By Andrew Liszewski A kitchen scale is the best way to control portion size when you’re trying to shed a few pounds, but the Salter Nutri-Weigh & Go scale goes one step further for those who... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 1:37 pm
Engadget's feed lets us know that Tivo has delivered Desktop Plus 2.6, as promised (just a week after they announced the YouTube deal). "Truth be told, there's not a whole lot here that you didn't already get a taste of in our hands-on at CES, but here's the skinny. As of today, TiVo users can grab hold of the latest version of Desktop (Windows only, we're afraid) and 'enjoy a broad range of web entertainment available directly from their TV.' More specifically, these customers 'can choose web videos downloaded on the home PC using web browsers, RSS video clients such as iTunes podcasts, or other video download software to automatically copy to their TiVo DVR's Now Playing List alongside recorded broadcast and cable TV shows.'"
East Bay hardware hacker Tom Seppe refitted a 1967 Tote-Gote offroad motorcycle to run all-electric, then modded the chassis in steampunk finery, including gorgeous inlaid panels and a whistling steam-boiler hanging off the back-end. Be sure to catch the video!
When I was building it, I took a fire extinguisher tank. It all came down to aesthetics. I was looking at my drawings, figuring out where it would go. The steam boiler came from an aesthetic need, form before function. And the fire extinguisher fit what I wanted. So I cut a hole in the bottom of the tank, slipped a pipe in it, welded it on both sides. So that then I had a chamber with a through tube, which became the flame tube. It's not very efficient; there should be more coils in there. But on the other hand, if I crank it up really high, then you get flames shooting out the back of the bike. Which is cool.
Moconews posed an interesting question this morning: will wifi go the way of the public phone booth? Their premise was that public wifi (i.e., at conferences, or busy coffee shops) is often slow and hard... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
On the left is a picture of plain old Angelina Jolie. But on the right…well we’ve got Angelina after she’s been through the Taaz virtual makeover service. The service, which launches... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:50 pm
S1mmo+61 writes "Salon is analyzing a Time Magazine article today, a piece that essentially claims Americans do not care about the domestic spying. The analysis of the Time magazine piece (which is longer than the article itself) is interesting, if only as a quick history of domestic spying in the last eight years. 'Time claims that "nobody cares" about the Government's increased spying powers and that "polling consistently supports that conclusion." They don't cite a single poll because that assertion is blatantly false. Just this weekend, a new poll released by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University proves that exactly the opposite is true. That poll shows that the percentage of Americans who believe the Federal Government is "very secretive" has doubled in the last two years alone (to 44%)'"
Edy52285 writes "Ars Technica has an article showing benchmarks pitting Firefox 3 Beta 4 against other browsers. Contenders include IE7, Firefox 2, Opera 9.5 Beta, and Safari 3.0.4 Beta. The piece includes includes a graph depicting FF3's memory usage well below that of the other browsers. The in-testing browser even trumps Opera, which has long been regarded as the fastest browser around."
I like this remixed Levi's logo in which the poor, whipped horsies finally get their revenge -- a chance to draw-and-quarter a pair of 501s for the promise of a carrot, rather than the threat of a whip.
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I like this remixed Levi's logo in which the poor, whipped horsies finally get their revenge -- a chance to draw-and-quarter a pair of 501s for the promise of a carrot, rather than the threat of a whip... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:58 am
A major package of updates and security fixes for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system will be available for download Tuesday, according to Amazon.com Inc.'s Web site. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:44 am
Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big greenish- black rock in the basement of North Dakota's state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a nearly... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:40 am
Designers Jung-Hyun Lee, Won-Sik Chae and Rhea Jeong have prototyped this "Abracadabra" bookmark that uses a little air-filled bladder to lift the page at the right spot. I think it'd fall out if placed... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:31 am
Designers Jung-Hyun Lee, Won-Sik Chae and Rhea Jeong have prototyped this "Abracadabra" bookmark that uses a little air-filled bladder to lift the page at the right spot. I think it'd fall out if placed at the page side, as shown here, but it would work pretty well if placed at the spine, in the crease of the binding.
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From the April, 1923 ish of Popular Science, a ZOMG-worthy proposal to moor stately airships to the masts of titanic, biplane-sporting steamships on transoceanic journeys as a means of preparing for the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:29 am
From the April, 1923 ish of Popular Science, a ZOMG-worthy proposal to moor stately airships to the masts of titanic, biplane-sporting steamships on transoceanic journeys as a means of preparing for the next Great War.
CONVINCED that battle fleets of the future will require the aid of rigid airships as long range scouts, aeronautic experts recently have suggested an ingenious method of mooring rigids to the mast of a moving depot ship at sea, as pictured above.
The depot ship, preferably a converted cruiser, has a hangar forward for small fighting planes, with a launching deck from which the planes are seen taking off to protect the rigid as it returns from a trip.
Topping a raised tripod mast is a mooring device to which the airship is anchored, while projecting from each side of the vessel are other tripods carrying guide ropes that hold the airship’s bow in position as its nose cone is hauled down to the mooring device.
ThinkGeek has a sweet, 25-piece survival kit inside a sardine tin (better hope the pull-tab doesn't come off -- haven't they ever read Three Men in a Boat?). The virtues of sardine cans ("air-tight, waterproof, crushproof") make them a pretty good medium for long-term survival gear storage, I suppose.
The kit includes one of each of the following items: non-aspirin pain reliever, adhesive bandage, alcohol prep pad, antibiotic ointment, book of matches, compass, chewing gum, sugar, salt, energy nugget, duct tape, fire starter cube, first aid instructions, fish hook & line, note paper, pencil, razor blade, safety pin, reflective signal surface, tea bag, waterproof bag, whistle, and wire clip.
ThinkGeek has a sweet, 25-piece survival kit inside a sardine tin (better hope the pull-tab doesn't come off -- haven't they ever read Three Men in a Boat?). The virtues of sardine cans ("air-tight, waterproof,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:25 am
Andy Baio has a new hobby: hunting down VHS tapes about the Internet from the early-to-mid 1990s, digitizing them and putting them online as historical curios. Here's a 32 minuted video called "Internet Power!" from 1995 -- as Andy notes, "while most of these are pretty corny -- think Gabe and Max's Internet Thing -- they also inadvertently captured pieces of the web that don't exist anywhere else. The Internet Archive's earliest snapshots were in late 1996, so anything before that is extremely sparse."
"A Web site is like a book that is divided into chapters. By clicking on the hypertext links, you choose which pages you want to view in the book. A Home Page is like the first page of the book, with a Table of Contents and general introduction into what is contained in the site."
Andy Baio has a new hobby: hunting down VHS tapes about the Internet from the early-to-mid 1990s, digitizing them and putting them online as historical curios. Here's a 32 minuted video called "Internet... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:22 am
ideonexus writes "The Pew group has released its annual study into the state of news media. They conclude that science and technology content is a rare treat for cable newscast viewers; some five hours of programming could pass with the average viewer seeing only one minute of science news coverage."
By Sara Spivey By SARA SPIVEY STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - Thousands of square miles of open land in Nevada provide off-road enthusiasts with ample opportunity to ride freely through the desert. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
NAPA VALLEY, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Green has become glamorous. From high fashion, to luxury travel, eco-friendly has become an entire lifestyle, especially among those with the cash to spend. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By Larry Copeland ATLANTA -- It's raining again in the Southeast. Much of the drought-parched region has been deluged recently by winter downpours, including weekend storms that battered the downtown business district and a swath of north Georgia. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By Janet Elliott, Houston Chronicle Mar. 18--AUSTIN -- The executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is recommending approval of a Dallas company's license to dispose of radioactive uranium waste in Andrews County. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By Zeke Barlow, Ventura County Star, Calif. Mar. 18--Ray Sauvajot stood on the hillside between the Los Padres and Santa Monica mountain ranges, gazing at the vast expanse between the two. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
BOSTON, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- IObit (http://www.iobit.com/) Advanced WindowsCare Personal has passed 10 million downloads and ranked in top 50 most popular software at largest download site in the world, Download.com, representing a significant milestone for the best PC repair utility only two years since 2006, and has taken the opportunity to thank its most fervent fans for their work in supporting IObit. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
FREMONT, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- CLEARSIGHT NETWORKS, a worldwide provider of award-winning application and analysis tools for LAN networks, today announced two next generation live technology demonstrations showing the latest monitoring and analysis innovations at its booth #741 during the Spring VON.x conference which takes place at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center from March 18 to March 20. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
PLEASANTON, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Trapeze Networks(R), the award-winning provider of Smart Mobile(TM) wireless solutions, today announced the RingMaster-200, a highly-scalable, rack-mount network management appliance that can manage up to 5,000 access points or 1,000 controllers. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
LOS ANGELES, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- PriceGrabber.com(R), a part of Experian, explores portable-style laptop trends through its latest Consumer Behavior Report. Results are based on a survey of 1,868 online consumers conducted in late February 2008. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, the parent company of Brazilian airlines GOL Transportes Aereos and VRG Linhas Aereas, has announced that VRG has implemented SabreSonic solution, developed by Sabre Airline, to optimize customer service. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
-- Telekom Slovenia has 42 MHz license in the 3.5 GHz band; covering a potential customer base of 2 million people -- Iskratel integrated Telsima's WiMAX solutions into its SI3000 Access Plane product family -- Solution is migration-ready for 802.16e-2005 & NWG ASN SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 18 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Telsima Corporation, a global leader in WiMAX systems, in consortium with Iskratel, announced today that its technologies, integrated into Iskratel's SI3000 platform, have been chosen by Telekom Slovenia as the infrastructure solution for its nationwide WiMAX network. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
A photo and a video are included with this press release. The Weather Network and MeteoMedia announce the launch of an interactive weather application on Facebook, the social networking site. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
EXACT Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ: EXAS) announced that the Company has retained Leerink Swann LLC to assist the Board of Directors in its evaluation of strategic alternatives for the business, including, but not limited to, the sale of EXACT or merger with another entity. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
A team of biologists is scheduled to review the decline of five species of Puget Sound rockfish that Olympia biologist Sam Wright says deserve protection under the Endangered Species Act. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Today more than ever, the Web is a global game. Below are charts from a new State of the Internet report from comScore that paints a picture of global competition on the Web. In 1996, two thirds of all... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:43 am
By Andrew Liszewski Pandigital primarily makes digital photo frames, so it’s not surprising to see the company doing all it can to get you to buy one for everyone room in your house. Their latest... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:14 am
Dell Inc.'s business is experiencing fast growth in Asia and the outlook for laptop computers is bright, CEO Michael Dell said Tuesday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 9:55 am
A prototype crab-like robot is set to make underwater exploration easier in the future, a university has said. The robot, invented by a post-graduate at the University... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 9:46 am
Lucas123 writes "The State of Washington's Division of Child support has forced hundreds of workers to turn in personal USB flash drives and has instead begun issuing corporate-style USB drives. The goal is to centrally monitor, configure and prevent unauthorized access to storage devices. So far about 150 common drives have been issued. The agency eventually plans to destroy all existing thumb drives collected as part of the security policy change."
Now that the space station's new robot is fully assembled, astronauts prepared to attach the giant machine directly to the orbiting outpost for the first time on Tuesday. Astronauts... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 9:05 am
Amid pomp and ceremony, the world's biggest passenger plane, the Airbus A380 superjumbo, headed for Heathrow airport on its first commercial flight to Europe. Speeches... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 8:49 am
LONDON, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Solcara, the market-leading provider of software for the control and management of digital information, today announced the arrival of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 8:41 am
WASHINGTON, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In the air, on land, and in the sea -- Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) continues a 25-year tradition of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 8:35 am
SAN DIEGO, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Telanetix Inc. (OTC BB: TNXI), a leading IP solutions provider offering telepresence and VoIP services to the SMB and SME... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 8:32 am
PASO ROBLES, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- IQMS, a leader in the design and development of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, congratulates its customers... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 8:30 am
SAN ANTONIO, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T is expecting the biggest turnout ever at events it is hosting for the third consecutive year at the CTIA... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 8:30 am
New Environmental Solutions, Inc. (Pink Sheets:NWVM) has announced that it is able to assist RCBC Technologies LLC to complete its discussions with the appropriate authorities of Harvey County, Kansas to build, finance and install a 120 ton per day Rotary Cascading Bed Combustor (RCBC). Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 18 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Mab_Mass writes "Widespread space tourism is getting closer to reality, reports the BBC. In fact, Aerospace company EADS sees that sector of the tourism market being so lucrative that it will need a 'production line' of rockets to satisfy the needs of rich travelers. '[EAD's] market assessment suggests there would be 15,000 people a year prepared to part with some 200,000 euros (£160,000) for the ride of a lifetime. [EADS subsidiary] Astrium anticipates it be will be producing about 10 planes a year.'"
It says deals with online website and travel outfits make financial sense, but some observers note the nonprofit governing body is operating in the same way as major professional sports enterprises. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
The school's Resnick neuropsychiatric hospital acts to guard privacy after a patient posted photos of others on the Web. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
kulbirsaini writes "Google has announced the list of accepted organizations for the Google Summer of Code 2008. 'No doubt many would-be Summer of Code students are wondering what their next steps should be. We've changed the program timeline this year, leaving a week in between the announcement of accepted mentoring organizations and opening for student applications. Use this week to meet your potential mentors and discuss your project ideas with them, and keep on eye on the program mailing lists, as we'll post notes about additional resources for learning about our mentoring organizations.'"
From the Big City Little Kitchen blog, a timely Guinness cupcake recipe with "foam" made from cream-cheese glaze.
Despite the addition of Guinness, these cakes are not at all bitter; instead, the beer adds richness and moisture, and balances the sweetness of the sugar. Working from another Nigella recipe, this one the Guinness Cake from Feast, I substituted brown sugar for white to add depth of flavor, and made tiny cakes instead of a large one in a springform. Topped with a cream cheese glaze, these are a crowd-pleasing, not-too-sweet dessert (and, if you call them muffins instead of cupcakes, and play up the beer angle, you can easily pass them off to guys). They’re also super-easy.
I caught the haunting, beautiful song "East" by Toronto band The Weather Station on a podcast today and was transported. The lead singer's tentative, lilting vocals are just heart-breaking. The band's got the track up as a stream on its MySpace page -- I ripped it and it's gone straight into my playlist.
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In this chilling BBC clip, a newsteam ventures to one of LA's new shantytowns made up of people who've lost their homes in the subprime meltdown and now live in tents, improvised shacks or RVs on abandoned land. It's the contemporary Hooverville, and, as the Subliterate Cinephile notes, I wonder why I found out about this from the BBC and not US media.
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Cornell researchers in Human Development and Law have published research suggesting that children's legal testimony may be more reliable than adults', since kids interpret their memories less and are more likely to give an accurate accounting of events as they occurred.
This research shows that meaning-based memories are largely responsible for false memories, especially in adult witnesses. Because the ability to extract meaning from experience develops slowly, children are less likely to produce these false memories than adults, and are more likely to give accurate testimony when properly questioned.
The finding is counterintuitive; it doesn't square with current legal tenets, and may have important implications for legal proceedings.
"Because children have fewer meaning-based experience records, they are less likely to form false memories," says Reyna. "But the law assumes children are more susceptible to false memories than adults."
Mac users who want to back up their e-mail archives may have Rush Limbaugh to thank. One month after the conservative radio talk show host publicly appealed for computer help to the Apple chief executive,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 3:36 am
I love you. I have a crush on you, but Im too shy to tell you. You should brush your teeth more often. These are but a few of the messages sent and received by the Facebook members who have added an... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 3:36 am
LIKE most purveyors of media, music labels are flailing about for a new business model even as their old one is quickly becoming outmoded. One proposed solution giving music away online, supported by... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 3:36 am
As magazines and newspapers hunt for the new thing they need to be to thrive in the Internet era, some find that part of the answer lies in the old thing they used to be. Publications are rediscovering... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 3:36 am
For some children, watching Dora the Explorer on television is becoming pass. Now, they want to be Dora. Tapping into this desire, media companies are increasingly entering the marketplace for online... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Mar 2008 | 3:36 am
Stony Stevenson writes "Hot on the heels of a recent hack in which 10,000 sites were compromised, researchers have disclosed a new large-scale attack. Researchers at McAfee estimated that the attack has been active for roughly one week, and in that time frame has managed to place itself on roughly 200,000 web pages. Most of the infected pages are running the phpBB forum software, said McAfee. The compromised pages are embedded with a Javascript file that links to the site hosting the attack."
An anonymous reader writes "The British space agency, BNSC, is reconsidering its 1986 decision to reject all human space missions. The decision has dominated British space policy ever since, leaving Britain out of many American and European space projects. The UK is the only nation in the G8 group of leading economies that does not have a human space flight program. But space enthusiast groups like the British Interplanetary Society are trying to persuade the British government to participate in both manned and unmanned space activities."
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Novell's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft for destroying the market for WordPerfect and QuattroPro can now move forward. The Supreme Court denied certiorari to Microsoft's appeal of an appeals court ruling, which is the fancy legal way of saying they ignored Microsoft's appeal and let the previous ruling stand. Novell's complaint is an interesting read, because some of this sounds quite familiar, given how Microsoft is now forcing the standardization of OOXML. Statements like, 'As Microsoft knew, a truly standard file format that was open to all ISVs would have enhanced competition in the market for word processing applications, because such a standard allows the exchange of text files between different word processing applications used by different customers,' and 'Microsoft made other inferior features de facto industry standards,' sound a lot more recent."
Angel investor and iTulip.com founder Eric Janszen explains how the U.S. economy needs to restructure itself away from finance, insurance and real estate, and towards a new "green" technology infrastructure.
When manufacturers make talking toys, they skimp on audio quality -- which means it sometimes sounds like little Elmo is saying something very, very naughty.
Despite the addition of Guinness, these cakes are not at all bitter; instead, the beer adds richness and moisture, and balances the sweetness of the sugar. Working from another Nigella recipe, this one the Guinness Cake from Feast, I substituted brown sugar for white to add depth of flavor, and made tiny cakes instead of a large one in a springform. Topped with a cream cheese glaze, these are a crowd-pleasing, not-too-sweet dessert (and, if you call them muffins instead of cupcakes, and play up the beer angle, you can easily pass them off to guys). They’re also super-easy.
In this chilling BBC clip, a newsteam ventures to one of LA's new shantytowns made up of people who've lost their homes in the subprime meltdown and now live in tents, improvised shacks or RVs on abandoned land. It's the contemporary Hooverville, and, as the Subliterate Cinephile notes, I wonder why I found out about this from the BBC and not US media.
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