News worthy.
It seems they are shutting down all of the Wal-Marts and K-Marts in Iraq. Yep. They are turning them all into Targets.
Cue cheesy drum roll.
Xian 02:56 PM - p-link
- talk (1)
A gift of prints.
Ned alerts us to the MoMA's magnificent Artist of Brücke exhibit. I'm sure he didn't know it but expressionist prints are one of my weaknesses. Thank you Ned! Thank you Ned!
Xian 02:31 AM - p-link
- talk (0)
The non-car car show tech.
If you want to know about the cars at the car show check out Michael (he's got pictures) or Darren (he's got michigan attitude). There are all kinds of incredible things they are doing with the show itself these days. Some of my favorites:
Innovative - Dodge - Instant Photos: The Dodge booth was giving away free photos at different places around their booth. Now free photos are nothing special but the tech behind it is quite cool. The photo attendants have a stock digital camera on top of a mono-pod. Also attached to the pod is a small computer with a barcode scanner. They take your picture, pull a card out of their pocket, scan the barcode on the card and give you the card. The picture is then transfered via Wi Fi to a computer somewhere in the dodge booth where it is processed and uploaded to dodge.com instantly. All you have to do is enter the ID # on your card to retrieve your picture. Very cool. That's me standing next to the RAMINATOR which Duane says is a truck but I think is really just an elaborate self-propelled trampoline.
Fun - MINI - Pinball: The MINI booth despite being directly across from Ferrari and Maserati booths held it's own with pride, silliness and a lot of fun. Including a few extra large electronic pinball machines. Get the bonuses and they pause the game to teach you about the car's features. I totally cleaned up. There's me playing, dad watching and Pilgrim playing his own game. Thanks to michael for the picture.
Amusing - BMW - Broken touch screen display: There were touch screen displays and web kiosks every where. But upstairs in the BMW booth someone had gotten one of the touch screens out of it's DVD mode and had uninstalled the windows driver for the touch screen. Resulting in a very useless display. Silly windows. Even Janie knows better than that. :)
Other things include: Infrared transmitters that would beam car information to your palm pilot. Cars strapped to machines that spun them upside down for no reason other than to draw attention. Poorly marked restrooms. Expensive cars that you couldn't even get close to. Engine models that opened up while moving to let you see what was going on. And many many shiny things.
Click thumbnails for full images.
Xian 02:17 AM - p-link
- talk (0)
It's not that funny.
It is rather hard to show your wife a web page when she is laughing uncontrollably at this.
Xian 01:16 AM - p-link
- talk (3)
Display spanning for iBooks.
Out of the box the Apple iBook supports display mirroring but not the infinitely more useful display spanning. But they have found a hack (and related discussion) to enable sweet sweet display spanning. Well not my iBook. My iBook has a puny video card. But Shaun's iBook could do it. [via:Rael]
Xian 01:05 AM - p-link
- talk (0)
"Trying to get the game on the market was like a wild roller-coaster ride," McGinnis says. "It was just crazy. By the time it finally made it into the stores, I was so worn out by the entire process that I didn't even have any of that jump-up-and-down excitement left in me. I just felt relieved." 
Nintendo is releasing the GBA SP which featuring a smaller screen protecting clam shell design, a lith-ion battery and a lit screen. It's available now in japan and will start selling in the US march 23. Read the 