Not Your Typical Helicopter Rescue

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HowtoblowadeeroutofafrozenlakewithahelcopterJB.wmv (1868 KB)

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Simon Klingert - Photojournalist

Excellent site from photojournalist Simon Klingert. http://www.simonklingert.de/

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Report: Stray jet's pilots were on laptops

via cnn.com

So, the Northwest pilots were discussing the new aircrew scheduling system... in such detail they missed radio calls and their destination. Uh huh.

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Google Voice Desktop Application

via rstoeber.com

Another bit of Adobe Air goodness. This app gives you desktop access to the mobile version of Google Voice. Voice is another great tool that I and still working out how to integrate into how I do business.

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Waver, an AIR Google Wave Client

via adobe.com

Waver is a new Adobe AIR platform client for Google Wave. It does what it says, and it another 'interesting' addition to my 'what the heck do I use Wave for?' equation. If you are also trying to figure out an actual use for Wave, this might be worth a look.

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Hulu Officially Charging for Content in 2010

via lifehacker.com

Say goodbye to free Hulu. That's a shame, as I think it's a great service with a lot of content that I would watch (had I more time). In fact Hulu had me thinking of a media center PC next to the TV in the living room. Now it appears that cable + TiVo will continue to rule the day.

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Porsche Panamera - The New Family Truckster

via porsche.com

Finally! I've been waiting for Porsche to deliver the sports car with room for the kids. Four (real) seats, and still 0-60 in 4 seconds. I'll take two.

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Left vs. Right via InformationIsBeautiful.net

Another great graphic posted today on
http://informationisbeautiful.net. This is a great site for folks
that really appreciate how info can be plotted and displayed.

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Serving Office 2007 Files from IIS6

Ran into a problem today where one of our users couldn't access Word
2007 files (.docx) on one of our CMS sites based on Windows Server
2003 and IIS6.

The file was in the right place, other files could be downloaded, just
not the newer Office docs. As you can imagine, it's a MIME type
issue. Here is the link I found to set it right, and it did the
trick.

http://www.jameskovacs.com/blog/ConfiguringIIS6ToServeOffice2007FileFormats.aspx#

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FluTracker

via flutracker.rhizalabs.com

Great data visualization site for tracking H1N1. I put this up here because of the slick mashup, not necessarily because I think you all need to be tracking H1N1.

http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com

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School Photos 2009-2010

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Real Tauntaun sleeping bags coming in November

via scifiwire.com

ThinkGeek is releasing the Tauntaun sleeping bag! This started as an April Fools Day joke, but customer demand has driven them to create the product for real. Love it!

"And I thought they smelled bad on the *outside*."

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Conversations

via xkcd.com

If you aren't reading XKCD every day (well, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday), you should be.

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Zombie Attack SitMan

This tongue in cheek Exercise manual was published by the University of Florida. They have since taken it down, but it's still hilarious.

Be sure you get the proper approval if you are forced to 'dispatch' an infected co-worker.

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ZombieAttack-SituationManual.pdf (38 KB)

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Happy Dog!

You gotta admit, who doesn't want to be the family dog?

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Google Wave... Any Feedback?

Wave has hit the streets (in limited form), and I'm starting to see
some reviews coming in. I've watched the demo videos, and I'm waiting
patiently for my invite, but I want to know if anyone has some real
examples of Wave being *used*. I'm starting to wonder if perhaps it's
more hype than substance. Not to say it doesn't work... but is is
useful? If you have comments, let me know.

We are in the process of developing social media tools for a couple of
projects, and I'm thinking about how this could integrate.

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