Friday, January 23, 2009

Paramount Pictures Announces Direct-to-Exhibitors Digital Cinema Deal (via delicious)

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"Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), today announced it has become the first studio to offer digital cinema support directly to exhibitors across the United States and Canada. The move is expected to accelerate the roll-out of digital and 3-D projection systems in theatres. The announcement was made by Jim Tharp, President of Domestic Theatrical Distribution." - Ron Bailey


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NASA a Step Closer to First Flight Test of Next Crew Launch Vehicle (via delicious)

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NASA a Step Closer to First Flight Test of Next Crew Launch Vehicle (via delicious)
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"(...)Rocket hardware critical for the test, known as Ares I-X, was completed this week at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The flight of Ares I-X will be an important step toward verifying analysis tools and techniques needed to develop Ares I, NASA's next crew launch vehicle." - Ron Bailey


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City of Savannah Now Accepting Proposals for waterSmart Landscape Challenge (via delicious)

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City of Savannah Now Accepting Proposals for waterSmart Landscape Challenge (via delicious)
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"The City of Savannah is seeking proposals for the waterSmart Landscape Challenge to develop a sustainable, water-efficient garden for Bryan Square on Hutchinson Island as part of an overall effort by the city and state of Georgia to show residents how to create and maintain landscapes that use less water." - Ron Bailey


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SIRIUS XM Radio Announces Comprehensive Broadcast Coverage for Super Bowl XLIII (via delicious)

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SIRIUS XM Radio Announces Comprehensive Broadcast Coverage for Super Bowl XLIII (via delicious)
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"On Super Bowl Sunday, February 1 at 6:00 pm ET, SIRIUS XM will air an expanded lineup of play-by-play broadcasts of Super Bowl XLIII live from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa nationwide. The 13 separate game calls in 10 languages is an increase from eight languages from last year and will be available for the first time to both SIRIUS and XM subscribers." - Ron Bailey


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Check out our official 70th Anniversary site and help us celebrate! | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com (via FriendFeed)

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Check out our official 70th Anniversary site and help us celebrate! | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com (via FriendFeed)
Check out our official 70th Anniversary site and help us celebrate! | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com
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"A lot has happened over the course of the last 70 years. We saw Captain America fight Nazism, the X-Men tackle prejudice and the Hulk take on his own rage. This year, we're honoring Marvel Comics' 70th Anniversary and want all True Believers to celebrate with us!" - Ron Bailey


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Spider-Man and Barack Obama team up | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com (via FriendFeed)

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Spider-Man and Barack Obama team up | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com (via FriendFeed)
Spider-Man and Barack Obama team up | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com
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"THIS JUST IN: To meet the continuing, unprecedented demand, Marvel is going back to press with AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #583 FOURTH PRINTING VARIANT. A record three sold out printings in three weeks will now be surpassed with a record fourth printing arriving in stores AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #583 FOURTH PRINTING VARIANT February 4. Now's your chance to experience the story uniting Barack Obama with the character that, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he named his favorite super hero!" - Ron Bailey


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THAT Animeblog - What Impz Hate about Anime - “Retarded moe” (via FriendFeed)

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THAT Animeblog - What Impz Hate about Anime - "Retarded moe" (via FriendFeed)
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"Retarded moe is the acknowledgment of cuteness through acting stupid or doing stupid things with a frequent basis. There is little explanation of why the character is so stupid, but it is meant to induce fanboys a sense of protection to defend this girl who is too stupid to do absolutely anything useful." - Ron Bailey

Five Years and Still Roving Mars - Spirit (via YouTube favorites)

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Marvel Hotline: Dark Avengers #1 (via YouTube favorites)

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Take 10: Top Fights of 2008 (via YouTube favorites)

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The baddest bad guys to menace the Marvel Universe in the past year | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com (via FriendFeed)

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When it comes to destroying Tony Stark, Obadiah and Ezekial Stane make it their family business | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com (via FriendFeed)

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When it comes to destroying Tony Stark, Obadiah and Ezekial Stane make it their family business | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com (via FriendFeed)
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Matt Fraction explains how Ezekiel Stane will pull terrorism in the Marvel Universe into the 21st century | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com (via FriendFeed)

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Matt Fraction explains how Ezekiel Stane will pull terrorism in the Marvel Universe into the 21st century | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com (via FriendFeed)
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Monday, January 19, 2009

First ULA Delta IV Heavy NRO Mission Successfully Lifts Off From Cape Canaveral

Delta IV Medium launch carrying DSCS III-B6Image via WikipediaFirst ULA Delta IV Heavy NRO Mission Successfully Lifts Off From Cape Canaveral:

"United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex 37 at CCAFS at 9:47 p.m. EST today. This was the first Delta IV Heavy mission for the NRO. Designated NROL-26, the mission is in support of national defense. This was the third Delta IV Heavy launch in Delta program history. A Delta IV Heavy demonstration flight occurred in December 2004, and the first Air Force operational mission was launched in November 2007."

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Inauguration Done - in Legoland

I found this fascinating quote today:



The massive project features more than a thousand mini-figures, including President-elect Barack Obama and his family, vice president-elect Joe Biden, his wife Jill, George and Laura Bush, Dick and Lynn Cheney, and George Bush Sr and Barbara Bush.”
forsythe, Inauguration Done - in Legoland, Jan 2009



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More proof that everything's better in LEGO. ^_^

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From Yodel Anecdotal: Product Pulse - January 16, 2009

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I found this fascinating quote today:





  • Status on steroids: If you’ve set up your Yahoo! Profiles page, you’ve been reaping the benefits of Yahoo!’s new social capabilities. Today, Yahoo! Profiles ventures beyond these purple walls to include updates from more than 20 sites. That means that you can now see when a contact posts a new review on Yelp, uploads to SmugMug, uploads a video to YouTube, blogs on Blogger, rates a song on Pandora, or tweets on Twitter. The world’s getting smaller as we speak. More here.

  • Piping hot news: What do you get when you combine Yahoo! News with Twitter? A breaking news search engine. Yahoo! engineer Vik Singh took his brainchild, Yahoo! BOSS (or Build Your Own Search Service), and put it to use to create what he calls TweetNews. It’s a clever mashup that takes stories on Yahoo! News and combines them with topics that are spiking on Twitter — a new way to find news that is both timely and important. And another great marriage of traditional and social media. Give it a whirl. More here and here.

  • yodel, Product Pulse - January 16, 2009, Jan 2009


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Roll Yer Own Web

I found this fascinating quote today:



One of the great things about the web today is that you can choose from hundreds of services that will host your blogs, lifestreams, photos, videos, and music. One disadvantage of this, however, is that you typically have very little control over the actual experience. You can't, for example, make changes to themes on Wordpress.com or customize the way your pictures are shown on Flickr. However, thanks to a large number of open source projects, you could do all of this if you hosted your own blog, photo gallery, or mixtape service. In this post, we will show you how to do that and which services we like to run on our own domains.readwriteweb, ReadWriteWeb, Jan 2009



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