Inane World

Tim's silly commentary on inane things and interesting geeky stuff

Browsing Posts published in July, 2011

I received an email from Netflix yesterday advising me that they are discontinuing the $9.99/mo program I originally signed up for.  This gave me unlimited streaming and 1 DVD at a time checkout (unlimited per month, I think). They told me they were going to split my plan into TWO plans: 1) Unlimited streaming for [...]

Another company has joined the development effort to produce the elusive flying car.  As I mentioned in a previous post, this isn’t a new concept, and there have been several attempts over the years to address this market.  The “Transition” by Terrafugia is probably one of the better looking and more interesting ones though. The [...]

I drive a Toyota Prius which I purchased back in 2005.  At that time, California DMV had an incentive program for low-emissions cars.  They allowed you to purchase a carpool lane access sticker which allowed you to drive in the carpool lane by yourself.  I was just moving to the mountains, but still working in [...]

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A company named Lytro is developing some amazing stuff.  This all came out of research at Stanford.  One of the students, Ren Ng, decided to form a company to create publicly available devices, and bring the technology from lab to life.  One offshoot of this research is the Stanford CityBlock project.  Google’s StreetView grew out [...]

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