A message for those of you with no iPhone or BlackBerry: Your cellphone is smarter than you think.
In fact, your boring old cellphone has enormous potential. Here is a guide to checking your email, looking up information and updating your calendar, just by sending text messages. You can use any cellphone, but you’ll need a […]
Many scientists, including Allen and Sherwood, have long argued that temperature data were flawed for many reasons such as the change of instrument design over the years. “These systems were never designed for measuring climate change,” said Sherwood. However, some global warming skeptics had argued that weather balloon temperatures were accurate—and models that predicted global […]
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind […]
The demonstrated software was more or less the same demos we saw with Surface—photo scaling, finger painting, splashing about in water—along with a Virtual Earth/Google Earth-style mapping program. And that’s the extent of it. That’s all that was demonstrated. The demoed software appeared to have a new taskbar, but no details on this were forthcoming; […]
The real winners are countries that can export and generate cash in excess of what they need domestically. So countries such as Venezuela, Indonesia and Nigeria might benefit from higher prices, but they absorb all the wealth that is transferred to them. Countries such as Saudi Arabia do not need to use so much of […]
ABERDEEN, Scotland, May 22, 2008 (ENS) - Britain’s Queen Elizabeth is investing in the world’s largest offshore wind turbine and also in the development of offshore windfarms in Scottish waters, her property company The Crown Estate announced on Wednesday.
On April 17, The Crown Estate signed an agreement to purchase a prototype of the world’s largest […]
Until now, the accepted view had been that our anomalously large Moon had always been a lone wolf. It is believed to have formed some 4.4 billion years ago in the aftermath of a chance encounter between a Mars-sized planetary embryo and our early Earth.
But the paper’s co-authors, planetary scientists Jack Lissauer, at NASA Ames […]
She’s perfectly quiet, but once you sit or lie down, she responds to
your every move. Lie on your back, she snuggles up right next to you in
a log position. Curl up in the fetal position, she spoons. The only
hitch: She’s 2-D. “Yeah, you can’t feel the girl. That’s the thing,”
Burrows explained.
When asked how long he’d […]
What drives me up the latest tree is the incredibly egoistic idea that I might want to listen to your choice of badly-transmitted “music” while your bloody mobile phone rings. It’s bad enough I have to listen to the stupid robot if you don’t pick up. Why should I have to listen to some bullshit […]
Dear Readers,
I’ve just started a new blog, The Last Thing I Would Have Expected, dealing with addiction and recovery issues (with a strong 12-step slant). If you, or anyone you know, is in recovery, interested, or in need of it, I’d appreciate your passing the information on.
I don’t “pimp” my blogs in the […]
In the two weeks since the cyclone hit, the junta has allowed in a modest amount of supplies from a number of nations, but relief workers say it is far short of what they need to fend off starvation and disease. The United Nations says only 20 percent of the survivors have received even “rudimentary […]
Genital application of talcum powder and use of talc on products such as condoms can lead to a 30-60% increase in the risk of ovarian cancer. Use cornstarch.
Talcum Powder Can Provoke Deadly Ovarian Cancer
The square academic cap, very commonly called a mortarboard (from the French mortier, a type of toque) or Oxford cap, is an item of academic headgear consisting of a horizontal square board fixed upon a skull-cap, with a tassel, or liripipe, attached to the centre. In the UK and the U.S., it is commonly referred […]
By now you have probably heard of hypermiling and the 50-90 mpg exploits of Wayne Gerdes. If you haven’t, hypermiling is a set of techniques and practices that seek to maximize a vehicle’s fuel efficiency through careful and calculated driving.
What this means to the average motorist is that you must alternate between driving like my […]
Modern nomads carry almost no paper because they access their documents on their laptop computers, mobile phones or online. Increasingly, they don’t even bring laptops. Many engineers at Google, the leading internet company and a magnet for nomads, travel with only a BlackBerry, iPhone or other “smart phone”. If ever the need arises for a […]
I ended up at Best Buy, and got a 22″ LCD (with zero dead/stuck pixels) for $229. Picture’s bright and gorgeous, excellent text clarity, good contrast (1000+/1) so photos look good, etc.
The big surprise to me was the brand: Fred Langa: What comes next?: an old brand returns to high tech
“Rock star physicist” Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive project.
TED | Talks | Brian Cox: What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider (video)
Cult books include some of the most cringemaking collections of bilge ever collected between hard covers. But they also include many of the key texts of modern feminism; some of the best journalism and memoirs; some of the most entrancing and original novels in the canon.
50 best cult books - Telegraph
Electronics obsolescence—also known as DMSMS, for
diminishing manufacturing sources and material
shortages—is a huge problem for designers who build
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