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How My Brother Makes His Android Run Circles Around My iPhone

Hanging out with my little brother last night, he showed me how he had rooted, overclocked and customized his Android phone.  It made my iPhone look stupid.  This morning he sent me an email with the following info:

Samsung Vibrant (launched June 2010)
Rom: Bionix V 1.2 by Team Whiskey
Kernel: Dragon 4.0 test 3
Mods: ginger blue, black swype, black gmail
Launcher: launcher pro plus

 

I totally gotta get me some of that.  He's not a particularly technical person, for what it's worth, but he's smart and he took the time to learn about his phone. I'm jealous.

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What Sarah Palin Tweets (Boring Tag Cloud)

Sarah Palin's tweets are closely watched, so I thought I'd scrape their text and see what words she uses most often.  Below are the most commonly used words across Palin's Twitter messages since November 2009.  Not very interesting, if you ask me.  Oh well.  

Whatpalintweets

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Another location tech fantasy cc @geoloqi

if FRIEND LOCATION is inside RADIUS A relative to MEETING LOCATION and MY LOCATION is outside RADIUS B, then send MY LOCATION to FRIEND by SMS. If FRIEND LOCATION is stationary and other than MEETING LOCATION then request FRiEND LOCATION

Thank u and goodnight

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Reading Bob Woodward With Google Goggles, 38 Years After Watergate

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In the early 70's, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the story of the Watergate scandal in the Washington Post. Today, Google Goggles became available for the iPhone and I was able to use it to augment my reading of an excerpt ran in the local paper of Woodward's latest book, Obama's Wars. Reading about Adm. Mike Mullen, I pulled out my phone and took a photo of Mullen and his name in the caption. Goggles recommended I search for "Mike Mullen" and with a click, I was reading the Admiral's wikipedia entry. Incredible times we live in.

Presuming that print survives, and I hope it will, what does technology like this do to the experience of reading, and thus of writing?

The technology isn't perfect, but it's quite good. The fact that it's already enriched the morning paper for me is inspiring. A single link to wikipedia added to my reading experience represents the collaborative efforts of potentially hundreds of citizen editors describing the subject of the search performed by computer vision. It's amazing.

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Google Goggles discovers political conspiracy hiding inside common household objects

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Sent from a device as mobile as a bird, aloft with the wind under its wings and without a care in the world for proper spelling or complete sentences.

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The economic impact of technical standards: key to building an interoperable heterogeneous infrastructure

Standards are key to building an interoperable heterogeneous infrastructure.  They allow multiple players to compete for the stakeholders’ business, thus allowing lower costs and less risk caused by the failure of a single provider.
via dash7.org

Well put!

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