Tom Tebow ad is very tame (jus…
Tom Tebow ad is very tame (just saw it). Doesn’t mention abortion at all. CBS still should have aired the gay dating spot. #superbowl
Snowtorious B.I.G. – best name…
Snowtorious B.I.G. – best name for the snow storm so far. http://www.nbcwashington.com/weather/stories/More-Snow-Anyone-83329597.html #snow
Military Folks Come Out Agains…
Military Folks Come Out Against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell [Morning News] http://bit.ly/9v15BG
The first rule of Fourth Grade…
The first rule of Fourth Grade Fight Club is you don’t talk about Fourth Grade Fight Club. http://bit.ly/axoMmz
Darth Vader Beats Cancer
Well of course he did. He’s Darth Vader. Duh.
OK, it’s actually the actor David Prowse who beat cancer. Prowse played Darth Vader. Not the voice, that was James Earl Jones. Here’s what the movie would have sounded like if they had kept Prowse’s voice.
Yeah, “bring me the prisoners, I want them alive!” sounds a lot better with James Earl Jones. Still, as PopEater points out, Prowse did “all the heavy lifting (Emperor toss!)”.
Trivia factoid from PopEater — Prowse was offered the role of Chewbacca or Vader. I think he made the right choice. And congrats on beating cancer.
Darth Vader Actor David Prowse Beats Cancer | PopEater.com
Intel Might Put Your Laptop On TV [DaddyTech]
With their new Wireless Display technology, Intel might put your laptop on TV. Finally.
There is a ton of great video content online, most of it free. I’m not talking about torrents or file-sharing. A lot of the best stuff is fully authorized. Hulu for example. Have you ever spent time browsing their catalog? It’s not only recent episodes of shows you don’t watch anyway. There are old movies, complete series, all sorts of good stuff.
The problem has always been how the heck do you get that cool stuff to display on your television. The no-longer-new flatscreen TVs that almost everybody has certainly made this task easier; many models have a plain old monitor port that you can use to plug in a PC. Still, that means more wires, as well as finding room for a computer near the television.
There have been ways to transfer video wirelessly from a computer to a television set, but they required the use of clunky dongles and/or dedicated media server devices. As a bonus, most people thought the output sucked.
BUT! Intel may have solved this problem. CNET’s gadget blog Crave asks the question Is Intel’s Wireless Display a game changer? (It’s also called WiDi, which is a dopey but descriptive name.) Here’s a video where they try it out.
It may not be perfect yet, but it’s better than what we had before. Mostly I’m happy that Intel is working on this at all. It seems like the kind of thing that the major networks/content producers would not be all that happy about. Think about it. Sure, they’ll put their shows online. But if you want to watch that show on a TV screen, they want you to look at commercials. For example, Hulu blocked Boxee users from viewing their content in February of 2009.
So is WiDi a sign that major networks are loosening up a bit in terms of how we view our content? In the words of the great Kent Brockman, only time will tell.
Hands-on: Is Intel’s Wireless Display a game changer? | Crave – CNET
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Intel announces WiDi HD wireless display technology (Engadget)
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