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Friday Open Thread: Great Googly Moogly
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Fill out a Community Application (seriously – it’ll take you five minutes).
Come out to Asheville’s Google Fiber Initiative Town Hall meeting on March 18th at 6pm at the Asheville Civic Center Banquet Room.
While some may argue the virtue of diminutive pipes and the value of Charter, this is also a thread for everything else under your suns. Illuminate. Reflect.
27 Comments
March 12th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Wll, snc Brny Ggl (“Wth th G-G-Ggly ys”) nd Snffy Smth hl frm ths r, w shld hv n n.
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March 12th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Is anyone going to Netroots Nation in July? Gordon – didn’t you go to the predecessor gathering YearlyKos a few years back?
Movies:
Shutter Island – Oh yeah! Go see! You know you’ve watched something when you watch all the credits at the end and don’t leave the theater until the lights come on…
Brooklyn’s Finest – Meh. I think Ebert’s review sums it up best. There’s some good acting. Wesley Snipes pretty much steals every scene he’s in from Don Cheadle and Cheadle didn’t make it easy for him. There’s a high level of tension in almost every scene and I walked out of the theater thinking, what the hell was that for?
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March 12th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
mmm… ctlly msspk bv, Snffy Smth lvs n th Kntcky mntns, Brny Ggl mt hm n n f hs rns frm th lw. Snffy, f crs, qckly clpsd Brny n pplrty. Th strp s n f th lngst rnnng ns – rgntd n 1919, t s stll bng drwn.
Brny, hwvr, gt ntnl ht sng n 1923, “Brny Ggl wth Th G-G Ggly ys.” nmnt ths sng s th shvll Ggl grps thm sng. Lt’s s Tpk tp THT. spclly whn th mssd ctznry f shvll srnd th Ggl ffcls wth t, Grdn Smth drctng.
Bt, hy, ths s n prjct f Grdn’s tht m 100% n fvr f.
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March 12th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
In case nobody knows what the heck Ralph is talking about:
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/BARNEY+GOOGLE+1923/KTFWI
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March 12th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Prcsly th prps f Ggl, h?
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March 12th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Well, I went straight to Grooveshark for that. I wasn’t sure how deep and extensive their catalog was. Now we know that it goes back to at least 1923.
(Not a bad vinyl transfer from 78, either)
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March 12th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
when i click the link to fill out an application, it gives me an error message that says i don’t have access to this page… I’ve tried it from several computers. what gives? i feel personally excluded.
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March 12th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
never mind… got it to work from the googleavl site. who knows.
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March 12th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Yikes, Laura. Thanks for letting me know that link is broken!
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March 13th, 2010 at 12:00 am
Ralph & Deus – Y’all make an amazing team.
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March 13th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Okay, so how did folks answer the question “what can we do with all that bandwidth?” Compared to some folks around here, I’m kind of a luddite, so talk slowly.
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March 13th, 2010 at 10:47 am
Ds, y cn gt sm gd snds t f ld 78s wth mnml wrk… hr’s n xmpl f sng “Sldr’s Jy” by Gd Tnnr nd th Skllt Lckrs n n f my prms:
< hrf="http://frms.1vd.cm/ndx.php/tpc,538.0.html" rl="nfllw">http://frms.1vd.cm/ndx.php/tpc,538.0.html
–Rlph
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March 13th, 2010 at 11:30 am
I love the Skillet Lickers, Ralph. Here’s a link to something I wrote about uses for the Fiber: http://googleavl.com/2010/03/03/lets-change-the-world-together-with-google/
Not only that, but you’ll be able to upload video 100x faster!
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March 13th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Lks gd, Grdn. ’m lwys n qst fr mr spd. strtd n th ntrnt n 1978 (ctlly RPnt thn) sng cnnctn t NC v phn nd 192-bd mdm.
Kpt n gttng fstr nd fstr, rdng nd wrtng bt th tchnlgy wv. Nw (thnks t < hrf="http://skyrnnr.nt" rl="nfllw">http://skyrnnr.nt) ’v gt n bv vrg spd f 10mbt p nd dwn. Bt, MN, 1ggbt! cn dg THT!
d spprt wht y’r dng.
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March 13th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Nice. I read the Wet Machine article you linked to – the guy suggests that Google might choose a variety of communities, including “one upscale rural community,” which probably fits Asheville’s image for many outsiders.
What I don’t get, though, is – is data coming into our community at these high speeds? If so, what’s stopping us from receiving data at those speeds at our home right now?
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March 13th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
“n pscl rrl cmmntyâ€
t s nw, fr mst f my lf t ws jst n rrl cmmnty tht knw nd ndrstd ts rts nd plc n th grtr cmmnty f WNC.
“wht’s stppng s frm rcvng dt t ths spds t r hm rght nw?”
tht’s ctlly gd qstn, Dg. Th nswr s mny. Y cld, fr xmpl, gt T3 ln t yr hs nd njy bt 40mbts r s, p nd dwn, 24/7 fr rnd $15,000 mnth.
r y g t Skyrnnr fr wrlss cnnctn lk hv nd njy 10mbt p nd dwn (s d) fr fw hndrd mnth (whch my bsnss pys fr bt hv t n th hs s wll).
wht Ggl ffrs s nt nw bt chpr nd bttr.
nw wht Csc s cmng wth blws Ggl cmpltly t f th wtr.
< hrf="http://bt.ly/PWs" rl="nfllw">http://bt.ly/PWs
gt s tht Grdn nd ’ll stblsh rsdnc n th cty nd vt fr y frvr.
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March 13th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
I guess what I’m wondering is whether we’re not going to have bottlenecks somewhere. Does it help us to have data moving in and out at 1 gbit speeds when the rest of the world is so much slower?
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March 13th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
nthr gd qstn bt wth hghly cmplx nswr.
th ntrnt (s lldd t by ts nm) s nt n ntwrk bt rthr mny thsnds f ntrcnnctd ntwrks.
th mn trnks (clld bckbns) cnnct mr lclzd ntwrks nd llw trffc (dt) t pss frm n cmptr t nthr mny ntwrks wy. … thr s ll knd f rdndncs nd dvcs cll swtchrs nd rtrs wrk t gt pckts f dt frm n plc t th nxt, rlyng thm (clld ‘hps’) ll vr th plc t d s. … nvsn plnt-szd spdrwb – f y rn lng th strnds, thr r ny nmbr f pths t ny spcfc dstntn.
f Ggl ts s (nd srly thy n) nt sm f th mjr bckbns, w wld b fn MST f th tm. Bt “ntrnt wthr” (s < hrf="http://www.ntrnttrffcrprt.cm/mn.htm" rl="nfllw">http://www.ntrnttrffcrprt.cm/mn.htm fr th crrnt wthr) vrs dpndng n lds.
n shrt, hvng vry spdy cnnctn (lk mn) s grt mst f th tm bt prdct vn Ggl n wld clg frm tm t tm.
bndwdth s fnt
bttm ln: rsng th br s lwys gd nd gttng fbr n hr n “th lst ml” (th fnl cnnnctn t yr hm nd bsnss, whch th phn cmpny, fr n, hs bn prmsng fr yrs) wld b gd.
w my nt wn s bg s sm ppl thnk bt w cn’t ls.
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March 14th, 2010 at 7:52 am
Wow… I remember those days, playing on BBS’s on a Commodore PET with a state-of-the-art 300 baud modem. Fun times.
Ralph – a music project I was involved in about five years ago used decommissioned classroom phonographs and “prepared vinyl” as musical instruments, very much like this clip of Christian Marclay from Night Music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIFH4XHU228
Except I was also running them through dozens of guitar pedals…
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March 14th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Hh, hh… tht’s cl … bck n th 70s wd str tht sld rcrds. Whn t wnt t f bsnss mny thsnds f rcrds lft nd tht wld hv bn gd s fr thm.
Lckly, mvd thm n fl mrkts fr rlly gd mny… lbt stll hv hg rcrd cllctn.
Bt… th pnt s … crtvty cms n lt f pckgs nd wth fbr ptc, w cn mv ths pckgs lt fstr.
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March 14th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Or, here’s a different way to play records!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCeK5vNZepI
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March 14th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
rk! Thr s wrm nd tsty crnr n hll wtng Mr. Mrcly.
H prbbly bnds th spns n bks, t.
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March 18th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Will Heath flip? His Blue Dog neighbor just did. Ahooooo, Blue Dogs of London, ahoooo…
First, Blue Dog Bart Gordon (TN) flips from NO to YES!
RT @jonathanhsinger: Democrats now have their second No-to-Yes switcher on #hcr: Tennessee Blue Dog Bart Gordon (per @CapitolHillCNN)
8 minutes ago via TweetDeck
And Luis Gutierrez is also a YES.
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March 20th, 2010 at 6:48 am
I see it’s official. Shuler will vote no HCR. Thanks Congressman. Which Insurance company promised you a fat job after you leave Congress? You define corruption Mr. Taylor. Ooops, I mean Mr. Shuler.
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March 28th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Gordon, will Google consider the recent media marriage of Ashvegas and the Asheville Citizen-Times to be something that encourages local independence and creativity? I doubt it.
Perhaps you’ll start a thread on this matter. If so, please feel free to add my commentary about this unholy media marriage at
http://www.downtownasheville.com/index.php/1152
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March 29th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Byron,
I’m excited to see what happens with this collaboration. Remember, please, that Jason was once a reporter at AC-T while also blogging at Ashvegas. I’m optimistic about the union.
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April 4th, 2010 at 9:16 am
Fiber headed our way?
Golden LEAF Awards Over $24 Million to Help Bring High-Speed Broadband to Rural North Carolina
http://www.goldenleaf.org/press/n20100401.html
Grant looks to help implement $111 million broadband fiber project proposed in North Carolina
April 1, 2010
Kinston, N.C. — April 1, 2010 — The Golden LEAF Foundation announced today that it has awarded a $24 million grant in order to help secure $78 million in federal funds and leverage other private and public resources to bring broadband fiber to 69 counties across North Carolina. Sixty-seven of the 69 counties are currently underserved or partially underserved for broadband connections.
“The expansion of broadband access in rural counties is critical to jobs, economic investment, education and communications,” said Governor Bev Perdue. “The Golden LEAF Foundation has provided the critical matching dollars which will make this project possible. More than 1,000 jobs are associated with just the installation and creation of the network, and the lasting benefits to homes, schools and businesses will be significant.”
The $24 million grant, part of the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative, was awarded to the non-profit MCNC, to provide matching funds for round two of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). If federal funds are forthcoming, MCNC will be able to implement a $111 million broadband fiber project and install 1,448 miles of new fiber through 69 counties in northeastern, northwestern, north central and south central North Carolina.
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