Wooden bicycles can be found all over the world. These handmade bikes are often larger-scale scooters that you sit on. Made with whatever wood can be found, they use small wooden home-made wheels covered... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 2:24 pm
Hurrah! The White Mischief steampunk variety night is returning to King's Cross, London, for Saturday June 7!
White Mischief is next Saturday, June 7, 8pm-3am at Scala in King's Cross, themed to another Jules Verne novel, this time "Around the World in 80 Days".
For members of the public, tickets are still available - including group discounts for bookings of five people and above - though we strongly recommend people book ahead, as advance tickets are far cheaper than those bought on the door and previous shows have sold out.
The four rooms and two stages are being themed by set dressers who worked on Punchdrunk's Masque of the Red Death. Interactive adventures will include a "trip around the world in a hot air balloon"; and a chance to discover the ancient Oriental mysteries inside the Hall of Oracles. Parisian "petit gypsy string orchestra" will be playing sets at unexpected quarters spontaneously around the building.
Live bands and vaudeville / circus performers will be arriving by every means of conveyance from all four corners of the globe.
Flying in from Berlin, Miss Behave, one of the few surviving female swordswallowers (and a Guinnness World Record holder who is about to start her own run at the Roundhouse); from Spain, snake dancer Seffi; from Japan, DJ Lady Kamikaze, playing vintage jazz and blues; from Turkey, the band Oojami, complete with their own Sufi dancer; from the United States, "electro chamber rock" band The Outside Royalty and DJ duo Theodora Goes Wild and Sheriff Marshall Lawman ; from Africa to London, DJ Todd Hart, playing an all-African set; from Australasia, acerbic compere Dusty Limits; from the UK, outrageous diva, the Radio 1 playlisted Ebony Bones...
Of particular interest to fans of Victoriana might be the Penny Dreadfuls, a "Victorian comedy troupe" whose sketch comedy has been a hit on BBC7, Radio 4 and at Edinburgh...and Miss Amundsen, Bipolar Explorer, a steampunk enthusiast herself, who will be performing an aerial act above the audience's head while playing an accordion.
kgamiel writes "The Obama campaign's CTO is hiring LAMP-biased geeks for the Boston office to help elect the Senator in the fall. This got me to wondering, what if he instead announced a SourceForge project toward the same end? What would such a project look like? Tools that both sides could use 'equally' would not achieve the desired end. And philosophically, could the Open Source community support one side in a competition such as this? What other issues does this raise?" Another reader notes that the Obama campaign is also searching for a security expert to plug the holes that allowed a hacker to redirect Obama's site (Linux/Apache hosted by GoDaddy) to Hillary Clinton's (Windows/IIS hosted by Rackspace).
From Dana Milbank’s coverage of yesterday’s food fight and disenfranchisement festival: The chaos and vitriol seemed to confirm Democrats’ fears that they might blow an election that... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 11:09 am
AP - Amazon.com said Friday that publisher Simon & Schuster Inc. will make 5,000 more books available for the Amazon Kindle wireless reader, bumping to 125,000 the number of titles users can download and read.
An anonymous reader writes "In 6 months time, I am packing up and moving from Australia (Melbourne) to Canada (Vancouver). I'm a qualified network engineer. What I want to know is, what sort of quirks and tricks I am going to have to get used to in the Canadian job market? I'm used to Australian recruiters, and all the hoops you have to jump through, but Canada may have different hoops. I've tried contacting recruiters directly for information but they don't really give out much, as I am not actually in the country yet and therefore not worth their time. Is anyone willing to share their experiences on making the big move from country to county?"
Lugging an enormous new lab, shuttle Discovery was in fast pursuit of the international space station on Sunday following a spectacular launch that one astronaut called "the greatest show Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 8:58 am
Reuters - State-controlled Dubai Aerospace
Enterprise (DAE) said it was in talks to buy 50 aircraft worth
a total of about $2.5 billion to expand its leasing business.
Technorati founder Dave Sifry, who left the company a little over a year ago, is launching a new company called Offbeat Guides this morning into private beta. Think Lonely Planet travel guides, except... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 7:17 am
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Smaller, low-cost PCs are likely to be at the top of the shopping list for technology buyers gathering in Taipei this week for the world's second largest computer fair,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 7:04 am
China joined a small group of nations Sunday in restricting the use of plastic bags, but there are doubts the rule would be effective in a country that consumes one trillion of them a year. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:59 am
Malaysian authorities are carrying out night patrols near endangered Hawksbill turtle nesting sites after 4,000 eggs were stolen, according to reports Sunday. State fisheries Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:50 am
n3hat sends along an item from the Cincinnati Enquirer: "Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles... that he asked his family to bury him in one. His children honored his request. Part of his remains was buried in a Pringles can — along with a regular urn containing the rest... Dr. Baur, a retired organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Procter & Gamble, died May 4 at 89... He developed many products, including frying oils and a freeze-dried ice cream, for P&G... But the Pringles can was his proudest accomplishment, his daughter said. He received a patent for the package as well as the method of packaging Pringles in 1970."
So they were right. Oh, and pssst: I am wearing nothing but a glazed kaffiyeh at this very moment! (Thanks, R. Stevens) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:19 am
Hot on the trail of the Sony Ericsson Paris video we saw a few days ago, a demo video of the equally unannounced-yet-widely-known-about Sony Ericsson G702 BeiBei has hit the tubes. Unfortunately, the guy... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:17 am
David P Nickle's brilliant, deeply creepy, awful and suspenseful short story The Sloan Men has just been released in audio form in Pseudopod, the horror podcast. This is a fantastic reading of a really... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:02 am
David P Nickle's brilliant, deeply creepy, awful and suspenseful short story The Sloan Men has just been released in audio form in Pseudopod, the horror podcast. This is a fantastic reading of a really wonderful story.
Mrs. Sloan had only three fingers on her left hand, but when she drummed them against the countertop, the tiny polished bones at the end of the fourth and fifth stumps clattered like fingernails. If Judith hadn't been looking, she wouldn't have noticed anything strange about Mrs. Sloan's hand.
"Tell me how you met Herman," said Mrs. Sloan. She turned away from Judith as she spoke, to look out the kitchen window where Herman and his father were getting into Mr. Sloan's black pickup truck. Seeing Herman and Mr. Sloan together was a welcome distraction for Judith. She was afraid Herman's stepmother would catch her staring at the hand. Judith didn't know how she would explain that with any grace: Things are off to a bad enough start as it is.
Outside, Herman wiped his sleeve across his pale, hairless scalp and, seeing Judith watching from the window, turned the gesture into an exaggerated wave. He grinned wetly through the late afternoon sun. Judith felt a little grin of her own growing and waved back, fingers waggling an infantile bye-bye. Hurry home, she mouthed through the glass. Herman stared back blandly, not understanding.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- COMPUTEX -- Atheros Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHR), a leading developer of advanced semiconductor system solutions... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:01 am
(TrendHunter.com) As gas prices soar, people are changing their driving habits to save a few bucks. At least one woman, Jessica Busby, is changing another habit - her blood donation frequency. To afford... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:00 am
(TrendHunter.com) Attention male golfers! The game of golf is full of gadgets: gadgets that increase your distance; gadgets that straighten your drives; gadgets that hide your beer. The list goes on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:00 am
AFP - The simple act of using a computer for email or the Internet can mobilise armies of hidden agents and criminals out to subvert the system and business, the OECD says in a study on cyber crime.
Reuters - Bangladesh's mobile telephone operators
must deactivate more than one million unregistered SIM cards
from Sunday as deadline for registration ended last night,
telecoms watchdog officials said.
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's mobile telephone operators must deactivate more than one million unregistered SIM cards from Sunday as deadline for registration ended last night, telecoms... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 5:26 am
(TrendHunter.com) Moritz Waldemeyer, the designer of the Pong Table, used 2,400 LEDS and two track pads to turn a white Corian table into a digital gaming board. The table re-creates the classic game... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 5:00 am
(TrendHunter.com) I have never hoped to be invited to be a member of a site more than I have for ideeli. The website is an ultra-exclusive site that offers up to 90% discounts on high end designer fashions... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 5:00 am
murphee ends along a report from InfoQ: "Gemstone demoed [MagLev,] their Ruby VM built on their GemStone S64 VM, to an ecstatic audience. Gemstone's Smalltalk VM allows OODBs of up to 17 PetaBytes, with none of the old ActiveRecord nonsense: the data is persisted transparently. The Gemstone OODB also takes care of any distribution, allowing the Ruby VM and data to scale across many servers (Cheerio, memcached!). There's also an earlier quite technical interview with Gemstone's Bob Walker and Avi Bryant about MagLev."
Giant whirlpools, 100-knot winds, some of Europe's mightiest tides: The icy waters off Scotland's northern tip are no place for pleasure craft. But they're ideal for power-generation systems that harness the restless fury of the sea — which is why the European Marine Energy Centre has set up shop in the Orkney Islands.
Think of it as the Bonneville Salt Flats of hydrokinetics: EMEC offers companies a place to try out their clean tech. The center's remotely operated vehicles film underwater, and microphones will eventually monitor for noise pollution. First in was Dublin-based OpenHydro, which recently began trials on its second turbine (shown here raised for inspection).
Carbon-free hydrokinetic power could ultimately provide up to 20 percent of the UK's electricity needs. But environmental concerns may still sink the effort: Critics warn of industrialized coastlines and harm to sea life.
The US faces similar challenges — without a testing facility. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has okayed a pilot marine-power project for Makah Bay, off the Washington coast, but environmental approval is still pending. By the time the inevitable court battles are resolved, the waves may be lapping at our doorsteps.
Ken E. writes "Asus has backed down in the face of complaints from UK Eee PC 900 owners about the ultra-portable's low-capacity battery. Confusing statements posted in online reviews led buyers to believe that they would get a larger capacity battery than they actually did — and they weren't happy. Asus has, however, made a conciliatory gesture by extending a £10 high-capacity battery upgrade offer. Mobile Computer has the full announcement, plus quite a bit of background on how this fuss all got started. The batteries will be available June 10 and in the meantime Eee PC owners can download a BIOS update that Asus claims will add half an hour to battery life."
The first time Apa Sherpa climbed Mount Everest it was just to get to the top. When he conquered the peak an eighteenth time just over a week ago, breaking his own record, he did it for the Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 1 Jun 2008 | 2:05 am
Daniel Pink, author of many well-regarded business books, wrote his first manga business book, Johnny Bunko, after receiving a fellowship to live in Japan and study manga. Bunko is a quick, funny, and extremely, inspiringly sensible book on career-planning that throws out all the traditional bullshit about getting a straight job to fall back on if your creative gig fails on you. Instead, Bunko makes a convincing case for pursuing your dreams, working to your strengths, throwing out the idea of planning, and persevering rather than relying on talent to make it.
I spent a lot of my life ignoring (with some difficulty), the advice of well-meaning people who wanted me to know that I'd never, ever be able to live on what I made from writing. Instead, I took on a series of careers in fields that hadn't even existed when I was a student, each one bringing me closer to my dream of being a full-time scribbler. If I'd listened to the software aptitude test my high-school guidance counsellor gave me, I'd be a "geriatric nutritionist" (cook in a senior's home) today.
Johnny Bunko is a miserable accounting drone who finds a bundle of magic chopsticks. Every time he separates a pair, a genie emerges to help him navigate his way to career freedom. It's a great little device, and the manga artwork -- from the award-winning Rob Ten Pas -- is simple and clean and often very funny.
Bunko is a refreshingly frank and optimistic (but clear-eyed) story about the perils of choosing a safe, lucrative and hateful job that you'll never be able to afford to leave, and the joys of failing in interesting ways, learning from your mistakes, and making more of yourself. I wish someone had given me a copy when I was 16 or so, and forced me to re-read it every year until I was in my mid-twenties.
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MojoKid writes "A little over a week ago Netflix unveiled the Netflix Player, developed by the team at Roku, a set-top box for watching on-demand movies and TV. This interview with Tim Twerdahl, the VP of Consumer Products for Roku, goes into some detail about the guts of the box and the future of the set-top box. Of course the system runs an embedded Linux OS but interestingly also runs on a Nexperia (Philips) media processor."
Etsy seller OctopusMe makes jewelry out of octopus tentacles, recast in sterling silver -- rings, earrings, and assorted pieces in handsome sucker style.
This ring is made from a REAL Octopus tentacle which has drilled, carved, shaped and cast in Sterling Silver! This ring is definitely one of my favorites. I like it because it's versatile. It looks different from all angles when you spin it around your finger! It has a nice sexy flowing curve to it. The texture on it is amazing! And, it has all of those cute little suction cups flowing all around the ring! There is a nice weight and chunkiness to the piece. Oh, and the best part is that it's Sushi Grade! Ha ha ha! It looks great on both guys and gals!! Make sure to get yours at this special price!!
Remember Kieffe & Sons, the California Ford dealership that ran a radio ad saying that they were Christians, and non-believers could therefore "sit down and shut up" and stop demanding separation of church and state?
Remember how they apologized for saying this really dumb thing?
They take it back.
The owner of the dealership says that he was forced to issue the apology by Ford, and he doesn't stand behind it, and he only issued it to appease "blog-lo-dites."
“I don’t regret the sentiment at all,” said Kieffe, who bought the 48-year-old dealership from his father in 1974. “It’s what we believe.”
Kieffe & Sons has sites in Mojave and Rosamond.
The dealer’s Web site Thursday bore a statement about the ad that included an apology “to all who were offended.”
Kieffe said he’d been contacted by Ford Motor Co. after the manufacturer heard complaints from numerous “blog-lo-dites.”
Remember, this guy doesn't actually attend church.
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I have an inordinate fondness for Alice in Wonderland stuff -- it was the first book I ever read on my own -- and I'm really delighted by this sweet little Alice journal/blank book I just picked up. It features a nice mix of the Tenniel art as well as other classic public domain versions of Alice, and some great quotations from the book. It's got a nice moleskine-style elastic in Alice Blue, too.
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Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: On a recent trip to Europe I learned firsthand the meaning of the term "ugly American," which stems partly from the loud, obnoxious voices we sometimes use in public. Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 31 May 2008 | 11:58 pm
Bonnie Burton of Lucasfilm has posted an homage to comedian Harvey Korman, who died this week at 81 years of age:
I can still remember being on the edge of my seat in the movie theater watching Korman as Captain Blythe in Herbie Goes Bananas. Heck, I even liked him during my full-blown Goth days when he played Dr. Jack Seward in Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
So it really shouldn’t be a surprise when years later, I was brave enough to admit in a crowded Lucasfilm marketing meeting that I was a big fan of the “Star Wars Holiday Special.”
I justified my adoration of the hardly-seen TV show by saying that, in addition to Bea Arthur as the Cantina barkeep Ackmena, it was Korman’s three bizarre characters that made me want to watch the cult classic over and over again. Korman portrayed the Ackmena-smitten Cantina patron Krelman, the multi-armed Julia Child-in-outer-space Chef Gormaanda, and an Amorphian instructor that practically drives Chewie’s son Lumpy to tears.
I was devastated to hear of his passing this week. Not only did an iconic comedian leave our galaxy, but sadly I’ll never get the chance to interview him about those roles he played in “The Star Wars Holiday Special.” I had so many questions for him!
Lucas123 writes "IM Flash Technologies, a joint venture between Intel and Micron, announced it has developed a 32-gigabit NAND flash memory chip that is expected to enable the production of cheaper solid-state drives with twice the storage capacity of today's products. The 34-nanometer, multi-level chip is smaller than Intel's latest CPUs. Samples will be available in June with production by the end of the year."
AP - Canada's federal privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into Facebook after four students complained that the popular Web site violates Canadian law by disclosing personal information to advertisers without proper consent. Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 31 May 2008 | 10:15 pm
Enigma2175 writes "CNN is reporting that videos from the Coachella music festival showing Prince covering Radiohead's 'Creep' have been removed by Prince's label, NPG records. Thom Yorke of Radiohead, when told of Prince's action, said 'Well, tell him to unblock it. It's our... song.' No comment from YouTube or Prince yet. Under the DMCA, YouTube is not required to verify the entity making a request is actually the copyright holder and this seems to be just another example of DMCA abuse." As the article points out, Prince seems to have a love-hate relationship with the Interwebs.
NORTH OAKS, Minn. - This small, private community north of St. Paul enforces its trespassing ordinance, and Google Maps is no exception. The Web site's "street view" allows users to see Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 31 May 2008 | 9:34 pm
Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts are on their way to the international space station. They're delivering a giant Japanese lab addition, along with something more mundane _ Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 31 May 2008 | 9:03 pm
Sharp new images received Saturday from the Phoenix lander largely convinced scientists that the spacecraft's thrusters had uncovered a large patch of ice just below the Martian surface,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 31 May 2008 | 8:39 pm
mikesd81 sends in a report from Newsday about radiocarbon dating of cremated bones excavated from Britain's Stonehenge that, an archeologist said, has solved part of the ancient mystery surrounding the 5,000-year-old site: It was a burial ground for what may have been the country's first royal dynasty. No word on how this work relates to the "Neolithic Lourdes" theory we discussed earlier. "The new dates indicate burials began at least 500 years before the first massive stones were erected at the site and continued after it was completed... The pattern and relatively small number of the graves suggest all were members of a single family. The findings provide the first substantive evidence that a line of kings ruled at least a portion of southern England during this early period. They exerted enough power to mobilize manpower necessary to move the massive stones from as far as 150 miles away and [maintained] that power for at least five centuries, said archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson of the University of Sheffield, leader of current excavations at the site... His findings will also appear in the June issue of National Geographic and in the television special "Stonehenge Decoded," to be shown Sunday."
By Donita Naylor Officials say the 24-year-old woman was lucky to be found by Carl Renquist, who was fishing close to shore. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
The May 15 column by Bill Falcone, "Save water supply from DEM," opens with a succinct history of the Rhode Island Water Resources Board and a forceful argument for its continued independence from the state Department of Environmental Management. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
By Mike Branom, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz. May 31--Little by little, the planned ring of parks surrounding Tempe Town Lake is nearing completion. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
By Pam Sohn, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn. May 31--The Tennessee Aquarium's work to release more than 60,000 lake sturgeon into the Tennessee River Watershed over the past decade has brought a species once extinct to Tennessee back home -- and won a state award. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
By Timothy C Barmann The next step is for the governor to choose a team of state officials to examine the proposals. PROVIDENCE -- Seven developers, one as far away as Houston, have submitted proposals to build an offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
By Terry Karkos DENMARK - Forest fires in Bowdoinham and the Greenville area Friday were the latest in a series of blazes this week. Fires in Denmark, Bingham and New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest continued to burn, according to forest officials. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
By Curtis Killman, Tulsa World, Okla. May 31--Bacteria levels in the Illinois River this week were three to four times permitted levels. The results came one week after similar tests found the water to be well within federal standards. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
By Ryan McCarthy, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif. May 31--More than 100 hungry teens in black wingtips crowded East Lake in Marysville for a rare fish feed Friday. "I couldn't believe it," said Pat Escovedo, who lives across from the lake. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
By Nick Gevock, The Montana Standard, Butte May 31--nglers on the Big Hole River have lost a fishing access site near Twin Bridges after heavy runoff eroded the road into it. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
By Brier Dudley, Seattle Times May 31--BERKELEY, Calif. -- Stories about tech companies usually focus on feuds and rivalries, even though it's actually pretty collegial in the upper echelons of computer science. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
U.S. officials Saturday were investigating allegations that Chinese agents stole data from a laptop computer belonging to the U.S. secretary of commerce. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
By ANICK JESDANUN AP Q: How is it that online advertisers seem to know that I'm thinking of buying a car or planning a big vacation? I find that creepy, so what can I do about it? A: Welcome to the world of targeting, where online service providers know quite a bit about you and use that knowledge to sell higher-priced ads to subsidize their free services. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
By Bob Gardinier, Albany Times Union, N.Y. May 31--ALBANY -- Voices raised in gospel songs accompanied by an accordion filled the air this morning in the West Hill neighborhood where 10-year-old Kathina Thomas was killed by a stray bullet two days ago. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
By Molly Rossiter, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa May 31--A consortium of religious leaders across faith and denominational lines is gathering strength in numbers in efforts to provide assistance to Iowans affected by Sunday's EF5 tornado that destroyed more than a third of Parkersburg and left five people dead there and two more dead in New Hartford. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
D. J. Keenan notes that the cover story of the current issue of National Journal reports in depth on China's cyber-aggression against US targets in the government, military, and business. We have discussed China's actions on numerous occasions over the years. The news in this report is the suggestion that Chinese cyber-attackers may have been involved in major power outages in the US. "Computer hackers in China, including those working on behalf of the Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply into the information systems of US companies and government agencies, stolen proprietary information from American executives in advance of their business meetings in China, and, in a few cases, gained access to electric power plants in the United States, possibly triggering two recent and widespread blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to US government officials and computer-security experts..."
When contemplating the world's environmental problems, it's sometimes hard not to feel like humanity is screwed. But then you attend an event like Future Cities, a panel of sustainability experts at the World Science Festival, and it seems like we might just figure out how to thrive on this planet after all.
AP - A spokeswoman for the Phoenix Mars Lander mission says a hacker took over the mission's public Web site during the night and changed its lead news story. Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 31 May 2008 | 5:07 pm
The Adventure Church of American Fork, 55 E. 400 North, will hold a multifamily yard sale to benefit the church's new carpet fund from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. There will be a clothes and furniture for sale, plus baked goods. For more information, call Muriel at 801-756-4508. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 31 May 2008 | 5:00 pm
U.S. digital video company TiVo Inc. has responded to a suit filed against it by Dish Network Corp. in an ongoing battle over patent infringement. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 31 May 2008 | 5:00 pm
The LDS Church's Family History Library will offer a Summer of Sleuthing event to involve children and their families into family research. This six-week program will begin June 28 and end Aug. 9. To register, call 240-4950, or go to www.familysearch.org. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 31 May 2008 | 5:00 pm
Why is there such a discrepancy in the number of male vs. female scientists in academia? Wired Science considers the funny math in the world of academic science.
By Tad Walch Deseret News If you've never Googled yourself, try it, though you might not like it. Once in a while I run the names of our family through the ol' search engine and find, for example, that one of our boys had a nominal doppelganger playing college baseball. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 31 May 2008 | 5:00 pm
Underland Press is publishing a "wovel" -- a web-novel -- in which the author publishes a cubicle-reading-length installment, along with several possibilities as to where the story could go next. The readers vote on the direction the book should take, and the author writes the next installment to their spec.
The first Wovel is "The Living," a horror/detective novel by Brian Evenson.
The night was a symphony of whistles and gunshots.
Inside the dimly lit apartment, the old man stood by the door. He was not old enough to have lived through a war, and didn't expect to live through this one. Though he didn't count courage among his virtues, he had accepted the notion of his imminent death with curious calm. For what was there to fear? This was not a world he recognized. It hadn't been for some time. Instead it had mutated into a kind of hellish garden in which neither God nor nature prevailed. When the time came, he would be glad to leave it.
Footsteps on the stairs.
Whines and pained whimpers from the bed behind him.
In the dim glow from the lantern the man's face was a thousand years old, appearing to be more rock than flesh. The thin shadows on his sunken cheeks were like spilled ink running from his eyes. He turned and said, "Hush, Maddy."
AP - It's not just concern for the squeamish biology students who wince at the feel and smell of cutting into a formaldehyde-soaked animal.
AP - Amazon.com said Friday that publisher Simon & Schuster Inc. will make 5,000 more books available for the Amazon Kindle wireless reader, bumping to 125,000 the number of titles users can download and read.
Reuters - State-controlled Dubai Aerospace
Enterprise (DAE) said it was in talks to buy 50 aircraft worth
a total of about $2.5 billion to expand its leasing business.
AFP - The simple act of using a computer for email or the Internet can mobilise armies of hidden agents and criminals out to subvert the system and business, the OECD says in a study on cyber crime.
Reuters - Bangladesh's mobile telephone operators
must deactivate more than one million unregistered SIM cards
from Sunday as deadline for registration ended last night,
telecoms watchdog officials said.
Daniel Pink, author of many well-regarded business books, wrote his first manga business book, Johnny Bunko, after receiving a fellowship to live in Japan and study manga. Bunko is a quick, funny, and extremely, inspiringly sensible book on career-planning that throws out all the traditional bullshit about getting a straight job to fall back on if your creative gig fails on you. Instead, Bunko makes a convincing case for pursuing your dreams, working to your strengths, throwing out the idea of planning, and persevering rather than relying on talent to make it.
I have an inordinate fondness for Alice in Wonderland stuff -- it was the first book I ever read on my own -- and I'm really delighted by this sweet little Alice journal/blank book I just picked up. It features a nice mix of the Tenniel art as well as other classic public domain versions of Alice, and some great quotations from the book. It's got a nice moleskine-style elastic in Alice Blue, too.
Link
I can still remember being on the edge of my seat in the movie theater watching Korman as Captain Blythe in Herbie Goes Bananas. Heck, I even liked him during my full-blown Goth days when he played Dr. Jack Seward in Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
The night was a symphony of whistles and gunshots.
