More Pictures, of an MC2 Exhibition

=============================================
Variable Pricing at Apple's iTunes
is followed
by Amazon on Tuesday.

Some Tunes will cost $1.29.
Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10214556-27.html
=============================================



=============================================

New Way to Split Water

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406102555.htm

=============================================



=============================================

Lakers Get Win against
Sacramento Kings: 122-104

Link: http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/basketball/other_nba/view.bg?articleid=1164303&srvc=sports&position=recent

The Victory would be a Lot Sweeter
if it wasn't for the Fact that the
Kings have ONLY 6 WINS this season...

Move over Clippers...


=============================================
Another Picture of
Judy's Birthday Cake
=============================================

Wingman.

=========================================

What have I Been Doing.... Lately?

(Screen Capture: Firefox:
my MediaCircus2 Blog, Lakers on TV.
and the gadgets on my iPod Touch)

Blogging, Tweets
and iPod Touch
Gadget Testing

A pictures says 1,000 words. Ok, that's just my blogging.

I also post updates to Twitter,
Listen to the TWiT network of podcasts
by Leo Laporte and Friends.
Read the New York Times on my iPod,
and in my Free Time, listen to Audible books
on my Creative Zen Stone, and Creative Zen Stone Plus.

Yeah, I'm still a Techie Guy.

These are my current Reads:

The Tipping Point
The Physics of the Impossible and
A World Lit Only By Fire.

My Online Photos are on:
Photobucket and Flickr

Well, got to get back to my regular Blogging.

Wingman, Way out.

P.S.

Oh, and I'm on Facebook and Myspace too.

Just to Round things out a little...
================================

Skype iPhone FLACK!

===============
Skype FCC Flack
===============

==============================

From Digg on Twitter:

FCC asked to investigate Skype for iPhone restriction.
Since its release on Tuesday Skype on iPhone has been downloaded more than a million times--that's a rate of six downloads a second, according to the company.

===================================

They point out the fact that the software only works on iPhone's Wi-Fi connection , and not AT&T's 3G network.

Digg's tiny-url like Link: http://digg.com/d1ntP3?OTC-twf4

=========================================

Skype Gets Good Early Reviews:

Link: http://techblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/03/skype-for-iphone-gets-good-ear.html

TinyUrl: http://tinyurl.com/ccbaop

========================================

Wingman Has His Copy...

======================================

Dr. Who? Was My Favorite. The END of ER!

-------------------------------------------

Dr. Who? Was My Favorite.

The END of ER!
-------------------------------------------

NBC's 15 year run show of ER.
Here are two snapshots from the

http://www.nbc.com/ER/ webpage.

-------------------------------------------

And in The End...is a line from a Beatles Song, and the
Title of the Last Episode of NBC's 15 year run show of ER.
Here are two snapshots from the http://www.nbc.com/ER/ webpage.

A rebroadcast of the Last Tw0-Hour Episode will be played on Saturday, April 4th 8/7

-------------------------------------------

America's Television audience has had a love affair with TV Doctor shows almost from the beginning of TV.

I am currently "Hooked" on Fox's House M.D. which is spreading on cable as reruns on varoius channels.

Just for Fun, do you remember these Actors,

and the Shows they Played Doctors on TV.

Richard Boone, Richard Chamberlain, Vince Edwards, E.G. Marshall, Sam Jaffe, David Hartman, Kelsey Grammer, Robert Picardo (besides Star Trek), Vivica A. Fox, Robert Foxworth, Hill Harper, Miguel Ferrer, William Petersen, Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Paris, William Shatner, James Earl Jones, 11 Dr. Who's, Neil Patrick Harris, Robert Fuller, Bobby Troup, Tom Selleck, David Janssen, Milburn Stone, Broderick Crawford, June Lockhart, Alan Alda, Harry Morgan, Mike Farrell, James Brolin, Rob Morrow, Robert Ito, Howie Mandell, Mark Harmon, Ronnie Cox, Alfre Woodward, Ed Begley Jr., Martin Balsam. Deforest Kelly, Paul Fix, Timothy Busfield, Jon Cryer, Stockard Channing, Harry Connick Jr. Gillian Anderson.

To name a Few....

The Big List is at this page on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_doctors

Wingman

=========================

Worms, iPod Touch and TV Screens on Desktop

Of Course, I'm Running Ubuntu Linux,
so this stuff is...
EASY

April 1st Worm fails to show, according to the BBC, but I'd cross my Fingers...

SKYPE, internet telephone App, now officially on Apple's Gadget Store, and coming soon to the Newest Blackberry too.

Oh and Blackberry launches it Own Gadget Store today at High Noon.

Canada is still so Old West, huh.

Just got my TV Digital Converter cards in the mail, for the TV Card in the computer, of course.


Wingman

==========================================

Pretty Nice SPECS for the New ASUS Eee

====================================

Pretty Nice SPECS for the
New ASUS Eee ASUS Eee 1004DN
with Optical Drive
and Chiclet Keyboard,
in honor of the old
RS-COCO
I Guess...
====================================

DailyTECH Link: http://www.dailytech.com/ASUS+Eee+1004DN+with+Optical+Drive+Gets+Official/article14708.htm

From 90 to 25 chars...

TinyURL Link: http://tinyurl.com/dlhfza ====================================

Yes Martha,
That's a Real Optical Drive there
on this Netbook...

Wingman, the reader...

====================================

PBS's Little Dorrit and the iPhone: Instant Gratification.

=========================================
PBS's Little Dorrit and the iPhone: Instant Gratification.
=========================================
The Video Bar Has Selected Clips of Little Dorrit.
(Scenery is amazing as usual)
=========================================
Behind the Scenes on Little Dorrit on BBC News:
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7681753.stm
=========================================

Watching Dickens depiction of the English Government's foibles of the 18th Century, sparked a renewed interest in Charles Dickens.

The story about Little Dorrit is said to be a Bio of Dickens himself, as his father spent time in a Debtors prison.

My interest increased to the point of grabbing my iPod Touch and searched for a Public Domain copy of the Book.

In less time than a commercial spot on regular TV a copy was downloaded to my iPod Touch.

Pictures below:






=========================================================
Link to BBC Little Dorrit Press Packs:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/10_october/13/dorrit3.shtml

=========================================================
Comparing Dicken's Merdle Swindler to the like's of Bernard Madoff:

Your TinyURL Link: (from 129 characters to 25) http://tinyurl.com/djc2rl

=========================================================

Books and Newspapers

Still Have a lot to Say To Us.

Wingman, sitll reading....

===================================================

POST 350: What's All The Twitter?

================================

What's All The Twitter?

================================

www.MAHALO.com, the Fast facts,
We're Here To Help Folks
Has This To say About TWITTER:

Link: http://www.mahalo.com/Twitter

================================
What WIKIPEDIA has to say about it:

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
=================================
Fast Facts (From Mahalo site Listed Above):

1. Launched in October of 2006
2. Gained large following after South By Southwest interactive conference of 2007
3. Written in Ruby on Rails
4. Free to use
5. Tweets can be up to 140 characters
6. Posting tweets from a cell phone is free, except for the phone provider charge for the text message
7. 29 employees (as of February, 2009)2
8. Japanese version launched in April of 2008
9. Estimated 1.9 million unique visitors in December 20083
10. Number of active users grew 900% between early 2008 and early 20092
11. Received funding from: Benchmark Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Bezos Expeditions and Spark Capital2 4


Wingman, Yes I'm on Twitter as: http://twitter.com/bigbopper
And My "Tweets" appeared right here on my blog page on the Right Panel.

=====================================================

The Three Stooges: A New Movie in the Werks.

Remember These Guys?

Here are The "New" BOYS

slated for a New Three Stooges Movie
(Johnny Depp opted out)

Really, I have NOTHING to Say...

==================================================================

Wingman.

But there is some videos at the Video Bar Right-TOP, to see what they are Up against...
===================================================================

Reluctant Canadian Mail Man Does Not Deliver to 2nd Floor

==========================================
Filed Under:Can You Believe It?

Reluctant Canadian Mail Man
Does Not Deliver

to 2nd Floor
==========================================
I Guess You can forget about Rain, Sleet and Snow Too!
===========================================

The Report is that he would not deliver to any place higher than the First Floor and kept over Five Years of undelivered Mail in his Home.

There was a Barney Miller episode about "just the same sort of Thing..."

Not a funny this time around.

But This IS....

Barney Miller on MAHALO:
=================================
Link: http://www.mahalo.com/Barney_Miller
=================================

The Video Bar has Barney Miller Episodes.

==========================================

Is the iPOD Touch

the Best eBook Reader For The Money???

Check this List Out:

==========================================
===========================================
Public Domain Books of
===========================================
20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

A Discourse of A METHOD
For the guiding of REASON,
A Discovery of Truth in the Sciences
by Rene Descartes

A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne

A Tale of Two Cities
A Story of the French Revolution by Charles Dickens

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ben-Hur- a Tale of Christ by Lew Wallace
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Far From the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
He Knew He Was Right by Antony Trollope
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Love Among the Chickens by F. G. Wodehouse
A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm
Nickolas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes , Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfalls and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens

Nostromo, A Tale of The Seaboard, by Joseph Conrad
Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Shakespeare Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton
Tales of Terror and Mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Ambassadors by Henry James

The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
The Oldest Military Treatise in the World

The Education of Henry Adams: The Autobiography of Henry Adams
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Unintended Consequences: Five Years under the DMCA (EFF)

Ben-Hur- a Tale of Christ by Lew Wallace
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Far From the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
He Knew He Was Right by Antony Trollope
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Love Among the Chickens by F. G. Wodehouse
A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm
Nickolas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes , Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfalls and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens

Nostromo, A Tale of The Seaboard, by Joseph Conrad
Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Shakespeare Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton
Tales of Terror and Mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Ambassadors by Henry James

The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
The Oldest Military Treatise in the World

The Education of Henry Adams: The Autobiography of Henry Adams
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Unintended Consequences: Five Years under the DMCA (EFF)

Available on My iPod Touch

APP called BookShelf Downloaded in less than 3 minutes....

Wingman, Delivers

==========================================

The Best eTEXT Machine So Far???

The Best eTEXT Machine So Far???

=================================
=================================

==================================
Answers To Yesterday's "Judy's Birthday Quiz":
==================================

What Was The Price In 1949?

1. Average price of a new Home?
2. Average yearly wages?
3. 1 gallon of gasoline?
4. Average price of a new car?
5. Minimum hourly wage rate?
6. New kitchen table with chairs?
7. One 1st class stamp?
8. 1st Polaroid camera sold in 1949 for?


Answers:

1. $7,450.00
2. $2,950.00
3. .17 cents
4. $1,400.00
5. .70 cents
6. $100.00
7. .03 cents
8. $89.00
=======================================
Polaroid Camera Picture:

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

Judy's Party Pictures Still at Photobucket.
(You Need A PASSWORD. Ask Wingman).
=======================================



===================================================

Family, Friends and What DID Things Cost in 1949?

=======================

What Was The Price In

1949?

=======================

1. Average price of a new Home?

2. Average yearly wages?

3. 1 gallon of gasoline?

4. Average price of a new car?

5. Minimum hourly wage rate?

6. New kitchen table with chairs?

7. One 1st class stamp?

8. 1st Polaroid camera sold in 1949 for?

=======================

Answers in Monday's Blog....

=======================

Polaroid Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_camera

=========================




===============================
Judy's 60's Birthday was celebrated yesterday

Family, Friends and a pleasant look back at our
economic Past....

We had a Wonderful Time!
===============================

===============================

Judy's Party Pictures at Photobucket.
(You Need A PASSWORD to See Them).

============================

Wingman

============================

On March 1st, 15 Years ago, LJ publishes First Issue

======================================
On March 1st, 15 Years ago,
LJ publishes First Issue
======================================

A few of my favorite Linux Writers appear in Linux Journal, Marcel Gagne, who introduced me to the Synaptic Program, many years ago. Reuven Lerner's At the Forge column has also been a favorite, as well as Doc Searls, Senior Editor.

They have a CD for sale that has Every Article in the

magazine since 1994,
for $32 bucks,
a great collectors Item,
I Think.

Watching the Writers Too,
Wingman.

===================================

What has Almost as many Media Types as ComicCON: SXSW!

=================================

Cnet Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10198523-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ch8aml

=================================

Music, Film and Geeks have their annual BBQ in Tejas at SXSW.
SXSW has become THE Place to Twitter during the Keynotes....

(Maybe, this year a Big Screen behind the Speakers will Not Post (ala CNN) the critiques from the audience-peanut gallery...Maybe.)

================================

While Some Jello Journalists are trying to Tout iPhone OS 3.0 as a sex toy (See Gizmodo Link Below), the REAL Story is Cut-and-Paste (Is it Finally Here???). Good Bet it is, but stay tuned.

They (Gizmodo) do have a Pretty Good iPhone 3.0 OS Guide, here:
=============================

Link: http://i.gizmodo.com/5171796/iphone-30-os-guide-everything-you-need-to-know?skyline=true&s=i

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/cgo8yd
=============================
Gizmodo (sex-toy) Link: http://i.gizmodo.com/5172615/iphone-os-30-will-turn-your-phone-into-a-revolutionary-sex-toy
(No TinyURL for You Guys!!!)
==============================

Wingman

==============================

The Seattle PI Print Edition Comes to an End

The Seattle PI Print Edition

Comes to an End

Link: http://www.seattlepi.com/

========================
Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely to Web (March 17,2009)
========================

From the seattlepi.com Webpage:

One Era Ends, Another Begins

========================

From the

In Seattle, the World Still Turns, a Beacon in Memory of a Lost Newspaper

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/us/17globe.html?_r=1
=============================================

The New York Times Version of their Print Edition (Online)

=============================================
Link To Today's Paper -- New York Times :
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html
=============================================

There should be a ebook provider (Kindle?? Amazon) that could step in here and produce an eBook edition of Newspapers, for daily paper subscription pricing...

Just a Thought.
Wingman.

=============================================

A Picture of Potential P-Pod Progress....

This is My UBUNTU Desktop:
Which I called 3-1.

1. Is VNC grabbing my iPod Touch and Controlling my Music
being played thru mu Computer's Speakers and Desktop Speaker
Controls...
2. Which blanked out on me, was a TV signal of Sunday's Laker
game being captured thru my TV-Card in my Computer.
3. Is a Screen Capture from my WebCam of Me Grooving to the
Tunes of Ipanema being played by my iPod Touch...

Hacker Heaven Awaits !!!

Wingman.

This IS: Up Close and Personal...

==================================

iPod Shuffle: a Closer Look:
Gizmodo Link: http://i.gizmodo.com/5169174/ipod-shuffle-review-2009?skyline=true&s=i

==================================

Every Sheet of Paper

has a Unique 'Fingerprint'.

Way to go, CSI!

Gizmodo Link: http://i.gizmodo.com/5169364/every-sheet-of-paper-has-a-unique-fingerprint
===================================

Wingman.

===================================

Sex and the Big Apple: Mr. Big is Small Again...

===========================

Apple's New iPod Shuffle

===========================

Apple.com Link: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/03/11ipod.html

===========================

And

Engadget's "Full-Court Press" Coverage

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/apples-ipod-shuffle-hits-4gb/

With Video and Photo Gallery.

========================================

Oh Brother,
another eBook Reader????

They call it a "Document Reader".

Yeah, Right.

Original 117 character URL pared down to 25 by:

From the Engadget Japan Page.

TinyUrl.com : http://tinyurl.com/aplljz

========================================
The Other Usual iBook Suspects:
iRiver

iRiver Japan: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/iriver-japan-looking-to-brand-its-own-e-reader/

========================================



And in Japan, something called the New Neolux's NUUT 2
============================================
Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/neoluxs-nuut2-trumps-the-kindle-2-with-pdf-support-loses-in-mo/
============================================

Plastic Logic's Reader Partnerships with Publishers may hint of at a solution to Newsprint Treading water...
Link One: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/plastic-logic-announces-first-content,708721.shtml

Link 2: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/090209/20090209005687.html?.v=1

==============================================

And, of Course,

the


Kindle eBook reader

APP



Now on the iPhone, iPod Touch:

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/bwslsq

========================================
Goodbye Yellow BIG BIRD???
========================================

========================================

On a Sad Note:
There will be Layoffs at Sesame Street....

========================================

Wingman, the Real Watchman...(heh, heh, heh!)

========================================

The Price Is Not Right!!!

==================================

Hitachi
also admits to LCD price fixing,

will pay $31m fine
==================================

Link: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090310/ap_on_hi_te/lcd_price_fixing
===============================================
New Hack for
iPhone 3G is Out....

of Course it works with the

iPod Touch Too!!!

Wingman, Watching the Watchers......

===========================

Panning Digital Cameras

Remember When Every Writer had a Script "Just Ready To Shoot."?

Well, you just have to have a Cool Pan Shot, Right?

================================
Here's the Digital Cam for you, that does that Pan-Shot

right IN the Camera.

================================
EnGadget Link with Video:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sonys-panorama-shooting-dsc-hx1-camera-handled-on-video/#continued

TinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/buzkq9


================================

Yesterday's Power Grid Reflections Blog
Part 2
================================

================================

"Circuit City is Dead" is the way one Tech Story Ran yesterday. The End of an Era, is what I call it. I have mused in the past about the fading away of Computer Swap Meets giving way to stores like Circuit City. It seems it was only yesterday that Compusa closed too. Computer Magazines and Daily Newspapers seem to be Next on the Block.

The New Rapid NEED for Media Change is part of the Problem.

Wall Street is Seeing it too. The Old Way of Doing things Just doesn't work anymore.

The Almost Instant Speed of the Internet requires Faster response time to all problems of Delivery.

And as the Digital Article in the New York Times (read on my iPod Touch) tells us, the Russian Power Brokers of the past have become beggars in-line for Government Stimulus too.

Everything is being Turned Upside Down.

Buckle Up, We're STILL in for a Bumpy Ride....

Wingman.

================================
Talk of eBooks and New eBook Reader
Devices, that can download Digital Newspapers
may just save the Newspapers...
================================
Transports and Financials are Up
at start of Day
INDU +234.81
INDP 6777.87
7:09 am
CNBC
================================