Designer babies

The Fertility institutes offers a service where you can select the gender, eye and hair color and other genetic choices. This service isn't priced yet, but we're well on our way to Babies by Calvin Kline.

Apple relaeases Safari 4 beta

Apple Inc. releases the latest version of it's Safari web browser. It includes feature such as a cover flow browser for history, and a spotlight-esque history search.

Principle of Design 2: Alignment

Obama speaks to parents

During an address to a Joint Session of Congress, Obama said the following during his discussion of education policies:

"In the end, there is no program or policy that can substitute for a mother or father who will attend those parent/teacher conferences, or help with homework after dinner, or turn off the TV, put away the video games, and read to their child. I speak to you not just as a president, but as a father when I say that responsibility for our children's education must begin at home."

Personally, I don't think he's speaking out against video games, I think he's speaking out against bad parents. The ones who need to be parents. Buying your kid an Xbox ≠ Love.

Robots will kill us all, experts warn

Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands.

Hulu kicks boxee

Hulu is dropping it's content from the boxee media system. "Our content providers requested that we turn off access to our content via the Boxee product," Hulu wrote. "We are respecting their wishes."

Principle of Design 1: Contrast

I used Adobe's Photoshop CS4 to make this, and used tools including the text tool, brush tool, and shape tool. Using the character palette I was able to make cool looking text that differed from the rest of it.

Facebook owns your SOUL

Facebook changed their terms of service to say that they own all the content you post to it. Don't like it? You can leave, but they'll still own all the stuff you posted.

They've retracted this and changed the terms of service back for now. However it's unsure what they'll do about this controversy

Microsoft opens it's own line of retail stores!

Finally! Microsoft opens some stores up to the hordes of disappointed customers they've accumulated! In these stores they'll allow you to try out Windows 7, as well as a multitude of other hardware. Also they'll likely have a ripoff of the Genius Bar that apple store goers have come to enjoy.

Google power

Google's new power service "Google Power Meter" will allow people to measure their power consumption in real time. To get access to this crazy information, you need some contraption called a smart meter. There are 40 million smart meters now, and they want to add another 100 million in the next few years. I've never heard of one before, but clearly Google has.

Foshizzle my Rock Bandizzle dawg

Yo dawg, I heard you like Snoop Dogg so we put Snoop Dogg in your Rockband 2 so you can listen to bad rap while you play. 

Google Earth 5

Google earth 5 is now in beta, and it's got some cool new features like going back in time

Under water

and to mars.

First Pøst!!! (Blog)

Dear Blog,

Blog blog blog blog bloggity blog blog. Micheal Phelps is craazy. I'm wearing a red shirt, so if this was Star Trek, I'd be dead. 

In other, more useful news, Woz is now on dancing with the stars. lol wut? He's really better suited for "The Programming Aficionado's FORTRAN Hour".

Bloggilly, Blog.