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NASA Leader :: What, Me Worry?
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/science /earth/01griffin.html?_r=1&oref=login&ref =science&pagewanted=print http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/science /earth/01griffin.html?_r=1&oref=login&ref =science&pagewanted=print NASA Lead er: Who Says Warming Is a Problem? By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, May 31 (AP) ? The head of NASA said he was not sure global warming was a problem and added that it would be ?arrogant? to assume the world?s climate should not change in the future. Scientists called the remarks ignorant. ?I have no doubt that global ? that a trend of global warming exists,? the administrator of NASA, Michael Griffin, said in a taped interview that was broadcast Thursday on National Public Radio. ?I am not sure that it is fair to say that is a problem we must wrestle with.? ?I would ask which human beings, where and when, are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now, is the best climate for all other hu...
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This Modern World :: What we have wrought
2007-06-14 00:00:00
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/art icles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=4 60077&in_page_id=1811 Watch what happens when globalization brings industrialization to the rest of the world: How does that make you feel to get that cheap shirt, that cheap toy for your kid, a great deal on jeans. This is what you have done.
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Going on Safari in your Windowed World
2007-06-13 00:00:00
http://www.apple.com/safari/ I'm not sure I understand this move, it may just be a play to make sure that developers for the iPhone have something to create their apps on since many good programmers till refuse to get a Mac. I've converted a few, but it is a tough sell... When I asked the Apple folks why they thought it was a good idea to make a competitor to FireFox they just shrugged... grrr...
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Surface Surfaces part 2
2007-06-13 00:00:00
http://coolass.com/index.php?title=surfac e_surfaces_then_sinks&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb= 1 Well I have to admit, I am a bit excited, I'll get to see Microsoft demo the Surface device in July...
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The G-Shot, G-Spot Renewed
2007-06-07 00:00:00
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi ?f=/c/a/2007/06/03/LVG2QQ3F6J1.DTL Oh my go, we've been wasting so much time! Why didn't we think of this sooner... Oh wait... wtf, where is the viagra for women? Karen Roberts scheduled an appointment with her plastic surgeon at the end of a long day. The 22-year-old student at Solano Community College attended morning classes, caught up with homework and took her 4-year-old daughter to a matinee. By 4 p.m. she sat inside Dr. Justin Salerno's office, readying to become the surgeon's first patient to receive an injection called a G-Shot , also known as G-spot Amplification. With a 3 1/2-inch needle, Salerno would pump a small dose of collagen into his patient's Grafenberg Spot and make it swell to the size of a quarter. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi ?f=/c/a/2007/06/03/LVG2QQ3F6J1.DTL
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Vote For Coolass on Threadless
2007-06-07 00:00:00
http://threadless.com/?from=coolass
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Google buys Feedburner
2007-06-07 00:00:00
In a giddy, Googl e -esque statement, he wrote: "Unlike the rumor that FeedBurn er is nearly code-complete on a multiplayer Wii edition, the blog posts, phone calls and conjecture about our future as part of the Google family tree are now officially true. FeedBurner has been acquired by Google. The local weather forecast calls for general euphoria with intermittent periods of off-the-rails delight." In a press conference Friday afternoon, Costolo and Susan Wojcicki, vice president of advertising product management at Google in Mountainview, Calif., declined to disclose details on the deal, rumored to be $100 million.
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NASA Leader :: What, Me Worry?
2007-06-07 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/science /earth/01griffin.html?_r=1&oref=login&ref =science&pagewanted=print http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/science /earth/01griffin.html?_r=1&oref=login&ref =science&pagewanted=print NASA Lead er: Who Says Warming Is a Problem? By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, May 31 (AP) ? The head of NASA said he was not sure global warming was a problem and added that it would be ?arrogant? to assume the world?s climate should not change in the future. Scientists called the remarks ignorant. ?I have no doubt that global ? that a trend of global warming exists,? the administrator of NASA, Michael Griffin, said in a taped interview that was broadcast Thursday on National Public Radio. ?I am not sure that it is fair to say that is a problem we must wrestle with.? ?I would ask which human beings, where and when, are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now, is the best climate for all other hu...
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5 Types of Black Holes
2007-06-01 00:00:00
http://www.nmg-uk.com/blog/black-holes/10 -things-you-didnt-know-about-black-holes. htm There are 5 categories for black holes which are: Supermassive black holes: These behemoths are believed to exist at the center of all solar systems (including ours!), and contain millions to billions of solar masses (1 solar mass = the mass of our sun!). Intermediate-mass black holes: At only thousands of solar masses, these black holes are thought to be the power behind X-Rays. Stellar-mass black holes: Ranging from only 1.44 to 15 solar masses, these black holes are created by the smallest stars that are capable of forming black holes. Micro black holes: With the mass of a helium atom, these babies are nothing to worry about?unless you are within 100million miles of one! http://www.nmg-uk.com/blog/black-holes/10 -things-you-didnt-know-about-black-holes. htm
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Wind Blows as Steel Goes
2007-06-01 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/nyregio n/22wind.html?pagewanted=print Yet in the past few months, a different sight has emerged on the 2.2-mile shoreline above a labyrinth of pipes, blackened buildings and crumbling coke ovens that was once home to a behemoth Bethlehem Steel plant: eight gleaming white windmills with 153-foot blades slowly turning in the wind off Lake Erie, on a former Superfund site where iron and steel slag and other industrial waste were dumped during 80 years of production. ?It?s changing the image of the city of Lackawanna,? said Norman L. Polanski Jr., the city?s mayor and a former Bethlehem worker who lost his job when the company stopped making steel here in 1983. ?We were the old Rust Belt, with all the negatives. Right now, we are progressive and we are leading the way on the waterfront.? Christine Real de Azua, of the American Wind Energy Association, said Steel Winds, as this wind farm is known, is the largest to rise in a city, and according to th...
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Surface Surfaces then sinks
2007-06-01 00:00:00
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Microsoft detailed its new Surface computing table. It has some interesting twists on the ill promoted tablet PC OS with an added dash of Pizzeria Space Invaders table game technology. Very boring, and a little silly. I could see some interesting applications coming down the pike, though Microsoft will have to apy me to get them.
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Barack's Myspace
2007-05-28 00:00:00
http://www.myspace.com/barackobama "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America." -Senator Barack Obama Become a friend today!! http://www.myspace.com/barackobama
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Ebay Profits Jump
2007-05-28 00:00:00
I may get a profit out of my Ebay stock yet!! From NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/technol ogy/19ebay.html EBay posted better-than-expected profit in the first quarter as several of its newer businesses compensated for disappointing results in its mainstay auction service. The faster-growing units include shopping.com, a price comparison site; some classified listing sites; a service to let online merchants accept credit cards; and Skype, the online voice chat service. ?We are on track with our well-crafted portfolio,? Meg Whitman, eBay?s chief executive, said in an interview after the earnings report yesterday.
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SilverLight is Shit
2007-05-28 00:00:00
http://channel9.msdn.com/playground/wpfe/ PageTurn/default.html They've got a long way to go to catch up to Flash. This page turn is a 3 year old idea... Dreadful.
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Kurt Vonnegut Dies :: Loss of another shining beacon
2007-05-28 00:00:00
A writing hero of mine, Kurt Vonnegut passed away. His books filled my teen years with enjoyment and wonder. I hang my head low, for the kids today will need him now as much as I did then. ?And I say to Sam now: ?Sam?here?s the book.? It?s so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like ?Poo-tee-weet?? ?Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two horses. The wagon was green and coffin shaped. Birds were talking. One bird said to Billy Pilgrim. ?Poo-tee-weet???
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Twitter
2007-05-28 00:00:00
http://www.twitter.com WTF? I still don't get it. What is this twitter thing for? What is it? Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives. Friends near or far can use Twitter to remain somewhat close while far away. Curious people can make friends. Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool. Developers can use the API to make Twitter tools of their own. Possibilities are endless! Ok... so how does it work? You can send updates in three ways: send a text message from your mobile phone, type a message from the Twitter site, or instant message from AIM, Jabber or Gtalk. Start by texting the word help to 40404 if you're in the United States. For international Twitters, use +44 7781 488126. If you're from Canada or Australia-- we have different numbers. Write us and we'll give you yours. What is 40404? 40404 is the number you send your Twitter updates to if you're in the United States (US...

BBC Documentary :: Jeff Buckley
2007-05-28 00:00:00
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9 101158322649801083
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Drobo Cop
2007-05-28 00:00:00
http://www.drobo.com/products.aspx Expandable RAID storage made simple: The DROBO is a cute little drive tray that automatically configures itself after drives have been added. Pretty cool Fully automated storage you don't have to manage. Chances are, you get passionate about creating or collecting digital content, not about managing the storage where it lives. For you we've created Drobo, the first robotic storage device that takes the pain out of keeping your content safe. Drobo guards everything on it. Drobo combines up to four hard drives into a big pool of protected storage. Start with two, grow to four, then upsize smaller drives?get Terabytes of protection. Drobo upgrades capacity on-the-fly. Add drives to Drobo at any time. Mix 'n match capacities, brands or speeds. No downtime, data migration, or waiting to access new capacity. Drobo works the way you do. Drobo lets you "pay as you grow" Hard drives get bigger and cheaper all the time. Don't ...
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EMI to go DRM free?
2007-05-28 00:00:00
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/2007 0401-emi-to-announced-drm-free-plans-tomo rrow-reports.html EMI will announce on Monday that it will be freeing much of its catalog from the shackles of DRM. The Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter," reports (sub. required) that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be present at the announcement in London and that the music will be sold through the iTunes Store and possibly other online outlets. Related Stories * EMI to Apple, Microsoft: Ditching DRM is going to cost you * Making money selling music without DRM: the rise of eMusic * Musicload: 75% of customer service problems caused by DRM * Testing DRM-free waters: EMI selling a few MP3s through Yahoo Music The news comes less than two months after Apple published Steve Jobs' famous open letter on the issue of DRM. In his missive, Jobs laid the blame for the DRM mess squarely at the feet of the music industry and said that he would gladly sell unprotected musi...
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Google April Fools
2007-05-28 00:00:00
TiSP: Going with the flow TiSP Kit Googl e TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines. Installing TiSP Installing a typical home TiSP system is a quick, easy and largely sanitary process -- provided you follow these step-by-step instructions very, very carefully. #1 Remove the spindle of fiber-optic cable from your TiSP installation kit. #2 Attach the sinker to the loose end of the cable, take one safe step backward and drop this weighted end into your toilet. #3 Grasp both ends of the spindle firmly while a friend or loved one flushes, thus activating the patented GFlush? system, which sends the weighted cable surfing through the plumbing system to one of the thousands of TiSP Access Nodes. #4 When the GFlush is complete, the spindle will (or at least sh...
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Veiled Threat From Radio Rays!
2007-05-28 00:00:00
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/fem ail/article.html?in_article_id=450995&in_ page_id=1879 Tinfoil on her walls and a metal veil keep this fine lass from getting irradiated by all of the electrical waves in the air. Last time someone came to visit," she warns, "I started feeling awfully nauseous. It turned out he had a picture phone with him and had left it switched on. A picture phone!" She pauses, looking genuinely horrified. Apparently, this type of mobile automatically sends signals to a local base station every nine minutes - "No wonder I felt so sick http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/fem ail/article.html?in_article_id=450995&in_ page_id=1879
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Bill Wyman Signature Metal Detector
2007-05-28 00:00:00
http://www.billwymandetector.com/signatur e.html I got this from the News of the Weird blog, and it is a bit weird... but you gotta love a guy who is bizarrely rich and still publicizes and shares his passions. ?My Bill Wyman Signature Detector is lightweight, easy to use and affordable ? yet has significant performance levels. It is the ideal metal detector for anyone starting out treasure hunting? Bill W yman, Musician, former Rolling Stones bassist, keen amateur historian and authority on metal detecting The Bill Wyman Signature Detector is a lightweight treasure finding Instrument ideal for newcomers to detecting of all ages - incorporating all the latest developments in location technology. It is child?s play to use and you don?t have to worry about technical controls.
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24hrs of Flickr
2007-05-28 00:00:00
Its coming! 24 Hours of Flick r ? A global Flickr community event What happens around the world in one day? In a word ? life. Here on Flickr, photographers are sharing what they see: snapping daily moments, recording history, telling stories, capturing beauty. To celebrate this global community, we invite you to join us in "24 Hours of Flickr" ? a day-long global photo project. On May 5, 2007, grab your camera and whatever else you need, and chronicle your day in pictures. The group's photos will be featured at Flickr events around the world this summer and in a companion book, which will contain a selection of photographs chosen from the group (more about this soon!). Join the "24 Hours of Flickr" group to get ready for the big day!

Flowery Urinals
2007-05-28 00:00:00
http://www.clarkmade.com/show.html Clark Sorensen has created some of the most amazing and beautiful urinals one is likely to ever see. Each is meticulously hand built and one of a kind - formed from high fire porcelain and fired to cone 10 (2300 deg.). They are fully functioning vitreous porcelain fixtures that can actually be plumbed and used in a bathroom or simply displayed. The show even contains three functioning urinals that you may flush! Clark hopes that his urinals will be put to use in uniquely designed bathrooms around the world. He has a gorgeous Calla Lily urinal in his studio from a previous show that is plumbed and fully functioning. http://www.clarkmade.com/show.html
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iGASM
2007-05-28 00:00:00
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/a rticle_1309375.php/Apple_not_reaching_iGa sm_climax Apple is a little pissed about their fabu product getting mixed up with the sex trade. i dunno, seems like a fine little accessory. Specifically, Ann Summers has released an iPod-compatible vibrating sex aid, the iGasm, which, while certainly questionable in terms of naming, is employing an advertising campaign that closely resembles the dancing silhouette commercials used so successfully by Apple?s iconic iPod. In the case of the iGasm, one ad image shows a white trailing lead from the iGasm clearly disappearing beneath the invisible underwear line of a provocatively silhouetted female, while another lead runs to a pair of head phones. It?s all VERY iPod. ?Load up your iPod with killa choons and take your appreciation of music to a whole new level,? exclaims the official iGasm product page on the Ann Summers Web site. ?Go at it hard and fast with a pounding drum 'n' bass track or chill w...

Shutitoff.com kill your television
2007-05-28 00:00:00
http://www.shutitoff.com/ Shutitoff.com has an interesting selection of books on its home page, all about silence and spirituality. The world has become so filled with bips and bleeps its hard to think what it would be like without them. Maybe I'll take that leap, get back to the garden, live off the grid, and shut it off. http://www.shutitoff.com/
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Flowery Urinals
2007-05-19 00:00:00
http://www.clarkmade.com/show.html Clark Sorensen has created some of the most amazing and beautiful urinals one is likely to ever see. Each is meticulously hand built and one of a kind - formed from high fire porcelain and fired to cone 10 (2300 deg.). They are fully functioning vitreous porcelain fixtures that can actually be plumbed and used in a bathroom or simply displayed. The show even contains three functioning urinals that you may flush! Clark hopes that his urinals will be put to use in uniquely designed bathrooms around the world. He has a gorgeous Calla Lily urinal in his studio from a previous show that is plumbed and fully functioning. http://www.clarkmade.com/show.html
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24hrs of Flickr
2007-05-19 00:00:00
Its coming! 24 Hours of Flick r ? A global Flickr community event What happens around the world in one day? In a word ? life. Here on Flickr, photographers are sharing what they see: snapping daily moments, recording history, telling stories, capturing beauty. To celebrate this global community, we invite you to join us in "24 Hours of Flickr" ? a day-long global photo project. On May 5, 2007, grab your camera and whatever else you need, and chronicle your day in pictures. The group's photos will be featured at Flickr events around the world this summer and in a companion book, which will contain a selection of photographs chosen from the group (more about this soon!). Join the "24 Hours of Flickr" group to get ready for the big day!

Bill Wyman Signature Metal Detector
2007-05-19 00:00:00
http://www.billwymandetector.com/signatur e.html I got this from the News of the Weird blog, and it is a bit weird... but you gotta love a guy who is bizarrely rich and still publicizes and shares his passions. ?My Bill Wyman Sign ature Detector is lightweight, easy to use and affordable ? yet has significant performance levels. It is the ideal metal detector for anyone starting out treasure hunting? Bill Wyman, Musician, former Rolling Stones bassist, keen amateur historian and authority on metal detecting The Bill Wyman Signature Detector is a lightweight treasure finding Instrument ideal for newcomers to detecting of all ages - incorporating all the latest developments in location technology. It is child?s play to use and you don?t have to worry about technical controls.
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Veiled Threat From Radio Rays!
2007-05-19 00:00:00
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/fem ail/article.html?in_article_id=450995&in_ page_id=1879 Tinfoil on her walls and a metal veil keep this fine lass from getting irradiated by all of the electrical waves in the air. Last time someone came to visit," she warns, "I started feeling awfully nauseous. It turned out he had a picture phone with him and had left it switched on. A picture phone!" She pauses, looking genuinely horrified. Apparently, this type of mobile automatically sends signals to a local base station every nine minutes - "No wonder I felt so sick http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/fem ail/article.html?in_article_id=450995&in_ page_id=1879
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