12 Books to Help You Become a Superhero in the New Year [Superhero Resolutions]
source: io9

Great New Years Resolution!

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We All Live In Public Now. Get Used To It.
source: TechCrunch

Hmmm... is it good that everything is public. Everything is immediate and now? What of developing things in secret and unleashing them onto the world in one big surprise? Would we be as excited by the possibilities of the next great gadget from Apple if there was a public broadcasting web cam in their board rooms and research labs? Do we want to read every script and see every production sketch of a movie before it is released? Do we need to read every bowel movement or itch that needs to be scratched?

There's still a role for privacy and secrecy I think, and most other people think so too, otherwise, why wrap Christmas presents?

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Hapiness:The exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life affording them scope.

Wednesday and another short holiday week. This week marks the last of my continual Friday's off. Kindof a bummer, but also a chance to catch up. I'm looking forward to that part, even though I'm not looking forward to returning to 5 days. Interesting thing about my job, the machinery of it continues whether I'm here or not. it's very weekly driven, ie: if there is a meeting on Tuesday and a new project is discussed. People in the meeting tend to want to see it the next Tuesday. Since everything is collaborative, the 5 day schedule is the norm, regardless of how many days off you might take. At the next meeting the consensus will be: "You had a week". even though if you throw a couple days-off into the mix, you really didn't. This is not a complaint, it's just the office culture at my place of employ, and we roll with it.

Jennifer has gone from turning her new netbook from a Hackintosh to a triple boot dynamo (OSX, Win7, and Ubuntu). That's been fun to watch. She's had alot more purposeful nightly effort on those sorts of projects than I of late. I'll blame my low energy on a lack of daylight, yeah that's it.

I think I'm in a holding pattern at the moment. Lots of cool web stuff and design going on at work, but there doesn't seem to be to me the groundbreaking excitement over anything at the moment in the larger tech worldlike there was last year with all the emerging forms of social media. I've got my eye out for the next big thing though (tablets, location aware apps, smartphones, hmm... what am I missing? eReaders? nah, those are really just specialized tablets until they hit sub $50 (at which point they'll be really interesting.)

Looking forward, 2010 looks to be a very interesting year. Overall I'm pretty excited for it, maybe because it really doesn't seem completely layed out yet, although there will probably be several pretty exciting things I think will happen.

So what's on your radar for 2010, what do think might happen? What new things are you looking out for, personal, tech or otherwise?

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Superheroes Meet Dr. Seuss in Mashup Covers [Seussian Superheroes]
source: io9

The Green Lantern/Green Eggs and Ham mashh-up is nice.

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webOS 1.3.5 now available for download on Sprint [UPDATED]
source: PreCentral.net

Jennifer and I both upgraded our Pre's last night. I'm very happy with the upgrade. Everything seems much snappier. The calendar especially switches very quickly between days. I only had a few patches from Preware (which had to be removed before the update). I use the camera volume button to take picture patch and the battery meter patch and the onscreen keyboard patch. The first two reinstalled. The third was nowhere to be found once Preware was reinstalled. Bummer but the camera and battery meter patches were my 2 most used, so it worked out in the end.

Really nice to see Palm continually updating this phone. I am still hoping that they announce video recording at CES though.

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When to Buy Apple Products [Apple]
source: Gizmodo

Most seem to be WAIT.

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Avatar: The Making of the Bootleg
source: TechCrunch

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The Star Wars and A-Team Mashup (At Last!) [Star Wars]
source: Gizmodo

I'm a sucker for these TV Show/Star Wars Opening mashups. The magnum P.I> One is still my favorite though.

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Random Non-Sequiters

Above, Leki chasing a toy mouse that Jennifer is dragging behind her on a fishing line. He really likes this moues.

Let's go surfing

• Christopher Walken does a dramatic reading of Lady GaGa's Poker Face

• Springfield Still life
source: Super Punch
Neat Simpsons shirt that manages not to show the Simpsons.

• Black Lantern self portraits
source: Super Punch
Cool.

• Sillof’s Steampunk Legion of Doom
source: Super Punch
Neat.

• Picture table lets you hide your kitchen table in plain sight
source: DVICE
Neat... picture frame turns into a table.

• You-Vision glasses record your life in POV
source: DVICE
Camera glasses, these actually look usable and for $149, affordable. Now there's that pesky problem of people being really put off about constantly being recorded, but still the idea of putting together a highlight reel of my day from POV is really intriguing.

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Clark Kent tells his Secret to Lois Lane.

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Free Comic Book Day 2010
src: Superhero Times

List of Next May's Free Comic Book Day Titles

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Voltron iPhone Game Unfortunately Doesn't Require Five People To Play [IPhone Apps] src: Gizmodo

Really Neat Looking iPhone Game.

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