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Twitter is the place to be nowadays, but not everyone has access to it!. Lil’ @kickbee is fresh on the scene and tweeting directly from the womb. That’s right - his / her nerdy father Mr “Kickbee Sr.” has wrapped his expecting better half with a gizmo that detects baby kicks, transmits the info via Bluetooth to a MacBook Pro, which beams the info on up to Twitter!

How cool is that!!!

A few weeks ago a random series of events led me to four year veteran online TV channel ‘Coin-Op.TV‘, and I’m glad that I found it as it’s filled a hole in my sphere of online entertainment.

The show goes out live every Thursday from L.A. and a few other glam locations, and has a hybridized personal/professional feel. One which I find uncommon among today’s wannabe web-tv channels…. and Coin-Op.TV is far from wannabe….!

I’d place a bet that Coin-Op.TV will continue to be forging the mould by example on the best and brightest way to broadcast a television show via the web.

Good job Rob, Hailey and the rest!!!

If you think that any TV you want to watch should be available at the touch of a button, then you’re of the same school of thinking that I am!

I don’t want wave after wave of adverts slammed in the middle of my programs, and to be honest would pay double the subscription to have them removed.

This is why today people choose Netflix, Tivo, and Hulu.

It’s interesting that the broadcasters in the US are one step ahead of Europe in many ways. The BBC have their on demand service… but most shows often choose to host their episodes on their websites, making them only available to viewers in the US!

If I go to the trouble of using a US proxy to channel my connection I can view episodes of Supernatural and Battlestar Galactica. I shouldn’t have to do this though….Why is this service unavailable through standard web connections in the UK?

The shows are on UK terrestrial TV and we all pay a TV license, so we should be able to watch them online without painful workarounds!

HULU is the ultimate in viewing and I really wish that a mainstream service like this was available in the UK!

So a railgun works by sending electric current along parallel rails. It creates an electromagnetic force so powerful it can fire a metal projectile at tremendous speed.
We saw such portable guns in the film Eraser and almost certainly everyone thinks of Quake3 and has flashbacks to numerous frustrating deaths when the railgun is mentioned!

The US Navy are testing a railgun that could be in operation by the year 2020! The test unit is an 8 megajoule device but the Navy hopes that the final model will generate 64 megajoules and have a 200 to 250 nautical mile range. This is an enormous increase over current Navy guns which generate about 9 megajoules of energy and have a range of about 15 nautical miles.

The device BAE Systems shipped to the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va. is the 32-megajoule Electro-Magnetic Laboratory Rail Gun (32-MJ LRG for short, but we’ll call her “Julie”). It is about four times as strong as the last generation of rail guns, but demands 3 million amps of power per shot—enough to drain your Metal Gear’s battery in a heartbeat. You’ll notice the word “laboratory” stuck in there. Real-life rail guns have kinks that still need to be worked out:

Effective rail guns will require a major breakthrough in capacitor technology between now and 2020, as well as a way to keep the barrels from being shredded by each high-velocity shot.

Mind you, the Navy isn’t like pissing its pants for joy that it gets to play with a 32-megajoule rail gun.
This is America, after all. What the Navy really wants is a 64-megajoule rail gun. But since that might take 13 years and would require, yep, 6 million amps per shot, the Navy’s gonna have to quit bitching and enjoy the toys it has, at least for now.