BBC NEWS | Technology | Shoe kick-starts active lifestyle.
"It could be the ultimate incentive to get kids exercising – a shoe that controls the amount of TV they watch.
The shoe – dubbed Square-eyes – has a unique insole that records the amount of exercise a child does and converts it into television watching time."
There seems to be quite a bit of chatter in my Bloglines feeds and on the weeb this morning about on demand video from Apple. iTunes 4.8 just came out and all the geeks (including yours truly) are excited that it supports video. I mean this is "the year of high definition video" right!? It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
"This morning, the DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals struck down the loathsome Broadcast Flag, ruling that the FCC does not have the jurisdiction to regulate what people do with TV shows after they’ve received them."
Well done!
I finally fixed my PVR yesterday. I can now stop downloading The Daily Show torrents. I was in the habit of downloading the show on a daily basis because it was on too late every night. Now I can just use my PVR… If you’re looking for torrents for The Daily Show you can get them here. In fact you can get torrents for just about any popular TV show there.
UPDATE: May 14 2005
Looks like BTefnet has gone down.
You can try and find The Daily Show here or search here:
PvrBlog has a good breakdown of this "Apple buying out Tivo" rumor.
I think it would be sweet to have a Tivo/Apple media hub in the living room. I could toss out my PVR and just get a Mac Mini Tivo edition… PVR + iLife + iTunes…. Are you pickin up what I’m puttin down?
This also gets interesting for those of you that know what I’m working on right now. (You know the sharks with lasers on their heads thing, hint hint nudge nudge wink wink…)
Go ahead talk amongst yourselves.
Instead of having a sit-in or starting a riot in response to the upcoming broadcast flag these rad nerds had a build-in where they made high def pvrs with open source software! Sweet!
Also, this new mag Make looks awesome. Make: The first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and D.I.Y. inspiration.
From my brother:
this is awesome, letterman is such a cool guy
can you blog this?
Letterman Pays Special Tribute to Carson
How cool is this. During Monday’s show, David Letterman’s monologue was comprised entirely of jokes Johnny Carson secretly sent him over the past few months. Letterman didn’t tell the audience until after the monologue.
UPDATE: You can watch a clip segment of Carson’s appearances on Letterman over the years on Dave’s site today by clicking on "Big Show Highlight."
VIA LostRemote
Download the Eminem Mosh video here. ~47 MB (MOV) Its quite entertaining. Or get a torrent…
OOH OOH IPOD IPOD. Wow blogs are like Apple commercials! Why can’t they just make the damn thing a video player and a cell phone / pda / uber device with like a petabyte? Kottke says this: “Conceivably you could do crude movies with them…play an mp3 soundtrack as you scroll slowly through the frames of the film.” Which I found to be interesting. And yes this has nothing to do with Zach Braff’s blog. I just like sending out random trackbacks to see if people actually use em / know what they even are…
Delicious Library looks most awesome.
coolest sculptures ever. VIA Unrelatednews.com
Variety on the Jon Stewart Crossfire clip: “Stats from IFilm.com show it generated 1.4 million viewings in just six days, making it the most watched TV clip ever and one of the most popular videos of any type on the site,”
Errol Morris: Republican Switcher ads. Worth watchin a few…
Watch Ashlee Simpson miss her lip sync queue and then just bomb on SNL. (~3MB WMV)
My propaganda:
Well ever since I’ve had this Chatango thing I’ve been feeling pretty good about the ridiculous amount of time I’ve spent on my blog. This little chat box (lower left) allows me to chat with people who are dropping by the site. I’ve met some interesting folks who’ve admitted they are “regular readers.” Some of these people have said they’ve “learned about politics” and even “watch less TV.” For little old me hearing that is quite fulfilling. The notion that people actually get something from my humble little bloggy is very pleasing. The weird part is that i’ve heard this from more than one cat. The site did like 1000 – 4000 unique visitors yesterday depending on what statistics tracking system I look at. Most of these peeps are just punks google searching this or that and that kinda bums me out. Nonetheless the server logs for my site now show more and more individuals are coming directly to the site. These “readers” just come directly to the site. They’re not not referred by google or other sites. This means people are bookmarking the site and coming back to it directly. I like knowing that in some tiny little way I get to have my say. Thank you readers.
Other people’s propaganda:
Is it just me or is the weeb being flooded with movies being created by peeps just like you and me? I think this is an awesome trend. Whether its that What Barry Says Video or this new one REVOLUTION: WORLD OF EVIL. This is what I’ve been raving about for ages! Its now happening! Videobloggers are taking over! No seriously, I couldn’t be happier with all these folks putting up video that you and I would NEVER see on our TVs. There’s also a ton of people remixing regular old TV. Finally there’s all that regular TV you should have seen but didn’t happen to be watching. Look at this Jon Stewart clip. Ifilm.com has played this clip over 1 million times. That doesn’t include all the people who watched it off the torrents or direct downloads. What does this all mean? Why don’t we ask Bill Gate$. Bill what do you think? “The ideal for many content people would be that they just put their content on the Internet and then they have a direct relationship with the viewer,” Gates said. “That model for low-volume content is the future.” Yes Bill it is. Strongbad voice: TOO BAD MY PVR RUNS ON LINUX BIATCH AND YOU CAN’T CONTROL IT!!!!. Gate$ wants side by side screens and ads which seems ridiculous to me. Then again, this whole internet is turning into “interactive TV” idea is nothing new. What is new in my view is the amount of material that is being created/remixed/mashed-up by john doe internet user. Why am I so interested? I’m interested because people are having their own say and leaning forward. Why should you be interested? The “future computer” that runs your apartment/house/pad/cave will have wonderfully diverse content on it for your to watch/interact/listen/ that came from “cyberspace” and was created for the love not the money. There’s an interesting discussion about this here.
As 
would say: Booyakasha.
Here’s a few “Radical” videos courtesy of the “internet”:
HOLY LINKS OF NOTE!
WheelBarrow Freestyle is just a wannabe of the sport my brother and his buddy invented: FREESTYLE WALKING.
American Passports to Get Chipped
New way to organize blogosphere ideas? Sparklines? Pretty tech.
This is what I have to say about the Baseball:
