bem’s blog

There's a full scale steam railway in Niles Canyon. With restored locomotives and cars and everything. Why hasn't anyone told me about this before? This is awesome. I must go.

This is pretty awesome. I don't want to know how many takes it took to do that, even if it wasn't actually continuous.

It's too bad that working for HP doesn't give me the opportunity to play with neat toys like this. Yes, I know it has some issues with the form factor (the display doesn't swivel around to make the thing a convertable tablet?), but it would be lots of fun to play with. And of course, they're not releasing it in the US, which tends to be the way that HP goes with non-Microsoft powered devices. This HP-MS buddy buddy thing is kind of annoying at times.

I'm sure you've heard the news: Moblin and maemo are merging! We are taking the best pieces from these two open source projects and are creating the MeeGo software platform. Both teams have worked for a long time to support the needs of the mobile user experience - and MeeGo will make this even better. We want it to be fun, focused, flexible, technically challenging and ultimately, something that can change the world.

Now this is an interesting development. With both Nokia and Intel behind it, this might actually be able to compete with Android.

Figured I'd shout this out as well. I really should stop being lazy and sell my extra PSP that's been sitting around for a good long time doing nothing.

It's a pretty sweet ride that she's selling for $650. Click through to craigslist for the specs and more pictures.

Updated with new links since she posted a new listing.

That's really interesting. I do find it curious that they didn't contemplate replacing the keyboard with this, because it seems obvious. Maybe just to keep the focus on the multitouch UI ideas, I guess.