Just one blistering sunburn in childhood more than doubles a person’s chances of developing melanoma later in life. According to one US study, 54 percent of children become sunburned or tanned in their second summer, versus 22 percent in their first.
“Children should not be getting sunburned at any age, especially since there are a range [...]
There is a new email hoax floating around the net that claims to show two photos from the crash of the Air France Airbus that went down a month ago over the Atlantic Ocean during a flight from Rio to Paris. The claim in the email is that while everybody onboard was killed the memory stick was recovered from the camera and these two images survived.
Well, a quick trip to snopes.com provides all the information you need to know this story is bull.
First off, the email has already made a trek around the world once before. According to snopes a blogger wanted to demonstrate that people don’t really read things. He posted a story that was pretty much identical to this one. It was based on a 2006 accident between an executive jet and a 737. He ran the photos and at the bottom of the story he posted a link that explained the hoax.
Saving the best for last, the pictures might look familiar to some people. If you are a Lost fan you may have seen this crash in the opening episode. The photos are screen caps from promotional footage for the show
Cleveland Indians, Jhonny Peralta and Kelly Shoppach were in Sheffield Village for an autograph signing session at the new Key Bank. These are never the most interesting assignments because the pictures are just backs of heads or profiles. Add in the fact that the players are generally not all that excited about hanging out with the unwashed masses.
As I was standing there I couldn’t help but notice the bling these guys were wearing. The watch Shoppach was wearing was huge. Peraltta had a slightly smaller watch but he made up for it with all the diamonds and a seriously heavy expensive looking stainless steel bracelet loaded with diamonds.
Jhonny Peraltta wins the bling show down with no effort at all. He’s wearing the Cartier Santos 100, diamond watch. Jomashop.com lists this watch at $92,500. The good news is you can get it at a reduced $78,625. Like I said before he has the bracelet, that has to be worth considerably more that $10,000.
If you want to pull off the same look on a non Major League budget go online and look around for a replica. Those are going for $260 on most of the sites I saw. You could buy 300 of the knockoffs for the price of Peraltta’s real thing.
While Shoppach didn’t spend quite as much money his watch is frigging huge. the picture doesn’t even come close to showing how big this thing really is. The watch is a Breitling Bentley Limited Edition and while I couldn’t find this exact watch online something that looks like it can be purchased on Gemnation.com for a respectable $9200. Shoppach’s watch has diamonds on each of the hour markers so that will push the price higher. I ran across a watch like his with a diamond bezel that went for $27,000.
Again, the knockoff route will get you a similar watch for $250. You could even pickup the super blinged version of the watch for that price.
I admit I can be a fan-boy about certain things. I love all things Google, Facebook, and iPhone. The other thing I really like is Twitter.
If you have been thinking about giving Twitter a try now is the time to get onboard because the way Twitter is being used in Iran is the reason Twitter should exist.
Right now Iran is on the brink and reporters and activists are getting reports out using every tool in the bag. I saw a post with a video link that was just raw video of crowds rioting in the streets. The intensity of the video was amazing, as was the courage of the journalist who recorded it with a cell phone.
There are reports coming out that you won’t get in the traditional media and they provide an interesting look behind the cameras and the reporters activity as they struggle with the Iranian government and their attempts to lock down the flow of information out of Iran.
Some great follows for Iran Information:
jimsciuttoABC
nytimeskristof
persiankiwi
reyhani
By the way, if you do join Twitter follow the Chronicle and me. yourchronicle and bruce_bishop
A hacker has taken a bite out od Apple with his program called double Twist. According to a Reuters report a Norwegian hacker known as DVD Jon who got his name by breaking the encryption on DVDs has devised software that works around the Digital Rights Management on iTunes downloads.
The twist is that the program works on music you have already purchased, at least that’s what they will tell the judge when Apple comes after them.
I guess I’ll file this thing under cool things I would like to own but have no possible justification for, unless I use Guy Math.
Autonet Mobile has a portable device that you install in your vehicle to make it a broadband speed 400kbps-800kbps, WiFi Hotspot with a range up to 150 feet. How cool is that?
I saw this at Advance Auto Parts and picked up a flyer that lists the basic info on the product. Monthly service is $29 a month with a 1 year contract. The unit itself sells for $400. It’s not cheap but if you want to start justifying things do a little Guy Math.
Satellite radio keeps going up in price and those radios are fairly pricey… Sirius is 16.99 a month and the internet radio add-on is another $2.99. If you want to convince your significant other that this is a good buy you are going to have to figure out where that other $9 a month is coming from.
Maybe try to convince her that you will park the car close to the house and use it to replace the home internet. If she falls for that you can actually thank guy math because you will actually get the hotspot and come out with a profit.
Just hope she doesn’t ask what happens when you aren’t home or how the WiFi is powered when the car is off. Guy Math is not an exact science, you need to talk fast and get the purchase before she starts thinking about it too much.
If you pull this off don’t be too happy with yourself. As long time user of Guy Math, I have discovered something that women do called, what he doesn’t know won’t hurt him.
Check out out Web Guy, Boone Simpson as he taste tests the new flavors from Mountain Dew. The World of Warcraft themed flavors named, Horde and Alliance tested pretty well. If Boone knows anything it’s high caffeine content energy drinks.
His recommendation for those of you who want to max out on the jitter inducing drinks checkout energyfiend.com . I took a look at the site to see how much punch is in some of the stuff we drink in the newsroom.
The restart your heart of all drinks listed on the database is Fixx Extreme with 400mg per ounce. That’s well above anything else on the list. Here’s a breakdown of some other caffeine drinks.
John Doe wakes up wipes the sleep from his eyes and gets ready for another work day. Mumbling about how much he hates Monday’s our imaginary friend doesn’t bother to look both ways as he steps off the curb. Splat! aaannnnnnnddd, fade to black.
He is rather unceremoniously run over by a bus. Family and friends are shocked do the whole seven stages of grief thing and that’s the end of the Earthly story for Mr. John Doe.
Meanwhile out in cyber-space where your Facebook, Myspace, World of Warcraft, Flickr, and thousands of other possible social networking and gaming sites exist there’s a question. What happened to John?
Legacy Locker is an online solution that takes care of the details only you know. Once notification of your death is received, the system kicks in and e-mails start flying. Legacy Locker and similar sites provide their clients with a way to send off that last e-mail to their friends and loved ones. Beyond the social aspect Legacy Locker also touts the financial aspect. “While the work you do today helps your clients prepare their physical assets, there’s virtually nothing in place for dealing with online assets”.
That rings true to me. I don’t think most people really want to think about the possibility of dying suddenly so it’s easy to see the benefit of a quick and easy online arrangement. I know I sure wouldn’t want to make an appointment to meet with a financial planner to work out the details of my passing, even if it really is the right thing to do.
So think about taking a few minutes away from battling Murlocs, and taking another what color is your Chakra quiz on Facebook and check out some of the online options so your friends can throw a proper online funeral for you.
I gathered a few photos from our archives for a little tour of Elyria. It’s not all that comprehensive but I thought some of the readers who have moved away might like to take a look at how some things have changed and in some cases stayed pretty much the same.
If people like this I will expand on it and post some new photos, so let me know.
The Kodak Zi6 isn't that much larger than the Blackberry Curve.
HD quality video is making its way onto smaller and smaller recorders. I just picked up the Kodak Zi6 HD. According to the clerk at the store this camera is better than the more popular, well advertised Flip.
If that’s true I sure feel sorry for the Flip users. To be fair I hear that the picture does look pretty good on an HD TV but it requires a tripod for the image to be stable, oh, and you can’t pan because then the image breaks up. It sort of defeats the point when you buy a pocket camera that requires a tripod for clean stable video. Essentially what they invented was a pocket size HD security camera.
If I sound bitter it’s because I am. The Kodak held so much promise for me, the idea of not having to lug around all that video gear on top of the still cameras and lenses I use every day. It’s been a week now and the camera still hasn’t managed to put out a piece of usable video. First problem came when we tried to put the video into Adobe Premiere Elements. No dice, the program refused to recognize the video coming out of the camera. I spent a good part of the afternoon thinking I must be doing something wrong.
A quick search of Google and I started to have a feeling that this camera and I were not meant to be together. It’s like going out on a first time and your date brings her mom….maybe there is a good reason but it doesn’t bode well for the future.
Next step was upgrading to QuickTime Pro. $29.95 before tax and all I ended up with was a copy of QuickTime Pro. The video worked in a few modes but it was really jerky. Back to Google and there it is again, reports of jerky video. As I write this I’m looking around my desk for all the little pieces of paper and baggies that came with the camera so I can take it back to the store.
If you are thinking about this really cool sounding camera I’m sorry to say that my experience with it hasn’t been so good. In the near future we will probably look at them again. With a few tweaks like image stabilization and a format that works with common video editors this camera will probably be pretty nice.
I’ll tell you that he is the man who invented the internet, not Al Gore as a lot of people think. Another little trivia point is that Gore never actually claimed to invent the internet. In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Al Gore said;
“During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”
For all the power and influence the internet has over our lives it’s amazing to think how it all started in 1990 while Berners-Lee was working for CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. You might recognize the acronym; CERN from news stories about the recently opened Hadron Collider It’s the project that has the potential change everything we think we know about physics.
These days Berners-Lee is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium. They are one of the layers that keep the web functioning by helping develop standards and working towards optimizing the power of the internet.
