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The Independent listed their ‘voices of 2011’ today, highlighting the non-celebrities on Twitter who are ‘setting the news agenda’. Pretty stoked to learn that I’m included in the Technology list. Being listed alongside the other eight in that list is an honour indeed :)

Read: Independent voices of 2011: The most influential non-celebrity users of Twitter

Watch this in full screen and enjoy! If you’ve never visited the American south-west, I’m pretty sure you’ll want to go after watching this amazing film, shot in the extremely high-definition video standard ‘4K’.

Ali Binazir calculated the probability that you came about. And finds it is mind-meltingly slim!

Here are the 12 best responses I’ve received from my new iPhone 4S today. I’ll upload more as they come but the first few will be hard to beat in the creepiness stakes.

Just to note that when you ask #2 about anyone else it refers you to a web search like when it doesn’t really get what you’re asking.

With yet another re-release of the Star Wars films, this time on Blu-ray, it felt like a good time to watch all six films from 1 (1999) to 6 (1983), ie in the order Lucas would have us watch them. I recommend it if you find the time.

I tried to see the series with fresh eyes and keep an open mind. Guiltily, I made the following observations. Please don’t lynch me!

8th November 2011. That’s the release date for what looks like an awesome follow-up to the game that kept us warm all through last winter. The trailer shows some of the London multiplayer map, peeks at new weaponry (what’s that rotary blade sticky bomb?) and is that blood I see splattering gloriously out of downed tangos? The pressure was undoubtedly on Infinity Ward to come up with the goods and do more than add a couple of new weapons, and it looks from this trailer that they’ve added a hitherto unseen polish to the series. Well, now you know what my winter looks like :) Will you be buying?

According to this dramatic trailer by Canadian company UrtheCast, two HD cameras will be installed on ISS (International Space Station) and be streaming back to Earth in real-time by 2012, giving the rest of us non-astronaut folk the ‘life-changing experience’ of seeing our planet as one object before us.

It’s apparently going to be ‘Google Earth on steroids’, giving us the chance to watch major earth events from space to ‘one meter resolution’ which means that each pixel will represent one meter on the ground (making it difficult to see anything smaller than buildings).

Sounds awesome though. Does this bring us one step closer to a truly live, detailed and complete map of Earth? Oh, and have you ever shown an older relative Google Earth and had to explain it’s not live?

(Source: digitaljournal.com)