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• just woke up and is about to tackle the 10 1/2 inches of snow dumped overnight…. #
• has 1 pic that survived from the daddy daughter date night – kids screwed with the digital cam, erased the rest. http://twitpic.com/11pe9x #
• wonders whom he has to schtupp in the Cuyahoga Falls Streets Department to get his street plowed. #fb #
• loves this country – a minute after his last post bemoaning his street having not been plowed a city plow came by. That's service! :) #
• @rachbarnhart George Carlin put it well re: euphemisms: "smug, greedy, well fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins" in reply to rachbarnhart #
• just woke up from a nap and is still sore from pushing a snowblower most of the day. ouch… #fb #
• isn't a fan of Sarah Palin – but didn't like a comment on CNN's FB page from a dolt hoping she dies during her Tea Party speech tonight. #fb #
• sees Lester Holt is anchoring NBC Nightly News from Vancouver BC tonight – let the on-air Olympic orgy begin! #fb #
• @LindaTuranchik in NE Ohio, the Olympics are on Channel 3 – they start this coming Friday 2/12… in reply to LindaTuranchik #
• wonders if he should be afraid – Emma-Grace is watching an old Lawrence Welk rerun on @PBS – she likes the dancing. #fb #
• is chuckling at this: teenager crashes car into his high school near Seattle, drives down the hall. http://bit.ly/cyiiBv #fb #
• is having a mellow Saturday night laying in bed and watching "Jackass" epidodes on MTV2… #fb #

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• No free lunch for 7 state lawmakers
  OLYMPIA — Seven Washington legislators and an aide have been told to pay back up to $18 each for box lunches they ate at a discussion of marijuana laws.
• Twitter & Facebook are killing delays of live shows such as the Emmys
  Social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook are changing the way we communicate in a very real sense. And now they’re even messing with the well-established practices of U.S. television networks. That’s right folks, they’re messing with the delay of live events as people immediately head online to talk about what they just saw [...]
• Father of Linux is a happy camper with his Nexus One

  Linus Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer best known for starting the development of the Linux kernel. He generally hates phones, but he just blogged that he purchased a Nexus One and is a happy camper so far. He loves the concept of having a phone that runs Linux and thinks the N1 is a winner. Linus admits he was hesitant about purchasing the phone online, but made the jump after reading about the recent pinch-zoom upgrade.

  The chief architect of the Linux kernel also addressed the recent removal of Android from the Linux tree as of the 2.6.33 kernel release.

  I don’t worry about out-of-tree development for odd devices too much. I wish we could merge Android, but I also accept it likely being a few years away. We had similar out-of-tree issues with the SGI extreme scalability stuff, and it took quite a while before the standard kernel merged all of that.Linus Torvalds

  Linus also purchased the G1 when it came out, but he hardly ever used it. He confesses to prefer the N1 because it is thin-and-light. When addressing the lack of a keyboard he said, “I did like having a physical keyboard on the G1, but voice search for the navigation actually seems to work pretty well.”

  [Thank you Ian for the tip]

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• Looks Like Google May Have A Super Bowl Commercial

  

  While Google is a company built on advertising, for the most part it has stayed out of advertising itself on the dominant medium: television. Yes, there have been those short ads for Chrome and a few for Android that it has been involved with. And Google is even said to have considered an ad during the Olympics, but that was killed at the last second, apparently. But now, it looks like Google may be ready to advertise itself on the biggest stage possible: the Super Bowl.

  Google CEO Eric Schmidt has just posted this very intriguing tweet:

  Can’t wait to watch the Superbowl tomorrow. Be sure to watch the ads in the 3rd quarter (someone said “Hell has indeed frozen over.”)

  It’s hard to know exactly what he’s saying there, but it would seem to suggest that Google will have an ad that will run during the third quarter of tomorrow’s game. If that is indeed the case, who knows what product it will be for — but the “hell has frozen over” comment is interesting. Could Google be running an ad to promote Google.com itself to counter Microsoft’s Bing ads? We’ll all be watching.

  Below watch one of Google’s Chrome television ads.

  Update: After some internal discussion, we think it could be a Nexus One ad (which Google said during its launch event that it wasn’t likely to do outside of the web). Some commenters seem to be agreeing as well.

  Update 2: John Battelle believes the ad will be about Google “search stories” and singles out this “Parisian Love” ad below.

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• Obscene tweet gets Vodafone rep suspended
  A customer service employee posts a homophobic tweet on Vodafone’s official Twitter page. The company is forced to apologize, and he is suspended.
• NFL Films Slows Down the Super Bowl Action

  During the past season NFL fans have been treated to a series of promo spots for the league that taken advantage of Inertia Unlimited’s xMo high-speed replay system than can capture images at 960 frames per second. When played back during the spots fans are able to see football plays in a whole new light as plays that pass by in the blink of an eye are slowed down to shed new light on the athleticism, speed, and power of the NFL players.

  Hank McElwee, NFL Films director of photography, is on site with his crew shooting the game with the handheld xMo units. McElwee says he has been shooting football for 40 years but the current project has rejuvinated his career. “You see things you’ve never seen before and it gives a whole new sense of the game,” he says. “We have shots where you can see the receivers fingers ripple.”

  McElwee first contacted Inertia Unlimited when the higher ups at NFL Films decided they wanted to shoot spots in high-speed slow motion, beyond the typical 120 frames per second  found in normal super slow-motion systems. “We were the first to use the xMo unit with the newer v640 Vision Research camera and we soon realized it was something special,” says McElwee.

  Moving to xMo required a new way of thinking when it comes to acquisition. “Here you see it and then you press the button unlike a regular camera where you press the button and then begin shooting,” he says. “So when you see a shot you like you press a trigger the camera goes 2.5 seconds back into the shot and it lays the slow motion. The key is knowing when to hit the trigger. Sometimes you hit it to early and sometimes you hit it to late.”

  The camera also has four triggers, allowing the user to capture up to 10 seconds. Once a trigger has laid down the clip onto the recorder the trigger is available to capture another shot. “Along the way we’ve learned how to use our triggers,” says McElwee. “You can also shoot a shot ramping it, shooting at 24 fps and then hit the trigger and ramp down to 1,000 frames. We’ve did that for the ‘Hard Knocks’ series.”

  What’s next for NFL Films and high-speed cameras? Creating a series of six-minute segments that are about one shot.

  Dave Dart and Brad Smith will be operating the Inertia Unlimited cameras during the Super Bowl. “Now we’re building a whole other library that we can use for future projects,” says McElwee.

• Poll finds support for medical marijuana
  Seventy-one percent of New Yorkers support making medical marijuana legal in the state, while voters have fizzled on a plan to tax soda and sugary drinks, a Quinnipiac Poll found Thursday.

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