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Continue reading →: Doubly Special Relativity
Calvin and I have been reading a really interesting book about the politics of physic (yes there is such a thing called) “The Trouble with Physics”:http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Physics-String-Theory-Science/dp/0618551050/marketingplaybook-20 about the big issues with string theory. Thanks to Peter for sending to me. He describes a really interesting theory called “Doubly Special Relativity…
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Continue reading →: Best Seattle Restaurants
Someone was asking me for the best restaurants of Seattle. Lots of controversy, here, but The “Seattle Times”:http://edb.seattletimes.nwsource.com/ae/scr/st_res_sr.cfm?a=0&ah=0&o=1&cui=0&winSize=50&chunkSize=10&oo=2&p=0&s=3&d=n&oh=y&alpha=&beer=f&smoking=&ckBox=&keyw= has their best list. Notable new ones as opposed to boring old ones (but they are still great like the Herbfarm or Rover’s) are: * Beato Food and Wine. It’s more of…
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Continue reading →: Indoor Sports Lenses 135mm F/2 or 100mm F/2 or 70-200 F2.8
Well with the lenses I know I have, I cover just about every situation well but indoor sports for things like basketball. The 100-400 is just too slow but has great zoom with the 1.6x lense factor, so everything looks blurry. The 24-105 F4/L is also too slow as I…
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Continue reading →: Blackberry Curve Launches June 7th
“Boy Genius”:http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2007/05/26/blackberry-att-rock-the-curve-launch-event-june-7th-confirmed/ reports that the Curve launches June 7. New Macbook Pros launch June 11 and the iPhone right after. It is going to be a great June! Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: Disc Golf in Seattle
Here are some great things to do if on a rainy day you want to play frisbee (a.k.a. disc golf). Here are some resources: Places to play. Seattle Parks and Recreation: Mineral Springs Park (formerly North Seattle Park) Mineral Springs Park is home to one of Seattle’s two disc golf…
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Continue reading →: PSP Video Encoding
It is very confusing what you can encode on the PSP, it has all kinds of strange restrictions. Like, the file names have to be of in a directory called MP_ROOT/100MNV01 and the file name has to be MV*.MP4. The PSP is really a picky device. Also, when you are…
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Continue reading →: PSP Videos
“PSP Video 9”:http://www.pspvideo9.com/ is a free transcoder that takes common formats and converts them into something you can put on a memory stick and watch on your PSP Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: PSP Firmware
Want to really be a geek then get to know all the firmware that is available on the PSP. Sony is a constant battle trying to close up loopholes, but you can easily download hackware, although you can also brick (e.g., destroy your PSP). Pirates! for instance requires version 2.82,…
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Continue reading →: Hitachi Travelstar 7K100
“Storagereview.com”:http://www.storagereview.com/articles/leaderboard.html says the Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 is the nicest drive around. I need yet another one because my homebrew ASUS M3p seems to eat drives for breakfast. I’ve lost two so far. I think that notebook doesn’t do a good job of handling shocks. In any case for a mere…
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Continue reading →: Smarter Wrap Cord Manager
!<http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/images/er4-88.jpg! Etymotic has these really useful cord wrappers. This is just a small piece of rubber that you can wrap your cords around. They cost $5 each plus shipping, so a little bit of a rip off. A little google shows that “Amazon”:http://www.amazon.com/SmarterWrap-Manager-Earphone-Headphone-Black/dp/tech-data/B000ENL6MY/ref=de_a_smtd/103-1802632-5118214?ie=UTF8&m=A1NOY9EOR8TXD6 has these same little things, but you…
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