I carry a roll of the Velcro Plant Ties in my tool bag, but also keep One-Wrap Velcro strips in the shop. While they're much more expensive, Ive found the larger kind to be substantially bulkier and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 3:17 pm
Nokia said on Tuesday it would establish a research center in Lausanne, Switzerland, in collaboration with two Swiss federal institutes of technology. The center, due to open in June, will focus on pervasive... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:57 pm
Chipmaker SiBeam scored $40 million yesterday and said it would begin production of its 60 GHz chips used to transmit uncompressed HD video wirelessly throughout the house. SiBeam is one of the fabless... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:33 pm
modemac writes "Sacramento, California Assemblyman Charles Calderon wants to expand a 75-year-old sales tax on 'tangible personal property' to include music downloads from iTunes and other music-download sites. The tax would specifically apply to music downloads, but the estimate used in this article for revenue generated by 'Net downloading also "includes pornography downloads." The measure, AB 1956, will be considered on Monday, April 14th."
A former teacher at a school for the blind and a professor from Tsukuba University of Technology have developed a cell phone that sends out vibrations representing Braille symbols to enable people with... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:30 pm
Totalitarian states are learning to control citizens by creating the impression of ubiquitous surveillance. Newsweek reports. In the latest twist on Internet repression, governments don't just censor,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:22 pm
Klaus Pierre, a French/German actor-waiter-whatever, aspires against all odds to become America's next great action hero. In today's episode, he faces trials involving botox injections, standup comedy rejections, and attempts to hack his way into an actual red carpet premiere in Hollywood, for great justice.
Klaus Pierre, a French/German actor-waiter-whatever, aspires against all odds to become America's next great action hero. In today's episode, he faces trials involving botox injections, standup comedy... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:21 pm
GENEVA (Reuters) - Google technology first envisaged as a video game backdrop has been adapted to raise awareness -- and potentially financial support -- for the plight of refugees and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:15 pm
Last September, my partner Albert wrote a post on the USV blog called I Want A New Platform. Albert's a VC but he also builds web apps on the side, most recently dailylit.com. It was the process of building... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:11 pm
Terahertz waves, which until now have barely found their way out of the laboratory, could soon be in use as a versatile tool. Researchers have mobilized the transmitting and receiving devices so that they can be used anywhere with ease. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:10 pm
People who want to save energy should always keep an eye on their consumption. The EWE Box offers customers a neat solution: It enables private households to monitor their electricity and gas consumption whenever they want – and save costs thanks to new pricing models. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:08 pm
Marathon Technologies Corporation, the only provider of fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual servers, announced today that it has been selected as a 2008 Laureate by IDG's Computerworld Honors Program. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
The international semiconductor equipment and materials consortium EMC3D today announced that Datacon Technology has joined the organization. EMC3D is dedicated to providing cost-effective integrated Thru-Silicon-Via (TSV) technology for chip stacking applications. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. today announced its unveiling of the new radiation-tolerant, reprogrammable Virtex(R)-4QV FPGAs for high-performance space applications at the 2008 Single Event Effects Symposium (SEE), April 15-17, 2008 in Long Beach, California. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
UN chief calls for world free of chemical weapons UNITED NATIONS, April 7 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon urged on Monday Member States to work toward a world free of chemical weapons. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ["Destruction of Chemical Weapons Top Priority of Convention, China says" - Xinhua headline] THE HAGUE, April 8 (Xinhua) - China said Tuesday that the complete destruction of chemical weapons within the deadline remains the top priority of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
Earth Day is April 20 and many consumers hope to do their spring cleaning with "green" or nontoxic products. Sometimes, it's hard to tell the environmentally friendly goods from the eco-pretenders. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
By Bob Shaw, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Apr. 8--Call it the $56 million spill. That's the maximum the 3M Co. will pay because its chemicals leaked into Washington County's water, as tallied last week from state and company documents. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
By Kurt Knapek, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Apr. 8--A Myrtle Beach man told police that someone put sugar into the gas tank of his limousine over the weekend, according to a police report. The man drives the limo for Anchor Taxi in Myrtle Beach. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
By Greeley Tribune, Colo. Apr. 8--The Northern Colorado Legislative Alliance will meet at 7:15 a.m. with area legislator Monday at the Loveland Chamber of Commerce, 5400 Stone Creek Circle. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
Appellate Division, 3rd Department Impeachment Defendant Credibility -- Plea Allocution People v. Alt 100350 Appealed from County Court, Cortland County Background: The defendant was convicted of driving while intoxicated. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
By Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Apr. 8--State coastal regulators are right to insist that sandbags be removed from our shoreline. The N.C. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
Drought partly eased in China after precipitation BEIJING, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The area of drought-hit arable land has shrunk by 14 percent compared with the middle of March, Xinhua learnt from the Ministry of Agriculture on Monday. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
IRVINE, Calif., April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- IOGEAR today announced the availability of its ultra-slim Portable Media Player, enabling users to carry multimedia content everywhere they go. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
With a focus aimed squarely on meeting customers' growing corporate IT risk management needs for security and compliance, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a number of enhancements across its portfolio that evolve the company's Self-Defending Network solution from network security offerings into a broader systems approach that strengthens the overall protection of networks as well as the increasingly diverse number of endpoints, applications, and content that utilize them. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
By Andy Sher, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn. Apr. 8--NASHVILLE -- Tennessee's current-year budget shortfall is expected to hit $300 million when new revenue figures are released today, and the problem will likely grow only worse in coming months, officials said Monday. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
Dell is likely to cut more than the previously announced 8,800 jobs, in an attempt to bring down its operational costs and make itself more competent, reported The Associated Press, quoting the company's CEO Michael Dell. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
An anonymous reader writes "Sony CEO Ryoji Chubachi knows something we don't. At a press conference, he announced Sony's plan to increase Blu-ray market share to 50% of all movie discs by the end of the year. 'DVD and BD currently account for about 80% and 20%, respectively, of global demand for movie discs, Chubachi indicated. The new BD devices to be offered by Sony include models integrating an HD LCD TV with BD recording functionality, Chubachi pointed out. Sony has relied mainly on the PlayStation 3 (PS3) to promote BD, and sales of the game console will increase along with the offering by top Hollywood studios of new BD movies, Chubachi noted. However, Sony will extend its BD promotion from the current focus on the PS3 and BD players/recorders to IT devices, Chubachi pointed out.'"
Hynix Semiconductor has welcomed a decision by the European Union that ends a long dispute over South Korean government support for the memory chip company. The Council Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:31 pm
Computer chip maker Advanced Micro Devices says lower-than-expected sales have driven it to reduce its revenue outlook for the first quarter, and begin trimming its 16,000-person Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:31 pm
An anonymous reader writes "Google is giving a handful of web programmers the opportunity to create and run their own Web applications on their servers. Today's launch of a preview release of Google App Engine signals a new era of collaboration with third-party software developers. 'The goal is to make it easy to get started with a new Web app, and then make it easy to scale when that app reaches the point where it's receiving significant traffic and has millions of users," said Google product manager, Paul McDonald in a blog post."
Who's working and creating in Second Life? This is by no means a complete list, but off the top of my head, these are just a few: An adult entertainment entrepreneur interested in bringing a top porn star... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:05 pm
By Andrew Liszewski I still think it's a slick piece of hardware, but the original MobiBLU Cube and the Cube2 never really became the iPod Shuffle killer that many people predicted. Even though it trumped... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:57 pm
An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica reports that a group of companies and organizations it calls 'big content' is currently engaged in a worldwide 'whisper campaign' against Fair Use. 'The counter-reformation in question takes the form of a "whispering campaign" in which ministries in different countries are told that plans to expand fair use rights might well run afoul of the Berne Convention's "three-step test." The Convention, which goes back to the late 1800s, was one of the earliest international copyright treaties and is now administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).'"
Shares in navigation device maker TomTom NV fell sharply Tuesday after the company cut financial estimates for 2008, citing weak demand despite lower prices. In the first quarter... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:29 pm
Indonesian Internet companies blocked access to YouTube and MySpace on Tuesday, heeding a government order aimed at stopping people from watching an anti-Islam film by a Dutch lawmaker. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:10 pm
The father of a theoretical subatomic particle dubbed "the God particle" says he's almost sure it will be confirmed in the next year in a race between powerful research equipment in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:37 am
An anonymous reader writes "ICANN is finally taking action against Domain Registrar GoDaddy's controversial 'lockdowns'. GoDaddy has long had a policy of 'locking down' domain names for 60 days after a customer updated their contact details. This put customers in a Catch 22 position: ICANN requires customers keep their contact details up to date, or risk having the domain forfeited. Yet during the lockdown period the customer is prevented from transferring the domain from GoDaddy to another registrar. If the lockdown ran over the domain's expiry date, customers were forced to renew with GoDaddy or lose the domain. ICANN proposes to ban this practice. ICANN who is charged with overseeing the Internet has long been accused of giving domain registrars a free ride. But recently after ICANN failed to discipline Network Solutions over a front-running scam, they found themselves both on the wrong end of a lawsuit by lawyers Kabateck Brown Kellner. Is ICANN's action a signal of increased vigilance in policing registrars, or is it a PR move paving the way for a complete removal of US Government oversight?"
Intel Corp.'s venture capital arm said Tuesday that it has set up a new $500 million fund to invest in Chinese technology startups. The new fund, Intel Capital China Technology II, will Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:22 am
RealNetworks, one of the official rights holders of Scrabble, has rolled out an authorised version on Facebook to rival the popular Scrabulous application. By Jemima Kiss Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:14 am
REDMOND, Wash., April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. today took another step toward fulfilling its interoperability principle of ensuring open... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
CUPERTINO, Calif., April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- GigaFin Networks today announced enhanced Denial of Service (DoS) prevention capabilities for its network traffic... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
GARDEN CITY, N.Y., April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- iFinix Corporation (Pink Sheets: INIX), in an ongoing effort of updating shareholders and continued... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Smivs writes "Astronomers from St Andrews University in the UK have discovered a planetary system which looks much like our own. Dr Martin Dominik told BBC news: 'We found a system with two planets that take the roles of Jupiter and Saturn in our Solar System. These two planets have a similar mass ratio and similar orbital radius and a similar orbital period. The newfound planetary system, which orbits the star OGLE-2006-BLG-109L, is more compact than our own and is about five thousand light-years away. The OGLE planets were found using a technique called gravitational micro-lensing, in which light from the faraway planets is bent and magnified by the gravity of a foreground object, in this case a another star.'" Update: 04/08 12:26 GMT by Z : This story is talking about a subject we have already discussed.
Japanese stocks retreated Tuesday as investors unloaded shares in chipmakers and financial firms. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index fell 1.5 percent to 13,250.43. The wider Topix index of all shares... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 9:25 am
SLAUGHTER BEACH, Del. Sixteen nautical miles from the Indian River Inlet and about 80 feet underwater, a building boom is under way at the Red Bird Reef. One by one, a machine operator has been shoving... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 8:35 am
Wayland writes "The European Union's Article 29 Working Group has completed its PDF report on data protection and search engines. The group recommends that search engines only be allowed to hold onto search data for six months. 'To hang onto data for longer, search engine operators will need to show that such data is "strictly necessary" to offer the service. Google and others have long said that they need to retain data in order to refine search results, prevent click fraud, and launch new services like spell check (which, in Google's case, was built from user search data). In addition, the data that is kept will need to be guarded more closely. The working group concluded that IP addresses could be used to identify individuals; if not by the search engine itself, then by law enforcement or after a subpoena.'"
Yahoo criticizes Microsoft's weekend attempt to move the takeover proposal along. But the company says it remains open to a deal with the software giant if no better alternatives emerge. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Belly fat is worse than thigh or buttock fat, even for those who aren't obese, researchers say. Women who pack... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Snocap, co-founded by Shawn Fanning to track music for legal digital sales, becomes part of Imeem. Fast-growing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
The Minneapolis-based Charles Spencer Anderson design firm specializes in vintage and repro designs, many of which were derived from old plastic toys, carefully hoarded, remixed, photographed and photoshopped:
Ah, glorious, sugary, eye-pleasuring Plastock. The only thing I adore in the CSA universe more than the black ink that makes up the original rights-managed Archive. Basically, Plastock is the three dimensional embodiment of vintage stock art. Anderson started by amassing tens of thousands of old plastic toys, charms, game pieces, models, cake toppers, railroad scenery, and doodads, then his team customized them with paint and frankensteining techniques before photographing them in the most beautiful ways imaginable, and finally Photoshopping them to perfection.
Perceptive Travel reports that efforts to re-seed dying coral reefs are performing better than anyone dared hope. This is the best news I've had this season -- I've been convinced that the reefs would all be dead before my daughter was old enough to dive them.
On land, EcoReefs look attractive but artificial, like contemporary sculpture. Nearly two years later, they're something else entirely: a hybrid of technology and organic life, like Jeff Goldblum at the end of The Fly. Their antler-shaped arms are covered with baby corals and sponges, more varieties than I can count. Parrotfish, Moorish idols and clownfish have set up shop beneath their limbs; two tiger cowries nestle near one's center.
One of the techniques used to jump-start growth on the EcoReefs was "coral tranplants." Chunks of loose coral were physically attached to the EcoReefs with little plastic ties. Oddly, those modules have done no better than the ones left to their own devices. No one knows why; perhaps corals, like delicate houseplants, favor a specific angle to the sun. When that orientation is lost, the polyps wallow in confusion...
In my early days as a diver I'd heard that damaged reefs would take a century to re-grow. It's mind-boggling to see how fast these corals are returning. Moore has a lot of faith in his reefs--"If we build them, they will come"--but this growth would probably exceed his wildest dreams.
This Disney Haunted Mansion fan's home office is the apotheosis of mansionfan chic. I could get a lot of work done in a place like this!
The green wallpaper with the Lily pattern is actually used in the foyer of the attraction. A company up north in Benicia, CA that makes authentic hand-printed Victorian wallpaper called Bradbury and Bradbury Art Wallpapers (www.bradbury.com) happens to sell it (Dresser Tradition 2-Ashes of Rose Code:LYW Pattern:550 ). The purple/blue wall is a stencil that I made. It is of the wallpaper pattern in the attraction as well. It took a few hours to paint-I still have to paint in all the little pupils in the eyes. The oval mirror is actually a two-way 50/50 mirror. Behind it is a relief sculpture of the Hatchet Goul (to be posted later with an update) that shows through via a light on a timer. The effect is an image that slowly appears and disappears much like the Cheshire Cat in the mirror at the Mad Hatter Shop at Disneyland.
ThinkGeek has started carrying $100 remote-control cam-glasses with a discreet, 1.3 megapixel camera built into the temple. This is the beginning of the end for photography bans. Once these things become easy to install -- undetectably -- in a pair of ordinary glasses, the idea of stopping people from snapping photos in museums, clubs, stores and airport checkpoints is dead.
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Wired's Clive Thompson's latest column probes the new bioethical conundra of "cognitive liberty" -- the freedom not to have our brains scanned. I first encountered the phrase in relation to mind-altering drugs, where it's also a good fit -- what freedom could be more fundamental than the freedom to choose your state of mind?
We think of our brains as the ultimate private sanctuary, a zone where other people can't intrude without our knowledge or permission. But its boundaries are gradually eroding. Hypersonic sound is just a portent of what's coming, one of a host of emerging technologies aimed at tapping into our heads. These tools raise a fascinating, and queasy, new ethical question: Do we have a right to "mental privacy"?
"We're going to be facing this question more and more, and nobody is really ready for it," says Paul Root Wolpe, a bioethicist and board member of the nonprofit Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics. "If the skull is not an absolute domain of privacy, there are no privacy domains left." He argues that the big personal liberty issues of the 21st century will all be in our heads — the "civil rights of the mind," he calls it.
It's true that most of this technology is still gestational. But the early experiments are compelling: Some researchers say that fMRI brain scans can detect surprisingly specific mental acts — like whether you're entertaining racist thoughts, doing arithmetic, reading, or recognizing something. Entrepreneurs are already pushing dubious forms of the tech into the marketplace: You can now hire a firm, No Lie MRI, to conduct a "truth verification" scan if you're trying to prove you're on the level. Give it 10 years, ethicists say, and brain tools will be used regularly — sometimes responsibly, often shoddily.
It's too late to buy one of Etsy seller BuildersStudio's steampunky "Robot Bride and Groom Wedding Cake Topper Wood Statues with Base," but there's always the chance it'll come back before you need to get one on top of the cake. Indeed, you could just get one once they come back and wait for the kind of person who's willing to marry you with this as the centerpiece; surely that would be the best indicator of having found your heart's true destiny.
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Penguicon 6, the Detroit-area science fiction and free/open source software convention, is coming up soon! The guests of honor include Vernor Vinge and Jono Bacon from Canonical/Ubuntu. I attended one of these a couple years back and had a high old time: open source and science fiction go together like peanut butter and chocolate.
Tech Guest of Honor: Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical
Tech Guest of Honor: Benjamin Mako Hill - Debian/GNU, MIT Media Lab, Free Software Foundation, Ubuntu, Wikimedia
Author Guest of Honor: Vernor Vinge, Multiple Hugo winning science fiction author, computing visionary
Author Guest of Honor: Tamora Pierce, fantasy author, co-founder of Sheroes Central
Webcomics Guest of Honor: Randall Munroe of xkcd
Gaming Guest of Honor: Keith Baker, creator of Ebberon world for Dungeons and Dragons
Hack of Honor: The Giant Singing Tesla Coils
Virgin Atlantic thinks it can green commercial aviation with biofuels:
When a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 took off for a 40-minute flight from London to Amsterdam Feb. 24, it represented an aviation breakthrough. For the first time a commercial airliner took aloft on other than fossil fuels. One of the plane’s four engines was fired on a 20 percent biojet fuel blend. The aim of the test flight was to explore how a biofuel performs in high altitude cold temperatures...
The next test aims to validate sustainability. When the Air New Zealand test takes place, it will be with a second generation feedstock. Of the possibilities, two are worth noting: algae and jatropha. Both grow on non-agricultural land. Algae can employ saline water, and jatropha grows in dry conditions on degraded lands, in fact helping accumulate carbon in the soil. There are solid indications that biojet from jatropha or algae could provide massive amounts of fuel, and at costs lower than petroleum-based jet fuel.
Boeing’s own presentation on alternative fuels shows that land use issues are part of the sustainable biojet program’s DNA. “If the world airline fleet used 100% biojet fuel from soybeans, it would require 322 billion litres,” the presentation says. At 560 liters of oil per hectare that would require 5,750 million square kilometers, about the size of Europe. But algae could produce up to 94,000 liters per acre, shrinking land requirements to 35,000 square kilometers, about a Belgium’s worth of land.
Bradbury and Bradbury wallpapers do a really excellent line of atomic age prints (and the deco and mid-century stuff is pretty sweet too).
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Ravalox writes "In an interview with The Independent, current curator of the Doctor Who legacy Russell T. Davis announced that distinguished evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins would be making an appearance in the new season of Doctor Who. To quote Davies: 'People were falling at his feet ... We've had Kylie Minogue on that set, but it was Dawkins people were worshipping.' Dawkins is the author of many best-selling non-fiction books, from The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker to The God Delusion, and a renowned advocate of both Darwin's evolutionary theory and the merits of atheism."
Online spending is expected to rise a robust 17 percent this year, despite a sluggish economy that has bruised many brick-based retailers, according to an annual survey to be released Tuesday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 4:55 am
Fierce competition among identity thieves has driven the prices for stolen data down to bargain-basement levels, which has forced crooks to adopt mainstream business tactics to lure customers, according... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 4:05 am
One more of the world's biggest technology companies is clamoring to enter the growing market for pint-sized computers targeted mainly for pint-sized customers. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Apr 2008 | 4:05 am
fm6 writes "According to guardian.co.uk, George Lucas is suing the designer of the Imperial Stormtrooper armor. Andrew Ainsworth took the original molds he used to make the props for the movies, and has been using them to make outfits that sell for up to £1,800 (US$3,600) apiece. Ainsworth has countersued for a share of the $12 billion that Star Wars merchandise has generated since the first movie."
mikkl666 writes "In response to an open letter from Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! posted a press release claiming that Microsoft's offer 'substantially undervalues Yahoo!' and is therefore not in the best interest of the company. They also bemoan that the letter 'mischaracterizes the nature of our discussions' and that the threat to make an offer directly to the shareholders is 'counterproductive and inconsistent with the stated objective of a friendly transaction'. Nevertheless, they explicitly point out that a transaction with Microsoft is still an option, but only if they are willing to pay 'a price that fully recognizes the value of Yahoo!'"
Purdue scientists have unveiled the most high-resolution map of Americans' carbon dioxide emissions yet, including video of hourly changes to the nation's greenhouse gas profile.
Aiming to set the record straight, murder suspect Hans Reiser told jurors today that it was the fact of his being left-brained that explain the mysteries behind his often-incomprehensible defense.
The popular social-networking site is reportedly negotiating to settle a lawsuit by three Harvard pals that claims their former friend, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, ripped off their idea.
On land, EcoReefs look attractive but artificial, like contemporary sculpture. Nearly two years later, they're something else entirely: a hybrid of technology and organic life, like Jeff Goldblum at the end of The Fly. Their antler-shaped arms are covered with baby corals and sponges, more varieties than I can count. Parrotfish, Moorish idols and clownfish have set up shop beneath their limbs; two tiger cowries nestle near one's center.
