How much does Facebook get used every minute of every day?

Too Much?

The first real iPad killer from Google, Android Honeycomb for tablets (video).

Garmin finally gets it with StreetPilot, an iPhone app that does turn-by-turn navigation. From Engadget:

It undercuts TomTom’s $49.99 offering for iOS, while offering real-time traffic data, voice commands, lane assist, address book integration so you can navigate directly to your buddies’ addresses, and multitasking support.

Software GPS navigation. The only hardware is the iPhone. The only problem is that Garmin’s maps won’t display if your iPhone doesn’t have a signal.

Last week, Fox News analyst Tucker Carlson said NFL quarterback Michael Vick should be executed for torturing and murdering dogs. This week Carlson said he had been too emotional (it’s Fox, so who could tell?). Chris Chase:

I’m watching that (video) clip and thinking, “Hey, for someone who said something idiotic like ‘execute Michael Vick,’ Carlson is making a reasoned argument that both takes back that statement while rationally defending his dislike of Vick.” And then—BAM—he compares the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback to a child molester.

That’s rather standard fare on Fox News.

Just when you thought you were getting the hang of 21st century lingo, viral, epic, and fail topped the list of 14 words banished by Lake Superior State University.

“Viral,” often used to describe the rapid spreading of videos or other content over the Internet, leads the list for 2011. Runners-up included “epic” and “fail,” often twinned to describe a blunder of monumental proportions.

What else? “Wow factor,” “BFF,” and the use of Facebook and Google as verbs.

File this one in the Crazy But True cabinet.

Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Saturday that it began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. the previous night. The birds fell over a 1-mile area of Beebe, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area.

Why?

New Year’s Eve revelers shooting off fireworks in the area could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.

Right. Uh huh.

GadgetLabs Most Significant Gadgets of 2010:

1. Apple iPad
2. Berkeley Bionics eLEGS
3. Microsoft Kinect
4. Windows Phone 7
5. Spint Evo 4G

Apple’s iPhone 4 and MacBook Air came in at #6 and #7, respectively.

Skype’s video calling comes to the iPhone.

• Make free Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls over 3G and WiFi.
• Share video calls on Skype with people on iPhone**, PC or Mac.
• Talk face-to-face or show what you’re seeing with front- and rear-facing cameras.

Apple’s Facetime video calling has higher quality audio and video but only works on WiFi. For now.

Did you talk about these television commercials this year?

1. The Old Spice Guy (my favorite)
2. Betty White’s Super Bowl Snickers commercial
3. Jon Hamm for Mercedes (from Mad Men)
4. Kevin Bacon for Logitech Review (Google TV)
5. Ken Jeong for Pepto Bismol
6. The Beautiful Not-Scary Seatbelt commercial
7. Conan O’Brien for American Express (my second favorite)
8. Robert Downey Jr. as the new Mr. Peanut
9. HBO’s make your own campaign
10. World’s Best Cat Litter
11. Baby Carrots “Eat them like junk food”
12. Kenny Powers for K-Swiss Tubes
13. Tiger Woods’ Father for Nike (voice from the grave)

Check out the videos.

The rock group Gorillaz recorded their new album entirely on an iPad. The apps they used?

• Speak It!
• SoundyThingie
• Mugician
• Synth
• Funk Box
• Gliss
• AmpliTube
• Xenon
• Korg iElectribe
• BS-16i
• Mellotronics M3000 HD
• Cleartune
• iOrgel HD
• Olsynth
• StudioMini XL
• BassLine
• Harmonizer
• Dub Siren Pro
• Moog Filatron

What? You don’t have those apps on your iPad? Maybe that’s why you don’t have an album.