What Google wants, it largely gets. Need some proof of that? Fret not, as we’ve got plenty right here. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) just granted the internet behemoth…
Filed under: Odds and ends, Troubleshooting
I make part of my living as an Apple consultant, so one of the first thoughts that went through my mind on Wednesday when I first saw the iPad…
For its 75th anniversary, Monopoly’s getting a massive update, pitting brazen and new against proven and old: Circular board or quadrilateral? Cash currency or fake credit cards? This is the…
2 days worth of collecting. There’s also 4 more bags inside the big bag and tons of catalogues, brochures, business cards, etc. underneath everything.
Filed under: Education, Steve Jobs
TechCrunch is reporting that Steve Jobs has been heard saying that the Apple tablet will “be the most important thing I’ve ever done.”We…
Brian Krebs’s “Krebs on Security” features an ATM skimmer that is chillingly well-camouflaged. After seeing photos of early, crude skimmers — devices that capture your card number and work in…
Brian Krebs’s “Krebs on Security” features an ATM skimmer that is chillingly well-camouflaged. After seeing photos of early, crude skimmers — devices that capture your card number and work in…
Digg.com is filled with Village People fans apparently.
LOL
Old photo from I’m guessing, September… or maybe I was lazy and it’s from October. It’s changed a lot from then, meaning it’s more messy and unorganized.
That’s not an actual quote of course, but the scene here looks so contrived that it seems plausible. The scary thing is that the Cybersquad is protecting our data with old Dells, Windows XP…
My plan to continue exchanging yellow-screened iMacs until the end of time has been thwarted, but I’m not giving up. Read on for the revised plan.
First, a little background. Yesterday, I…
The TSA hasn’t explained jack. But we found this audio of a pilot explaining the new in-flight security arrangements. Based on that, and what else we know, here’s an unofficial guide to…
After The Snow
Because that’s how they did it in Menace II Society.
Journalists and gun experts point to the 1993 Hughes brothers film Menace II Society, which depicts the side grip in its opening scene, as…
USA Network is losing Monk this year, but it’s not about to let Psych go. The adventures of Shawn and Gus will continue. USA announced today that Psych is coming back for season five,…
T-shirt: Freshjive (via Raymond Roker)
So I was building a house of cards and used up maybe a quarter of the cards in the deck before disaster.
After watching last night’s FlashForward it has made me rethink possible ways the writers can explain the show and it’s all down to 1 possible explanation: 2 timelines. It finally makes sense in my eyes after weeks of thinking how stupid this show was. Before all I could see were paradoxes within the show but after last night’s episode it finally makes sense and also proves fate isn’t possible within the realms of the show. I still hate the show though.
The show starts out in Timeline A and then the blackout occurs. When the blackout is over it causes a second timeline that I call Timeline B. Timeline B is exactly the same as Timeline A until everyone wakes up after the blackout. In Timeline A people woke up without flashforward memories but in Timeline B, people woke up and had memories of future events occurring on April 29th, 2010 but those events occurred in Timeline A.
Timeline A: Blackout occurs (no one sees memories though) > Time passes (people move on from mystery blackout) > April 29, 2010 (random insignificant day in people’s lives, but the people in Timeline B see this as their future)
Timeline B: Blackout occurs (people see memories of events that occur on April 29, 2010 in Timeline A) > Time passes (people move on from the mystery blackout/flashforward incident and things start changing from Timeline A because of flashforwards) > April 29, 2010 (It’s unknown what the future will bring but the events from the flashforwards are most likely to be different based on giving people the knowledge of them.)
Possible Paradox halfway explained: If Mark is investigating the incident of the flashforwards (on April 29, 2010 in Timeline A) it makes a giant plothole since he shouldn’t have seen any memories in the Timeline A blackout. But, if everyone blacked out, that would warrant his investigation. But as for the Mosaic and the blue hands being part of the investigation on the board; I have no idea on that. Maybe the blue hand group in Timeline A could have lured in many more people since everyone saw nothing but darkness. So while Timeline B’s blue hand group lured in only the small percent of people that had no flashforward memories; Timeline A’s would have been open to the whole world possibly. Mosaic is anyone’s guess, maybe just a website to help connect people after the millions died after the blackout since there was no flashforwards that everyone in Timeline B have been focusing on.
Last night’s episode made me finally suspect this theory was correct when the FBI agent (Jett Jackson?) killed himself and there was no course correction that stopped him. If there was only one timeline then time/fate/whatever would have course corrected itself to make sure the events of the future would happen. It sounds absurd but invisible forces would have made sure the agent couldn’t have killed himself so he could atleast live to April 20th, 2010 and be in the meeting with the woman and then answer the phone and have a conversation.
Based on my theory, the agent (Jett Jackson) would have caused the death of that woman and agent Demetri would have died before April 20th in Timeline A. But Timeline B is still being written, events are changing each week but they aren’t really being changed, they are being written for the first time, in that timeline. Other things like the lesbian FBI agent being pregnant and any other event is questionable, right now anything can happen since the moment people woke up in Timeline B.
No grammar was checked, I’m too lazy for that.
Yesterday morning, I had the pleasure of taking the 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport out on the town in Menlo Park, California. It’s the latest from the eco-friendly, Silicon Valley-based…
Windows Vista/7 new file locations
Filed under: News, Social Software
Finland! Not only they have great universal health care—including dental—great public daycare, and great public education at all levels, but now they also got broadband as a legal right…
From San Francisco.
My first push notification from the new CNN app.
Papercraft
Residents stand on electric wires to stay on high ground while others wade in neck-deep flood waters caused by Typhoon Ketsana in Cainta Rizal, east of Manila September 27, 2009. The Big Picture - http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/09/typhoon_ketsana_ondoy.html
I can’t imagine the momentary terror of a semi coming straight at me on the open road, nor can this trucker imagine the keying coming his way the first time someone crashes as result of his…
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CULTURE BUZZ: Avast! There be pirate talk ahead. September 19 marks another International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and fanboys everywhere are busy growing their stubble and practicing…
Creepy half-rainbow outside work giving bad vibes early in the morning.
Popular (US-only, grumble) television site 
