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Bicycles, Rolling Stops, and the Idaho Stop from Spencer Boomhower on Vimeo.
More here. See also: my TMV post, Growing Old Won't Be What It Used To Be.
A glitch kept my TMV Twitter post on the Google rumors from going up until today. It's here.
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Quick examination of the three models of Cloud Computing: 1. Renting raw hardware: compute processing, data storage and networking bandwidth. 2. Leveraging an integrated application development engine. 3. Ordering an application.
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Neokast was a peer-to-peer live video streaming application whereby “…the more people who watch your Neokast the more efficiently will your server bandwidth be utilized....under normal circumstances the server bandwidth should plateau at 3-4 times that of a single stream NO MATTER HOW MANY VIEWERS ARE BEING SERVED... So if Neokast’s claim is valid, it would be possible to broadcast American Idol or the Super Bowl or friggin’ CNN worldwide for $7 per month.” Cringely says someone bought it. And Microsoft is his top guess.
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Nick scores points against Eric Schmidt vis-a-vis Is Google Making Us Stoopid. Bravo! But I still don't share the concern.
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In his new book, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don't Know About Them), Bart Ehrman says each Gospel writer had a different message — and that readers should not "smash the four Gospels into one big Gospel and think that [they] get the true understanding."
In the Gospel of Mark, for instance, Jesus dies in agony, unsure of the reason he must die and asking why God has forsaken him. But in the book of Luke, Jesus prays for forgiveness for his killers. The two stories offer very different accounts, says Ehrman, yet many people tend to merge them.
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Doug will love this...
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Manjoo's skeptical of Twitter claims. "That's not to say Twitter doesn't have a great future ahead of it... What's unclear now is how such a service will make any money--and how it can transform itself in order for that to happen. It's possible that Twitter could do very well--but probably not as a social network, and probably not as a search engine."
UPDATE: The Dean resigned. And the video has been removed for a copyright violation. Maybe that is all there is to it....
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There just has to be more to this than meets the eye:
An administrator at the University of South Florida has been placed on leave after he admitted to stealing a student's bicycle from behind a campus building, according to a report in The Tampa Tribune. In an Internet-era twist, the incident was caught on surveillance camera and posted to YouTube. [...]According to The Tribune, Dr. Rao said he was trying to help a day laborer find transportation, and loaned the man a bike from the back of the building. The bike was reportedly returned to the student and no criminal charges were filed.
Stephen Klasko, dean of the medical school, wrote a letter to staff members saying: "I'm very sorry to hear of the bicycle incident this week at the Byrd Institute loading dock, and I apologize to everyone involved. I will write again when the USF review is completed. Until then Dr. Abdul Rao will be on annual leave."
Rao, an Oxford-educated transplant immunologist who has overseen millions in research grants, makes $384,000 a year.
"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.
Tell the Supreme Court to invalidate Prop 8, reject Ken Starr's case, and let loving, committed couples marry. 77,577 people have signed so far. DEADLINE: Valentine's Day
Given my enthusiasm for his election, I should comment on his downfall. Sad:
The cast of the scandal in Portland, Ore., has a certain ring to it: Sam Adams. Bob Ball. Beau Breedlove and his dog Lolita ... "Everyone has porn names!" says Mark Wiener with a laugh. "Until yesterday, it had never occurred to me that the worst offending name was mine." Wiener (pronounced Wee-ner) is one of Oregon's most influential political consultants and a former -- and now disheartened -- campaign adviser to the protagonist in this political soap opera. That would be Sam Adams, the new mayor of Portland and the first openly gay man to lead a major American city. Then there's Bob Ball, an openly gay local real estate developer who once had mayoral ambitions himself. In 2007, Ball hinted that Adams' mentoring relationship with a former legislative intern, Beau Breedlove (now 21), was, in fact, a sexual one that had begun when the young man was just 17.
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