos, DVD's, DivX, Photos...Gee stop me.

Discounted prices around $100 bucks.

Wait, There's More!

What About MiFi?

David Pogue teases us with these words:

imagine if you could get online anywhere you liked — in a taxi, on the beach, in a hotel with disgustingly overpriced Wi-Fi — without messing around with cellular modems. What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go?

His review is

Linked Here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/technology/personaltech/07pogue.html


Had a Great Father's Day with Family!

Wingman

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You Light Up My Life...Stop IT!

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You Light Up My Life...

Stop IT!
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According to Dick DiBartolo of the daily GIZ WIZ

In New York the 3D movie "UP" was $16.00.

And during the whole movie 3 people in the audience was texting.

Turn off the Lights...
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I've mentioned here that I like AMD over Intel in

microprocessors, but lately

Intel has been beating AMD rather soundly.

Well it appears that AMD is Fighting Back, according to this article from the Inquirer.net.

AMD Goes for Intel's Jugular.

Link: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1356940/amd-goes-intel-jugular

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iPhone OS 3.0 was released Yesterday

Free to iPhone owners, and $10.00 upgrade for iPhone Touch owners (like me.)

Since my iTouch has been Jailbroken, I've had the long awaited Cut-and-Paste for months now



Link: http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/6711

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Ring....Ring....Ring.....
Your Dress is calling!

Link: http://dvice.com/archives/2009/06/tennis-star-mar.php

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The New iPhone 3Gs is available TODAY.... Hmmmm.

Wingman, drooling again.

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Lakers is Still a Merchandising Entity, YEA!

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Lakers is Still

a Merchandising Entity,

YEA!

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Need these Laker Goodies for Father's Day?

Check out http://www.fansedge.com's Linke Here:

Link: http://www.fansedge.com/LA-Lakers-2009-NBA-Championship-Gear-Merchandise-Merchandise-_1010619303_PG.html?google=2533543

Character Stats: 119 to 25 as a:

Tiny_Url: http://tinyurl.com/mzxk68

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The Twitter Effect.

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The Twitter Effect

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Breaking News Only (BNO) on Twitter:

Link: http://m.twitter.com/breakingnews

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TechCrunch: Is Twitter The CNN of the

New Media Generation?

Link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/17/is-twitter-the-cnn-of-the-new-media-generation/

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Leo Laporte complained about it on Sunday's TWiT.

(This Week In Tech 199: I'm A Dinner Jacket) Podcast.

Link: http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/TWiT_199

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I Blogged about it on My New Media Conversations posted yesterday.

Link: http://newmediaconversations.blogspot.com/

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And TechCrunch had the Lead Teaser

at the Top.

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The State Dept. Requested Twitter to postpone it's scheduled maintenance to keep the twitter word to get out following the unrest to the Iranian Election.

Link at Weekly Standard: http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/06/state_dept_reportedly_asked_tw.asp

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Wingman conversations...

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2 More Cells in the Smartphone Market?

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2 More Cells in the Smartphone Market?


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Nokia SYMBIAN E72 and

Samsung's WinMo OMNIA PRO

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Link: http://www.dailytech.com/The+Other+Smartphones+Nokias+Symbian+E72+and+Samsungs+WinMo+Omnia+Pro+Leak/article15413.htm

From 116 to 25 characters with

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/lq9u2q

( created with TinyURL )

These Upcoming models will go up against the Two Front Runners:

Palm Pre

and the Leading iPhone 3Gs.

Things are beginning to Heat Up!

Which is Very, Very

GOOD.

Wingman

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Top 10 Tablet PC's for 2009

Forward Looking Star Trek had "something"

that Looked Like a Tablet PC

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Top 10 Tablet PC's for 2009

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Link:

http://gadgetophilia.com/top-10-tablet-pcs-of-2009/


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1. HP Pavillion TX2500Z

2. Fujitsu LifeBook T5010

3. Lenovo ThinkPad X200

4. HP EliteBook 2730p

5. HP TouchSmart tx2z

6. Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet

7. Samsung NP-Q1U/600 Tablet PC

8. Fujitsu Stylistic ST5111 (FPCM35262) Tablet PC

9. HP Pavilion tx2000

10. Sony VAIO® VGN-UX180P Tablet PC

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Wingman, going Trek-Like

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The Start of The DIGITAL AGE

Got Your Digital TV Converter?

Well You better, because Today is the Day Analog signals to rabbit-ears are turned off and you will only get over-the-air TV with a Digital Tv Converter Box.

Where do you get a DTV Box?

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CNET DTV boxes Reviewed:

http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-tv-converter/

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BEST BUY Choices:

Link: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp;jsessionid=56E6675FC1209EB02B1067D99486AA91.bbolsp-app02-33?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=-8180398517102461474&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=dtv+converter+box&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960

URL CRUD at 269 characters...

The TinyUrl version at 25:

http://tinyurl.com/nnjavo

Does the First URL make any-kind-of-sense in ANY

World?

No, it doesn't.

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abctv switch day help:

Link: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/consumer&id=6861002

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Wingman, already DIGITAL (You knew That, Huh)

Also, don't forget to rescan your channels Tomorrow, because some channels are changing numbers.

Also: Most Stations change at 12:00 midnite, but some like Channel 7 change at 12:00 Noon.

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The Palm Pre Saturday Launch

Google G1 Palm Pre Apple iPhone 3G

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The Palm Pre Saturday Launch

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Not the Feeding Frenzy of Apple iPhone Launches, but respectable nonetheless for it's importance for the following reasons:

1) Smart Phone competition
2) Palm steppimg back from the Brink and
3) Sprint Image saver.

CNET Pictures, Saturday Buzz and First Looks are here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10258825-94.html

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Wingman, Pre drooling....

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FriendFeeding My Friends, and Other Social Distractions

Staying Connected,

the Best way to Reconfigure

New Media the Right Way.

Not a sermon, just an observation about the Tools that at times get in the way of the Message.

We must be up to a Billion Bloggers/Twitterers by now,  and the content is getting, in a word: Redundant.

All Sound and Fury, signifying Nothing.. Or at least, nothing much.

When a Cat has over 500,000 followers (more than Larry King mind you), and another Cat named Ashton Kutcher has passed 2,000,000 (More than Larry King mind you), that is a Lot of Traffic (white digital noise) that not really necessary.  

And meanwhile, Real newspapers are dying right and left.  

Don't get me wrong.  Getting rid of the Right ones is not a bad idea.  Wasn't that the message of the Election?

Newt and Rush critiquing our Supreme Court Nominee is so 2000.

Wake up and smell the 1/2 cup of  non-starbuck coffee the Bush Years left us.

And Let's get the Fox out of the "Chicken" Coop we call television, with "reality shows" up the Wazoo and "News" Channels Twittering their and our time away.

We deserve Better.

It appears we have to Demand Better and tweets that "Mean" something maybe a good place to start.

http://twitter.com/ELbigbopper

The Wingman has spoken...

 

A Bing and Multi Browser Betas, Boy!

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A Bing

and Multi Browser Betas,

Boy!

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Whoops, Bing Goes Looking for the Dirty-Deeds.

Here's a Quick-FIX from Microsoft:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/05/bing_filth_fix/

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Opera 10 Beta Out For Testing

(Hey, How many Broswers do we Really Need?).

Link: http://www.osnews.com/story/21613/Opera_10_Beta

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And Just For Giggles Google Gifts Us Chrome

beta

for Apple and Linux.

Better Hold Off on This Goody,

it's still a bit Gooey from the Oven.

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I am testing the Others though...Hey, it's what I Do...

Wingman, out.

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Post -- 400 What is everyone Twittering About REALLY?

The New Tower of Babel?

Communicating at

Biblical Proportions


Yeah, Right!

Some say if you don't have a Twitter Account, you're not where it's AT.

To help you Backsliders, the Sign-up Page is Here: http://twitter.com


Remembering that Baseball is a Game of Numbers, just think that Twitter is Too!


A Gatekeeper (of the Numbers) is Twitterholic.com which is here:

Link: http://twitterholic.com/

Here's a Snap of the Top 15. Days Ago... Ashton Hits 2,000,000 followers

TODAY...

And Demi's Up There Too..(top 20).

And Even CONAN...
On His New Show

has a Twitter Segment...

I'm Down a Few Pages.....

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bigbopper Stats:

Tue 02 Jun 2009 02:46:08 PM PDT

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Bio: TechRatt

Joined Twitter on 2007-12-01 23:14:11

bigbopper is ranked 764,594th on twitterholic! (by followers)

bigbopper is ranked 956th in their location on twitterholic!

(by followers in 'Southern California')

Tweet these stats!

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Joined FriendFeed Yesterday...

Go Figure (pun intended)

Wingman
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Top 10 News From Daily Rotation:

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Top 10 News From Daily Rotation:

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Main Link: http://www.dailyrotation.com/

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Vista SP2 Results in increased Free Disk Space? (enthusiast.hardocp)

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Link One: http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/news.html?news=Mzk5MDAsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=

Video: Watch a "Tobias Attack" on the Medece3 Cylinder Lock. (wired)

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Link Two: http://www.wired.com/video/the-ultimate-lock-picker/23766480001

The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit (wired)

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Link Three: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-06/ff_keymaster

Regular Light Bulbs Made Super-Efficient with Ultra-Fast Laser (sciencedaily)

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Link Four: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090529121556.htm

When Your Backhoe Cuts 'Black' Fiber (slashdot)

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Link Five: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/01/0040204/When-Your-Backhoe-Cuts-Black-Fiber?from=rss

Ten Applications That Changed Computing (slashdot)

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Link: Six: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/31/231242/Ten-Applications-That-Changed-Computing?from=rss

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The Following Links Changed As I was Posting...Dang!

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Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition is a big surprise (theinquirer)

AMD Unleashed: Four CPIs, Two GPUs, All Overclocked (pheedcontent)

May 2009's Most Popular Posts (lifehacker) Windows 7 gives Browsers Speed Improvement (osnews)

Wingman

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A Tip of the Hat to upcoming Fedora 11

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Fedora 11, Leonidas

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I've been using Ubuntu for a few months now, and it's not bad for Linux Beginners, but then again it's not Fedora. And it appears that Fedora 11 will be out in a little over a Week from now.

The Gadget counter above counts down the days...

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I'm running a CD ISO of Fedora LIVE available here:

Link: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

Wingman

Release Notes Snap:

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Lakers SHOW Time: The Boys Are Back

Sat 30 May 2009 07:09:56 AM PDT

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Lakers SHOW Time: The Boys Are Back

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LA Times Sports Page: http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lakers30-2009may30,0,5975109.story

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LAKERS 119, DENVER 92

Lakers beat the Nuggets to earn another trip to the

NBA Finals

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LA Times Picture:


-------- Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times

Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol embrace as they put the finishing touches on the Denver Nuggets in Game 6 on Friday night.

L.A. executes on both ends of the court to finish off the Western Conference finals with a rout in Denver. By Broderick Turner 8:50 PM PDT,

May 29, 2009 Reporting from Denver -- The Los Angeles Lakers are going back to the NBA Finals.

The Denver Nuggets are done for the season.

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After all was said and done, it seemed so anti-climatic.

And the Bigger Picture loomed into Focus:

This was just the final hurdle, the Finish Line Awaited the Western Division Champions:

The LA Lakers.

For the 30th time, The Lakers will be playing for the NBA Championship,

trying to Earn their

15th Title.

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Up Next, Lebron or Superman...

Should Be Interesting.

Wingman: A Laker Fan.

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