http://geekboy.ca Headlong towards entropy ... Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:50:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 7: The average lifespan, in pitches, of a baseball in a major league game. http://geekboy.ca/?p=1812 Speaking of RIM ... on Tuesday they are going to venture forth with another touch-screen Blackberry. The development and impeding launch of the new handset has seen a bare fraction of the hype and hullabaloo that preceded the Storm, and I think this might be a good thing. ... http://geekboy.ca/?p=1801 If you point your browser to "blackpad.com" you get ... nada. Blank page. But if you look up the whois record, you will find that the domain is being held by CSC on behalf of some outfit called "Research in Motion" in Waterloo. Which gives some serious ... http://geekboy.ca/?p=1803 Okay. Three times today I heard people talking about the weather, and all three times they had completely different - and completely wrong - explanations of this particular phrase actually means: Percentage probability of precipitation. Alright, enough. It's a really simple concept. If the weather report comes on and ... http://geekboy.ca/?p=1795 I love Apple's "Magic Mouse". I use a MacBook all day, and I get hardwired into using the assorted multi-touch gestures on the trackpad. Then I go home and have to go back to an old-fashioned mouse is it is like being crippled. No tapping? No ... http://geekboy.ca/?p=1792 20: The number of minutes that all of the human urine produced in the world in a single day would take to flow over Niagara Falls. http://geekboy.ca/?p=1788 Today's amusing diversion for anyone who spends at least some portion of their life creating verbiage: I Write Like. You take a sample of your prose, slam it in, their engine masticates it for a while, and out pops the name of some probably-more-well-known-than-you author that you write ... http://geekboy.ca/?p=1783 Stupid name, yes. But, if you are a publisher looking for direction on how to provide content in the new age of mobile media, this would be a great place to start. Or you could, you know, just stick your head in the ground and block certain browsers. ... http://geekboy.ca/?p=1779 16: The average number of minutes between dreams for an adult feline. http://geekboy.ca/?p=1776 In past rantings on these pages I have mentioned the fact that the vast majority of "financial analysts" desperately want Apple to fail. They don't understand the business model - the idea of selling a few premium products for a nice profit instead of boatloads of low-end crap ... http://geekboy.ca/?p=1773