Wired News: With a DVR, the Puck Stops Here
Pretty cool use of some of my favorite technologies with my favorite sport.
Sony to come out with a new e-book reader that uses Philips' electronic ink technology. At 170 dots per inch, enough memory for 500 books, and enough battery juice to turn 10,000 pages, no word on the price of the device.
Cities, Swarms, Cell Phones: The Birth of Urban Informatics
Townsend believes the pace of urban life is quickening. "As every person completes more tasks, communicates with more people, coordinates activities among more social networks in the same amount of time, the aggregate effect is an acceleration of the urban metabolism." If Townsend is right, today's New York minute will seem too leisurely for tomorrow's crowds of hypercoordinated and autoscheduled city-dwellers. One key challenge to civic leaders and urban planners is to create more public spaces that attract transient communities of wireless urban nomads who serve as creativity and conviviality magnets, attracting vitality to the social heart of the city.
Change is in the cards for meters
The Philadelphia Parking Authority plans to introduce plastic debit cards, to be sold in $5 and $20 denominations, for use at city parking meters - all 14,500 of them - beginning in October.Vincent J. Fenerty Jr., first deputy executive director of the Parking Authority, said yesterday that motorists would be able to purchase the cards - which are not yet on sale - from a Parking Authority Web site, by phone, or at four direct-sales locations. More details on how and where to purchase the cards are to be announced next month.
First deputy executive director with the PPA? Well with titles that long is it any wonder parking fines have gone up?
A blog dedicated to TiVo, Replay and other digital video recorders(DVR). So cool.
Yep, I have a web log.