iPhone: Simplify Media
Streaming. No, not what you do in your canoe on the weekends, I’m talking data, music data to be precise. Lately, there has been buzz around the notion of streaming your music library (as that would apparently be Dell’s ace in the hole as they contemplate returning to the mp3 player market, as reported earlier here on GA). The pull here is that you could simply keep your iTunes library up to date with your latest downloads and purchases and then simply stream the media to any other computer you had access to or even a handheld device. Say, isn’t the iPhone a handheld device? Wouldn’t it be something if you could stream your iTunes to your iPhone? Well, you can! Thanks to Simplify Media, a new app available in the App Store, that allows you to access your iTunes library and 30 of your friends via EDGE, 3G and Wi-Fi!
University of Toronto home to Canada’s most powerful supercomputer
And it will only consume as much power as 1,500 homes! What a bargain! Actually, apparently such consumption puts the supercomputer in the category of ‘most efficient in the world.’ So, cars aren’t killing us, it’s the damned technology. Ironically, the supercomputer (which will require a 12,000 square foot data center) will be used to track climate change, as well as aerospace, astrophysics, chemical physics and medical imaging, and other wonders of the scientific mind.
The project comes at a cost of $50 million dollars and is set to be completed by next summer. (Oh, and if around that time, you folks in Vaughan, Ontario find your lights dimming periodically, it’s that 12,000 square foot building down the street you thought was going to be a Wal-Mart)
Bigfoot Believed Found
Okay, so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk about my friend and yours, Bigfoot (aka sasquatch, aka yeti). Two men claim to have bagged Bigfoot in a forest in northern Georgia claim. The statement goes somewhere along the lines of ‘we have his body and will provide DNA evidence.’ However, in a video released by the pair in which a ‘scientist’ delivers his opinion of the corpse, stating: “t’s obviously a male, we looked at a very, very large primate male, it doesn’t fit into any of the taxonomic groups I can think of..” But, believe it or not, using the word ‘taxonomic’ doesn’t automatically qualify you as a scientist. And after some digging, folks discovered it was merely the brother of one of the so called Bigfoot-baggers.
Here’s a tip: if you’re going to pull off a hoax, don’t cast your family members (though, if they used their dog, claiming it was Bigfoot’s half-brother…)
