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Live Celebrity Surgery - Bridgette Neilsen's Plastic Surgery (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Bridgette Neilsen, formerly Mrs. Sly Stallone, decided to go for a few rounds with the plastic surgeon - on live TV. Gerhard Sattler was the doctor she chose for her major body overhaul...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 6:40 pm Taming Las Vegas Dress Codes - The "Underboob" Scandal (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Nevada has declared "underboobs", the exposure of the lower half of female breasts, illegal. The Gaming Commission prevented the Palms from having burlesque performers reveal the lower...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 6:20 pm DIY Pixel Luggage - Pop Top by Public(TrendHunter.com) When you are groggily waiting for your checked luggage to appear at the airport after a long flight, there's a chance it could pass by you three times on the luggage carousel before...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 5:40 pm Ikea Rental Bikes - Brand Colors and Trailer Included (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Ikea is going green in Denmark with a new program that loans bikes with trailers to customers to take home their purchases. The bikes are built in the classic Ikea design and sturdy...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 5:20 pm Fashion Statement Against Oil Prices - Alphanumeric Gassed Tee (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) The ever increasing gas prices have crossed the line from ridiculous to unbearable. Well known for their socially aware and witty t-shirts, fashion brand Alphanumeric depicts this sad...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 5:00 pm iTunes 7.7 now availableRun and grab the download, iTunes 7.7 is now available, and it is geared towards iPhone 3G! Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 4:30 pm A look at Friend Book for iPhone from TapulousSee, it’s things like this that get me super excited for the App Store. The app is called Friend Book, and it takes the iPhone contact list and adds a bunch of fantastic features. You get thumbnail...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:34 pm Summer movies roll on through video games (Reuters)Reuters - Summer blockbuster movies no longer end with the closing credits with rising numbers of licensed video games being spun off from Hollywood adventures, putting the gamer in the starring role.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:29 pm Swastika Appears On Google TrendsSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:18 pm Google Lively Reviewjoc1985 writes "An objective review of Google Lively after a few hours of playing around. It seems to be a bad copy of Second Life. Somehow all the rooms are crowded and porn has made its way in there already"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:17 pm A Filter For Your Feeds. AideRSS Turns PostRank Into An API and Google Reader ExtensionCanadian startup AideRSS is taking the ranking algorithm in its feed reader, PostRank, and turning it into an API for other developers to integrate into their own apps. At the same time, it is releasing...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:15 pm Bug-Eyed Flatfish Evolution RevealedTwo flatfish fossils found in museum drawers help answer an evolutionary puzzle.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:13 pm Angoss Positioned in the Challengers Quadrant in Leading Industry Analyst Firm's Customer Data Mining Magic QuadrantTORONTO, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Angoss Software Corporation (Angoss) (TSX-V: ANC), a leading provider of data mining and predictive analytics solutions for the...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:12 pm Meet Hiroyuki, the guy who will get Asia’s first 3G iPhone [UPDATED] - CrunchGear
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:09 pm No Windows Vista For Would-Be Air Traffic Controllers - InformationWeek
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:06 pm AT&T Offers Nation's Fastest 3G NetworkNation's Fastest 3G Network Complements Best Global Coverage and Industry-Leading Portfolio of 3G Devices DALLAS, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For customers who...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:06 pm Early Registration Deadline Approaches for Bandwidth Music & Technology ConferenceThe Bandwidth Conference gathers professionals in the music, technology and media worlds and explores the evolving musical experience. Bandwidth 2008 takes place August 14 and 15 in...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm Greenling Promotes Sustainability with Organic and Local Food DeliveryWith Third Anniversary, Online Grocer Eyes Central Texas Expansion AUSTIN, Texas, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenling (greenling.com), an award-winning online grocer...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm Global Loyalty Marketing Company Unveils as LoyaltyOneNew Corporate Identity Reflects Evolution to Worldwide Provider of Loyalty Services LoyaltyOne to Target International Marketplace Opportunities TORONTO, July 10...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm Newport Digital Technologies to Deploy $30-Million WiMAX Network in ItalyNEWPORT BEACH, Calif., July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Newport Digital Technologies, a subsidiary of International Food Products Group (OTC Bulletin Board: IFDG), todaySource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm Submissions Now Open for Web 2.0 Summit Launch PadFourth Edition Launch Pad Addresses the World's Need for Change SAN FRANCISCO, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- TechWeb (formerly href="http://www.cmp.com">CMP ) and...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm MobileMe software available for download - Macworld
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:59 pm Apple iPhone debuts to lines in Japan, elsewhere (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:55 pm The iPhone’s Been Good To AdMob. A Quarter Billion Ads Served, And ... - TechCrunch
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:53 pm Penn State Helps Bridge Gap for Students with Learning and Other DisabilitiesProgram assists teachers meet new, mandatory teacher certification requirements UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In Pennsylvania, more than 260,000...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:51 pm The iPhones Been Good To AdMob. A Quarter Billion Ads Served, And CountingWith the 3G iPhone about to go on sale tomorrow, mobile ad startup AdMob is releasing some data on its iPhone ad network. Since it launched the network back in July, 2007, AdMob has served 249 million...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:50 pm Feith Systems Becomes First to Obtain DoD 5015.2 'Classified' Certification (Version 3) for RMAFORT WASHINGTON, Pa., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Feith Systems and Software, Inc. announces that it is the first and only corporation to be certified on the DoD 5015.2...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:49 pm Hurricane Bertha weakens again in AtlanticMIAMI (Reuters) - The first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season weakened back into a Category 1 hurricane on Thursday as it churned its way toward the British colony of Bermuda,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:46 pm Ok, iPhone Users, We Are Ready To Roll With 2.0 - Washington Post
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:46 pm Obama Losing Voters Over FISA SupportCorrupt writes "I've admired Obama, but I never confused him with a genuine progressive leader. Today I don't admire him at all. His collapse on FISA is unforgivable. The only thing Obama has going for him this week is that McCain is matching him misstep for misstep."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:38 pm At Antarctic Peninsula, Fast ChangeDramatic shifts in the food web are happening on the Antarctic Peninsula.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:29 pm Photobucket signs Ask.com search marketing deal (Reuters)Reuters - IAC/InterActiveCorp's search engine unit Ask.com said on Thursday struck a deal that allows its search box to be displayed across online photo and video site Photobucket.com.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:24 pm Yahoo! opens up its search to outside developers - CNET News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:18 pm Read all 'MTI Micro' posts in Crave - CNET News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:05 pm ILS Technology's secureWISE Platform Expands Into New Application AreasILS Technology LLC, an industry leader in enabling intelligence through connectivity, today announced that leading customers worldwide have expanded their deployment of secureWISE(TM) with new applications to increase manufacturing efficiency.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:01 pm Xilinx at the 2008 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects ConferenceSAN JOSE, Calif., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. today announced that its industry-leading programmable logic solutions for enabling space applications, will be showcased at the 2008 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), July 14-18, 2008 in Tucson, Arizona.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:01 pm Maryland Based Company, Convergence Technology Consulting, Ranks on Corridor Inc. "Greatest Places to Work in the Corridor 2008" ListConvergence Technology Consulting, a networking engineering firm providing IT services and specializing in Citrix, VMware, Microsoft and enterprise storage was named by the Corridor Inc.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:01 pm 2008 China Petrochemical Market Weekly ReportResearch and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/d9c5cf/2008_china_petroch) has announced the addition of the "2008 China Petrochemical Market Weekly Report" report to their offering.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:01 pm Chemical Bank Takes Credit for 'Save Michigan' CampaignMIDLAND, Mich., July 10, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Chemical Bank revealed today that the Midland-based bank is behind the "Save Michigan" campaign launched across the Lower Peninsula last week.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:01 pm Is All Cow Manure Created Equal?Question: Is there such a thing as organic cow manure? Or is all cow manure created equal? Answer: It's all organic, but manure from livestock that have been kept in feed lots is likely to contain traces of pesticides, hormones and other chemicals.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:01 pm Pay for County Permits OnlineBy Anita Hardin, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Jul. 10--Trout Lake Nature Center will have a workday at the center from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Saturday to trim, plant, repair and clean up the nature center property.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Happy Trails: The Paint MinesBy Dave Philipps, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Jul. 10--Hidden in a grassy basin on the eastern plains, the Paint Mines is a trove of whimsical hoodoos made from bright, sherbetcolored stone. For generations, this geologic oddity on the plains has drawn people to it.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Denver Water in Hot Water Closing of Dillon Dam Road Angers Summit OfficialsBy Bill Scanlon A retractable fence to allow emergency vehicles to use Dillon Dam Road should be installed soon, Denver Water officials said Wednesday.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Wildfire Forces Evacuation of 1,000 People in Northern CaliforniaWildfire forces evacuation of 1,000 people in Northern California LOS ANGELES, July 9 (Xinhua) -- A fast-moving fire in Northern California destroyed 50 homes and forced 10,000 people out of their residences, authorities said on Wednesday.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Fixit: Perfluorochemicals and ScotchgardQuestion: Scotchgard contains perfluorochemicals, which have been in the news. I have Scotchgard on my children's mattresses.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Wildfire Spreads West of TampicoBy Mark Morey, Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash. Jul. 10--Wildland firefighters are expected to continue arriving today to reinforce crews fighting a 70-acre forest fire in rugged country west of Tampico.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm City Says Apartment Project Requires Nob Hill ExpansionBy Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash. Jul. 10--Borton Enterprises of Yakima is being required to contribute to street improvements on Nob Hill Boulevard in a city environmental review of the company's plans to build a 342-unit apartment complex near 51st Avenue and Nob Hill.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Sony Computer Entertainment America and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Announce Double Fusion As In-Game Advertising PartnerFOSTER CITY, Calif. and LONDON, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced a partnership with Double Fusion to deliver dynamic in-game advertising on PLAYSTATION(R)3 (PS3(TM)).Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm HP to Power Department of Defense Cloud Computing InfrastructureHP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced that it will be supplying the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with scalable technology to enable its Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to deploy a cloud computing infrastructure.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm IBM and Juniper Sign Five-Year, Data Center Hosting AgreementJuniper Networks has signed a five-year, data center hosting agreement with IBM to support Juniper's global operations.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Orchestra Will Play at Unity MoravianBy Lisa O'Donnell, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Jul. 10--LEWISVILLE Jim Basta is bringing the Beatles to Unity Moravian Church. Basta, the church's music director, will lead the Salem Community Orchestra in a free performance at 7:30 p.m. on July 27.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm MultiVu Recognizes the Most Creative Uses of Multimedia, May and June 2008NEW YORK, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A campaign to educate the event-going public on the "Paperless Ticket" and a promotion to help airline pilots quit smoking have been recognized by MultiVu as some of the most exceptionally creative uses of multimedia by corporate, non-profit, and government communications professionals during May and June.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Hanesbrands Inc. Sets Date for Second Quarter Earnings Announcement and Investor Conference CallHanesbrands Inc. (NYSE: HBI) today announced that it will host a live Internet webcast of its quarterly investor conference call at 4:30 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, to review results for the second quarter, which ended June 28, 2008.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Northwest Airlines to Cut 2,500 JobsNorthwest Airlines has announced it will reduce its frontline and management employees by 2,500, as a result of capacity reductions taken to address the unprecedented run-up in oil prices.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Wikipedia To Host Human Gene Repositoryschliz writes "U.S. scientists are developing a " Gene Wiki" with the aim of fostering a flexible, organic archive of human genetic information. The project exists within Wikipedia, and is expected to speed up the process of deciphering genome sequences."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:55 pm Can Internet Activity Ever Be Truly Anonymous? - PC Magazine
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:48 pm Steampunk city in Second Life: New BabbageNew Babbage is Second Life's magnificent steampunk city, "bringing together the combined interests of Steampunks from around the world to a place they can roleplay and be creative." Link to video, Link to New Babbage homepage (Thanks, Josh!) Source: Boing Boing | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:38 pm Bob Geldof vs. the war on terrorBob Geldof's editorial against the new British law that suspends habeas corpus by making it possible for the authorities to lock us up for 42 days without charging us with anything ( (even more than the old law that suspended habeas corpus by letting them do it for 25 days) really nails it:Still today, 800 years later, Magna Carta resonates: "To no man will we deny, To no man will we delay, Justice and Right." Is that not grand, worthy of your vote? Is habeas corpus to be traduced in one sad moment of political expediency? Do we not clearly deny and delay Justice and Right when we imprison a person for 42 days without charge?Link (via Blogzilla) Source: Boing Boing | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:35 pm Con-artists join the war on photographers"Jeff" (the brother of the editor of Photoshop Insider) is pretty sure that the "plain-clothes security-guard" who approached him in a store in Italy to enforce the store's no-photography rule was a petty con-man who just wanted to steal the memory-card out of Jeff's camera.As they were walking around, Jeff saw some interesting looking produce and pulled out his Canon G-9 Point-and-Shoot and took a few pictures. Within a few minutes a man came up dressed in plain clothes, flashed a badge, and told him he couldn’t take photos in the store. My brother said “no problem” (after all, it’s a private store, right?), but then the guy demanded my brother’s memory card.Link (via Schneier) Source: Boing Boing | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:31 pm Emergent BioSolutions sues Protein Sciences - Bizjournals.com
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:30 pm Tor writers on free ebook giveaways as a book-sales toolSimon from Bloggasm interviewed some of Tor's authors who've given away their books for free online while they were available in stores and asked them if they believed the giveaways had sold more print books, and what made them think so:“‘Scientifically’?” he [Scalzi] wrote to me in an email. “Probably not, unless you somehow managed to control (or at least account for and factor in) every incident of someone discussing your work and or going down a decision path to acquire the work, which is probably more work than it’s worth. But I don’t think that ’scientifically’ is the standard required here; I think ‘heuristically’ is probably better. If you consistently see a rise in sales of an author’s work after the release of a free e-book, then heuristically you have a good idea it’s beneficial.”Link Source: Boing Boing | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:24 pm Birds Struggle to Tweet Over Traffic DinBirds are shifting the frequencies of their songs to compete with urban noise.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:22 pm Apple releases iTunes 7.7 (Macworld.com)Macworld.com - Apple released iTunes 7.7 on Thursday, adding support for the iPhone 3G and the iTunes App Store.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:15 pm Japan to scrap iPod copyright fee (AP)AP - Japan will stop pushing for legislation to charge royalties on the sales of iPods and other portable digital music players, giving in to opposition from electronics makers, officials said Thursday.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:14 pm Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design LawH0D_G writes "The US state of Louisiana has passed the "Science Education Act," a piece of legislation that could allow Intelligent design to be taught in schools. From the article: 'The act is designed to slip ID in "through the back door"'"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:12 pm Virtual teleportation arrives - Inquirer
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 10 Jul 2008 | 12:39 pm Moon May Have Once Had WaterSmivs writes "US scientists have found evidence that water was held in the Moon's interior, challenging some elements of the theory of how Earth's satellite formed.The Moon is thought to have been created in a violent collision between Earth and another planet-sized object. Scientists thought the heat from this impact had vaporised all the water. But a new study in Nature magazine shows water was delivered to the lunar surface from the interior in volcanic eruptions three billion years ago. This suggests that water has been a part of the Moon since its early existence."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 10 Jul 2008 | 12:34 pm Ex-Congressmans Firm Made Defective Tank Deal With IraqIf, someday, there are T-shirts sold in Iraq that read, "the United States invaded our country and all we got were these crappy tanks," you can thank former Rep. Curt Weldon’s arms-dealing firm, Defense Solutions, for the new outfits. The company got itself a contract to refurbish Soviet-era tanks for the Iraqi government under a deal with such lopsided terms it likely would have been illegal under U.S. law.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 10 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm Photonic Switching to Boost Internet SpeedsDa Massive writes "Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed technology that could boost the throughput of existing networks by 100-fold without costing the consumer any more, and its all thanks to a scratch on a piece of glass. After four years of development, University of Sydney scientists say the Internet is set to become on average 60 times faster than existing networks. According to the Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) at the University's School of Physics, the scratch will mean almost instantaneous, error-free and unlimited access to the Internet anywhere in the world."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 10 Jul 2008 | 11:57 am Yahoo opens search toolkit in quest for more ads (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 10 Jul 2008 | 11:48 am IPhone Debuts to Lines in JapanThey're lining up in Japan for Friday's debut of the iPhone 3G, but whether it will score with anyone beyond a niche crowd remains to be seen. It isn't clear how many phones will be available, fueling the hype. Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong are the other Asia-Pacific countries getting the new phone.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 10 Jul 2008 | 11:34 am IPhone Debuts to Lines in JapanThey're lining up in Japan for Friday's debut of the iPhone 3G, but whether it will score with anyone beyond a niche crowd remains to be seen. It isn't clear how many phones will be available, fueling the hype. Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong are the other Asia-Pacific countries getting the new phone.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 10 Jul 2008 | 11:34 am App Store for iPhone already a hit with developers (USATODAY.com)USATODAY.com - Apple CEO Steve Jobs expected to launch his App Store - the online venue for third-party iPhone and iPod Touch applications - with 200 software offerings; he ended up with more than 500.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 10 Jul 2008 | 11:28 am HTC's IPhone 3G Rival, the Touch Diamond (PC World)PC World - There's no getting away from comparisons to Apple's upcoming iPhone 3G these days, so here it is: The HTC Touch Diamond was...Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 10 Jul 2008 | 10:40 am Ahead of the Bell: Analyst:Cisco sell-off overdoneAn analyst called a recent decline in shares of Cisco Systems Inc. "overdone," and expects fundamentals to improve later this year.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 10:15 am Telegraph science veteran Roger Highfield appointed editor of New ScientistDaily Telegraph science editor Roger Highfield, the first man to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble, has been appointed editor of New Scientist. Highfield, who is leaving the Daily Telegraph after more...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 9:52 am Radio-carbon tests reveal true age of Rome's she-wolf - and she's a relative youngsterSymbol of Roman glory revealed to date from Middle Ages, 1,800 years later than believedSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 8:18 am Google Open Sources Browser SyncDan Berlin writes "After announcing that Browser Sync was being discontinued, a lot of people asked for Google to open source the code so development could continue. Well, they've done just that. The code for browser sync is now available on code.google.com, and a blog post about the release can be found on the Google open source blog"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 10 Jul 2008 | 8:09 am BBtv: Monochrom's "Kiki, Bubu, and the Self"Austrian subversive art collective monochrom present an all-new installment of the philosophical sock puppets Kiki and Bubu on today's episode of Boing Boing tv. These fuzzy logicians ponder the true nature of individual identity in capitalist societies, and connect the dots between Star Trek fandom, Sesame Street characters, Broadway musicals, and racy jpegs. Link to Boing Boing tv episode with discussion, downloadable video, and instructions on how to subscribe to the daily BBtv video podcast. Previously:
* Nazi Petting Zoo Source: Boing Boing | 10 Jul 2008 | 7:57 am Bobbie Johnson on solving the largest security flaw on the internetBobbie Johnson explains the security flaw in web-browsers that has now been fixedSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 7:56 am Evidence of moon water foundSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am The old man who farms with the seaSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am House votes to preserve White House e-mailsSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am Apple will open App Store in bid to boost iPhone salesSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am Online baseball game teams players from past, present (CNET)CNET - A new online baseball game may finally help put to rest an age-old debate: how would Babe Ruth do at the plate facing Nola Ryan's fastball?Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 10 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am Phone firms fighting to keep callersSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am HOWTO make a giant cardboard GandhiRandi sez, "Perhaps you would be interested in a 17 foot tall Gandhi avatar made out of cardboard? An artist by the name of Joseph DeLappe made this for his Eyebeam spring residency. Should you want to make your own, the process is well documented on Instructables."Link (Thanks, Randy!) Source: Boing Boing | 10 Jul 2008 | 5:40 am Golden Books art featured in NYC exhibit through Aug. 28
Via Cartoon Brew, word of a cool new show at New York's Children’s Museum of Manhattan -- “Golden Legacy: Original Art from 65 Years of Golden Book”. Snip from the show description: Among the artists who contributed to the series were greats of the European émigré community such as Garth Williams, Feodor Rojankovsky, and Tibor Gergely who had gathered in New York as the situation in Europe worsened during World War II; alumni of the Walt Disney Studios such as Gustaf Tenggren, Martin Provensen, J. P. Miller, and Mary Blair; and American aritsts Leonard Weisgard, Eloise Wilkin, Elizabeth Orton Jones, Richard Scarry, and Hilary Knight.Golden Legacy: Original Art from 65 Years of Golden Books, through August 28, at CMOM, 212 West 83rd Street, NYC. Image: work from the artist Mary Blair, whose illustrations for Golden Books will be featured in this show. [ Thank you, John Walsh! ] Source: Boing Boing | 10 Jul 2008 | 5:18 am Pickens Plans On Wind PowerHugh Pickens writes "T. Boone Pickens (no relation) has launched an energy plan and social-networking campaign that calls for replacing Middle Eastern oil with Midwestern wind. The Pickens Plan would exploit the country's "wind corridor" from the Canadian border to West Texas to produce 20 percent of the country's electricity and provide an economic revival for rural America. Transmission lines would be built to transport the power where the demand is and natural gas, now used to fuel power plants, would instead be used as a transportation fuel, which burns cleaner than gasoline and is domestic. Pickens proposed that the private sector finance the investment, which would result in a one-third reduction, equal to $230 billion, in the U.S.' yearly payments to foreign countries. Pickens has already invested heavily in wind, notably a planned 4,000-megawatt wind farm in his native Texas. "We've got to get renewable into the mix. The problem for this country is that we're paying $700 billion — you heard that — $700 billion a year," Pickens says. "We can't afford that. In 10 years we'll be broke if we continue that.""Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 10 Jul 2008 | 4:33 am Feeling the Heat in a Solar Race CarDriving 2,400 miles across the scorching Midwest in July without air conditioning is not pleasant, but it's the only way to win a solar car race. Eighteen collegiate teams will brave temperatures in the 90s and roads littered with road kill during the North American Solar Challenge, a 10-day road race from Texas to Alberta in cars powered only by the sun. "It's about 95 degrees and humid," says Kathy Van Wormer, co-captain of the Oregon State University Solar Vehicle Team. "In the car it's about 110. But what's got us worried is the wind. The car is shaped like an airplane wing." No one involved in the race thinks we'll all be driving solar cars one day, even if Automobiles Venturi is developing a solar-hybrid sports car. A vehicle with the practicality and comforts consumers demand would require more photovoltaic cells than it could carry. But experts say the Solar Challenge advances power management, vehicle efficiency and other technologies essential to getting electric and plug-in hybrids on the road. Putting solar cells on cars isn't as crazy as you might think. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is experimenting with solar cells on a plug-in hybrid. Fisker Automotive plans to include them on its Karma plug-in hybrid, and solar cells reportedly will power the air conditioning on the next-generation Toyota Prius. "There is a role for solar cells in cars," says NREL spokesman George Douglas. "There are uses for solar power beyond propelling a car across the country." The biennial Challenge highlights how far solar and battery technology has come since the first race in 1990. Back then, everyone used lead-acid batteries, and the cars topped out at 25 mph. This year, lithium is the norm, and some of the 2-horsepower cars can hit 75 mph -- but the rules limit them to 65 for safety reasons. "We're only geared to do 45," Van Wormer says. "We didn't want to go much faster than that. It's all about maximizing efficiency and managing power." The team spent three years and $50,000 building Rain Dancer. The three-wheeler has a titanium frame and a body of fiberglass and carbon fiber. It's covered with 418 monocrystalline silicon cells that the team didn't receive until June 20. "We'd been looking for cells for two years," she says. "There's a huge shortage of cells right now." That didn't leave much time for testing the car, but Van Wormer -- who's financing the team's trip with her credit card -- says it's performed well during this week's qualifying. "If it stays intact, we're set," she says. Oregon State is a newcomer to the race, but the University of Michigan Solar Car Team is one of four groups that have competed in all nine events. It rolled up in an 18-wheeler and four SUVs donated by General Motors. With a $2.4 million budget (donated by more than 300 sponsors) and a $500,000 car, it's the Scuderia Ferrari of solar racing. Like Ferrari, its carbon-fiber car is state-of-the-art. Dubbed Continuum, it weighs 485 pounds and is covered with about 2,500 aerospace-grade gallium arsenide solar cells that team race manager Jeff Ferman says "put out about as much power as your hair dryer." A 5-kilowatt lithium-polymer battery keeps the hub-mounted motor moving when the clouds come out. It isn't clouds Ferman is worried about, but storms. The team ran into some hail during a test run last month, and solar cells aren't designed to take that kind of abuse. "If you were to even push down on them with your thumb, they'll crack, he says. The motor in Continuum produces about as much power as an Amish buggy, but speed doesn't win the race. Strategy does. "You've got to take the weather into consideration," says race official Cheryl Williams. "You've got to take traffic into consideration. Are there hills? Stop signs? What speed is most efficient for your cells? It's called a challenge for a reason."
Source: Wired Top Stories | 10 Jul 2008 | 4:00 am July 10, 1962: 3-Point Seat Belt Patented1962: Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin receives a U.S. patent for the three-point, lap-and-shoulder, vehicle safety belt. It's considered one of the most important and widespread safety innovations of all time. Bohlin designed pilot-ejection systems for Saab Aircraft before Volvo hired him as its first safety engineer in 1958. The automobile seat belts of the time were two-point lap belts that didn't restrain the upper body. In high-speed crashes, the buckle position often caused internal injuries of its own. Bohlin took just a year to devise, engineer and test a double-strap, triple-anchor design that does restrain the upper body, that buckles securely with one hand, and that places that buckle away from the passenger's soft abdomen. It was simple and efficient. Volvo introduced the new belt design in August 1959. It started saving lives almost immediately. Volvo made the design "freely available" to other car manufacturers and sent Bohlin abroad to promote seat-belt adoption and legislation. Bohlin received letters from all over the world from thankful car-crash survivors. He delighted in hearing of lives saved by his invention, and there have been plenty of them. Volvo estimated in 2002 that seat belts had already saved more than one million lives. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that they prevent 100,000 injuries a year just in the United States. The West German patent office in 1985 cited the three-point safety belt as one of the eight most important patents it had issued in its first 100 years. Bohlin received the Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1995. He was enshrined in the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1999 and in the National Inventors Hall of Fame on the very day of his death in 2002. Bohlin knew he'd been selected and sent two stepsons to the ceremony. He was 82 and died from the complications of a stroke and heart attack. The family assured the world that Bohlin buckled up every time. Source: Various
Source: Wired Top Stories | 10 Jul 2008 | 4:00 am Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur LawsuitsAn anonymous reader writes "From an article on cnbc.com: 'As employers hand out electronic devices to their employees at a greater pace, there are growing concerns that workers eligible for overtime pay, known as non-exempt employees, could begin suing their employers for overtime hours earned while tapping on their devices during after-work hours. As a result, lawyers are advising their corporate clients to update their policies and handbooks related to BlackBerry use and reconsider who gets a device.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 10 Jul 2008 | 2:23 am Short on Style, Speedo Goggles Deliver Flawless PerformanceSpeedo's latest goggle comes with so much marketing jargon, we thought it could never live up to the hype. It does. The Hydrocomfort Biofuse performs flawlessly.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:00 am How a Classic Man-in-the-Middle Attack Saved Colombian HostagesLast week's dramatic rescue of 15 hostages held by the guerrilla organization FARC was the result of months of intricate deception on the part of the Colombian government. At the center was a classic man-in-the-middle attack. In a man-in-the-middle attack, the attacker inserts himself between two communicating parties. Both believe they're talking to each other, and the attacker can delete or modify the communications at will. The Wall Street Journal reported how this gambit played out in Colombia. The plan had a chance of working because, for months, in an operation one army officer likened to a "broken telephone," military intelligence had been able to convince Ms. Betancourt's captor, Gerardo Aguilar, a guerrilla known as "Cesar," that he was communicating with his top bosses in the guerrillas' seven-man secretariat. Army intelligence convinced top guerrilla leaders that they were talking to Cesar. In reality, both were talking to army intelligence.
This ploy worked because Cesar and his guerrilla bosses didn't know each other well. They didn't recognize each others' voices, and didn't have a friendship or shared history that could have tipped them off about the ruse. Man-in-the-middle is defeated by context, and the FARC guerillas didn't have any. And that's why man-in-the-middle, abbreviated MITM in the computer security community, is such a problem online: Internet communication is often stripped of any context. There's no way to recognize someone's face. There's no way to recognize someone's voice. When you receive an e-mail purporting to come from a person or organization, you have no idea who actually sent it. When you visit a website, you have no idea if you're really visiting that website. We all like to pretend that we know who we're communicating with -- and for the most part, of course, there isn't any attacker inserting himself into our communications -- but in reality, we don't. And there are lots of hacker tools that exploit this unjustified trust, and implement MITM attacks. Even with context, it's still possible for MITM to fool both sides -- because electronic communications are often intermittent. Imagine that one of the FARC guerillas became suspicious about who he was talking to. So he asks a question about their shared history as a test: "What did we have for dinner that time last year?" or something like that. On the telephone, the attacker wouldn't be able to answer quickly, so his ruse would be discovered. But e-mail conversation isn't synchronous. The attacker could simply pass that question through to the other end of the communications, and when he got the answer back, he would be able to reply. This is the way MITM attacks work against web-based financial systems. A bank demands authentication from the user: a password, a one-time code from a token or whatever. The attacker sitting in the middle receives the request from the bank and passes it to the user. The user responds to the attacker, who passes that response to the bank. Now the bank assumes it is talking to the legitimate user, and the attacker is free to send transactions directly to the bank. This kind of attack completely bypasses any two-factor authentication mechanisms, and is becoming a more popular identity theft tactic. There are cryptographic solutions to MITM attacks, and there are secure web protocols that implement them. Many of them require shared secrets, though, making them only useful in situations where people already know and trust each other. The NSA-designed STU-III and STE secure telephones solve the MITM problem by embedding the identity of each phone together with its key. (The NSA creates all keys and is trusted by everyone, so this works.) When two phones talk to each other securely, they exchange keys and display the other phone's identity on a screen. Because the phone is in a secure location, the user now knows who he is talking to, and if the phone displays another organization -- as it would if there were a MITM attack in progress -- he should hang up. Zfone, a secure VoIP system, protects against MITM attacks with a short authentication string. After two Zfone terminals exchange keys, both computers display a four-character string. The users are supposed to manually verify that both strings are the same -- "my screen says 5C19; what does yours say?" -- to ensure that the phones are communicating directly with each other and not with an MITM. The AT&T TSD-3600 worked similarly. This sort of protection is embedded in SSL, although no one uses it. As it is normally used, SSL provides an encrypted communications link to whoever is at the other end: bank and phishing site, alike. And the better phishing sites create valid SSL connections, so as to more effectively fool users. But if the user wanted to, he could manually check the SSL certificate to see if it was issued to "National Bank of Trustworthiness" or "Two Guys With a Computer in Nigeria." No one does, though, because you both have to remember and be willing to do the work. (The browsers could make this easier if they wanted to, but they don’t seem to want to.) In the real world, you can easily tell a branch of your bank from a money changer on a streetcorner. But on the internet, a phishing site can be easily made to look like your bank's legitimate website. Any method of telling the two apart takes work. And that's the first step to fooling you with a MITM attack. Man-in-the-middle isn't new, and it doesn't have to be technological. But the internet makes the attacks easier and more powerful, and that's not going to change anytime soon. --- Bruce Schneier is chief security technology officer of BT, and author of Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:00 am Short on Style, Speedo Goggles Deliver Flawless PerformanceSpeedo's latest goggle comes with so much marketing jargon, we thought it could never live up to the hype. It does. The Hydrocomfort Biofuse performs flawlessly.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 10 Jul 2008 | 1:00 am RIAA's SafeNet Caught In a LieNewYorkCountryLawyer writes "For the past 2 years, the RIAA and its attack dog SafeNet (formerly known as MediaSentry) have been trying to avoid disclosure in UMG v. Lindor by telling the judge that MediaSentry is NOT an expert, that it does not use any technical expertise to get the 'evidence', and that it does only 'what any other Kazaa user does'. We have just discovered that in administrative proceedings in Michigan, attacking it for engaging in the business of investigation without a license, MediaSentry has taken the exact opposite position, comparing itself to chemical engineers, surveyors, physicians, geologists, and other expert witnesses who rely on their technical expertise. Today we went public with some of the contradictions. Now let's hope Michigan's Department of Labor and Economic Growth finds out about it."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 10 Jul 2008 | 12:27 am Rube Goldberg cocktail-mixing machineThis Rube Goldberg machine makes sheer delight out of the process of mixing a Falling Water ( 30mls (1Oz) 42BELOW Feijoa Vodka, lemonade, long slice of seedless cucumber, ice) -- it comes from Joseph Herscher, the same genius who made the Cadbury Creme Egg smasher. Link (Thanks, Sacha!)
See also: Rube Goldberg Cream Egg killer Source: Boing Boing | 10 Jul 2008 | 12:05 am Senate approves warrantless wiretapping and telco immunity, throws out the Fourth AmendmentStephen sez,NY Times has reported that the Senate just approved a bill extending the warrantless wiretapping program AND giving the telcos immunity from prosecution for violating the law and the rights of their customers for compliance in earlier illegal warrantless wiretapping.That sound you hear? It's the Bill of Rights being torn in half. Talk about losing the war on terror. Who needs external forces threatening your way of life when your elected lawmakers are doing such a good job of it? Link (Thanks, Stephen.) Source: Boing Boing | 10 Jul 2008 | 12:01 am Moon has waterToday, researchers announced that they've found water molecules in moon matter retrieved by NASA Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The water was coaxed out of volcanic glass pebbles (like those seen here). From National Geographic:Water on the moon (National Geographic) Source: Boing Boing | 10 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am How to Set Up Port Forwarding on Your Xbox 360Your router protects your computers and connected devices from the evils of the outside world, but it can also make multi-player console gaming over the internet feel sluggish. Give Gears of War the speed boost it deserves by setting up your wireless router for gaming goodness.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:50 pm Allergan failed to warn of dangerous Botox side effects, lawsuit claimsSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:46 pm IBM Open Sources Web Accessibility (PC World)PC World - A new service from IBM's AlphaWorks takes a collaborative approach to improving Web accessibility for the visually impaired.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 9 Jul 2008 | 11:07 pm Scientists Prevent Brain-Cell Suicide to Keep Birds SingingOutside of breeding season, some birds' brains kill off the neurons they need to sing. Now, scientists have figured out how to keep the birds singing in a discovery that could lead to new therapies for Alzhemier's and other degenerative brain diseases.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 9 Jul 2008 | 8:00 pm Five-Alarm Artists Turn On the Burn for Fire Arts FestivalThe Crucible's fire fanatics get ready to turn up the heat with blazing installations and sizzling performances.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 9 Jul 2008 | 7:56 pm House Cat Adopts Panda CubA zookeeper's house cat has taken in a baby red panda and is nursing the cub.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 9 Jul 2008 | 6:31 pm If You're Overpaying for an iPhone, This Must be BelgiumA quirk in local law that prevents companies from subsidizing one product by charging more for another means that iPhone customers in Belgium will be paying nearly $1,000 for the top-end phone that costs Americans only $300.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 9 Jul 2008 | 6:25 pm If You're Overpaying for an iPhone, This Must be BelgiumA quirk in local law that prevents companies from subsidizing one product by charging more for another means that iPhone customers in Belgium will be paying nearly $1,000 for the top-end phone that costs Americans only $300.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 9 Jul 2008 | 6:25 pm NASA Aims to Set Sail in SpaceNASA plans to test solar sailing, which uses photons from the sun to power a craft.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 9 Jul 2008 | 5:31 pm First Water Found in Moon RocksLunar volcanic rocks are found to contain water, overturning years of research.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 9 Jul 2008 | 4:50 pm
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The researchers believe the water was ejected along with magma when "fire fountains" erupted more than three billion years ago from the moon's surface.