Interesting, I guess Jack was a pioneer of sorts. Oh, and that chicks accent is god awful.
Category: Technology
Cool things in technology.
Radiohead’s New Video, Now With Frickin’ Lasers!
Radiohead seems to love technology as much as music. Cool. What’s even cooler is now you can go interact with a 3D version at Google!
In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards”, no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.
Hologram Google Earth
Check out this cool hologram using Google Earth by Ubiq’window. The computer screen in projected in 2D in mid-air and can be interacted with.
ICANN Just Created a Shit Storm
They’ve been talking about the possibility of creating new top-level domains (TLD) for awhile now. Well they just voted and viola, soon in 2009, you’ll be able to choose from all kinds of generic addresses based on common words, brands, company names, cities, or proper names.
As one user put it:
My dream of owning clownpenis.fart is coming to fruition.
Many people (including myself) believe this is going to be another huge mess to deal with, only time will tell for sure. I also think it’s going to look ridiculous when a major corporation registers something like pepsi.pepsi
[via: AFP]
XM Radio: Channels Online VS Channels In Your Car or Home
I love my XM Satellite Radio, always have. I listen to it in my car, I listen to it online at work and at home. The days of commercial radio have long been gone for me. But there are a few oddities that I just don’t understand.
For instance, the channel options online are slightly different than the channel options on the device in your car or home. I actually first noticed it a year or two ago when me and wife were trying to listen to a hockey game. The channel couldn’t be found.
I noticed it again a few days ago. I had been listening to a station online and decided to tune it in on my drive home. The station couldn’t be found. They just straight up skipped the station and instead presented the next station after.
What’s up with that? You would think that this is satellite radio, all channels would be fed through the satellite. I’m guessing not all of them are though. Maybe some are streamed only online. If all stations were fed through satellites, why would you only pick up a station online and not in your vehicle or home? It just doesn’t make sense.
Another kind of odd, but totally explainable thing is that when you listen online, if there is no activity for 2 hours, the system automatically cuts your connection and you have to click the station again to restart the music playing. That only happens online. I totally understand the reasoning for it, but at the same time – it kind of gets annoying.
Still, I couldn’t imagine not having XM Radio. It’s obviously better than conventional radio, and personally I believe it is better than Sirius Satellite Radio as well. But that’s just my opinion.