1. Ford's inflatable seat belts headed to Explorer in 2010, other whips in due time  permalink

Ford's inflatable seat belts headed to Explorer in 2010, other whips in due time
Darren Murph / Engadget

Inflatable seat belts. At a glance, that doesn't seem like such a bad idea after all, particularly for those rear seat passengers who aren't blessed with two huge bags or air right in front of their chest. We're guessing the top brass at Ford feel pretty much the same way, as the outfit has just announced that these very devices will be making ...

2. Review: Sons of Anarchy - Fa Guan  permalink

Review: Sons of Anarchy - Fa Guan
Danny Gallagher / TV Squad

(S02E09) - "I know the greater devil when I see it." - Deputy Chief Hale to Clay The great thing about a show like Sons of Anarchy is you never exactly know when you're watching its true boiling point. You might think the situation you're watching is the apex of the conflict, particularly the beef between Clay and Jax, but it always finds an ...

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Review: Sons of Anarchy - Fa Guan Review: Smallville - Kandor   —  (S09E07) If Smallville continues to produce episodes of good quality like tonight's, I may have to take back some of the things I've been saying about it. Seriously. Tonight we got a lot of backstory and explanation about some of the stranger aspects of the Smallville universe. Why is Earth such a magnet for Kryptonians, dead or otherwise? ...

Isabelle Carreau / TV Squad
Review: Sons of Anarchy - Fa Guan Review: Ghost Whisperer - Devil's Bargain   —  (S05E07) "The answers are there, but you have to know when to look." - Carl the Watcher Starting this week, TV Squad now offers regular reviews of CBS' Ghost Whisperer . What an episode to start reviews with! The first episode of November Sweeps offered us more backstory and mythology about the shadows, some of their powers, the book ... and ...

3. Cambridge  permalink

Reynolds / Random Acts Of Reality

Loads of medical stuff that'll need researching and checking here - essentially just assume that the whole section has QQ throughout it. It's also where I explain that the normal isolation procedures wouldn't work with CLBD-7. ----- After all the packing and the promise of travel I’m somewhat disappointed that my first appointment is at ...

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The Whirl   —  Not massively happy with this, I suspect that this section will be completely rewritten in editing. ------ The next few days are something like a whirl. I’m prodded and poked for the new biometric passport when it turns out that my old one was just that, too old. Photographs, fingerprints, DNA markers are all now needed on the chip in the ...

4. Comcast lining up more day-and-date HD VOD this month  permalink

Comcast lining up more day-and-date HD VOD this month
Richard Lawler / Engadget HD

Filed under: Cable Consider another shot fired in the HD VOD wars, now Comcast is claiming "most same day VOD & DVD releases" for the month of November. Angels & Demons, Bruno, The Ugly Truth and others are among those hitting the VOD slate the same day they hit shelves, while movies like the Transformers and Ice Age sequels make their ...

5. Safa Xing LED features MP3 playback, 27 pixel resolution  permalink

Safa Xing LED features MP3 playback, 27 pixel resolution
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget

Safa is a Korean firm that has put out quite a few forgettable DAPs in its day, and while this one isn't going to win any awards for technological advancement, it does look like "fun," for whatever that's worth. The Xing LED is a none-too-shabby 12mm thin and boasts 12 hours of playback time on a single charge. The company fails to mention ...

6. Managed Copy hits Blu-ray Discs December 4th, but you still can't use it  permalink

Managed Copy hits Blu-ray Discs December 4th, but you still can't use it
Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget HD

Filed under: Blu-ray The egg had to come before the chicken right? Well either way, one of 'em came first and in the case of the latest Blu-ray feature, Managed Copy enabled Blu-ray Discs will come before the hardware. Less than five months since AACS was finalized and the details of Managed Copy were revealed and so far we've only seen one demo ...

7. How would you change Windows Mobile 6.5?  permalink

How would you change Windows Mobile 6.5?
Darren Murph / Engadget

We know, today is totally Android 2.0's day to shine , but what would a Friday night be without a little diversity? Windows Mobile 6.5 officially landed on a gaggle of Windows Phones back in early October (a month ago to the day, in fact), but by and large, all of 'em have seemingly drifted off into some forgotten corner while Motorola's DROID ...

8. Nokia's latest batch for emerging markets includes its cheapest phone ever  permalink

Nokia's latest batch for emerging markets includes its cheapest phone ever
Www.engadgetmobile.com

We spend most of our time talking about Espoo's Maemo- and Symbian-based lineup, which makes it easy to forget that the company has a vibrant business taking care of the very lowest rungs of the wireless industry -- devices that shatter price barriers and take service to entire new market segments in the furthest reaches of the world. Last year, ...

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The daily roundup: here's what you might've missed Hands-on with the Nokia Booklet 3G   —  Mobile phone maker Nokia is jumping into the Netbook pool with its recently announced Booklet 3G laptop. We've just gotten our hands on the final version of the system, and here are some of our initial impressions.

9. YouTube Is Falling Apart Again  permalink

YouTube Is Falling Apart Again
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch

The ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is. It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona . Yeah, I had never heard of them either. The video starts with this Euro-dude in a suit starting to blow up and crack apart like he's made from plaster. Halfway through, the actual video player crack in half, and all ...

10. IPhone Application Translates Babies’ Howls  permalink

IPhone Application Translates Babies’ Howls
Www.wired.com

Having trouble understanding your baby’s burbles, screeches and noisy, wheedling screams? There’s an app for that. The Cry Translator listens to a whining child and analyzes the pitch, volume, tone and inflection of his nerve-jangling noise. Ten seconds later, it provides you with one of five “translations”: hungry, sleepy, stressed, ...

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11. The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch  permalink

The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch

If you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek , a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won'

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The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch Twitter, Facebook, Last.FM and Xbox 360 Family Settings   —  As some of you might be aware, those under the age of 18 are not able to access Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm in our public preview. I want to you let you know that this will remain the case when it launches to the world soon. We made this decision because as it stands now, parents aren’t able to use Family Settings to customize which of these ...

12. IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010  permalink

IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!

Many signs point to the Apple and AT&T agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in other parts of the world. Moreover, even AT&T’s CEO acknowledges the deal won’t last forever. And while ...

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Jay Hathaway / Download Squad
IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010 Balloons: launch a balloon from your iPhone, see who finds it   —  Filed under: Fun , Social Software , iPhone If you ever let a helium balloon float away when you were a kid and wondered where it eventually ended up, you already know what Balloons for the iPhone is all about. This cute little app lets you launch a virtual balloon with a message and a photo attached. Anyone with the app installed call pull down ...

John C Dvorak / Dvorak Uncensored
IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010 Is IPhone App Store Pro-Hitler?   —  Verizon iPhone release coming in 2010. Fortune mag has a bunch of odd articles about Microsoft. I comment on them. Mein Kampf approved by App store. SSD’s now bricking up. Blamed on firmware. The Sun is in trouble with the EU now. Intuit-online killed. Flash once again under attack. Cell phone inventor does not like the current direction ...

13. Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web  permalink

Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web . This works because Android's browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access location information, ...

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Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web Android Developer Challenge 2 Finalists Posted, Final Judging Begins   —  Early this morning, 200 Android developers woke up to one hell of an e-mail: they’d made it into the final round of the second Android Developer Challenge, and were thus one giant step closer to as much as $250,000.

14. Dvorak Poll: Should Government Flags Be Flown At Half Staff ONLY For The Fort Hood Dead?  permalink

Dvorak Poll: Should Government Flags Be Flown At Half Staff ONLY For The Fort Hood Dead?
Uncle Dave / Dvorak Uncensored

President Obama ordered flags be flown at half staff. Governors of many, if not all, states ordered the same. Obviously what happened Thursday at Ft. Hood was a tragedy. Just as obviously, Sgt. Kimberly Munley who got shot while taking Hasan out is a hero. So are others who helped the wounded as the firing continued. So, flying the flag at half ...

15. Comedy Central wants a bite of The Onion  permalink

Danny Gallagher / TV Squad

Part of me is surprised that this deal took this long to happen. But when you watch the recent crop of new shows on the Chortle Network (with the exception of Tosh.0 ), it really shouldn't surprise anyone. Comedy Central has ordered a half-hour scripted pilot based on the Onion's Sports Network. The OSN is part of the popular satirical magazine' ...

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Comedy Central wants a bite of The Onion Comedy Central orders the Onion TV pilot   —  The as-yet-untitled pilot will be based on the Onion Sports Network online video series and take on teams, fans, sports products and sports coverage. The show will be geared toward sports lovers and long-time followers of the Onion.

16. Verizon's LG Chocolate Touch is nice but nothing new  permalink

Verizon's LG Chocolate Touch is nice but nothing new
Nicole Lee / Crave

The LG Chocolate Touch from Verizon Wireless is a terrific music phone with Dolby Music equalizer settings, an FM radio, and more, but it doesn't the "wow" factor we were expecting. Originally posted at Dialed In Podcast

17. Free Conferencing CEO Asks FCC to Keep on Google Voice  permalink

Free Conferencing CEO Asks FCC to Keep on Google Voice
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM

Even though less than 1 percent of the population uses Google Voice, David Erickson, president of the Free Conferencing Corp., a conference call company whose numbers are blocked by the service, is pretty aggrieved. So he met with the FCC and filed a letter urging the regulatory agency to get Google to play fair. [...]

18. Mozilla Jetpack contest winner harnesses GPU power to process data  permalink

Mozilla Jetpack contest winner harnesses GPU power to process data
Lee Mathews / Download Squad

Filed under: Mozilla , Browsers Mozilla Labs has announced a winner of the Jetpack .5 contest . While Jetpack is known primarily as a framework for allowing coders with a web development background to put together add-on type enhancements for Firefox, the winner 's project wasn't your run-of-the-mill sidebar hack. Alex Miltsev's submission was ...

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Mozilla Labs   —  Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons. We are happy to announce that we have a winner for the Jetpack 0.5 contest. Given the fantastic group of entrants, with Jetpacks that did everything from Twitter readers to a one-click text translators,

19. Brad Fitzpatrick Talks About Programming  permalink

Brad Fitzpatrick  Talks About Programming
Blogoscoped.com

Brad Fitzpatrick, born in 1980, started to learn programming at the age of 5. In high school he went on to create a voting booth script called FreeVote, which he says earned him as much as 27 cent per click on banner ads back then (making for 25, 27 grand per month). He went on to create blogging platform LiveJournal, thinking and implementing a ...

20. Tetris, Eastern Bloc stylez  permalink

Tetris, Eastern Bloc stylez
Honeyman / Dvorak Uncensored

Says it all, really. More info here .