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Name Rob Brydon
Location London
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Bio Actor, writer and singer of (number one) songs…
Bio Sample Tweet: “Just bumped into Steve Coogan. Snowing Me Snowing You. Tee Hee.”
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Facts of the Day
The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of 66,700 mph (107,320 kph). (qi.com)
Quote of the Day
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.“ Douglas Adams
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Shiny New World
I wonder if this will happen in my lifetime? Once Earth has used up the resources, I just want enough money to buy my own ship. You can’t take the sky from me. (read more . . .)
France Internet Tax
I personally think that a programmer can easily make sure searches are local to the user and have advertiser pay to higher than say a mom & pop store within 10 miles. (read more . . .)
Microsoft Has Something To Say About Google Phone
Google Inc. will have a hard time attracting partners to its wireless software after introducing Microsoft’s own handset. Yeah, because Microsoft Mobile is so fast and not at all clunky – a headset was all that is wrong with Microsoft Mobile. (read more . . .)
Polaroid Picture
It’s all about Lady Gaga. (read more . . .)
Internet Issues
Since there is no standardization of any internet programming and the use of Internet changes constantly there is no way to adjust for issues. But one thing for sure, security was better with Veronica, Gopher and Jughead. (read more . . .)
No Infrastructure
It is like putting 10,000 cars on a single-lane back road. The road has to be adjusted first to accommodate the cars. United State wireless infrastructure is weak and soon it will be easier to just have a regular landline phone. (read more . . .)
Palm Power
Palm, just might, make a difference in cell phones and development. (read more . . .)
You Are What You Eat
We actually don’t know what we eat. (read more . . .)
Picture It, Teotihuacan 200 BCE
Starbucks brought out a line of cups with prehistoric Aztec images on them. Now the government of Mexico wants them to pay for the use of the images. Anything before cameras were invested should be fair game. (read more . . .)
White House and Net
The Obama administration and its allies at the Federal Communications Commission are retreating from a militant version of Net neutrality regulations first outlined by FCC. (read more . . .)
Wi-Di
Intel has launched a new display technology called Wi-Di at CES. Intel Wireless Display uses Wi-Fi to wirelessly transmit video from PCs running Intel’s latest generation of Core processors to HD television sets. Televisions will require a special adapter made by companies such as Netgear â” which will cost around $100 â” to receive the wireless video signals. Intel also revealed its optical interconnect technology, Light Peak, will be in PCs ‘in about a year’. (read more . . .)
Too Good Too Be True
You can order the $99 laptop, but shipping problems have you think it is a technology unicorn. (read more . . .)
Slates A Many At CES
Tablets PC being called slates is actually very cool. (read more . . .)
You Have to Design Function Everywhere
Phones are getting smaller and the amount of function real estate is limited. A new phone actually uses the back of the phone. (read more . . .)
Sky News Journalist New Requirement
Tweetdeck. (read more . . .)
Netflix Marriage
Announcing a series of new consumer electronics partners of its own. Panasonic, Sanyo, Sharp, Toshiba and Funai have all agreed to introduce blu-ray disc players or digital TVs that will be able to instantly stream content from Netflix. (read more . . .)
Picture Pick
There I Fixed It
Comment Clash
Colbert Salutes Domino’s for Admitting Their Pizza is Gross (article/picture . . .)
“It’s for when you want to take a girl out and you don’t think she’s classy enough for Pizza Hut.” (comments . . .)
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Website Pick
Second Spin (link . . .)
Products on the SecondSpin.com site come from three sources: the internet, the retail stores and from brokers around the country. This gives SecondSpin.com a much wider variety of music & movies than other used sites. Strict quality control keeps the defect rate to less than 1%, so everything is 100% guaranteed.
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