Google TV Faces Delays Amid Poor Reviews →
The biggest promise of Internet television — the ability to watch any show or movie at any time, streamed over the Web — is far from reality with Google TV. People can pay to watch shows or movies on demand using Netflix or Amazon on Google TV, and can watch regular TV programming. The major networks, though, are not providing shows on Google TV, and NBC, CBS, ABC and Hulu have blocked people from watching full-length shows on their Web sites using Google TV.
And now Google is asking partners to delay introducing their versions.
When I looked up what the weather was going to be this week at home, I forgot to add "TX" to the end of the query, so I ended up with the results for blizzard-wrecked Illinois:
Glad it's not going to be 15 degrees on Christmas day.
When a Plane Flies Through a Google Maps Satellite Image
Turns out this happens fairly frequently around airports. It also turns out you can do some math and figure out the shutter speed on the satellite.
HTML5 Body Browser →
It requires a beta version of Chrome or a nightly of Firefox or Safari, but exploring human anatomy in HTML5 is probably worth it.
IBM's "Watson" to Challenge All Time Greatest Jeopardy! Champions →
Guess what I'll be watching on February 14, 15, and 16th?
Inception
I really wish the parcel-handling services would actually leave packages at the apartment complex's leasing office. For one, the package that arrived today would still be there and I wouldn't be trying to get work done while staring at the BluRay version of Inception. It's like an inception's going on right now.
$ ping – social-playlistHmm, maybe I should check for an update.
ping: invalid option – '-social-playlist'
Usage: ping [-LRUbdfnqrvVaAD] [-c count] [-i interval] [-w deadline] [-p pattern] [-s packetsize] [-t ttl] [-I interface or address] [-M mtu discovery hint] [-m mark] [-S sndbuf] [ -T timestamp option ] [ -Q tos ] [hop1 ...] destination
Dr. Seuss does Star Wars →
Wow. This actually works.