If you liked the Bourne series, you’ll enjoy Green Zone. [If you did not like the Bourne movies… why are you even reading this blog. There is nothing for you here. Hit the back button now.]
IMDB: “Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.”
I think we can scratch Green Zone from W’s Netflix queue. And if you lost a loved one in that war, you might want to skip this movie, too.
History might vindicate the Bush years but you’ll be damned hard pressed to find any movies that remember them kindly.
I assume I was one thousands Apple fans waiting in front of their computers to pre-order the iPad. I imagine a computer deep in the marketing department at Cupertino, with Apple execs standing around, watching a counter whiring ever-faster.
The iPhone had people standing in line. I can’t think of many products that generated such interest and demand. A few gaming boxes but they didn’t have the broad appeal of these Apple devices.
I’m not a gamer but I love this site. Hang around after Bible Study to strap on that rail gun and blow the crap of the other Christian Soldiers. PHARISEES ON YOUR SIX!
Three years ago I helped my friend LeAnn McCarthy set up a blog to help with her communications efforts as Public Information Officer for the Missouri Gaming Commission.
Last week I sat down with LeAnn to see how the blog was working out. She talked about her target audience(s); content; response (internal and external) and other social media tools.
I love books. I love to read but I also love books, the physical object. Hardback or paperback, I love the way they feel in my hands… the way they smell. I like scrawling notes in the margin and highlighting passages. Reading is a very tactile experience for me (and probably for most).
In a couple of days, I will join millions of others in pre-ordering the Apple iPad. I’m looking forward to using all of features and apps (current and future). I can’t imaging giving up my beloved books for a digital experience but I’m trying to keep an open mind. It is possible I will enjoy reading on the iPad.
With that in mind, I’ve been making a mental list of titles I plan to put on my virtual bookshelf.
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Complete works of William Gibson
1984, George Orwell (haven’t read since high school)
Life After Death, Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra
Mac OS X, David Pogue
Some of these are books that I have read several times (or expect to). I assume I will be able to highlight, annotate and search passages of my digital books. It might also be fun to link from the text of the book to a website. I haven’t heard or read anything about such a feature. We’ll see.
The NFL and Verizon wireless have struck a deal to put live games on mobile phones, the Wall Street Journal reports on Tuesday. The two companies will partner in time to stream the NFL draft which begins on April 22, on to mobile devices.
In addition to the NFL draft, Verizon will stream NBC’s Sunday night football, the NFL Network and the Red Zone channel but not games shown on FOX, CBS or ESPN.
The NFL Red Zone channel, which was previously only available on satellite and cable, airs live look-ins of every key play and touchdown from Sunday afternoon games.
Verizon Wireless will pay the NFL $720 million over four-years to be the exclusive mobile home of the NFL. The ability to watch every out-of-market MLB game on iPhone came last summer, making the NFL just the second pro sports league to show pocket sized games.
The games will be available on Verizon’s 3G network so users aren’t required to find a Wi-Fi hotspot to watch games. NFL mobile will then go to 4G network as Verizon replaces its 3G network by from this year to the end of 2013.
Prof. dr. Wubbo J. Ockels is a Dutch physicist, and also the Netherlands’ original astronaut. He is a Professor of Aerospace Sustainable Engineering and Technology at the University of Delft.
Ockels explains how ‘time’ is created by human beings, as a way our brains can make sense of gravity. The speed of light is constant, because it is made by us: it’s the clock by which we have calibrated our existence.
I received several funny birthday cards yesterday, including this one from my pal David:
David knows how to make Facebook walk and talk and it’s become something of a running joke between us that I can’t work FB into my social life.
Let me say, for the record, that I willingly stipulate that Facebook is a really wonderful tool. I’ve created accounts three times now. And deleted (no easy task) them all. For me, Facebook is like going to my 10 year high school reunion. Every night.
This is where FB aficionados try to explain all the ways you can configure the service to control who you friend and who you ignore, etc. Please. This is not my first rodeo. I know a little something about how to get around online.
My most recent run at FB was solely for the purpose of trying Facebook Connect. It is quickly becoming the de facto way to log in to new social networking sites.
So I created an account (again) and added one friend (David) because it appears you have to have at least one friend. I made every feature private. At least every feature that gave me that option.
Within hours I began receiving “friend requests.” Mostly from people with the last name “Mays.” It’s unlikely they all happened to search and find this minutes-old account, so I assume the nice folks at Facebook blasted out an alert to everyone that shares my last name (“Fresh meat!”)
It’s that kind of shit I just don’t care for. So I canceled the account. Again. But I’m still getting email notifications of “friend requests.” I’m filtering those to trash.
And a final plea to you Facebookers… don’t take this personally. This has nothing to do with you. This is about me (famous break-up line). I hate it when the Group Leader says, “I’d like for you to break up into groups of four,” or “Turn to the person to your right and…”
Three years ago I helped my friend LeAnn McCarthy set up 
