Now that’s what I call bad luck…
From CNN:
WACO, Texas (AP) — A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning when he adjusted a nearby microphone while standing in water, a church employee said.
The Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was stepping into the baptistery as he reached out [...]
Okay, so there is competition for Apple… or not… anybody else notice the $2.50 price tag – per song… out of only 250.000 songs. Nice try. Bring it down to $0.99 and then try again. Also, given that the ROKR phone is not a big hit, maybe the industryneeds to re-think if people really want [...]
Remember the puzzling Google/Sun announcement a few weeks back. Nobody could really figure out what it was all about. Beforehand, pundits were wondering if an office suit in your web browser was going to be announced, but nothing of that sort materiazlied. Now, though, at least Google [...]
Scoble has an interesting post on where blog traffic is coming from. I find it interesting that Technorati and the other blog search engines hardly drive traffic at all. Given how many of the new Web 2.0 startups are heavily invested in searching blogs, one has to wonder. It is encouraging, though, that this guy [...]
From Your Living Room to the World, via Podcast – New York Times
Using a personal digital assistant and a $100 microphone intended to pick up voices of people sitting at a table, he recorded his 50th birthday celebration at a restaurant. And by using a Wi-Fi connection, he sent the recording to his computer server [...]
Wired features an interesting take on Web 2.0 today. Over the last few days, there have been more and more negative stories in larger publication. Definitely a meme that is catching on, I think. The question is, are the promises of Web 2.0 any different from those of the Web 1.0 hype machine. Indeed, I often [...]
Google keeps adding new features. CNet reports that one can now type in two different airport codes and the search then returns a box to enter dates and the option to search Expedia, Hotwire and Orbitz. Would be nice if they added Kajak or Mobissimo to the mix, but an interesting new function nevertheless.
Update: You [...]
My home airport tends to see a lot of people who get arrested while smuggling drugs into Europe. Usually, they are already living a sad existence before they get there. Now a fire broke out in a prison on the airport.
Ten die in Amsterdam airport fireSchiphol airport
Schiphol is the main airhub of the Netherlands. At [...]
Some very interesting comments from the Lockergnome himself:
The very thing we feared Microsoft would try to do with the Internet, Google is doing. Do you understand what’s happening – truly?
We’re potentially giving the Internet to Google, people. With great power comes great responsibility. I just hope that someone does not set us up the bomb.
Definitely [...]
http://base.google.com is now onlineoffline. And nobody knows what the hell to do with it. I tried – I search – I found nothing…
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Adam Curry has been talking about how porn is going to make the video iPod sell. Wired, though, has a very nice essay on why this is not going to happen in a rush.
Porn on the go presents land mines for viewers as well as producers. Although there is no federal law prohibiting [...]
This morning I woke up to some spam in my blog comments. I expected some herbal viagra, but instead it was Prussian Blue spam. Who would have thought of that?
Here is the message with the links removed:
Name: anon | E-mail: a@yahoo.com | URI: | IP: 64.74.162.10
Prussian Blue Blog
Dresden’s Blog
Prussian Blue Website
Prussian Blue Forums
Jerry’s Prussian [...]
In the wake of the great success of the Grand Challenge, a similar competition was arranged to jumpstart the research on a possible elevator into space. While teams did not quite make it into space, the results are pretty impressive nevertheless.
This did not get much attention, but clearly, for government agencies, these competitions are starting to [...]
Google Blogoscoped features some interesting screenshots and discussion of base.google.com.
There is also Google’s own dscription of what their new service is all about. Not very revealing, to be honest, but have a look yourself.
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