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Sweet Lou!! Thanks for all the memories Lou! I wish we would have won it with you at the helm! 
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Sweet Lou!! Thanks for all the memories Lou! I wish we would have won it with you at the helm! 

Sweet Lou!!

Thanks for all the memories Lou! I wish we would have won it with you at the helm! 

Spike can Dance!

Slow Motion Destruction!!

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Presidents of the United State - Boll Weevil

Started a new Genius Playlist today after hearing one of my favorite Presidents of the United States of America Songs!

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techspotlight: BBC News - Ofcom report highlights ‘multi-tasking media users’ The average Briton spends almost half of their waking life using media and communications, data suggests. The statistics from regulator Ofcom suggest people in the UK spend seven hours a day watching TV, surfing the net and using their mobile phones. However, the average person actually squeezes in the equivalent of nearly nine hours of media and communications by multi-tasking on several devices. The statistics come from industry sources and a survey of 1,138 adults. The report also suggests that traditional media is holding its own. Television still dominates people’s media habits, with the average person spending around 3.8 hours watching television every day, it says. “For the first time we have mapped the totality of communications use over one day,” said Peter Philips of Ofcom. The annual Communications Market Report says that the average person spends around 15 hours 45 minutes every day awake. Of this time, it says, the average person spends seven hours and five minutes “engaging in media and communications activities”. However, it found that most people are able to cram in even more by multi-tasking. For example, the report found that adults aged between 16 and 24 appeared to consume the least, spending just six hours and 35 minutes a day on the phone, laptop, radio or television. But by multitasking - effectively using two or more devices at once - the survey found that young adults were able to squeeze the equivalent of nine hours 32 minutes worth of consumption into that time. “They are taking up more and more communications activities but fitting them into the same amount of time,” said James Thickett, director of market research and market intelligence at Ofcom. He said this was largely due to the rise in the mobile internet and the use of smartphones. “It has untethered people from being in one particular place.” The report says that the number of people using their phone to surf the web currently stands at 13.5m people. This has almost tripled since 2008, when the figure stood at 5.7m. Concurrently, the use of mobile data has exploded, the report said, increasing by 240% between 2007 and 2009. It suggested that, in part, much of this increase had been driven by one site - Facebook - which accounts for 45% of all mobile web use in the UK, followed by Google at 8%. “All of the others have less than 4% market share,” said Mr Philips. Radio star Facebook also dominates fixed line broadband use. The report says that social networking now accounts for nearly one-quarter of all time spent online, with Facebook accounting for the majority of traffic. The majority of users of the site - and other networks - are between 16 and 34, although Ofcom said that there was a growing trend for older people to also sign up to the services. The report also mapped the current state of broadband in the UK. It suggests that internet take-up has now reached 73% in the UK, the majority of which is fixed broadband. But despite the rise in new ways of accessing content, the report says that traditional media, such as TV and radio still dominate people’s media habits,. “TV still plays a central role in people’s lives,” said Mr Thickett. “We are watching more than at any time in the last five years.” Yet, despite the growth in online TV services and devices that allow people to record television, most shows were watched via traditional live broadcasts. Radio also held its own, the survey said. Although listening has gone down slightly, the number of people able to access radio services was at an all time high, at 91%. “It is still a very important medium for people,” said Mr Thickett.  
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techspotlight: BBC News - Ofcom report highlights ‘multi-tasking media users’ The average Briton spends almost half of their waking life using media and communications, data suggests. The statistics from regulator Ofcom suggest people in the UK spend seven hours a day watching TV, surfing the net and using their mobile phones. However, the average person actually squeezes in the equivalent of nearly nine hours of media and communications by multi-tasking on several devices. The statistics come from industry sources and a survey of 1,138 adults. The report also suggests that traditional media is holding its own. Television still dominates people’s media habits, with the average person spending around 3.8 hours watching television every day, it says. “For the first time we have mapped the totality of communications use over one day,” said Peter Philips of Ofcom. The annual Communications Market Report says that the average person spends around 15 hours 45 minutes every day awake. Of this time, it says, the average person spends seven hours and five minutes “engaging in media and communications activities”. However, it found that most people are able to cram in even more by multi-tasking. For example, the report found that adults aged between 16 and 24 appeared to consume the least, spending just six hours and 35 minutes a day on the phone, laptop, radio or television. But by multitasking - effectively using two or more devices at once - the survey found that young adults were able to squeeze the equivalent of nine hours 32 minutes worth of consumption into that time. “They are taking up more and more communications activities but fitting them into the same amount of time,” said James Thickett, director of market research and market intelligence at Ofcom. He said this was largely due to the rise in the mobile internet and the use of smartphones. “It has untethered people from being in one particular place.” The report says that the number of people using their phone to surf the web currently stands at 13.5m people. This has almost tripled since 2008, when the figure stood at 5.7m. Concurrently, the use of mobile data has exploded, the report said, increasing by 240% between 2007 and 2009. It suggested that, in part, much of this increase had been driven by one site - Facebook - which accounts for 45% of all mobile web use in the UK, followed by Google at 8%. “All of the others have less than 4% market share,” said Mr Philips. Radio star Facebook also dominates fixed line broadband use. The report says that social networking now accounts for nearly one-quarter of all time spent online, with Facebook accounting for the majority of traffic. The majority of users of the site - and other networks - are between 16 and 34, although Ofcom said that there was a growing trend for older people to also sign up to the services. The report also mapped the current state of broadband in the UK. It suggests that internet take-up has now reached 73% in the UK, the majority of which is fixed broadband. But despite the rise in new ways of accessing content, the report says that traditional media, such as TV and radio still dominate people’s media habits,. “TV still plays a central role in people’s lives,” said Mr Thickett. “We are watching more than at any time in the last five years.” Yet, despite the growth in online TV services and devices that allow people to record television, most shows were watched via traditional live broadcasts. Radio also held its own, the survey said. Although listening has gone down slightly, the number of people able to access radio services was at an all time high, at 91%. “It is still a very important medium for people,” said Mr Thickett.  

techspotlight:

BBC News - Ofcom report highlights ‘multi-tasking media users’

The average Briton spends almost half of their waking life using media and communications, data suggests.

The statistics from regulator Ofcom suggest people in the UK spend seven hours a day watching TV, surfing the net and using their mobile phones. However, the average person actually squeezes in the equivalent of nearly nine hours of media and communications by multi-tasking on several devices.

The statistics come from industry sources and a survey of 1,138 adults. The report also suggests that traditional media is holding its own. Television still dominates people’s media habits, with the average person spending around 3.8 hours watching television every day, it says. “For the first time we have mapped the totality of communications use over one day,” said Peter Philips of Ofcom.

The annual Communications Market Report says that the average person spends around 15 hours 45 minutes every day awake. Of this time, it says, the average person spends seven hours and five minutes “engaging in media and communications activities”. However, it found that most people are able to cram in even more by multi-tasking. For example, the report found that adults aged between 16 and 24 appeared to consume the least, spending just six hours and 35 minutes a day on the phone, laptop, radio or television.

But by multitasking - effectively using two or more devices at once - the survey found that young adults were able to squeeze the equivalent of nine hours 32 minutes worth of consumption into that time. “They are taking up more and more communications activities but fitting them into the same amount of time,” said James Thickett, director of market research and market intelligence at Ofcom. He said this was largely due to the rise in the mobile internet and the use of smartphones. “It has untethered people from being in one particular place.”

The report says that the number of people using their phone to surf the web currently stands at 13.5m people. This has almost tripled since 2008, when the figure stood at 5.7m. Concurrently, the use of mobile data has exploded, the report said, increasing by 240% between 2007 and 2009. It suggested that, in part, much of this increase had been driven by one site - Facebook - which accounts for 45% of all mobile web use in the UK, followed by Google at 8%. “All of the others have less than 4% market share,” said Mr Philips.

Radio star Facebook also dominates fixed line broadband use. The report says that social networking now accounts for nearly one-quarter of all time spent online, with Facebook accounting for the majority of traffic.

The majority of users of the site - and other networks - are between 16 and 34, although Ofcom said that there was a growing trend for older people to also sign up to the services.

The report also mapped the current state of broadband in the UK. It suggests that internet take-up has now reached 73% in the UK, the majority of which is fixed broadband. But despite the rise in new ways of accessing content, the report says that traditional media, such as TV and radio still dominate people’s media habits,. “TV still plays a central role in people’s lives,” said Mr Thickett. “We are watching more than at any time in the last five years.” Yet, despite the growth in online TV services and devices that allow people to record television, most shows were watched via traditional live broadcasts.

Radio also held its own, the survey said. Although listening has gone down slightly, the number of people able to access radio services was at an all time high, at 91%. “It is still a very important medium for people,” said Mr Thickett.  

KegMate

Those wily engineers at Yelp have combined a scary amount of the things I love into one device. They’ve taken a keg and tap, an Arduino, an RFID reader, and an iPad and turned them into an amazing kegerator. The device not only tracks who’s been drinking but also tracks information about the beer as it’s poured, including the temperature and ratings of recently poured drinks (so you’ll know when the keg is on a roll). They even put together a bookmarklet to monitor and track the keg remotely.


And as if all of that wasn’t enough, this was all designed during the Yelp Hackathon, which takes place over a 24-hour period. During that 24 hours, the company allows the engineering team to put together whatever they want. So yes, all of this was designed and assembled on official company time. OK, now you guys are just bragging. That’s just unfair!

itsfullofstars: Meteors Over QuebecCredit & Copyright: Rémi Boucher Explanation: Meteors streaked through the sky above many of Earth’s cities last week, but nobody was hurt, and no damage has been reported. The assault from space appeared to originate from someplace in the constellation of Perseus, and included millions of small projectiles hurtling toward Earth at over 200,000 kilometers per hour. Pictured above, people gathered at ASTROLab du Mont-Megantic in southern Quebec, Canada gazed helplessly toward the sky last Thursday night as they themselves were unable to stop the meteoronslaught. Fortunately, Earth’s defense, consisting of a planet-wise blanket of air over 100-kilometers thick, obliterated the attacking projectiles by using friction generated by their own speed to heat them into disintegration. The large triangle in the foreground, although impressive in appearance, was not part of the Earth’s meteor defense system. The space attack was expected as part of the annual Perseids meteor shower as the Earth passed through sand-sized debris left over from the sun-orbiting Comet Swift-Tuttle. (via APOD)
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itsfullofstars: Meteors Over QuebecCredit & Copyright: Rémi Boucher Explanation: Meteors streaked through the sky above many of Earth’s cities last week, but nobody was hurt, and no damage has been reported. The assault from space appeared to originate from someplace in the constellation of Perseus, and included millions of small projectiles hurtling toward Earth at over 200,000 kilometers per hour. Pictured above, people gathered at ASTROLab du Mont-Megantic in southern Quebec, Canada gazed helplessly toward the sky last Thursday night as they themselves were unable to stop the meteoronslaught. Fortunately, Earth’s defense, consisting of a planet-wise blanket of air over 100-kilometers thick, obliterated the attacking projectiles by using friction generated by their own speed to heat them into disintegration. The large triangle in the foreground, although impressive in appearance, was not part of the Earth’s meteor defense system. The space attack was expected as part of the annual Perseids meteor shower as the Earth passed through sand-sized debris left over from the sun-orbiting Comet Swift-Tuttle. (via APOD)

itsfullofstars:

Meteors Over Quebec
Credit & Copyright: Rémi Boucher

Explanation: Meteors streaked through the sky above many of Earth’s cities last week, but nobody was hurt, and no damage has been reported. The assault from space appeared to originate from someplace in the constellation of Perseus, and included millions of small projectiles hurtling toward Earth at over 200,000 kilometers per hour. Pictured above, people gathered at ASTROLab du Mont-Megantic in southern Quebec, Canada gazed helplessly toward the sky last Thursday night as they themselves were unable to stop the meteoronslaught. Fortunately, Earth’s defense, consisting of a planet-wise blanket of air over 100-kilometers thick, obliterated the attacking projectiles by using friction generated by their own speed to heat them into disintegration. The large triangle in the foreground, although impressive in appearance, was not part of the Earth’s meteor defense system. The space attack was expected as part of the annual Perseids meteor shower as the Earth passed through sand-sized debris left over from the sun-orbiting Comet Swift-Tuttle.

(via APOD)

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