Technology
Open Handset Alliance gets 14 new members
Submitted by charlie.collins on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 06:23Big news out of the OHA (the organization that Google is in that drives the Android mobile device platform).
Animated GIFs sure are annoying, except this one
Submitted by charlie.collins on Sat, 11/15/2008 - 13:06So this weekend I was doing a bit of research and ended up on a tangent into exactly how GPS works. I get the basics, sure, but wanted to dig into the details a bit more. I didn't have to look any further than the Wikipedia GPS article for an excellent source of information.
While there one of the many resources that caught my eye was the fantastic little "how GPS works" GIF:
Their reader feeds pretty much sum up the presidential candidates
Submitted by charlie.collins on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 17:25I know they are well aware that people check their feeds, and have manipulated the listings accordingly, but that only makes it a bit more shockingly clear: John McCain is officially way beyond losing his sanity (Drudge, and Fox News), and Barack has a brain (Chicago Sun Times, and The Daily Show).
Explore news sites read by McCain, Obama and political journalists
How is your iPhone treating you?
Submitted by charlie.collins on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 08:09I will be buying a new phone soon (the old employer's BlackBerry is going away) and have been looking at getting an iPhone. I am a notorious hardware holdout, rather than an edge cutter (I like the 2 gens ago chips, they are fast *and* cheap - still typing this on a MacBook core duo I got a few years back, still works fine). That, combined with the fact that the company decided for me in the past, is the reason I don't have an iPhone already.
You don't need to tweet this, really
Submitted by charlie.collins on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 08:50
As an aside, the reason I noticed this is that Cooper twittered it (I am one of those Dvorak style Twitter curmudgeon holdouts, but I do see the tweets from time to time on Facebook ;)).
