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I was flipping through the cable channels today looking for scary movies to watch since its almost Halloween, and I found a TNT lineup that is definitely worth watching today if you want to get scared.

Here’s their lineup for today:

1. Salems Lot
2. The Ring
3. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
4. Good Will Hunting
5. Steel Magnolias
6. Pretty Woman

If that lineup of movies does not both scare you and disturb the hell out of you, nothing will.

That’s right. Google could be taking your picture right now and from a cool distance of 423 miles away. And that’s not in the next city over, that’s above you.

The picture above was taken with Googles new satellite that is orbiting our planet at 423 miles above the earth. That’s right, they are getting that amazing picture clarity even at 423 miles distance.

“…The spacecraft can take photos at a resolution of up to 41 cm — close enough to zoom in on the home plate of a baseball diamond, according to Mark Brender, GeoEye’s vice president of communications and marketing.

…This is the opposite of a spy satellite,” Brender said in a phone interview. “Spies don’t put info on the internet and sell imagery. We’re an Earth-imaging satellite, and we can sell our imagery to customers around the world who have a need to map and measure and monitor things on the ground.”

It might very well be the opposite of a spy satellite, but it still bothers me somehow.

Man how the world is changing, it’s both amazing and unbelievable at the same time. Check out more details on the new Google satellite over at Wired.

With the recent economic downturn many people are cutting back on things in their life that they can live without. Some people are going out to the movies or to dinner less, others are cutting back on their premium cable TV channels. Personally I’ve gotten rid of both our Netflix subscription as well as our Gamefly subscription to save us some cash. But most of us will not give up our broadband internet access, even in times of financial trouble.

JupiterResearch has a new study that examines consumers entertainment spending with some surprising results:

“A new JupiterResearch study that examines how entertainment spending will be affected by the downturn found that nearly one-third would cut back on moviegoing, and 12% would cancel premium cable channels such as HBO and Showtime.

But only 2% would cut off their Internet service to reduce expenses in tougher times.”

I knew I would never give up my broadband internet access but I didn’t know that 98% of you agreed with me. Personally I would cut back on food, clothing, movies.. hell I’d even keep the heat lower in the winter just to keep my broadband internet service. My computer will keep the living room heated up nicely while I’m busy watching videos on youtube.

Sounds great and all, but prolonged time in outer space causes your bones to become brittle.  Without gravity and stress on your limbs, your body will stop producing the things you need to keep your bones strong.  So until they can solve that problem I can’t see any of us hanging out in space anytime soon. 

However the benefits are obvious.  Being able to take materials into space and create huge solar powered generators with very little effort is pretty amazing.  Although this makes it sound more like a dumping ground for waste:

“In the carriages, the scientists behind the idea told The Times, could be any number of cargoes. A space elevator could carry people, huge solar-powered generators or even casks of radioactive waste. The point is that breaking free of Earth’s gravity will no longer require so much energy — perhaps 100 times less than launching the space shuttle. ”

It really is amazing though that we will have an elevator into space.  Next we’ll need fast food and snacks offered in the elevator, so you can grab a quick bite to eat while you’re on your trip to the moon.

Read the whole article here.

I just installed the Google Chrome Browser at around 3:15pm EST. 

The first thing that I came across that I really like is the wrench icon on the right that allows me to Customize and Control Google Chrome.  Click on the wrench, go to options and then look at the selections for startup.You can either pick a home page, load a default google chrome home page, or you can add a list of sites.  I’m really digging this last feature as I like to have a lot of different browser windows open during the day, and now they all pop up immediately when I open the browser.

If you choose to have google open the chrome “home page” at startup you will see thumbnail pictures of your most visited sites.  This is really a cool feature, much easier to navigate then using Favorites and even faster then a drop down.So far the browser feels much faster then other browsers and has only crashed once.  I right clicked at the top and chose Task Manager, which is cool because you can now see how much memory and processing each tab is using.  Then I clicked on a page and clicked “End Process” and that’s how I got the screen you see in the picture above.

On one hand I’m really digging how the browser feels and works, and on the other hand this is yet another browser we’ll have to code and test for for all of our websites.  Overall though I dig the new browser and already feel like it’s my browser of choice.

I’m watching more and more Science channel all the time these days.  In the past week or so I’ve seen two shows on Synesthesia. Here’s the definition of Synesthesia from Wikipedia:”Synesthesia is a neurologically-based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway”

So for example, when James Wannerton hear’s sounds, he tastes foods.  So like if you say wipe, he tastes marmite.  Here’s a quote from James describing his condition  “Whenever I hear, read, or articulate (inner speech) words or word sounds, I experience an immediate and involuntary taste sensation on my tongue. These very specific taste associations never change and have remained the same for as long as I can remember.”

Does that mean that James can have someone slowly say the words for his favorite drink and favorite foods and really be able to enjoy that?  Or does it work differently, and that would not be a pleasant situation for him? Could he make up words that combine other words and combine tastes in his mouth?  Or does one come distinctly before and after the next?One of the shows had a clip of him riding on the bus and being out in public. 

There is an awful lot of random chatter out there in the real world.  It seems like the constant bombardment of random tastes would drive him crazy.  Wouldn’t he be better off with headphones of some sort?  Or with some way to minimize the auditory input from others around him?

Wild stuff, I’m going to learn more and I’ll post what I find.

UPDATE:  I sent an email which eventually was forwarded to James Wannerton, and I was given his email address which I chose not to use since he did not give it to me himself.  I sent him many questions that I had so I hope one day he has some time and will email me back.

Since I do a lot of online gaming and video watching online, it really bothers me when I read that Comcast will cap customers Internet usage starting October 1, 2008.

All customers will now have a monthly data usage threshold of 250 gigabytes per account.  This is the equivalent of 50 million emails in one month, or watching 124 standard-edition movies online.

At a glance it doesn’t look that bad.  They say 99% of us will not hit the new threshold so we have nothing to worry about.I see a different picture.  Recently I downloaded the game Warhammer Online as I was lucky enough to get into the beta.  The game is currently 12 gigabyte’s in size.  That’s not close to the 250 gigabyte threshold, so at a glance no worries.

But I remember the days of owning a 300 baud modem.  And a 1200 baud modem.  And my first 52k modem.  And who back then would have ever thought we’d be talking about a 250 gigabyte bandwidth ceiling?  Not many of us, even now the number seems unobtainable.  However history paints a completely different picture.I can see our future now. Once games and movies and whatever other bandwidth eaters businesses can come up with start knocking on that 250 gigabyte threshold, I bet we’ll suddenly see new options once again. 

Here, I’ll write their draft ad:

“New Tier for our Super Duper Extreme Customers!(tm) - 500 gigabytes monthly for just double the price!  Or 750 for triple!  You’ll never need more bandwidth then this, I mean who would?!”

And that in turn will condition us all and make us ready for the next step in tiered pricing.  Because by then we’ll be used to it.  If Comcast were to leave our bandwidth uncapped as it is, there is no room for them to charge us more, later, when we need it.What does Comcast have to say about customers that exceed the 250 gigabyte threshold?  Well, they obviously need to be investigated.”‘If a customer exceeds more than 250 GB and is one of the heaviest data users who consume the most data on our high-speed Internet service, he or she may receive a call from Comcast’s Customer Security Assurance (CSA) group to notify them of excessive use,’ according to the company’s updated Frequently Asked Questions on Excessive Use”

Source .

I stopped blogging on WARDojo (WAAAAAGGH!) until the NDA is lifted. I may add a post or two but I expect the NDA to be lifted any day now. All I can say at this point, is there is a closed beta and I am in it. Open beta players start downloading the game August 15th, and the gave goes live September 18th. Sweet.

Last week Thord from the BlogHerald.com sent me an email interview asking questions about the concepts and fundamentals of WarhammerBlogs.com. It was my first official online interview and it was pretty cool. You can check it out here.

We’ve started serious work on our newest project and I think we have some really great concepts this time. BlogsForGamers.com is officially in development and we are working hard on it. We hope to retrofit some of our new concepts back into WarhammerBlogs once we’re done that will really give our bloggers many new theme options.

Can’t wait to share it with you, we’ll have some official news going out once we’re ready to go live.

Cryptic, the studio making the Star Trek Online MMO, is giving away five lifetime subscriptions to the game. So if you are interested in the Star Trek Online MMO and even have the slightest chance of playing, go signup now for a chance to save yourself from possibly years of monthly fees.

“To enter, all you have to do is register as a member of the Star Trek Online community by 11:59 p.m. PDT on August 17, 2008, and click the sweepstakes link. The winners will be chosen at random on or about August 25, 2008, and will be notified by e-mail and/or overnight mail on or about August 28.

Five Winners Will Receive:

• Retail copy of Star Trek Online
• Lifetime subscription to Star Trek Online”