i loved this comment by RichGilly in response to Josh Groban singing at the 2008 emmy’s.

video is here => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOfR7IzKANw

I was mentioned on diggnation for this weeks episode.  They read my email about the ihologram being fake.

The iHologram app for the iPhone was a cool little aplication that had a cat running and depending on how you turned the phone, the accelerometers would move the cat to make it look like it was popping out.

Scroll to where there is about 5 minutes left and they mention me: evan.

Right now, iChat offers everything that skype does.  There is audio calling, chat, send files, away messages, available messsages, history, and chat logging.

The one thing that iChat has up on Skype is their video system.

Video conferencing on iChat includes video effects, which are live effects that manipulate the output video for the receiving client in the video chat.  But this is far from the advantage iChat brings to the video conferencing table.

The real thing that seperates it is something so fundamental.  Something that Skype should have implemented ages ago.  Something that countless users have requested in the Skype forums: video conferencing.  iChat has it.

iChat offers full video conferencing with up to 3 people, but there is a limitation: it needs to be on the leopard ( OSX 10.5) operating system.  This is where Skype can beat iChat.  Due to the fact that you must have leopard in order to use this feature in ichat, and that iChat is bundled with an OS X distribution, Skype’s modular client allows multiplatform installability on any platform.  This means that if Skype can get their video chat conferencing act together, they can give this ability to anyone who chooses to download their software, enabling the millions of users (right now I see 12 million online) to be able to use skype for more than a call-your-girlfriend-while-at-college skype call.  With an implementation of video conferencing, Skype would be one of the most powerful and versatile communications software for business computing everywhere.

Conference meetings could be indepenedent of physical location.  Thus, opening up skype to the business market in ways thousands of times greater than their current market share.

Come on Skype, its been long enough.

i dreamed last night that I was freaking awesome at harmonica.  And it was sweet.

Then i dreamed that I was falsely arrested, and affected my already annoying situation.

Then I dreamed that I won a shopping spree.  Thinking back i have no idea why I would dream these things, no such experience happened during the day, and nothing that would have propelled my thought processes in a directional subject matter came across me yesturday.

I am baffled, but still woke up feeling dazed.

A brief summary of where philosophy classes are in today’s university:  John Locke’s personal identity thesis is applied to the movie “Freaky Friday” starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsey Lohan.

While appropriate, I find that this marks a mark on the timeline of academic philosophy. That mark is absurdity.