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What SHOULD Be Done About The Flooding In Nashville…

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Clearwire WiMAX to cover 120 million prospective HTC EVO 4G owners by end of year

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With the HTC EVO dual-mode 3G/4G handset launching this summer (and nearly ready for pre-order) with built-in hotspot capability, we've got a pretty good idea what all you US Americans are wondering: is WiMAX available in my city? Well, buried inside the Clearwire financials is mention of the 19 additional cities scheduled for WiMAXing this summer, joining the 32 markets (pictured above) and 41 million people already served by its 4G network offering 3Mbps to 6Mbps average downloads with an occasional 10Mbps peak:

Clearwire also today announced plans to launch 4G mobile broadband service in 19 additional cities this summer, including previously announced markets Kansas City, KS; St. Louis, MO; Salt Lake City, UT, and the core area of Washington, D.C. and newly announced markets Nashville, TN; Daytona, Orlando and Tampa, FL; Rochester and Syracuse, NY; Merced, Modesto, Stockton, and Visalia, CA; Wilmington, DE; Grand Rapids, MI; Eugene, OR; and Yakima and Tri-Cities, WA.

Things will get really interesting later in 2010 when Clearwire and Sprint take their 4G mobile broadband network to New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, the San Francisco Bay Area, Miami, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh for a 120 million person strong data footprint. LTE who?

Clearwire WiMAX to cover 120 million prospective HTC EVO 4G owners by end of year originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 May 2010 08:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Homemade 16TB NAS dwarfs the competition with insane build quality (video)

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From the man that brought you the OS Xbox Pro and the Cinematograph HD comes... a cockpit canopy filled with hard drives? Not quite. Meet the Black Dwarf, a custom network-attached-storage device from the mind of video editor Will Urbina, packing 16TB of RAID 5 magnetic media and a 1.66GHz Atom N270 CPU into a completely hand-built Lexan, aluminum and steel enclosure. Urbina says the Dwarf writes at 88MB per second and reads at a fantastic 266MB per second, making the shuttlecraft-shaped 12.7TB array nearly as speedy as an SSD but with massive capacity and some redundancy to boot. As usual, the DIY guru shot a professional time-lapse video of his entire build process, and this one's not to be missed -- it showcases some pretty spiffy camerawork as well as the man's welding skills. See sparks fly after the break.

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Homemade 16TB NAS dwarfs the competition with insane build quality (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 May 2010 04:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Vimeo Find: The Bug

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Some things don’t make sense at all but they do tickle our fancy. Or our love for 8-bit and nostalgiv games and gaming systems. The Bug, Vimeo user Yongsub Song’s Thesis at Computer Art MFA School of Visual Art is one of these videos.

Star Wars. In 2 minutes. In LEGO.

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Star Wars can only be made better by the brilliance that is LEGO. Case in point: this insanely good recap of the entire original trilogy in just a couple of minutes.

I guarantee it’s the best two minutes you’ll waste all day.

Humble Bundle: greatest sale of indie games ever?

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A group of indie developers are selling a package of their games which includes some of the biggest independent games on the market. Gamers can name their own price—from 1¢ to $1,000—for a pack of games that would go for around $80 if sold separately. Anyone who buys the package can feel better about themselves as well; customers can send any amount of their purchases to two major nonprofit groups.

The sale, nicknamed the "Humble Bundle" by the studios involved, is certainly epic. The games included in the package are World of Goo, Gish, Lugaru, Aquaria, and Penumbra Overture. Each of these titles has proven to be a solid hit, and the fact that five separate studios are working together to make them available to gamers for however much they wish to spend is unusual. As Jeff Rosen of Wolfire explained to Ars in a recent interview, the close-knit sense of community among indie developers is largely responsible for the sale's existence.

The Life of A Test-Dummy Narrated In Stop-Motion, iPad-free But Not Wee-free

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I have not been bugging you with any animation at all this week. No stop-motion, no visual arts. Only two Saul Bass style videos.

Time to change that.

What happens when a test-dummy in the desert needs to go ‘wash his hands’ but nothing is around to hide behind?

Stop-motion in all its excellence by Aaron Berger.

Tron Goes Saul Bass. Lost Just Is Lost

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Checking my multimedia library, especially the movie section feels like reading the IMDB All-time Top 250 and maybe that is why I am not excited about The Expendables, even the addition of Muscles from Brussels, Jean-Claude Van Damme would not get this Belgian guy to the movies to check out the adrenaline volume. Even my list of best movie titles scenes isn’t 100% representative for my taste, but it’s a step in the right direction already. And has Kyle Cooper and Saul Bass in it. Saul Bass the master of the movie title sequence.

You can imagine my joy when I discovered the Vimeo user Hexagonall who made ‘Saul Bass title sequences’ for both Tron and Lost.

http://vimeo.com/hexagonall

Incredible Perching UAV Lands On And Takes Off From Walls [UAVs]

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This little guy is pretty remarkable: a fixed-wing aerial drone that lands by clinging vertically to a wall, and takes off from the same position. I'm not saying this is the future of spy planes—but it should be. More »

AG Lite – Issue 602 | Joss Whedon

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