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New Football Stadium

The plans for the crazy new Falcons stadium were approved. Article from USA Today.

There is a giant, 360-degree, LED Twitter feed going around the top of the stadium.

Hmm.

Images credit: AtlantaFalcons.com

First Electronically Stored Program 65 Years Ago

Via @slashdot.

Sixty-five Years Ago, Manchester’s ‘Baby’ Ran Electronically Stored Program. Posting at Slashdot.

“as the Manchester Small Scale Experimental Machine aka ‘Baby’ became the world’s first computer to run an electronically stored program on June 21, 1948. The ‘Baby’ was developed by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill at the University of Manchester.

Happy Summer Solstice!

Happy summer solstice tonight at 1:04 AM EDT.

Fri 2013-06-21 05:04:00 +0000
Fri 2013-06-21 01:04:00 -0400
Thu 2013-06-20 23:04:00 -0700

3D TV

Since it actually became a reality of sorts, I’ve neither been fanatical about nor enthusiastic for 3D TV. I’m not sure why. After all, it’s been a wonderful orb set to rise on the future horizon for a long time. Now it’s just one more thing that sits somewhere between yawn-inducing boredom and outright annoyance.

The annoying part is demonstrated by 3D movies.