.: Above The Aether :.

My favorite internet radio station has posted its seasonal holiday channel.  You can now listen to some quality Christmas music online while you push the pixels around the interweb.
SomaFM holiday channel
-Dave
P.S. – if you like that, you might consider checking out theri other channels.  I happen to LOVE the Secret Agent channel.  If you are [...]

Originally called the $100 laptop project, it came in at just under $200 each, but still a bargain when you consider all the technology involved in making something like this.
In 2002, MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte experienced first-hand how connected laptops transformed the lives of children and their families in a remote Cambodian village. A seed [...]

Enter the title and author into this search and the online book database will compare what other readers (who have read your book) have also enjoyed. Give it a whirl. It’s pretty neat.
Link (via Lifehacker)

The good: Google introduced IMAP protocol for Gmail, allowing multiple platforms (web, phone, desktop application) to synch gmail seemlessly.  For example, if I delete an email from my desktop Mac Mail application, it will be deleted across all the access points I use to manage email.  Or so the theory goes.
The bad: It’s a fucking [...]

We arrived in Austin in record time (around 2 hours and 15 minutes).  Would have been faster but we hit traffic leaving Houston.
Headed out to find some dinner.  Looking forward to the Maker Faire tomorrow.  I’ll try to post some photos here tomorrow and Sunday.
Have a good weekend, everyone.
-Dave

Not sure how accurate this clock is, but it is filled with very disturbing information.  I think the injuries counter should move much faster…especially in movies and sitcoms.  I mean, “falls” should be flying right?
Link (via Download Squad)

Gmail is getting a storage boost in the coming days, according to a recent post on the Gmail blog.  The storage counter will be sped up to increase in size a little more speedy than before.
It’s like free money…only not quite as good.
-Dave

I found a great blog post detailing numerous legal ways to listen to and download music online. From Digital Alchemy via LifeHack:
Free online music used to be like the Wild West of the Internet with services like Napster dominating the field during the bubble. Now, as the Internet has matured, new models for distributing [...]

Link (via Treehugger)
Do people actually buy this stuff?
-Dave

This video is a great explanation of exactly what RSS readers are and how they work. I really love it when complicated things can be described in simple terms. Cool stuff.
Video link
-Dave