Chromebooks

Chromebooks are very cool.  What do I like best?  I think it's the pricing.  The lease idea is very innovative as it the bundling with Verizon data.

$429 wifi, $499 with 3g.  The 3g version comes with 100Mb/mo of verizon wireless data — FOREVER!  No contract, no extra charge.

The leased versions are $20 to $28/mo and the EDU pricing includes google apps for my school.

Seems like a very hot ticket to me…

Endeavour last flight launch photo's

These photos from NPR are most awesome:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/05/16/136363560/amazing-shots-of-shuttle-endeavour-thanks-to-nasatweetup

Dan

Live TV From the Moon

I haven't posted in a long time - maybe a year.  I've done lots of reading and a few other amazing things.  One of them has been a insatiable desire to watch podcasts.

So I'm watching Spacevidcast and Dwight Steven-Boniecki is on talking about his book Live TV From the Moon -- The Story of Apollo Television (amazon, kcls).  As luck would have it my local library had a copy.

What an amazing labor of love.  Dwight is a 'video geek' and he became interested in what it took to send live video from space -- political, scientific, engineering and logistical challenges.  It's an awesome and untold story.  It even comes with a DVD.

If you are a space nut run, don't walk, to read this.

Dan