Slingbox and Orb transport TV everywhere

I believe i've spoken about this before- SlingBox is a unit you connect to your TV and your broadband connection; afterwards, you can access your actual television from any web-browser. When you load up the app on a laptop, you see your remote and everything you could control on your tv, and actually interact with it (so if someone was watching at your house, you would change their channel). SlingBox just rolled out a test of their app for Windows Mobile, which means you can now watch tv from a smartphone or PocketPC. This pretty much makes television accessable from absolutely anywhere you have an internet connection, if you so desire.
Orb, a computer based competitive solution, allows you to control any media on your computer, as well as TV if you have it jacked into your computer.
Articles on NY Times and Washington Post lauding the service.

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Bob Sagot to Direct "March of the Penguins" Spoof

Bob Saget is reportedly directing a spoof of the oscar-winning documentary "March of the Penguins." His film, "Farce of the Penguins" will mix wildlife footage and an r-rated screenplay (which sounds a lot like America's Funniest Home Videos, his old show). Press releases describe it as "one penguin's search for love while on a 70 mil trek with his libidinous buddies on their way to a hedonistic mating ritual." Samual L Jackson, Lewis Black, Tracy Morgan, James Belushi, Norm Crosby, Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, Gilbert Gottfried, Jon Lovitz, Norm Macdonald, and Abe Vigoda will all be doing voices for the film.

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facebook to sell for $2 billion?

BusinessWeek is reporting that Facebook is up for sale for $2 Billion, after the founders turned down an offer a $750 million. This is only about 2 years after the site was built as a sopohomore college assignment. The site is now the 7th highest ranking site in terms of monthly page views, and had over 37 million unique visitors last month. If it sells, it would make 4 guys very rich before they EVEN GRADUATE COLLEGE (or at least reach that age).

Custom Designing Your Soda on the Fly

"Massachusetts-based
IPIFINI (the bold is part of the branding) has exceeded our wildest dreams with their Programmable
Liquid Container, which contains small, flavor additive-filled (or paint-filled, for the home improvement set)
"buttons" around the periphery of the plastic container. Consumers press the appropriate buttons to create
different flavors from a common base, such as cherry vanilla cola or raspberry tangerine lemonade, or get even wilder
with aroma and food coloring options. IPIFINI claims to already be licensing the technology around
various industries, so don't be surprised to see sodas and coffees (and probably some alcopops too) in the near future
that let you choose your level of buzz"
via Engadget

Google 3.0

via ObnoxiousFumes

Can your online reputation cost you a job?

BusinessWeek has a scary article about the increasing trend of companies to review candidates for jobs via Google before hiring them. While this may not seem like a big deal, remember this: anything you ever did or said online is usually preserved. Unfortunately my computer is crashing and I can't link to the article, but look up "you are what you post" on BusinessWeek Online.

Moore's Law for Razor Blades

A really funny article by The Economist that discusses the possiblity of an emerging "Moore's Law" of razor blades. Moore's Law, for those of you who don't remember, states that the power of computer chips will double every 18 months, a rule that's held true for a while now. If the "power" rule (think time of developing speeding exponentially) that's trending out over the 5 inagurations of razor blades continues to hold true, we will have 14 blades by the year 2100.
Also note that The Onion predicted the 5 blade razor in a farce article two years ago.

Foreign Players in the NBA deal with tensions at home

From the Orlando Sentinal, in regards to Darko Milicic and Mario Kasun, team mates on the Orlando Magic:
They are Orlando Magic teammates, but they probably never can be
friends -- not in the truest sense. A civil war-torn history between
their countries makes a relationship uneasy in the locker room and
potentially dangerous back in the former Yugoslavia. Darko Milicic is
Serbian and Mario Kasun is Croatian. Milicic and Kasun have been thrown
together by the fates of pro basketball ... but distanced by grim
reminders in their homelands. ... Kasun fears how his comments might be
relayed and interpreted in Croatia if he has befriended a Serb
teammate. A peace treaty might be in place, but he says tension
remains. "I don't blame Darko," Kasun said. "But I can't say, 'Yeah,
there's nothing going on.'"

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