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This is too cool. A video shot of the Earth and the Moon from NASA’s EPOXI spacecraft.
Via Gizmodo
I’ve noticed that my first generation iPhone is draining the battery much more quickly with the iPhone 2.0 update. This is just for every day phone use WITHOUT using applications. I’ve been too busy the last couple of days to play around with the applications. Right now, I get enough battery charge to last through the day, but by the end of the day the battery gauge is much lower than what I’m used to seeing.
It’s probably the iPhone’s new push mail and contacts. Battery life’s the price to be paid when having your data more in sync.
I’m considering disabling push for mail unless I’m on the road and I need to see my mail as it comes in. Right now, I’ve turned off receiving an alert when I get mail because it’s been beeping and vibrating because of the volume of incoming mail that I receive. Plus, I use my iPhone as my alarm clock, so late night beeping is not welcome.
I did get my first alert that an application has been updated. I like how the App Store shows a little number showing how many updates are waiting.
From CNN.com: McCain calls Obama health care plan ‘HillaryCare’
“My friends, we’ve seen this movie before,” McCain said. “It was called ‘HillaryCare’ back in 1993, and we’re not going to do it again. We’re not going to have the government take over the health care system in America.”
That’s the way to woo Hillary supporters. They’re going to coming running to you now!
Is there anything creepier than hearing McCain say “My friends”? When I hear him say, which is all the time, it raises the little hairs on the back of neck. Like my spider sense is going to go wild if he gets elected.
From NYTimes.com: Gore Calls for Carbon-Free Electric Power
“We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet,” Mr. Gore said. “Every bit of that’s got to change.”
And it can change, he said, citing some scientists’ estimates that enough solar energy falls on the surface of the earth in 40 minutes to meet the world’s energy needs for a year, and that the winds that blow across the Midwest every day could meet the country’s daily electricity needs.
“Of course, there are those who will tell us that this can’t be done,” he conceded. “But even those who reap the profits of the carbon age have to recognize the inevitability of its demise. As one OPEC oil minister observed, ‘The Stone Age didn’t end because of a shortage of stones.’ “
It’s critical that we have bold leadership going forward who are willing to invest in developing new technology to free us from our dependence on foreign oil. An “Apollo” type investment in renewable energy could help end this dependence on carbon based fuels and create new high tech energy related industries and jobs. I think people are beginning to realize the seriousness of our energy problem and the time may have finally arrived for change.
From www.chinaview.cn
Chinese security preparing for crowd control
Testing the gentle misting spray that will clear the air for track and field.
I don’t know if Lane Bryant has made a huge ad buy of banner ads on the internet or somehow I’m being targeted by this maker of plus sized women’s wear, but I’ve been seeing these ads everywhere!
In the New York Times
In three, yes three banner ads on a Macintosh news site, Macnn.
It’s kind of strange to see these ads on a Macintosh website.
Pundit Kitchen:
Who are you, you temptress? And why are you haunting my web experience?
While I was researching whether or not other people are seeing these ads, I came across this classic Lane Bryant ad.
While I’m on the subject of Lane Bryant, I recently saw a lingerie store called Cacique. It turns out it’s a store concept/brand owned by Lane Bryant.
Two problems with the name Cacique. No one knows what the name is and and no one knows how to pronounce it correctly. Lane Bryant even knows that- that’s why they even have the pronunciation on the actual sign itself!
Miriam-Webster has the definition of Cacique as:
1 : a native Indian chief in areas dominated primarily by a Spanish culture
2 : a local political boss in Spain and Latin America
An Indian Chief or a Latin American political boss. Now, that’s making me think about buying some plus sized panties!
From ESPN.com: Report: NFL to review tape for evidence of on-field gang signs
The NFL has hired experts to study game footage to determine whether players are displaying street-gang hand signals as part of their on-field celebrations, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Man, the NFL is seriously becoming the “No Fun League”. First, fining for celebrations, and now banning street-gang symbols? I guess the players will have to turn to celebrating, partying, and being involved with criminal elements after the game.
From NYTimes.com: In Paris, Burgers Turn Chic
Beginning a few years ago but picking up momentum in the past nine months, hamburgers and cheeseburgers have invaded the city. Anywhere tourists are likely to go this summer — in St.-Germain cafes, in fashion-world hangouts, even in restaurants run by three-star chefs — they are likely to find a juicy beef patty, almost invariably on a sesame seed bun.
“It has the taste of the forbidden, the illicit — the subversive, even,” said Hélène Samuel, a restaurant consultant here. “Eating with your hands, it’s pure regression. Naturally, everyone wants it.”
“A hamburger is the architecture of taste par excellence,” she explained. “The meat needs to be a mix of fatty and lean. Not raw, not rare. It must be medium rare. At the same time the bread needs to be smooth, tepid, toasted on the sesame side. I like to brush the soft side with butter. There needs to be a crispy chiffonade of iceberg lettuce. Everything plays a role.”
Just as long as it isn’t a little tiny burger in the center of a gigantic plate.