Wingman bag keeps bike commuters' work clothes neat and wrinkle ...

Henty's Wingman bag keeps your suit neat even on the toughest bicycle commutes

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Bicycle commuting is one of those things that sounds like a universally great idea up until you actually try it. Nothing will start the day off on the wrong foot like showing up 20 minutes late (you may not be in as good of shape as you thought), dripping in sweat and pothole water. But, hey, at least you get to brag about being green. The Henty Wingman aims to make the practice of bicycle commuting as great as the concept, by keeping your suit dry, free from sweat and road grit, and looking like it just popped out of the dry cleaning plastic.

Similar to the Suitpack and Suit Commute, the Wingman is a suit bag designed to meet the specific needs of bicycle commuters. The main suit pack rolls up and has recycled-PVC ribs that create a crease-free shell. A separate gym bag that stores inside the suit roll carries shoes, socks and accessories. The gym bag can, of course, be left home when not needed, or used on its own. A front pocket includes a padded laptop/tablet sleeve, which Henty says will be removable on future versions of the Wingman. The pack is carried by way of the adjustable, padded shoulder strap.

Henty built the Wingman for all types of cycling conditions. It includes reflective piping for increased visibility at night and a waterproof rain cover with reflective logo for inclement weather. It also has a webbing loop for attaching a bicycle light.

While bicycle commuting is the main focus of the Wingman design, Henty intends for the pack to be useful off the saddle, too. It built the bag to airline carry-on specifications, making it an easy way to transport a suit, laptop and other carry-on items on a flight. The fact that it splits into suit bag, gym bag and laptop sleeve means that it can be used for all kinds of gear-carrying needs.

Last we checked, the Suitpack and Suit Commute were still just projects with production hopes. The Wingman, on the other hand, is a purchasable reality. Henty launched it last year and has it for sale on its website for AUD$179.95 (about US$185). The company was on hand at the recent ISPO show, where it was nominated for a BrandNew Award, working toward securing further distribution.

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Deceased programmer invented 'Like' button before Facebook, says lawyer

Rosa Golijan , NBC News ? ? ? 33 min.

A patent firm has filed a lawsuit against Facebook on behalf of a deceased computer scientist who might have dreamed up the famous "like" button before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg even got his start.

The suit revolves around two patents held by the family of Joannes Jozef Everardus Van Der Meer, who died in June, 2004, just months after Facebook's Harvard debut.

According to the complaint, on Sept. 1, 1998, Van Der Meer filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a "Web page diary" which allows users to "collect personal information and third-party content, organize the information chronologically on a personalized Web page, and share the information with a selected group of people, such as the end user's friends, through the use of user-settable privacy levels."

Sounds vaguely familiar, no? Hello, Timeline.

Van Der Meer's second patent application describes a method of automatically transferring content from a website to a user's personal "Web page diary" with a click, allowing people to "collect interesting content as they browsed the Web."

Rembrandt ? the company that represents independent inventors and patent holders such as the family of the deceased programmer ? suggests that the second patent outlines the functionality of the Facebook "Like" button. You click it, content of some sort is thrown onto your Facebook Timeline. Or your "Web page diary." Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.

The first patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,415,316) was issued on July 2, 2002 and the second patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,289,362) was issued on Sept. 11, 2001. While the patents were pending (and after they were issued), Van Der Meer attempted to "commercialize his inventions." He formed a company and bought a domain, surfbook.com, to launch a "pilot system that utilized some of the innovations described in his patents." He died before seeing his vision through, however.

The odd similarities between Van Der Meer's domain of choice and Facebook's aside, his patents sound as if they could be applied to nearly any of today's social networks. Nonetheless, legal action is currently only being pursued against Facebook and AddThis, a company which "acts like an enhanced version of the Facebook transfer script," according to Rembrandt's complaint, thereby allegedly infringing on U.S. Patent No. 6,289,362 as well.

"We're not currently pursuing claims against anyone else," Thomas Melsheimer, one of the lawyers representing Rembrandt, told NBC News, "but that doesn't mean that won't happen." (One might assume that Facebook was singled out because one of its patents cites one of Van Der Meer's, implying that the company was aware of it.)

Rembrandt is seeking "no less than a reasonable royalty" for the alleged patent infringement. It's tough to guess what this might amount to, but Ars Technica's Joe Mullin does point out that Rembrandt has managed to successfully "wrest a $41 million verdict from contact-lens maker Ciba Vision in 2008" while working with a husband-wife inventor team who developed what may have set the groundwork for the extended wear contacts many of us use.

Additionally, as Melsheimer pointed out to NBC News, the company representing the case, Fish & Richardson, is "one of the largest firms practicing intellectual property" in the U.S. (The firm once beat Amazon in court, when representing an independent feminist bookstore in an infringement case.)

Get the popcorn ready, folks. I have a feeling we'll be hearing about this case for a while.

Want more tech news or interesting links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on Twitter, subscribing to her Facebook posts, or circling her on Google+.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/deceased-programmer-invented-button-facebook-says-lawyer-1B8302021

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Kelly Associates Bolsters its Ranks ? Darien's Leading Realtor Adds ...

Darien,?February 7, 2013 ? In perhaps one of the surest signs that the Darien real estate market is on the road to recovery, Darien?s leading brokerage has added five agents to its ranks.? Kelly Associates has recently attracted Sonia Byrnes, Victoria Banks, Janine Vairo, Linda Terhune and Julie Hancock to its Darien office.

?We couldn?t be happier that each of them has decided to join our team,? said Jeff Kelly, Vice President of Kelly Associates.? ?The continued success and growth of our firm is reflective of the success and growth of our very special town.? Darien is simply a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.? We are fortunate to be in the business of
helping people make Darien their home.?

Interestingly, both Victoria Banks and Sonia Byrnes come to Kelly Associates after successful brokerage stints at The Corcoran Group in New York City.? After moving to Darien from the city, each will continue her real estate career with Kelly Associates.

Linda Terhune has been in the Darien real estate business for ten years and recently joined Kelly Associates after a successful career as a top producer at another local office.

Janine Vairo and Julie Hancock are new to the real estate business and begin their real estate careers at Kelly Associates.? Both are active members of the Darien community and Vairo is the author of a popular entertaining/home d?cor blog.

Kelly Associates Real Estate, Inc. has been Darien?s number one real estate brokerage in each of the past 22 years.? The firm has offices in Darien and Rowayton.

Source: http://darien.patch.com/announcements/kelly-associates-bolsters-its-ranks-dariens-leading-realtor-adds-five-agents

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'Community' Premiere: See How Different The Show Looks Without Creator Dan Harmon (VIDEO)

After a long hiatus, the new season of "Community" kicked off, and it looked quite a bit different. In what TV.com thought was a clever nod to the behind-the-scenes drama, the Season 4 premiere featured a show-within-the-show, or more specifically, a show within Abed's mind -- one that featured Fred Willard instead of Chevy Chase.

Abed was stressing about this being their senior year -- and thus their last year together -- and so he was encouraged to find a happy place inside his mind. That place was a lot like a traditional sitcom, complete with a laugh track. Was this "a recognition of how Community might be if NBC had its way completely with the show," as TV.com wrote?

Series creator and showrunner Dan Harmon was fired after Season 3, thus making this the first episode without his unique and strange creative vision steering the ship. While there were some differences in tone and presentation, one thing that didn't change was the surreal craziness of the whole thing.

What did you think of the Harmon-less "Community"? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Senior year of "Community" continues on Thursdays at 8 p.m. EST on NBC.

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Something I been debating about posting for a while, but well finally going to do it, hope people understand this is meant to be satrical.

So You Think You Have Started a Cult:
What To Do Next?

If we may interrupt you from the worshipping session and declaration of your name being one with God or Gods? Then we at Cult 101 would like to begin to warn you of the major pitfalls, provide advice and anything else you will need in the day to day runnings of your cult.

Firstly this leaflet is for those who obviously have gathered enough mindless fools and though we at Cult 101 talk about Religion often we can't accept everyone. Recently we had to remove Scientology from the roster due to it's overwhelming popularity as is Mormonism.

We at Cult 101 believe a Cult can't be too big and prefer a group of say round about 5000, anymore and well the cult has reached the zenith and achieved Religion status.

So, for sake of simplicity we shall lay out the rules for those reading this and thinking, ?My this does seem like a nifty idea, I think I will go do this.?

Rule 1: The most important thing to remember is this, a cult can worship anything from a banana to the mighty Idol Zagmado as long as people are ready to give their life, metaphorically of course. (See sacrifices for more information on this.) If they believe in the cause then they will throw down and declare their possessions void.

Rule 2: If you are oratory wizard or someone who can woo a crowd, you can skip this rule as this only concerns those who are unable to talk a girl's knickers off, let alone talk a crowd into absolute obedience. Take lessons in Leadership and Oratory Speaking, as these will come into importance a lot during your lifelong reign; I hope that's clear we at Cult 101 will not suffer fools if you waste our time we will close your Swiss Bank Accounts and upstage you. For those who are willing to work, we provide the necessary courses:

Jim Jones: ?I got into contact with Cult 101 and soon I had people believing a phoney religion, it was glorious.?

As you can see we aim to please, so if you got any questions concerning Rule 2, feel free to contact us number below.

Rule 3: As you may understand if your subjects are connected to anyone, then those connections must either be severed or those friends or family must accept the cult. We at Cults 101 know this and so we will offer you training from PR Staff and Advertisement Agency. The goal being you will learn how to pitch your cult and make it seem interesting even to the most non-spiritual nihilist. In no time you will have gathered support and sold them on this idea that your cult is better than say the cult next door.

As we at Cults 101 say, ?It's a cult eat cult world out there.? only the fittest will survive.

Rule 4: I am sure you are well aware of the fact that being a leader of cult will profoundly increase your sexual prowess, for to them you are the avatar of God or Gods thus people would see intercourse with you male or female, as the most holy experience. As this is common in our experience we provide a five day safe sex course so you can remember that an unhealthy leader weakens the cult and well I doubt if you have STIs or STDs you will be as worshipped. This is why we put this rule down.

Rule 5: This is one of the most important and it's how many cults failed in the past, well this is what our studies suggest. Stay fantastic, stay enigmatic, stay unknown and stay amazing. To clarify if you act human then people will begin to grow suspicious it's well worth remembering that once you stop appearing like an immortal your cult may survive but there more dangers of your cult being taken over.

Advice Concerning Running a Cult

1. Firstly don't murder them all, since your cult obeys all your commands and thus if you kill them you lose willing people.
2. They must be willing to give everything even their most prized possession an ideal example of this is Dalton Seymore he got a guy to give his glass eye to prove the person support to the cult.
3. Start small and don't expect to have a thousand worthless fools obeying you early on, build it up gradually.
4. Cults can be a family thing, but it's in our experience that running one solo is less hassle.
5. Remember no matter how insane it appears as long as you provide some context and weave a great story, then anything can be believed.
6. Lastly bribing the authorities and other lawful individuals will be necessary in the long run. And if worse comes to the worse, let's just hope you live in High Murder Capital, if you get the drift?

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Is "Burn-In" Still an Issue on TVs and Monitors?

Dear Lifehacker,
I remember in the old days of CRTs, my dad would warn me about dreaded "burn-in" on my computer screens and TVs. I know there was a big debate about plasma TVs and burn-in too, but is it still a problem? Does it affect LCDs? Do I need to care at all?

Sincerely,
Screen Saver

Dear Screen Saver,
In general, burn-in isn't nearly the problem it once was. However, you should still be aware of what it is and how to prevent it. Here's what you need to know.

What Is Burn-In?

Burn-in is permanent damage to a screen caused by showing the same image for a long period of time. For example, if you have a TV on which you watch CNN 24 hours a day, you'll likely experience the burn-in of the CNN logo in the bottom right-hand corner. Even when you change the channel or turn off the TV, a faint outline of that logo will still be there because it's "burned in."

Burn-in is permanent, but it's often confused with "image persistence," which is a temporary version of the same thing. Burn-in is most prominent in CRT and plasma screens, which use phosphors to create the image on your TV or monitor. However, it's also possible to cause image persistence on an LCD-based screen, though it's rarer. Photo by Nate.

The Current State of Burn-In and Image Persistence

CRTs and Older plasma TVs were quite susceptible to burn-in, but many modern TVs have features designed to lower the risk. Many contain a feature called "pixel shifting," for example, that shifts the image on your screen just enough so that the pixels are regularly changing, (but not so much that it's noticeable to you). Some cheaper plasmas may be more susceptible, so this is an area where you get what you pay for.

That said, you should still practice good habits with your TV and monitor. Screens are most susceptible to burn-in in the first 100 hours of use, says CNET, so for those first 100 hours keep your contrast low (below 50%), and try to avoid watching non-widescreen shows. Those black bars on the sides of the screen can cause image persistence. Other than that, just use common sense: turn on your computer's screen saver. Don't leave your TV on the CNBC ticker for days at a time, and don't play video games without breaks (since their menus and overlays stay in the same place). You don't need to go overboard with worry, just treat your TV with a little care?primarily within those first 100 hours?and you'll be fine.

How to Get Rid of Image Persistence

If you do experience a little image persistence, it's probably just temporary, and you can get rid of it with almost no effort. We've shared one method before, but you probably don't even need to go that far. All you need to do is watch some TV. Make sure its widescreen, try to avoid anything that has the same image that's burned in (obviously), and it should go away within a few minutes or hours, depending on how severe it is.

The chances of getting permanent burn-in are pretty slim these days. You'd have to actually try to burn in your screen. With regular home use, you're probably not watching the same persistent image for long enough. If you have a business that shows the same image on screen all day long, that might be a different story, but for most personal use, you shouldn't have to worry. Photo by Aaronyx.

Sincerely,
Lifehacker

Title image remixed from psdGraphics, Hans, and FotograFFF (Shutterstock).

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MediaTek plans a tablet-focused processor for Q3

MediaTek may have only just reached quad-core smartphones in earnest, but its aims are expanding -- in a more literal sense. The company's Xie Qingjiang says that plans are underway to build a tablet-specific processor that would ship in the third quarter of the year. While other details are scarce, it's safe to say the chip will take advantage of all the extra breathing room for more performance. The real questions surround just who will use the new creation: there's no guarantee that Acer will find a fit for the design inside of its future 8- and 10-inch budget slates, for example. When MediaTek is seemingly making generational leaps in a matter of months, though, we suspect that there won't be a shortage of customers.

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