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All I have to say is, ABOUT FREAKING TIME. This phone was announced in 2005 and I saw a live version at CES in January, but it has sorta fallen off the radar since. Except for the FCC Approval, no news until today. Engadget is reporting that the Nokia Blackberry killer will be hitting states side soon. The device will supposedly not feature UMTS or Wifi (in the Cingular flavor), which is lame, but expected. It should also sport a wide range of wireless email services, including: Good, MS Direct Push, Blackberry Connect (which I demoed on the Nokia 9300 and wasn’t too impressed with) an of course ExpressMail (powered by Seven). One really cool thing about this phone though is that apparently there is a USB hardware profile to support Mass Storage device. Cant wait!

This is scary.

Oakland County, Michigan will be seeing some new left turn traffic lights in the upcoming years. These new lights will feature 4 lights, instead of the current 3 light models. Rather than flashing the red to allow left hand turn motorists to yield and turn, the flashing yellow will indicate that “motorists are allowed to turn left when available gaps in oncoming traffic are present”. Working in Bloomfield Township, I have seen a few intersections that have new funny lights installed, but not hanging and activated. Looks like these are what they are. Guess it’s better, but the stoplight just looks so funny!

Click for animated (*note it’s in real time, lame I know).

More available at Kittelson.

Brochure #1 (from BloomfieldTwp.org)
Brochure #2 (from BloomfieldTwp.org)
More informatino about NCHRP 3-54
Thanks Will!

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Ok I saw this on Engadget today and I have to say, that is freaking cool.

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Now, I’m no accountant, but I do know what GAAP is and this seems really fishy to me. According to MSNBC, on May 5, 2006, the president signed a memo granting John Negroponte the authority to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities obligations. Apparently section 13[b][3][A] of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 amendment allows for this. Examples of these kind of obligations include, but are not limited to:

• Keeping accurate books, records and accounts
• Maintaining systems of internal controls

via MSNBC

Apple today released iWeb Update 1.1.1 weighing in at at hefty 88.8 MB. The only description given, however, is that it addresses problems with syncing up to .Mac. Sounds like a pretty heavy update just for some minor .Mac fixes…

Apple Support

LONDON, England (Reuters) — U.S. President George W. Bush has alienated Muslims around the world by using absolutist Christian rhetoric to discuss foreign policy issues, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says.

More at CNN

Ha. This is a funny ready. The president thinks that the reason his approval rating is so low is because people are ‘unsettled’. Umm I think the right work is ’smart’.

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After being questioned about ‘The Da Vinci Code” Ian McKellen today said on NBC’s ‘Today’ show that the bible should have a disclaimer at the beginning labeling it ‘fiction’. Video in Windows Media, Real Player and MP3 Audio

via NewsBuster.org

The State Department declared on Thursday that 16k computer they bought from Lenovo will be banned from use on ANY classified information for fear of the Chinese Government getting hold of any of the information. Are you freaking serious! Honestly, the people in office that come up with these ‘ideas’ don’t even know what they are talking about. In fact, Lenovo/IBM is a leader in Embedded Security Subsystems (TPM) technology to ensure data security. But whatever, freaking moronic.

via WashingtonPost.com

Judicial Watch released 2 videos of the ‘airplane’ hitting the pentagon on 9/11/2001. Do you see the airplane???
Video #1

Video #2

After Sony announced a mystery program to generate similar hype to Microsoft’s Origami project, it appears jkOnTheRun has some great pictures of the device. Apparently this beast will have Bluetooth, WLAN and WWAN wireless capabilities. That’s pretty exciting and if Sony gets this thumb style keyboard in conjunction with what looks like a thumb stick on the top right, this could be one killer UMPC.

You know what I’ve always wondered? Since Google has GMail, and GMail is POP3 compliant, why haven’t they made a special GMail Viewer App? The main problem today with GMail is the use of Labels. Different from folders, labels allows for multiple tags. I would so much rather use a GMail view program, that was linked to the labels, address book, and maybe even calendar/task application. It could be the Google equivalent to Groupware! I mean, GMail has a Beta going on right now for hosting domain email, what a perfect way to integrate it all.

I blogged two YouTube videos on May 11 and it appears the first one is no longer up. When you click on it, it shows up with a red warning “Content removed by user.” I wonder why it’s down…

Oh well, I found the source video (MOV).

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHM7iyjMAnw

Be Afraid…

Did Cheney Press For More U.S. Spying? Hm…. did the axis of evil press for total control? This should be a no brainer.

Bible Classes In Public Schools? Anybody every heard of SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE?

Mentally ill troops forced into combat

CIA leak probe looks at Cheney writings

This is an awesome Nintendo commercial I found on Digg today. Enjoy!

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Any guess who came out on top?? It should be no surprise. Results after the jump.

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Ars Technica has a great interview with Amazon.com’s VP of Global Marketing about why Net Neutrality is essentially necessary, namely due to the lack of choice in broadband providers. Great Read.

Ars Technica
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