Infinity and Beyond

Fortune’s Apple 2.0 weblog posted an article today covering the Piper Jaffray report surveying teens and the ChangeWayve Research survey professionals on their interests/intent to buy.  They reported that 16% of teens and 30% of professionals plan to buy iPhones.  The percentage amongts teens was down from the period right after the 3G launch, but I expect this to climb back up sharply when they introduce the next version, rumored to be announced at the WWDC this summer.  Amongst teens, actual ownership was only at around 8% however.  With AT&T’s exclusive deal ending on the iPhone, this could change as companies compete to entice iPhone users away from AT&T.

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For my birthday teh internets gave me two sites that will suck away hours and hours of time.

bomomo.com is a great way to spend time ‘drawing’ nonsense, starting over and going again and again and suddenly it’s 5 and time for the weekend to start.

Etsy.com is a way to shop by color. Right, cause normally when i want to go shopping I say, man I need something orange, not orange orange but more of a burnt amber color and then go shop. Whatever though, it’s neat and time consuming and amusing.

Happy Birthday to me. Now I’m going to go back to watching an xbox version of the super bowl being playing out on the internal tv system in the office… yay working for a sports network.

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Big brother is getting a little free help from Google. “Swiss police said Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth.” I guess I figured the police would be using Google Earth but it didn’t really occur to me that it would work to solve crimes. The plantation was hidden inside a field of corn that was easily spotted from Google Earth’s ariel view. The head of Zurich police’s specialist narcotics unit Norbert Klossner said “it was an interesting chance discovery.” Such a chance discovery that it’s possible a lot of grow operations might move into more covered locations.

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Bad Idea:

Delaying the analog/digital transition to June 12.

Good Idea:

Investing in Netflix (yesterday)

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The full list can be found lots of places, try here if you are having trouble finding it. This pretty much means I have to see ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ this weekend as it nabbed 13 nominations. It also means maybe next week I’ll go see ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ as it grabbed 9. Along with its many nominations ‘Slumdog’ beat out ‘Button’ at the Golden Globes a couple weeks back so this could be a very interesting race. Until I’ve seen all of the movies (and this year the best picture nominees pretty much run the table of the other nominations) I won’t make any predictions but my expectations for ‘Slumdog’ have been set pretty insanely high.

Best Picture Nominees:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire

In other nomination news, ‘Wall-E’ might have been left out of the top running but it was nominated in six other categories including Best Animated Feature of the Year, which it is. The animated short, ’Presto’, that preceded ‘Wall-E’ was nominated for Best Animated Short.

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Everything’s gonna be all right.

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Want to “Relive ‘The Moment’ when Barack Obama took the oath of office’? Then head on over to CNN and check out the 3-D image they are creating of the exact moment in which the Chief Justice screwed up the Oath.

I can’t get enough of today’s coverage and on top of the thousands of things I am thankful for that Obama will bring to this country I am also thankful I’ve got CNN being the only major network to really jump into the deep end of the tech pool. They’ve done interviews with 3-D holographs on election day, they were the first to use touch screen maps that John Kinghas really made an

integral part of this past year’s election season. Now, using a Microsoft product (yeah, what the hell?) called Photosynth, they’ve created a pretty sweet image that they’ve been adding to throughout the day. You can get a row of Hollywood players sitting off to the left of Obama. Steven Spielberg and Disney CEO Robert Iger seem awfully chummy.

Today is a great day for the future of everyone and everything, and technology is not going to be left out. So, I say congratulations to all of us!

TODAY IS AWESOME!!1!!!

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Another one bites the dust?

 A picture taken from the blog of ‘the Stranger’ in Seattle. The Seattle P-I is on it’s last legs. I’ve also got wind of layoffs at CBS radio in Seattle not to mention the potential massive layoffs that Microsoft is flirting with. The decline of the Seattle market is a cannary in the coal mine. We aren’t through this yet.

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Painter Andrew Wyeth has died. He was 91. This blog might be about technology and media content and all that but I think if this blog exsisted in 1948 when ‘Chritsina’s World’ was painted I would have blogged about it. You can visit the online version of the painting via MoMA.org. While Wyeth had a myraid of paintings under his belt ‘Christina’s World’ was one I’ve taken fascination with and even had a cheap print of it hanging in my room for several years.

We talk a lot about the changing mediums of technology and how we view content, but the creators of fine art of all kinds deserve recognition no matter how their art is viewed.

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Woah, trying to do a little catch-up as I’ve been just getting over my December hangover. This year was particularly awful due to crazy weather, unusual projects at work, and of course moving. Each one would have been a struggle on its own but combine the three and I’ve been laying low here on IandB.

With that said the Golden Globes were this past Sunday and it showed me just how few movies I’ve seen recently. December is when a lot of the award caliber stuff floods the theaters and its your job to try and keep up with it all. Sadly there hasn’t been time to see a movie since… um… shit. I think maybe Quantum of Solace. At any rate I just hope some of these get Oscar nods at 5:38am PST on January 22nd so they’ll stay in theaters a bit longer. Anyway, here is the list of winners from this past Sunday. I hardly know any of these movies.

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