] Playing driving game on a PC while sitting in an actual
] car? Can it be? Hmmm....We'll see.

okay, this has got to be the coolest mod I've ever seen.

Real Virtual Car

] hicago's two-fisted street cops have a new kind of
] backup: a point-and-click surveillance network tied to a
] citywide crime-fighting database. (Smile for the camera.)

Relevant to Decius' postings on increased cameras in Nashville and the national ID plan.

It's the same argument that is being used to bolster intelligence for the War on Terror(tm). Peace and security is worth paying for and bending your civil rights to accomodate. An argument that's hard to counter.

Spycam Force

] To that end, BlueCross BlueShield %u2014 the largest
] health insurer in Tennessee %u2014 intends to roll out a
] statewide project to put patient health-care records on a
] secure, Web-based system available to doctors at the
] point of care. Seeing a patient's medical history from
] all sources %u2014 including prescriptions and lab tests
] %u2014 should reduce costs and improve decisions on care,
] she says.

yep. so is everyone else.

Gregg is gung-ho to battle health costs with efficiencies

For Python fans. And to think I turned down the LiveVault franchise for Nashville. sigh.

Institute for Backup Trauma

] Members of the small East Waynesville Baptist Church say
] Chandler led an effort to kick out congregants who did
] not support President Bush. Nine members were voted out
] at a Monday church meeting in this mountain town about
] 120 miles west of Charlotte. Forty others in the
] 400-member congregation resigned in protest.
]
] Chandler told WLOS-TV in Asheville on Friday that
] the actions were not politically motivated...

Thought you'd get a kick out of this.

N.C. Church Kicks Out Members Who Do Not Support Bush

] Podscope is the first search engine that actually allows
] you to search for spoken words within any audio or video
] file. We're starting with podcasts and will be
] adding all types of multimedia in coming months.

Podscope

] In a stunning victory for hardware makers and television
] buffs, a federal appeals court has tossed out government
] rules that would have outlawed many digital TV receivers
] and tuner cards starting July 1

HURRAY! As Roger Waters might say, "the tide is turning"

Court yanks down FCC's broadcast flag

] I'm worried about my country. I love America. I think
] it's the best country in the world. But I also think
] we're not tending to our sauce. I believe that we are in
] what Shirley Ann Jackson [president of Rensselaer
] Polytechnic Institute] calls a "quiet crisis." If we
] don't change course now and buckle down in a flat world,
] the kind of competition our kids will face will be
] intense and the social implications of not repairing
] things will be enormous.

This is almost a verbatim quote I've said many times and it's true. Education. Health care. Training and support. These are all critical foundation systems that have eroded beyond repair in the US and are now threatening to undermine our entire presence globally. There's nothing worse than being a lazy top dog with a bunch of under dogs vieing for your spot.

Why the World Is Flat

Hosted by Bill Butler, Scott Kozicki and Tim Moses, this show aims to discuss new and interesting technology on a weekly basis. This show is based in Nashville, TN.

Bill and Tim were founders of Telalink, which was one of Nashville's first ISPs in the early 90s. Bill now runs Butler Networks (www.butler.net) and Tim runs Monster Labs (www.monsterlabs.com)

Scott was founder of BlueStar, an early DSL provider in the southeast headquartered in Nashville. Scott is currently the CTO for American Healthways (www.americanhealthways.com)

Tech Tuesday

] FOCUS Enhancements expects to sample UWB chip-sets in the
] third quarter of 2005 and modules containing UWB
] chip-sets later in the year. Performance expectations are
] anticipated to range from 880 Megabits per second (Mbps)
] at 8 meters to 37 Mbps at around 40-plus meters.

This could get interesting. I'm stuck on whether I should just use Cat5 to bridge all my audio/video/data/IR traffic in my house, or start up a company that builds a wireless alternative. I don't think WiFi has the bandwidth and QoS to drive anything other than highly compressed VoIP and/or SD video, but it's EVERYWHERE and the chipsets are dirt cheap. However, UWB looks to be the winner, but has a loooong way to go for must haves like encryption and QoS.

a dilemma.

FOCUS Enhancements Demos Wireless, Ultra Wideband Transmission of High-Def TV Streams