Random Thoughts 6/4/09

• Tetris, the Russian-designed video game, turns 25 on Saturday.
• Saturday (June 6) is also the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
• Hulu may begin charging for its content. Hulu.com has been a great resource for watching old and new television shows and even catching an occasional movie for free. Shannon and I have caught episodes of shows that were preempted for severe weather reports or that we just missed for some reason or another.
• Our President is embarrassing – and he's supposed to be the smart, professorial one – he said the U.S. is "one of the largest Muslim nations in the world." Really?! We're barely in the top-40. Right now, about 1% of Americans are Muslim and countries such as France, China, Russia, Germany, and the Philippines all have more muslims. As the Weekly Standard notes, "Actually, if you look at the number of Jewish Americans, we'd be the largest Jewish country in the world after Israel. And America is the largest Christian country in the world. This context might be useful to the president as he tries to help the Muslim world better understand the United States."
• Two popular fads that I don't think have enough life in them to warrant signing up: Twitter and Facebook.
• Sony gave yet another impressive tech demonstration. Their motion-control demo was really something.
• Today is the 20th anniverasary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Thousands of Chinese students protesting for democracy were killed by the government.