Things that make me go Hmmm . . .

11/17/2009 09:00 AM

Agile software development

A better way to do it

11/17/2009 08:49 AM

3D Mandelbulb

The original Mandelbrot is an amazing object that has captured the public's imagination for 30 years . Check out some beautiful images as experimentors attempt 3D generation for the set

11/16/2009 08:21 AM

IGF 2009 event rattled by UN Security Office

An anti-censorship group holding an event Sunday at the United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, was disrupted by UN officials who demanded removal of a poster that mentioned Internet firewalls in China.

11/16/2009 08:15 AM

Are You a Blue Collar or White Collar Developer?

Two year Tech Schools vs Four Year programs, they dont mention self training at all.

11/16/2009 07:47 AM

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.

The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says:

11/15/2009 02:51 PM

Volcanic activity could split Africa

Volcanic activity may split the African continent in two, creating a new ocean, say experts. This is due to a recent geological crack which has appeared in northeastern Ethiopia.

11/15/2009 02:34 PM

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.

11/14/2009 09:27 AM

Don't Worry - Be Happy !!!

Man-Made (But Very Tiny) Black Holes Possible - Want to bet the farm this guy is right about there being no danger?

11/14/2009 09:21 AM

Surprise! Unknown Asteroid Buzzed Earth

A previously undiscovered asteroid came within 14,000 km (8,700 miles) of Earth last week, and astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before closest approach.

11/07/2009 11:38 AM

Nerd Kits

Ham radio in the 21st Century.

11/07/2009 11:28 AM

China bans physical punishment for Internet addicts

You mean we can't ? - The government in July had already banned electroshock therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction ...

11/07/2009 11:27 AM

More Big Brother

Sensor to detect fear pheromone - A device that can 'smell' human fear could identify terrorists during routine security checks at airports and high-profile events.
Can the "Horny" Detector be far behind?

11/07/2009 11:23 AM

Big Brother !

I have to get off this planet. Implantable RFID chip can read your mind.

11/07/2009 11:18 AM

What does Google Know about you ?

Read up on the Google dashboard. One stop for finding out

10/27/2009 03:30 PM

2012 End of Days update

Two items of agreement First, on 21/12/2012 the sun climbs to a very special place in the sky. Second, on 21/12/2012 is the end of Mayan calendar

10/27/2009 03:29 PM

You will be assimilated

We have met the Borg and they are us, check this one out to see what you will look like shortly.

10/25/2009 01:34 PM

Books on Line

Some books in the public domain are available on line, here is where you can find out more about this and the technology behind it

10/25/2009 01:24 PM

Cave on the Moon

Ever think about giving up on America and going to live in a cave? You might just have a new opportunity.

10/19/2009 09:38 AM

Resumes

How to include FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) experiance in your Resume. Notes about laying out your resume.

10/13/2009 04:32 PM

Open Source Could Save US Billions

CBC article highlights an open source system developed at McMaster University that is [0]already used by hundreds of doctors in Ontario. As one of the developers points out, 'we don't have very high-priced executives and consultants,' some of whom cost Ontario taxpayers $2,700 per day."

Report

09/22/2009 12:22 PM

Lunar Tunes

Topographic data from a laser altimeter aboard the satellite are transformed into musical intervals, which you can just enjoy or adjust to your liking.

09/13/2009 08:54 AM

How to Create Quantum Superpositions of Living Things

First photons, atoms and molecules. Now physicists want to create a quantum superposition of a virus, which will allow them to perform Schrodinger's Cat experiment for real. WikiPedia

09/13/2009 08:49 AM

Open Source Webserver

Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power

08/30/2009 09:25 AM

Computer History in Photos

I worked on some of this junk

08/30/2009 07:26 AM

The Good Enough Revolution

When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine

To some, it looks like the crapification of everything. But it's really an improvement. And businesses need to get used to it, because the Good Enough revolution has only just begun.

08/30/2009 07:22 AM

Solar Road's

Imagine a world-wide system where the "lit" half of the world is always powering the "dark" half of the world!

08/24/2009 07:34 PM

Kids, don't try this at home

Recreating the Big Bang - A formal mathematical analogy between the way metamaterials and spacetime effect light could allow scientists to recreate Big Bang events in the lab

08/20/2009 10:33 AM

Bank Robberies Revisted

Banks took in 38 Billion dollars in fee's for overdraft protection on ATM debit cards. They signed you up for this service and never told you. For what its worth, BoA hit me for 250 bucks in fees on 30 some dollars in overdrafts a while back. I called and threatened to close my accounts and they returned the fee's

08/12/2009 10:50 AM

Coming soon to a cell phone near you

Once the preserve of fictional cyborgs, now Augmented Reality (AR), as it is known, is materialising in the real world

08/12/2009 10:42 AM

There goes the neighborhood

On a cosmological timescale, The Earth’s period of habitability is nearly over

08/10/2009 11:57 AM

Like the fist of an angry god

Deep in the outer realms of our solar system, well over a billion kilometers away, something bizarre happened at Saturn’s F ring.

08/08/2009 12:11 PM

AOL replaces Print Media

AOL has been scooping up talented journalists right and left, with some 1,500 on board already – a number it expects to double or even triple over the coming year.AOL's group of verticals, currently number around 80, Media.Glow.com

08/06/2009 11:56 AM

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Eastern Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N and estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Project Kaisei - Ocean Motion

08/04/2009 01:59 PM

Microbe Strain Makes More Electricity, Faster

Microbial fuel cells, which convert fuel to electricity without combustion, consist of an electrode known as an anode that accepts electrons from the microorganisms, and another electrode known as a cathode, which transfers electrons onto oxygen. Electrons flow between the anode and the cathode to provide the current that can be harvested to power electronic devices.

08/03/2009 10:53 AM

Orbit your own spacecraft

Buy the kit, including launch services for only $8,000 USD

07/26/2009 12:27 PM

Cell Phone To Diagnose Blood Diseases

One Step Closer to the Tricorder - The same regions of the world that lack access to adequate health facilities are, paradoxically, well-served by mobile phone networks. We can take advantage of these mobile networks to bring low-cost, easy-to-use lab equipment out to more remote settings

07/26/2009 12:19 PM

EMP - The Equalizer

As if we did not have enough to worry about.All one needs to wreak some serious EMP damage, he charges, is a sea-worthy steamer, $100,000 to buy a scud-missile launcher, and a crude nuclear weapon. Then fling the device high into the air and detonate its warhead.

07/26/2009 12:08 PM

IBM applies for Canary Trap Patient

A method of tracking email dispersion through content substitution comprising:identifying a set of email receiving entities for an email dispersion;identifying textual content of an email for the email dispersion - Big Blue is Watching You

07/23/2009 04:36 PM

The Doctor Is Within

In 35 years of talking to the Dalai Lama, and covering him everywhere from Zurich to Hiroshima, as a non-Buddhist, skeptical journalist, I’ve found him to be as deeply confident, and therefore sunny, as anyone I’ve met. And I’ve begun to think that his almost visible glow does not come from any mysterious or unique source. Mysteries and rumors of his own uniqueness are two of the things that cause him most instantly to erupt into warm laughter.

07/21/2009 04:52 PM

Google Moon & Google Mars

Google is proud to announce the release of Moon in Google Earth, bringing you one step closer to understanding the experience of standing on the moon.

07/19/2009 11:00 AM

Facebook Caution

Riot police raid 30th birthday barbecue because man used Facebook to invite his friends

07/18/2009 07:20 PM

Build your own Super Computer (Render Farm)

Step by step instructions for building a 20 core super computer for around 3 thousand dollars.

07/18/2009 07:16 PM

New Optical Forces Revealed

The repulsive force that had never been demonstrated before makes this experiment of fundamental scientific importance.

07/18/2009 07:09 PM

Ten Greatest Geeks

Top 10 greatest geeks of all time - Magnificent minds that shaped the world of computing - Alan Turing may have had much more to offer the world but after being outed and then persecuted for his homosexuality he committed suicide in 1954. Had he lived the computer could have been completely different today.

07/18/2009 07:06 PM

Space Wallpaper

Downloadable images for PC wallpaper based on images from space

07/18/2009 04:28 PM

The Inhale-Exhale Diet

Genetic alterations enable mice to convert fat into carbon dioxide and remain lean while eating the equivalent of a fast-food diet.

07/18/2009 03:54 PM

Cure for radiation sickness found?

Gudkov's discovery may also have immense implications for cancer patients by enabling doctors to better protect patients against radiation. Should the new medication enable cancer patients to be treated with more powerful radiation, our ability to fight the disease could greatly improve.

07/16/2009 01:20 PM

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07/15/2009 05:54 PM

Official IDs Raise Privacy Fears

Embedding identity documents — passports, drivers licenses, and the like — with RFID chips is a no-brainer to government officials . . . resulting in something privacy advocates had feared for years: That RFID, coupled with other technologies, could make people trackable without their knowledge or consent.

07/15/2009 04:47 PM

NASA - Plan to Crash Space Station in 2016

A number of times in recent weeks a bright, unblinking light has appeared in the night sky of the nation's capital: a spaceship. Longer than a football field, weighing 654,000 pounds, the spaceship moved swiftly across the heavens and vanished.

07/15/2009 10:24 AM

SpaceX Launch Successfully Delivers Satellite Into Orbit

SpaceX launched a Malaysian satellite into orbit late Monday night, the second successful launch for the private space exploration company, which aims to cut the cost of orbital transport tenfold.

07/15/2009 09:36 AM

Master of the Universe

Remember the Knicks making it to the finals in 1999? That was me. The blizzard of 2006? I just felt like it. Barack Obama being elected president? You’re welcome.

07/09/2009 12:07 PM

More on Privacy

In a ruling that could fuel debate about online privacy, a federal judge in Seattle has held that IP addresses are not personal information.

07/09/2009 12:03 PM

Another Loss of Privacy

Growing Presence in the Courtroom: Cellphone Data as Witness

06/07/2009 12:12 PM

Build your own UAV

Always wanted your own Predator Drone with Hellfire missile ? This is a site for all things about amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): How-to's, videos, discussion and more

More 16 hour endurance / 65 lb Payload -

06/07/2009 11:49 AM

Software Development, an Art not a Science

From Dr. Dobbs Journal - But software engineering is where the rubber meets the road. Few people care whether P equals NP just for the beauty of the question. The computer field is about doing things with computers. This means writing software to solve human problems, and running that software on real machines

06/06/2009 04:58 PM

Global Collectivist Society

The frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the time, is quietly giving rise to a revised version of socialism.

06/06/2009 11:08 AM

What is string theory good for ?

STRING theory: you love it or loathe it. To some it represents our best hope for a route to a "theory of everything"; others portray it as anything from a mathematically obtuse minefield to a quasi-religion that has precious little to do with science.

06/05/2009 01:21 PM

Lets hear it for George W's Stem Cell Policies

Stem cells used to restore sight for corneal disease sufferers. Although the novel technique was used to reverse blinding corneal disease, it promises to be a quick, painless and cheap treatment for other visual disorders. It may even be useful for repairing damaged skin, the researchers reported today in the journal Transplantation.

06/05/2009 01:17 PM

Web tablet nearly ready for launch?

The CrunchPad is a linux-based touchscreen tablet using a browser-based UI. When you turn the unit on, it boots right into the webkit-based browser. There's a pop-up virtual keyboard for entering URLs and such (you wouldn't want to do any significant typing on it) and scrolling is via swiping the screen. When Arrington first visualized the project he was shooting for a $200 price point

06/05/2009 01:11 PM

Administrators Deny Paitient Care

Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis turned away patients in ambulances for two hours Tuesday morning, according to an article in the Indianapolis Star. Why? Because a power surge blew out their computers, which house their electronic health records (EHRs), and after half a day or so the backlog on their paperwork was intolerable.

06/03/2009 11:52 PM

Coffee Health Benefits

Coffee consumption may reduce the risk of Parkinson’s, type 2 diabetes, several types of cancer, suicide and some mood disorders, gallstones, liver cirrhosis and even cavities.

05/27/2009 05:35 PM

Lest we forget

Monday, Mar. 09, 1959 - The Reluctant Refugee - When he took a good look at the results of last November's Democratic landslide, Michigan Farmer Stanley Yankus Jr. decided to give up his five-year battle against federal crop controls. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,825647,00.html

05/26/2009 02:45 PM

Plugging In $40 Computers

What would you do with a $40 Linux computer the size of a three-prong plug adapter? Slashdot - http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/24/1918217&tid=222 PogoPlug - http://www.pogoplug.com/ Marvell Plug Computing Partners - https://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/plugpartners.jsp

05/26/2009 10:39 AM

Terrorism for Fun and Profit. Build your own UAV

This board comes with a dsPIC30F4011 CPU, an MMA7260 three axis accelerometer and 3 ADXRS401 gyros already soldered as shown in the picture.

05/26/2009 10:21 AM

Mars robots destroyed evidence of life

Mars landers destroying signs of life? Instead of identifying chemicals that could point to life, NASA's robot explorers may have been toasting them by mistake.

05/25/2009 04:50 PM

Citizen Spies, or why the internet makes official hair catch fire

Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide: Citizen Spies Lift North Korea's Veil With Sleuthing and Satellite Images, Mr. Melvin Fills the Blanks on a Secretive Nation's Map

05/25/2009 04:42 PM

The Case for working with your hands

As a graduate of a vocational training high school this makes sens to me,

05/22/2009 02:51 PM

Counting Down to the End of Moore’s Law

“We’re looking at a brick wall five years down the road,” Eli Harari, the chief executive of SanDisk, said to me earlier this week.

05/17/2009 02:34 PM

Common Ancestor of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

A leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

04/12/2009 10:30 AM

Wrong on so many levels

7 Civilian Uses for Nuclear Bombs

04/11/2009 11:58 AM

Home Page Messaging: How Clear is Yours?

The Po!nt: Don't assume they know you. Apply the "tier" test to your home page to help ensure you're getting your corporate message out there loud and clear.

04/11/2009 11:42 AM

How Low Can It Go? Sun Plunges Into The Quietest Solar Minimum In A Century

The year 2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year's 366 days (73 percent). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days.

04/11/2009 11:32 AM

Keeping Up With Being Kept

They’re not searching for longtime soul mates; they want no-strings-attached “arrangements” that trade in society’s most valued currencies: wealth, youth and beauty. In the cheesy lexicon of the site, they are “sugar daddies” and “sugar babies.”

04/11/2009 11:16 AM

Sweden targets strippers for tax

Sweden's tax authorities are seeking the bare facts about webcam strippers' income, estimating that hundreds of Swedish women are dodging the law.

04/10/2009 10:29 AM

Chimpanzees exchange meat for sex

Male chimps that are willing to share the proceeds of their hunting expeditions mate twice as often as their more selfish counterparts.

03/21/2009 12:01 PM

Crawling the Web to Foretell Ecosystem Collapse

By trawling scientific list-serves, Chinese fish market websites, and local news sources, ecologists think they can use human beings as sensors by mining their communications.