Serenity
Will be here in the fall!
She is a mite unpredictable!
Via Making Light.
Will be here in the fall!
She is a mite unpredictable!
Via Making Light.
This is totally cool!!
Don’t be fooled if a parental unit isn’t there. If the chicks are sleeping they look like a white blob. Be patient: feeding time will be soon.
Via 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera.
…but just in case you don’t here’s some Carnival stuff:
Carnival of the Capitalists
and
Grand Rounds
Enjoy the reading!
It’s pretty easy to claim you never made a particular point if you fill your public discourse with this stuff.
Services like this should be doable at similar prices in dense urban areas of the US:
Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) officially launched its 1 Gbps symmetric service for the residential market. Approximately 800,000 households, out of a total of 2.2 million households in Hong Kong, are wired to receive the service. The 1 Gbps symmetric service is priced at US$215 per month.
HKBN noted that its 1 Gbps service is up to 166x faster downstream and 1,950x faster upstream than the advertised bandwidth of the incumbent’s ADSL service.
HKBN Premium bb1000 service is being offered on the same metro Ethernet infrastructure that delivers the company’s Mass Market bb100 (symmetric 100 Mbps for US$34/month) and Entry Point bb10 (symmetric 10 Mbps for US$16/month) services.
Even the low end blows away the crap that has commonly been labeled residential broadband in the US.
If they are allowed to proceed the Verizon and SBC buildouts, while not quite up to the Hong Kong standard, will be a substantial improvement over current US offerings.