Ha!  I love this… the Onion is so good at this…

Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village

Great hack, if only I had a VCR… just the though of what I could have done like 10 years ago

What kind of smaller, cheaper laptop do you own?

While this might be Samsung marketing material, it’s still fun to watch.  Two things worth noting:

• 53 programs from the test rig’s Start menu open in 18 seconds.
• The complete system defrags in about 3 seconds.

This video of Steve Jobs back in 1984 showing off the Macintosh computer sent chills down my spine, it elicits so much nostalgia to look back at one of the greatest technology icons of our time:

Oblong has created a truly mind blowing interface with what they call “g-speak”.  While watching the demo video might not show you exact practical uses for g-speak, it only stands to reason that a litle ingenuity from developers could spark a whole new level of computing and the various sectors of our society could greatly benefit from these systems.  Enough said watch the video and see for yourself.

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

Yesterday (unless your living under a very large object) you probably couldn’t get away from the news that Apple released the 3G Iphone at all their Apple and AT&T stores.

I’m not buying a 3G Iphone, in fact I’m looking for a 1st gen model, I’ve heard a lot about 2.0 firmware update and it seems that the firmware is actually one of the most compelling new parts of this model, yes I know I wont have access to a 3G network… blah blah blah… but I don’t want it!

Apparently there were also issues getting the phone to activate in stores yesterday… so I’ve heard that some people were told to activate through Itunes (which is how it should have been to begin with).

I just came across this video at wired.com which just about sums up the day those people standing in line must have had…

I just came across this video tour in which CNET News.com’s Neha Tiwari reports on the massive data warehouse of Equinix.  Equinix serves companies like AT&T, MCI, Verizon, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google.  It blows my mind that there are over 200 networks in one of these data warehouses.

Equinix is sophisticated in what it offers, so much so that many large banks trust mission critical systems to these data centers.  The security aspects are not taken lightly, Margie Backaus the chief business officer of Equinix says, there are 5 levels of biometrics just to get into the data warehouse.  The data warehouse in this video is approximately 160,000 square feet and uses 10 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power a small community, according to Margie.  If the power ever goes out on one of these data centers there are diesel generators to keep all the servers powered up until electricity is restored, Margie claims that Equinix can maintain 10 megawatts of load for two whole days on generated diesel power.

The video below is taken from the C|NET tour of Equinix.

This is great, being able to watch the WWDC Steve Jobs keynote in 60 seconds versus 1 hour and 47 minutes.  Don’t get me wrong, I think Steve is a very influential speaker, but there’s just something about getting it all in such a short span of time that appeals to me.