Skate Study House - Jet Set Lounge Chair

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SKATE STUDY HOUSE (SSH) is an innovative design concept specializing in recreating popular furniture through the vision of a skateboarder. The movement of a skateboarder constantly changes -- it recreates itself by transcending boundaries and inventing ways to conquer obstacles. It’s constantly about anticipation and adaptation to one’s environment. The same is true for living design. The combination of the two produces a mixture of contemporary lifestyle, art and action sports culture, which is all found in this unique collection.

Music of the Spheres

Solar System Music Box

via Information is Beautiful

Say No to Cuts

Hot for Teachers w/ Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green from Megan Fox

Kombucha on Tap

I've been drinking Lev's Original Kombucha on tap and loving it.  It might or might not have any health benefits but its a great alternative to carbonated high fructose corn syrup water.  The NY Times has an interesting article about it.

The Truth about HDMI cables

More great posters at Wallstats

Bye Bye Greencine

After considerable deliberation -- seriously a month at least -- I have finally decided to cancel my Greencine subscription.  A significant influence on that decision is my recent re-subscription to Netflix to get the Watch Now instant streaming feature which is almost all I need, especially when you add Boxee the mix.  Did I mention Boxee rules? Well it does. Go get it now!  True Greencine does have some foreign and obscure films that Netflix doesn't and some movies that Netflix will never have. But Boxee (with the Boxxxee app installed) has more than enough of the latter, for free no less.  And Greencine was getting slow to ship discs probably because over the years I ended up with a queue top loaded with 50+ movies that were all hard to get.  Still, I had Greencine because they were supposed to have those hard to get movies.

That said, Greencine is an excellent resource with a great staff and community and I will definitely continue to visit their site regularly to read reviews and peruse lists.  I may give Nicheflix a try if Netflix can't satisfy my need for obscure foreign films.

I  have to admit I'm quite curious as to whether every movie I've rented from Greencine over the past 4 years (listed below) is available on Netflix but I haven't gotten around to writing a script to check.  I have been wanting and excuse to play with the Netflix API and I've just started to learn Ruby using this excellent tutorial so this might be, uh,  the proverbial stone that kills two birds.

My GreenCine rental history after the jump...

Wireless Chickens!

Paper Chase : Michigan State prepares to launch wireless chicken study

Worlds Without End : PKD Award

I've decided I'm going to read every PKD award winner and nominee. I've already read a good 20 so I only have about 120 more to go. WWE is a great SF & Fantasy site. I really like the award lists and BookTrakr feature.  The Buy at Amazon links help support the site but I'd really prefer buy the eBook at Barnes& Noble so I can read it on my Android phone.  There should be a browser add-on that finds books on a website and lets you buy them with one click sorta like how Add to Boxee finds videos on a page and adds them to your Boxee queue.  The Barnes and Noble search add-on combined with Context Search is an decent workaroud.

Worlds Without End : PKD Awards

Android Alert : Too many Android phones

Too many Android phones not enough time?

The Android Who Cried Wolf

My new niece Lily

Posted via email from bretlee's posterous

Chicken Thali @ Ruchi - Homestyle South Indian

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Netflix streams in 1080p in 2010?

No.

Not that it really matters to me as my HD projector is only 720p but they did previously say they were going to.

1080p streaming not coming to Netflix this year - CNET News

The Web is a Cesspool

If "the web is a cesspool" (Eric Schmidt) is Facebook a country club swimming pool?

The iPad's threat to advertising

Nude Photo Music

New releae from my friends at Nude Photo Music

Like Twitter

"It's like twitter. Except we charge people to use it."

The Tyranny of the Document Metaphor

How Conceptual Metaphors are Stunting Web Innovation

See your neighbor's Netflix queue

A Peek Into Netflix Queues - NYTimes.com

You can't peek any deeper than zip code which would be scary...

Android Alert : Google's very own Google phone

It's here!
Nexus One Phone - Web meets phone.

Too bad existing T-Mo customers like me have to pay $279 instead of $179 and that's only when my current 2 year contract expires.

World’s Smallest Linux Networking Server

XPort Pro from Lantronix

People returning to movie theaters

Theatrical revenue tops movie disc sales in 2009 - 1/4/2010 - Video Business