Seth Godin has a classic Seth post on voting this morning. Give it a read if you can before you vote. Not that it will change the way you vote. But it will make you feel better about voting. It sure... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 11:05 am
This Saturday I'm putting on my traveler's hat and heading for San Jose, California, for the Microsoft Officer's Conference, 2008. Here's a page on the reasons people attend:-Take a deep dive into the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 10:48 am
mytrip and other readers alerted us to news that the FBI is about to announce the awarding of a $1B, 10-year contract to expand its fingerprint database to incorporate other biometrics — palm prints, iris scans, scars, tattoos, possibly facial shape — "Whatever the biometric that comes down the road, we need to be able to plug that in and play," an FBI spokesman is quoted. Barry Steinhardt of the ACLU sounded the cautionary note: "This had started out being a program to track or identify criminals. Now we're talking about large swaths of the population — workers, volunteers in youth programs. Eventually, it's going to be everybody."
On the UK's Guardian newspaper site today, writer Jemina Kiss suggested that Web 3.0 will be about recommendation. "If web 2.0 could be summarized as interaction, web 3.0 must be about recommendation... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
Add To Your Site: We couldn’t quite get our hands on the LG Watch Phone concept (and they were stopping all non-press individuals from even... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 9:53 am
By Andrew Liszewski Music can be a great motivator when exercising, but some songs are better suited for it than others. So while you can use any MP3 player when you head out for a jog, the BODiBEAT from... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 9:47 am
This is a guest post by Aseem Kishore, a technology enthusiast and lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips . The US podcasting market has steadily been increasing in size over the last couple of years... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 9:46 am
While there are plenty of top ten lists on the Net reporting the popularity of Super Bowl commercials, TiVo has an actual way of gauging which of the exact spots are literally watched the most... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 9:25 am
While there are plenty of top ten lists on the Net reporting the popularity of Superbowl commercials, TiVo has an actual way of gauging which of the exact spots are literally watched the most by... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 9:25 am
Add To Your Site: Etymotic is out with some new earphones this time around at CES . Developed specifically for gamers, the EDGE (an acronym... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 9:11 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Health authorities in Pakistan are doing tests on 12 workers from a farm where the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus was detected in poultry, a Health Ministry spokesman said Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 9:02 am
A picture of a cell phone recharging center in Uganda, sent in by Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net Heres a photo of a mobile charging kiosk in Kampala (this guy also seems to double-up as... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 9:02 am
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo Inc. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:42 am
By Ashlee Clark and Halimah Abdullah, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. Feb. 5--The Department of Defense has added $47 million for the destruction of chemical weapons at Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond and its sister plant in Colorado to President Bush's proposed fiscal 2009 budget. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By WILL JONES Henrico County risks paying top dollar for land because officials are reluctant to use government authority to force owners to sell, an independent commission has concluded. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ["Wen Delivers New Year Speech at Grand Spring Festival Gathering" - Xinhua headline] Beijing, Feb. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The Water's Edge receives 'best of' award The Water's Edge (above) was named in the best Lake Living category of the "Mountain Homes, Southern Style" Winter 2008 issue. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Tony Sapochetti, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill. Feb. 5--PONTIAC -- The city of Pontiac is still waiting to hear whether President Bush will declare the community a federal disaster area as a result of the flooding early last month. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Mike Gangloff A development company's challenge to Appalachian Power Co.'s right to regulate docks on Leesville Lake ended this week with a federal ruling in Appalachian's favor. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Neil Harvey Beach fest! Head to the beach -- in February, no less -- without leaving the valley: Winterfest Beach Bash is Feb. 1 at 6 p.m. at the Salem Civic Center. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
PUBLIC ADVISORY In accordance with the Georgia Erosion and Sedimentation Act (O.C.G.A. 12-7-1 et. seq.) and the Erosion and Sedimentation Control Chapter 391-3-7, the Columbia County Water Utility has requested a variance to encroach within the 25-foot state waters buffer. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Recreation official addresses SML Lions Scott Martin (right), director of Commerce and Leisure Services for Franklin County, spoke about commerce and recreational facilities in Franklin County at the Jan. 24 meeting of the SML Lions Club. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By JIM NOLAN Senate Democrats yesterday put the brakes on a bill Gov. Timothy M. Kaine had proposed to double the time between motor vehicle safety inspections to two years. At the request of Sen. Mamie E. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced that it has won a two-phase turnkey contract to implement microwave and optical transmission solutions for M1, one of Singapore's leading mobile communications providers. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Pris Sears sears@vt.edu I must be the luckiest person in Virginia. Why, just this month I have won 2 million pounds sterling in the UK Coventry lottery, 300,000 pounds sterling in the UK Lotto and 450,000 pounds sterling from the Heineken Worldwide Lottery. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Masami Mustaza DON'T be fooled by its looks. If you thought that the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet is Nokia's answer to Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP), you're way off. By a long shot. The N800 is more of a personal digital assistant (PDA) than a mobile phone. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Presidential race In South Carolina, Barack Obama topped the field in the Democratic Primary on Saturday with 55 percent of the votes. Hillary Clinton was second with 27 percent of the vote, and John Edwards was third with 18 percent. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Lisa Kaylor Little Red Riding Hood, along with her sidekick, B.B. Wolf, will teach children the history of rock 'n' roll Feb. 8 at Grace United Methodist Church. Rockin' Red Riding Hood is a musical geared toward children in the fifth grade and younger. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Sarah Day Owen Editor's Note: This is the first of a three-part series that takes a look at teen relationships. Shylae Stringer, 17, text-messages on her cell phone about 100 times each day. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Comments made in this release are those of Maybach Financial Group and any questions or comments should be directed to the contact information located at the bottom of this release. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Intel Corp. has built a new chip packed with a record 2 billion transistors, more than doubling the processing power of a line of its chips for supercomputers, the company said Monday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Joshua Lederberg, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering that bacteria could have sex, thereby establishing the foundation of modern genetics and biotechnology, died of pneumonia Saturday in New York City.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
I'm still on paternity leave, but a couple of matters have come up that are too important to wait (important enough to blog while my daughter naps on my chest!). Here's one from the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' workshop, on whose Board I sit (I'm also a graduate and a former instructor):
Applications are now being accepted for the 2008 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop at U.C. San Diego. Established in 1968 by Robin Scott Wilson, Kate Wilhelm, and Damon Knight, Clarion is the oldest workshop of its kind and is widely recognized as a premier proving and training ground for aspiring writers of fantasy and science fiction. The 2008 workshop will take p lace from June 29 to August 9 on the UCSD campus. This year's faculty features Kelly Link, James Patrick Kelly, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Neil Gaiman, Nalo Hopkinson, and Geoff Ryman. Scholarship aid is available. Deadline for applications is March 1. For further details, please see our website.
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - India's worst outbreak of bird flu appears to be under control, with a massive cull of poultry to contain the disease almost completed, health officials said on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 7:57 am
I'm still on paternity leave, but a couple of matters have come up that are too important to wait (important enough to blog while my daughter naps on my chest!). Here's one from Michael Geist:
The fight over the Canadian DMCA is heating up as the Industry Minister
Jim Prentice prepares to introduce one-sided, dangerous copyright
legislation despite thousands of letters and protests against the bill.
Nearly 40,000 people have joined the Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook
group to fight the bill, but lobby groups and the U.S. government are
responding with misleading opinion pieces and behind the scenes lobbying.
Stony Stevenson writes "Microsoft claims that a small group led by a recently jailed Taiwanese man was the source of almost all high-quality pirated copies of its software up until his arrest in 2004. The claim suggests that Microsoft practically wiped out commercial piracy of its products with the arrest of Huang Jer-sheng, the owner of Taiwan-based software distributor Maximus Technology. Microsoft announced today that Huang and his associates. who were all recently sentenced to jail time, had been responsible for the 'production and distribution of more than 90 percent of the high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products either seized by law enforcement or test-purchased around the world.'"
A leading charity is to increase spending on medical research by 60% to 4 billion over the next five years. The Wellcome Trust, already at the forefront of human... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 7:26 am
Japanese stocks fell Tuesday as several companies, including camera maker Olympus, posted poor earnings forecasts for the financial year. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 7:16 am
A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 will become the first commercial aircraft to fly on biofuel, later this month, in an historic flight from London to Amsterdam.
Although no passengers will be on board, the contents of the plane's gas tank will have everyone in the airline industry watching. (...)
Airline industry officials, environmentalists and energy companies all have a huge interest in the future of air travel as it pertains to fuel consumption, carbon emissions and global warming.
From the business perspective, the airlines are under great financial pressure because of soaring fuel costs; the price of crude oil is consistently flirting with $100 per barrel. On the environmental side of things, aircraft represent up to 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions produced by the U.S. transportation sector, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Additionally, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, greenhouse gas emissions from domestic aircraft are expected to increase 60 percent by 2025. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that increases in air transportation over the next 50 years will result in a threefold increase in aircraft CO{-2} emissions and a 13 percent increase in ozone.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Three global record companies have launched legal proceedings against China's top Internet search engine Baidu.com Inc, accusing it of violating copyright by giving... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 6:59 am
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker, started to roll-out its online gaming service N-Gage on Tuesday as it expands into mobile Internet services. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 6:35 am
OR YEHUDA, Israel, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. (Nasdaq: MGIC), a leading provider of business application development, deployment and Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 6:00 am
CARY, N.C. and ST. LOUIS, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- R.H. Donnelley Corporation (NYSE: RHD), one of the nation's leading Yellow Pages and online local... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 6:00 am
CAMPBELL, Calif., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- High tech PR agency Walt & Company ( href="http://www.walt.com">http://www.walt.com ) today announced that it has been... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 6:00 am
NEW YORK, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Camlink.com announced today the beta launch of its pioneering online platform designed to link singles together through live speed dating Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 6:00 am
Howard Rheingold points us to an event taking place this weekend in Los Angeles, "24/7: A DIY Video Summit." He explains:
The event is an effort to
bring together the various academic, technology, and creative
communities that have a stake in the evolution of the amateur and
DIY video space. Specifically, the effort is to get the grassroots
and public interest perspective into play in the definition of the
future of the Internet video space. Our speakers include Joi Ito,
Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, John Seely Brown, me, and Yochai
Benkler. In fact, I will moderate a panel on Saturday with all
those others. I think it's the first time we've all been on a stage
together, and I want to make it a very action-oriented call to arms
rather than yet another panel discussion.
This event is the first of its kind in that it brings together
curators and representatives from key DIY video communities - live
action remix, anime music videos, videoblogging, machinima, youth
media, activist media, political remix, video blogging, and
independent arts video. Although these communities often have their
own dedicated events, there are rarely conversations that bring
together these different groups, much less one that also includes
conversations with industry executives from the tech world,
academics, and policy makers. The event will have screenings of DIY
videos, an academic track, and hands on workshops.
Link. Even if you can't attend in person, they'll no doubt produce many interesting ideas to be shared online. (Special thanks, Mimi Ito!)
Google Inc. is adding more e-mail security and storage products for businesses, sharpening its aim on a Microsoft Corp. stronghold while the competition between the two rivals also heats up in Internet... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 5:04 am
By Walter S. Mossberg We are now witnessing the emergence of a new user interface for digital devices, including laptop computers, advanced cell phones, wireless portable data gadgets and other types of computing products. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
By Etan Horowitz ScanR lets you use your cell phone's camera to scan receipts, business cards and other documents and upload them to the Web so you can manage them. For best results, use a cell phone with at least a 2-megapixel camera. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
By Abhinav Garg NEW DELHI: A bid by two villagers to bring about accountability in their local administration through RTI has resulted in their arrest on forgery charges by the Azamgarh police. Their crime? The society formed by them for the purpose is not registered. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 5 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
A massive compound of interconnected towers will make it possible to live, shop and play in a clean, green, climate-controlled haven amidst the city's pollution and extreme temperatures.
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids writes "A new study by Dafna Lemish from the Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University has found that there is an enormous gap between what parents think their children are doing online and what is really happening. 'The data tell us that parents don't know what their kids are doing,' says Lemish. The study found that 30% of children between the ages of 9 and 18 delete the search history from their browsers in an attempt to protect their privacy from their parents, that 73% of the children reported giving out personal information online while the parents of the same children believed that only 4% of their children did so, and that 36% of the children admitted to meeting with a stranger they had met online while fewer than 9% of the parents knew that their children had been engaging in such risky behavior. Lemish advises that parents should give their children the tools to be literate Internet users and most importantly, to talk to their children. 'The child needs similar tools that teach them to be [wary] of dangers in the park, the mall or wherever. The same rules in the real world apply online as well.'"
Link, shot by Sean Bonner. I post this not to express a political position -- rather, because it's an interesting example of brevity and simplicity in design.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Lest there be anyone left who believes the RIAA's propaganda that its litigation campaign is intended to benefit the 'creators' of the music, Hollywood Reporter reports that the RIAA is asking the Copyright Royalty Board to lower songwriter royalties on song file downloads, from the present rate of 9 cents per song — about 13% of the wholesale price — down to 8% of wholesale. Meanwhile, the big digital music companies, such as Apple, want the royalty rate lowered even more, to something like 4% of wholesale. So any representations by any of these companies that they are concerned for the 'creators' of the music must henceforth be taken with a boxcar-load of salt."
In one of the most famous attempts to declare a mathematical truth by political fiat, the Indiana legislature comes this close to establishing an exact value for pi. Good thing a math professor happened to be wandering by.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's online and cable broadcast Monday night is a landmark event in a year of experiments with Web 2.0 amid the most exciting presidential race in decades.
The Lotus 2-Eleven roadster is $80,000 of unadulterated sports car that's so damn good that even drivers who don't know oversteer from understeer can look like an F1 star. Sort of.
MySpace is about to join Facebook, Bebo, Meebo and so many other stars in the Web 2.0 firmament in opening up its platform and giving developers a set of tools with which to build applications that can... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 1:36 am
Rupert Murdoch has confirmed that parts of the online Wall Street Journal will remain subscription-based Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Feb 2008 | 1:17 am
An anonymous reader writes "As the battle rages over a Canadian DMCA, Microsoft Canada has published an op-ed in a political newspaper that Michael Geist describes as astonishingly misleading and factually incorrect. Microsoft tries to argue that Canadian copyright law provides no legal protections, even after it received one of the largest copyright damage awards in Canadian history just one year ago."
The former head of Royal Dutch Shell calls on the European Union to ban all cars that don't get 35 mpg, saying it's the only way to force the auto industry to improve the efficiency of its cars. Is he wrong?
Orbiting hotels, transatlantic tunnels, android armies -- these are all technically feasible projects given today's technology, if you just have a big enough budget. But how big exactly? Wired's Rob Beschizza does the math.
Orbiting hotels, transatlantic tunnels, android armies -- these are all technically feasible projects given today's technology, if you just have a big enough budget. But how big exactly? Wired's Rob Beschizza does the math.
Ahead of Super Tuesday, independent voters are targeted in a telephone "poll" that seems strangely hostile to every Democrat in the race who isn't Hillary Clinton.
The two companies announced today that NVIDIA will acquire PhysX maker AGEIA; terms were not disclosed. The Daily Tech is one of the few covering the news to go much beyond the press release, mentioning that AMD considered buying AGEIA last November but passed, and that the combination positions NVIDIA to compete with Intel on a second front, beyond the GPU — as Intel purchased AGEIA competitor Havok last September. While NVIDIA talked about supporting the PhysX engine on their GPUs, it's not clear whether AGEIA's hardware-based physics accelerator will play any part in that. AMD declared GPU physics dead last year, but NVIDIA at least presumably begs to differ. The coverage over at PC Perspectives goes into more depth on what the acquisition portends for the future of physics, on the GPU or elsewhere.
Tech.Luver sends in word of Yahoo's decision to exit the subscription music business. Yahoo's current subscribers — the company doesn't disclose how many it has — will be switched over to Real's Rhapsody service, and Yahoo will promote Real on its site. Yahoo had priced its subscription service significantly below Real's: $5.99 a month (if users pay a year in advance), vs. Rhapsody memberships at $12.99 a month and up. The Mercury News wonders how the Yahoo-Real deal would fare if Microsoft takes over — not well, the betting goes.
Flickr user dansays acquired an unopened Apple IIc on eBay and in true Macfan style, posted his unboxing photos online. From his Flickr set:
It's never been opened. Ever. It hasn't seen the light of day since before it was shipped on May 5th, 1988.
I wrestled with whether I should open the box, or store it and let it accrue collector's value. In the end, I decided that the reason for my purchase wasn't financial. My very first computer was an Apple //c, and I can't see wanting to part with this computer, ever.
Misanthrope writes to tell us that Swiss scientists are claiming that with proper treatment HIV patients can be made non-infectious. "The statement's headline statement says that 'after review of the medical literature and extensive discussion,' the Swiss Federal Commission for HIV / AIDS resolves that, 'An HIV-infected person on antiretroviral therapy with completely suppressed viraemia ("effective ART") is not sexually infectious, i.e. cannot transmit HIV through sexual contact.'"
On February 4, 2008 my neighbor had his giant eucalyptus tree chopped down because it was diseased. This is a one-minute time lapse movie of the 4-hour event.
The Association for Computing Machinery has announced the 2008 Turing Award Winners. Edmund M. Clarke, Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis received the award for their work on an automated method for finding design errors in computer hardware and software. "Model Checking is a type of "formal verification" that analyzes the logic underlying a design, much as a mathematician uses a proof to determine that a theorem is correct. Far from hit or miss, Model Checking considers every possible state of a hardware or software design and determines if it is consistent with the designer's specifications. Clarke and Emerson originated the idea of Model Checking at Harvard in 1981. They developed a theoretical technique for determining whether an abstract model of a hardware or software design satisfies a formal specification, given as a formula in Temporal Logic, a notation for describing possible sequences of events. Moreover, when the system fails the specification, it could identify a counterexample to show the source of the problem. Numerous model checking systems have been implemented, such as Spin at Bell Labs."
Historical inventions like the compass and the Leyden jar join mythical gadgets like the Ark of the Covenant -- rumored to be a sort of early battery -- and outright hoaxes like the Mechanical Turk in this eclectic list of ancient innovation.
Reverend Ninja writes "According to the Windows Vista team blog, Windows Vista SP1 has been released to manufacturing. It appears we'll have to wait until mid-March to play with it though, as the team cites that they want everyone to have a 'great install experience'. 'Service Pack 1 brings new improvements that are based on feedback we heard from our customers. It further improves the reliability and performance of Windows Vista. The information we collect thanks to tools like the Customer Experience Improvement Program, Online Crash Analysis, and Windows Error Reporting help us learn about where and when customers are having issues with Windows Vista and the applications that run on it. Since these issues have a direct impact on our customers' experiences, we've invested time and energy to make this better. While Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is an important milestone, we will continue to invest in the continuous improvement process.'"
Air & Space Magazine takes a look back at small, inexpensive personal jets that were commercial failures. According to the article, the cost of fuel kept them out of the sky. Seen here is the SIPA200 Minijet:
First flown in France in 1952, the two-seat Minijet was designed around the world’s first practical small turbojet engine, the 330-pound-thrust Turbomeca Palas. With a gross weight of 1,675 pounds, the Minijet was seriously underpowered on takeoff, but could still manage a top speed of 250 mph. The thirst of the little Palas engine, however, limited the airplane’s range to 350 miles. Of the seven Minijets built, only two are still flying, one of them in the United States.
In the early 1900s, Baptist pastor Clarence Larkin (1850-1924) created large wall charts to help teach the Bible. He called these charts "Prophetic Truth." The topics range from "The Seven Thousand Years of Human History" to "The Failure of Man" to "The (Spiritual) Underworld," seen above. Link(Thanks, Mike Love!)
Although no passengers will be on board, the contents of the plane's gas tank will have everyone in the airline industry watching. (...) Airline industry officials, environmentalists and energy companies all have a huge interest in the future of air travel as it pertains to fuel consumption, carbon emissions and global warming.
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On February 4, 2008 my neighbor had his giant eucalyptus tree chopped down because it was diseased. This is a one-minute time lapse movie of the 4-hour event.
