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ATMs in Antarctica
In one of my son’s magazines presented an interesting fact… “Did you know there are only two ATMs in Antarctica”.
I found the word “only” interesting because I was surprised to learn that there were ATMs in Antarctica at all.
It turns out that both ATMs are in a store in McMurdo Station Antarctica. The ATMs are from Wells Fargo.
McMurdo has a population of about 200 in the winter and around 2,000 in the summer.
See the current weather conditions for McMurdo.
Speed Reading
Posted by: Chip in Featured, Technology on October 24th, 2008
If you’ve ever wanted to learn to speed read, here is a site for you. Spreed allows you to read the latest news stories in a way that helps you read faster and faster. You can also use it on your iPhone.
Switching to Apple TV and away from NBC
Posted by: Chip in Featured, Gadgets, Technology, Video on April 9th, 2008
We don’t watch much television. When we added up how much the shows we watch regularly would cost on iTunes, it averaged less than 14 dollars a month. It just doesn’t make sense for us to pay 60 to 70 dollars a month for satellite or cable.
With a new version available we bought an Apple TV. With it, we buy individual TV shows, rent or buy movies, watch video podcasts and YouTube videos and listen to our entire music collection from the couch.
NBC is the only problem. NBC pulled their shows off of iTunes which means we can’t watch The Office and Battlestar Galactica on the Apple TV. To watch those shows we have to fire up the Vista Media Center and either watch low-quality versions of them on Hulu.com or buy them from Amazon Unboxed. Either way the simplicity and ease-of-use is lost.
I will not be watching any new NBC shows and when The Office and Battlestar Galactica lose their appeal, NBC will be dead to me. The amount of content available online makes NBC unnecessary. If a network wants to compete when viewers have lots of options, they should make sure their content is everywhere their viewers are.