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108 Year Old Bloggers - Celebrating the "Life of Riley"(TrendHunter.com) Olive Riley was living proof you can never be too old to learn a new technology. This Australian woman only started to blog in February 2007 but she managed more than 70 entries and...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 7:00 pm Retro Print Swimwear - b. swim Bathing Suits (VIDEO)(TrendHunter.com) B. swim beachwear pushes the edginess of swimwear fashion. With such names as Shake Ya Tail Feather, Miss Daisy, and Queen's Rhyche, it's obvious that they are appealing to a very special...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 5:40 pm Roller-Coasters for Bicycles - Designhuis 'Bicyle' Exhibition (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Times are never dull in the Netherlands. As part of the Designhuis Bicyle exhibition, Swedish designer Anders Jakobsen has created a roller-coaster for bicycles. The rustic structure,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 5:40 pm Cleaner Sitcoms - Miley Cyrus (Ironically) Wants to Make 'Cleaner' Sex and the City (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Miley Cyrus, who made headlines earlier this week with her dirty hacked photos, wants to make a 'cleaner' version of Sex and the City. Is that ironic? We've included pictures of Miley...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 5:22 pm Cleaner Sitcoms - Miley Cyrus (Ironically) Wants to Re-Make Sex and the City (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Miley Cyrus, who made headlines earlier this week with her dirty hacked photos, wants to make a 'cleaner' version of Sex and the City. Is that ironic? We've included pictures of Miley...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 5:22 pm Extreme Massages - Live Snakes to Relieve Tension(TrendHunter.com) Will snake massages be the subject of Samuel L. Jackson's next movie? This unusual treat is offered in a Northern Israeli spa, owned by Ada Barak. The masseur or masseuse releases...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 5:20 pm Barbie Doll Parts Jewelry - Margaux Lange Designs (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) You can relive your childhood with this fabulous range of jewelry made from old Barbie doll parts. Margaux Lange says, " Barbie was immensely important in fueling my creative life as...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 5:00 pm Geisha Mice - Mickey Mouse Headdresses by Piers Atkinson (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Piers Atkinson toyed with Mickey Mouse's ears for his headdress series. Someone's childhood memories might be destroyed if they see what Atkinson did to Disney's most loved mouse...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 5:00 pm Barbie Doll Parts Made Into Jewelry - Margaux Lange Designs (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) You can relive your childhood with this fabulous range of jewelry made from old Barbie doll parts. Margaux Lange says, " Barbie was immensely important in fueling my creative life as...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 5:00 pm Japan cautious in iPhone's bid for world dominance (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 16 Jul 2008 | 3:29 pm Nature Candy - Striped Icebergs (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) These pictures you may have received in your email box are actually true! A Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen took some remarkable pictures of unusual icebergs when he was on board a research...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 3:23 pm CSX says hedge funds win 4 out of 5 seats (AP)AP - CSX Corp. says preliminary results of the railroad's contentious board vote show that four out of five directors nominated by activist hedge fund shareholders TCI and 3G Capital have been elected to its board.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 16 Jul 2008 | 3:13 pm Satellite Internet Providerspitchblende writes "Our company works in remote locations in Northern Canada. We have been experiencing major communications problems with our current satellite service. We use satellite systems that go for about $1000 apiece, with $100/month in fees. The service is 'shared' rather than dedicated, and our VOIP, etc, has been getting worse by the day lately. From what I can tell, dedicated systems go for $30k and up. I hope someone(s) out there has some suggestions, recommendations?"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 16 Jul 2008 | 3:01 pm Russian Coreflood Gang targets online bank accounts (USATODAY.com)USATODAY.com - Call them the Coreflood Gang. A ring of cyber bank robbers from southern Russia has quietly perfected a way to get a beachhead inside company networks.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:55 pm Intel's good news: Record revenue of $9.5 billion (USATODAY.com)USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Tuesday posted a higher quarterly profit as the world's biggest chipmaker was helped by higher sales of microprocessors used in notebook personal computers.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:55 pm Progressive geek looking for 3,000 people to help him win Kansas election against dinosauric anti-science/pro-surveillance dude Sean Tevis is a geeky geek from Kansas who's fed up with his state rep, an anti-abortion, anti-evolution, pro-censorship, pro-surveillance, anti-gay incumbent. Tevis -- an unknown -- is polling within three points of his opponent, and is looking to raise some Internet dough to kick this guy's (extremely tight) ass, and to promote his cause, he's made a fantastic, XKCD-style toon called "It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner." Specifically, he's looking to raise $8.34 from 3,000 people (no state rep in Kansas history has ever had more than 644 donors). I'm in*. Who's with me? Link (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
*Actually, I'm not. I'm a dirty foreigner and I'm not allowed to meddle in American elections. Someone else donate $8.34 to this guy for me, OK? Source: Boing Boing | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:30 pm Wrapup: What Sony Announced at E3 - PC Magazine
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:28 pm Wrapup: What Nintendo Announced at E3 - PC Magazine
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:27 pm SAP Customers Forced to Move to Pricier Support (PC World)PC World - SAP is set to force all customers to use its more costly enterprise support service.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:20 pm Mars Once Benign, Water-RichA Mars orbiter finds evidence the planet was once mild with water bathing its surface.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:19 pm NVIDIA Joins the SOI Industry ConsortiumSEMICON WEST, SAN FRANCISCO, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The SOI Industry Consortium announced today that NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), the world leader in visual computing...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:18 pm Linus on Kernel Version Numberingwalshy007 writes "In a recent thread it was asked what it would take for an 'unstable' 2.7 development tree to be created, to which Linus replied: 'Nothing. I'm not going back to the old model. The new model is so much better that it's not even worth entertaining as a theory to go back. That said, I _am_ considering changing just the numbering. Not to go back to the old model, but because a constantly increasing minor number leads to big numbers. I'm not all that thrilled with "26" as a number: it's hard to remember. I think the time-based releases (ie the "2 weeks of merge window until -rc1, followed by roughly two months of stabilization") has been so successful that I'd prefer to skip the version numbering model too. We don't do releases based on "features" any more, so why should we do version _numbering_ based on "features"?'"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:18 pm Pine Beetles Killing Millions of Trees in the WestAmy Gannon, hatchet in hand, sliced a slab of bark from a lodgepole pine tree near Wolf Creek, Mont., and quickly spotted a mountain pine beetle larva no bigger than her pinky fingernail.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:15 pm NormSoft Introduces Mecrets for Safely Storing Confidential Information on iPhone and iPod touchBOSTON, July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NormSoft, Inc. today announced the availability of Mecrets(TM) its first ever iPhone(TM) and iPod(R) touch application. MecretsSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:11 pm Cost of Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dump SoarsWASHINGTON -- Turns out, it's going to cost taxpayers $32 billion more than first thought to open and operate the nation's first nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:10 pm Fortune Small Business Names Logility One of America's Fastest-Growing Small Public Companies for the Second Consecutive YearATLANTA, July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Logility, Inc. (Nasdaq: LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, announced today thatSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:08 pm UPDATE 1-DISH gets HD boost with satellite launch - Reuters
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:06 pm Apple shows it will have no mercy for Mac clones - DailyTech
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:04 pm TCS Delivers Growth, Maintains Operating Margins in Q1; Revenues at $1.5b, Up 21% Y-o-Y- Net Income at $296 million up 2% Y-o-Y - Major markets - US, UK, Europe - grow at 2.2% Q-o-Q - Cash and Liquid Investments cross $1 billion - Pro-active cost control...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:03 pm Guangdong Province to Invest $43.5 Billion in Refining and Ethylene Production, an Industrial Info News AlertResearched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- The government of southern China's Guangdong Province has announced plans to invest $43.5 billion in the next five to seven years to increase its refining capacity.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:01 pm Efforts Land 4,800 New Jobs in MichiganBy Chris Christoff, Detroit Free Press Jul. 16--LANSING -- On a day when Michigan's industrial future took a hit -- more job cuts planned for General Motors and no new Volkswagen plant for the state -- Gov.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:01 pm Sinopec to Build 800,000-Ton Ethylene Project in Hainan Province, an Industrial Info News AlertResearched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (NYSE:SNP) (Sinopec) (Beijing) will build an 800,000-ton-per-year ethylene project in central China's Hainan Province.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:01 pm Toxic Chemical Found in Household ObjectsMILWAUKEE, Wis.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:01 pm Funds Sought to Keep Monitoring AirBy Janice L. Habuda, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Jul. 16--The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency is being asked to continue funding an air monitoring program in the Town of Tonawanda that is set to expire at the end of this month.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Return of Ivory Trade As Britain Backs ChinaBy Michael McCarthy; Colin Brown China was given permission to become a licensed buyer of ivory yesterday, provoking widespread condemnation from environmentalists and politicians, who said the move was a grave threat to the future of wild elephants in Africa and Asia.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm EPA Environmental Performance Award Presented to Rohm and Haas Kankakee PlantThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the Rohm and Haas Company (NYSE:ROH) Kankakee facility with their National Environmental Performance Track Award for progress toward achieving environmental performance goals and the breadth and challenge of those goals.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Long-Lived Bertha Out to SeaBy Associated Press HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Tropical Storm Bertha headed back out over open ocean and away from the U.S. mainland Tuesday after it battered Bermuda, knocking out electricity to thousands on the Atlantic tourist island.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Design costs for portable display electronics drop with TI's lowest cost digital media processorTMS320DM335 processor features advanced image capture and HD display capabilities to provide rich content for new class of portable electronics HOUSTON, July 16...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Dropping Temperatures Mean Falling Travel PricesSave Up to $650 with Winter Travel from Go-today.com BOTHELL, Wash., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Beat the heat, the crowds, and peak season costs by visiting Europe in...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Security Threats Loom Over Unified Communications, Report FindsCustomers' failure to properly implement security is increasing the likelihood of a major, successful attack on UC systems, says Light Reading's VOIP Services Insider ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm Raytheon Completes Captive Carry Test of Joint Standoff Weapon Extended RangeProves ability to perform on newly awarded US Navy JSOW-ER demonstration contract TUCSON, Ariz., July 16, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm PZL Mielec Transformation Paves Way for INTERNATIONAL BLACK HAWK(TM) HelicopterFARNBOROUGH INTERNATIONAL AIR SHOW, England, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The first BLACK HAWK helicopter cabins to be delivered from PZL Mielec, Sikorsky Aircraft...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm MPS Group to Broadcast Its Second Quarter Conference Call Live on the InternetJACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MPS Group, Inc. (NYSE: MPS) today announced that it will provide an online Web simulcast of its second quarter 2008...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm HOWTO make 36-hour perfect cookies in 3 hoursInflamed by the New York Times's article on perfect chocolate cookies (in which it is revealed that the two secrets are: one, a little salt prior to baking; two, aging the dough for 36 hours in the fridge), the Ideas in Food blog tried (successfully) to shortcut the process by vacuum-sealing the dough:From the Times story by David Leite: Now, Ideas in Food: Link (via MeFi) Source: Boing Boing | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:59 pm Apple cuts iPhone 3G cost by over $50, says iSuppli - Ars Technica
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:47 pm Found: Milky Way's Second-Brightest StarA super-giant star as bright as 3.2 million suns earns a second place ribbon.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:44 pm Apple apologizes for MobileMe launch, extends subscriptions - Macworld
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:41 pm McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against ObamaVote McCain in 2008! writes "McCain's campaign is doing everything it can to erase Obama's online advantage, this time they ambushed Obama by detecting edits to his website when he updated some of his policy positions. This isn't the first time the Republicans have shown up the Democrats with their web savvy — you may remember the previous reports about the Republican Web 2.0 Consultants and their online campaigning game. This just proves that old Republicans can learn new tricks." Assuming the spider adheres to robots.txt, this is clever and well done.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:35 pm Sony’s Centrino 2 laptop lineup - ZDNet
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:34 pm Cosmonauts' Second Spacewalk Goes Smoothly - Space.com
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:34 pm NASA Wants Your Urine - Discovery Channel
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:16 pm YouTube, Viacom Agree to Mask Viewer DataIn a nod to online privacy rights, Viacom and other copyright holders have agreed to let YouTube mask user IDs and Internet addresses when it hands over viewership records in a $1 billion lawsuit accusing YouTube of enabling copyright infringement.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:14 pm Palm’s glimmer of hope - CNNMoney.com
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:09 pm NASA Wants Your UrineA NASA urine drive aims to help engineers design a new space toilet.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:05 pm Nintendo Unveils Wii MusicOn Tuesday Nintendo Co Ltd unveiled its plans to sell a music video game for their Wii game console. The new game will be the first in the fast-growing music game market for the Wii, and will be released later this year.The Wii has sold more than expensive rival consoles like Microsoft’s XBOX 360, and Sony’s Playstation 3. The Wii’s use of a motion controller that can be swung like a sword or golf club, has broadened its audience far beyond hard-core gamers.Activision’s “Guitar Hero” turned the music genre of videos games into the fastest selling category. Because “Guitar Hero” is available on all three consoles, it has brought the appeal of the music genre game to players that would normally enjoy racing, and fighting titles.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:05 pm Serena linking requirements, change management (InfoWorld)InfoWorld - Serena Software is introducing this week Serena Dimensions RM 10.1.4, a version of its requirements management software for application development that can link to test and change management platforms.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm Washington Examines Yahoo-Google AgreementOn Tuesday Congress entered the fight over the future of Yahoo Inc. They demanded to know if Yahoo’s advertising deal with Google Inc.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 16 Jul 2008 | 12:55 pm Phoenix Mars Lander To Begin Rasping Ice ShavingsRob writes with an excerpt from an article at spacefellowship.com: "A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice. The lander has used its arm in recent days to clear away loose soil from a subsurface layer of hard-frozen material and create a large enough area to use the motorized rasp in a trench informally named 'Snow White.' The Phoenix team prepared commands early Tuesday for beginning a series of tests with the rasp later in the day. Engineers and scientists designed the tests to lead up to, in coming days, delivering a sample of icy soil into one of the lander's laboratory ovens. 'While Phoenix was in development, we added the rasp to the robotic arm design specifically to grind into very hard surface ice,' said Barry Goldstein, Phoenix project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 'This is the exactly the situation we find we are facing on Mars, so we believe we have the right tool for the job. Honeybee Robotics in New York City did a heroic job of designing and delivering the rasp on a very short schedule.'" I still can't get enough of pictures of a little hunk of metal on Mars.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 16 Jul 2008 | 12:55 pm Once Upon a Time: Water, Water Everywhere on MarsMars used to be awash in water -- not hot, boiling water, but benign seas that may have been suitable for life. We knew about about ancient gushers and ice, but a new analysis published today in Nature provides the clearest picture yet of planet-wide hydrological impacts and deposits of clay-like minerals that form only at relatively low temperatures.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 16 Jul 2008 | 12:46 pm First Solar begins work on 2 MW rooftop projectFirst Solar Inc. said Wednesday it has begun building the first rooftop solar system in a plan aimed at adding 250 megawatts of solar power capacity to large commercial rooftops in Southern California...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 12:43 pm Convergys to buy Intervoice for $335 millionConvergys Corp. , a provider of business outsourcing services, Wednesday said it has agreed to buy Intervoice Inc., a maker of automated voice response systems, for $335 million in cash.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 12:18 pm The Largest Recorded Tsunami Was 50 Years AgoAn anonymous reader writes "July marks the 50th anniversary of the world's largest tsunami — a 1,720-foot-tall wave in Lituya Bay, Alaska. It was triggered by a chain reaction of events that began with a magnitude 7.7 earthquake on the Fairweather Fault, which dislodged a rock fall of 40 million cubic yards, that fell 3,000 feet and splashed into the northwest end of Lituya Bay to generate the wave. This article includes survivor accounts, maps, a satellite image, and photos taken right after the event." To be fair, eyewitness accounts put the height of the wave as it came toward their boats at perhaps 100 feet. The tsunami scoured the land of vegetation and soil to a height of 1,720 feet above sea level, however.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 16 Jul 2008 | 12:07 pm UMC CEO resigns, replacements announcedThe chairman and chief executive of UMC has resigned, the Taiwanese chip foundry said Wednesday.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:55 am ASML chipmaker 2Q profits upASML Holding NV, one of the largest makers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, reported a 20 percent increase in second-quarter profits Wednesday, but warned that a weakening global economy was likely...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:27 am Researchers look to air-condition computer chipsPurdue University scientists have taken a page from air conditioner technology in their quest for a new way to cool down ever-more powerful computer chips. Their experimental system, which flushes a refrigerant...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:24 am Researchers Look to Air-Condition Computer ChipsPurdue University researchers are working on a method to "air condition" computer chips. The experimental system, which flushes a refrigerant through tiny channels cut into chips, is intended for the high-power electronics found in radar and advanced weapons systems such as lasers, says Issam Mudawar, a mechanical engineering professor at Purdue.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:20 am Researchers Look to Air-Condition Computer ChipsPurdue University researchers are working on a method to "air condition" computer chips. The experimental system, which flushes a refrigerant through tiny channels cut into chips, is intended for the high-power electronics found in radar and advanced weapons systems such as lasers, says Issam Mudawar, a mechanical engineering professor at Purdue.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:20 am EU gives boost to online music storesEU regulators ordered music copyright groups on Wednesday to end a system making it difficult for online music stores to buy EU-wide licenses -- helping iTunes' rollout across Europe.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:05 am Criminal Probe Ended, Apple's Jobs Still Faces Options HurdlesA criminal probe of Steve Jobs over his stock options tampering is now over, but the ordeal isn't quite over yet. Jobs will likely be called to testify in at least two other cases and there could be trouble over stock options at Pixarhe was also chief executive before its buyout Disney.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:01 am CARE Fair to Give Families a Big Back-to-School AssistBy The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Jul. 16--Families struggling under the weight of the economic downturn and back-to-school costs can get a break at this week's annual CARE Fair.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Breastfeeding.Com Launches 'While You Are Breastfeeding Or Pumping,' a Service to Entertain and Interact With Moms While They Breastfeed Their BabiesBOULDER, Colo., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- New moms may spend 800 to 1000 hours nursing their baby in just the first year. While nursing is a wonderful bonding experience, and clearly best for the baby, it can also be sometimes boring and isolating.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am SmartCard Marketing Systems Inc. Corporate Update and DWAC CompliantAs Stated by SmartCard Marketing Systems Inc. (PINK SHEETS: SMKG) "Management is pleased to announce that (PINK SHEETS: SMKG) shares are now DWAC (Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian) compliant.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Shutdown of 'Lifeline' for Rural Police May Hit Forces HardBy Kevin Johnson A federally funded computer service that has connected thousands of rural police to critical Internet and e-mail access is shutting down at the end of the month, jeopardizing service for 1,500 users in at least 20 states, police officials say.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Tiscali Targets SMEs With Convergence ServiceEuropean internet service provider Tiscali has launched a new IP convergence service for SMEs. It said the OfficeOne Special offers connectivity for traditional voice and VoIP on up to eight phone lines.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am Searches Are Legal, EssentialBy Michael Chertoff Since the founding of the republic, the federal government has held broad authority to conduct searches at the border to prevent the entry of dangerous people and goods.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am BT Plan to Provide 'Super-Fast' Internet to 10m HomesBy EMILY PYKETT BT HAS announced ambitious plans to lead the fibre-based broadband revolution across Britain.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am DigitalPost Interactive Announces Q2 2008 Corporate UpdateDigitalPost Interactive (OTCBB: DGLP) (www.dglp.com), a leader in the digital media-sharing and social networking space, announced today that the company continues on a path of positive growth, fueled by strategic new partnerships, more efficient marketing efforts, and strong conversion rates for its subscription-based digital media-sharing platform.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 16 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am HOWTO build a 1958, oscilloscope-based proto-Pong gameThe good folks at Evil Mad Scientist Labs have unveiled their fantastic HOWTO for recreating a 1958, oscilloscope-based proto-video-game called "Tennis for Two," created by a physicist named William Higinbotham "to improve what was an otherwise lackluster visitors' day at the lab."Link Source: Boing Boing | 16 Jul 2008 | 10:57 am Douglas Adams's HITCHIKER'S typewriter for sale: Boing Boing GadgetsOver on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John posts about this marvellous artifact: the autographed typewriter on which Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for sale for a mere ~$25K. An archivist friend of mine tells me that libraries that once collected authors' papers are now storing their hard-drives:Link, Discuss this on Boing Boing Gadgets Source: Boing Boing | 16 Jul 2008 | 10:52 am Apple I Basic, the MP3 -- Boing Boing GadgetsOver on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John has the exciting news that Apple I BASIC has been extracted from an audio cassette and converted to MP3. It's actually got a pretty good beat.Link, Discuss this on Boing Boing Gadgets Source: Boing Boing | 16 Jul 2008 | 10:48 am Japanese shares flat on credit jittersJapanese shares ended virtually flat Wednesday, with investors dispirited by lingering credit market worries and renewed jitters over a global economic slowdown.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 10:26 am Mark Vernon: Why can't scientists and bishops agree with each other?Mark Vernon: While science aims to banish doubt, so does religion. So why can't boffins and bishops agree?Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 10:00 am Google-Yahoo advertising deal should be blocked, says MicrosoftThe search advertising deal between Google and Yahoo should be blocked, Microsoft has told a US congressional committee, saying the advertising industry has never seen one company dominate 90% of a market...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 9:43 am Japanese Scientists Develop Long-Life Flash Memoryschliz writes "Flash memory chips with a potential lifetime of hundreds of years have been developed by Japanese scientists. The new chips also work at lower voltages than conventional chips, according to the scientists from the University of Tokyo. They are said to be scaleable down to at least 10 nm; current Flash chips wouldn't be usable below 20 nm."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 16 Jul 2008 | 9:38 am Video: IPhone 3G Pwned and JailbrokenThe iPhone Dev Team has tested its Pwnage tool on the actual iPhone 3G hardware and it works. There are still some kinks, but a public release is promised in the next few days. There's video!Source: Wired: Gadgets | 16 Jul 2008 | 9:22 am Video: IPhone 3G Pwned and JailbrokenThe iPhone Dev Team has tested its Pwnage tool on the actual iPhone 3G hardware and it works. There are still some kinks, but a public release is promised in the next few days. There's video!
Source: Wired Top Stories | 16 Jul 2008 | 9:22 am Defender in a Favicon
DEFENDER of the Favicon implements the game of Defender using Javascript and the tinsy, teeny space afforded by a Favicon. Supposedly works in Firefox and Opera, though my Firefox just stalls on the splashscreen. Nevertheless: woah. 8-bit arcade game in a Favicon. Woah.
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Source: Boing Boing | 16 Jul 2008 | 8:30 am Happy Trinity DayHappy Trinity Day: on this day in 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonatedDon't miss Ellen Klages's award-winning Green Glass Sea, the best story ever written about trinitite (the radioactive green-glass "rocks" made from sand fused by the Trinity detonation) and remember, you can buy the stuff online! Link (Thanks, Evan!)
(Image: Wikimedia Commons) Source: Boing Boing | 16 Jul 2008 | 7:34 am Joel Johnson interviews Syd Mead: part 2.Today on BBtv, part 2 of Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson's interview with his hero, futurist and artist Syd Mead, on the evolution of conceptual design. In this installment, we go inside Syd's studio, and learn more about the creative process behind his work for movies, television, and automobile design -- both Hot Wheels and life-sized -- and how Syd feels about design in the video game industry. Mead is a former designer for Ford Motor Company and US Steel. His designs have appeared in many movies, including Aliens, Tron, and Blade Runner. Link to Boing Boing tv post with discussion, downloadable video, and instructions for subscribing to the daily BBtv podcast.
Source: Boing Boing | 16 Jul 2008 | 7:09 am Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save ItselfCowards Anonymous passes along a PCWorld article that begins, "The robotic arm on the Mars Lander found itself in a tough position over the weekend. After receiving instructions for a movement that would have damaged its wrist, the robotic arm recognized the problem, tried to rectify it and then shut down before it could damage itself, according to Ray Arvidson, a co-investigator for the Mars Lander's robotic arm team and a professor at Washington University in St. Louis."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 16 Jul 2008 | 7:07 am Demand Media Inc.Demand Media Inc. Headquarters: Santa MonicaSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 16 Jul 2008 | 7:00 am Chinese restaurant called TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR I'm not sure what Chinese string this restaurateur fed to the translation software used to to generate the giant sign hanging over the entrance, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't: TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR. Ah, the special problems of translations into other alphabets. Link (Thanks, Mark!)
Update: In the comments, Insect Hooves adds, "OM NOM NOM. I love their Segfault Chicken. And their Short Stack Overflow is to die for. Ooooh, and their 404 Not Pound Cake (foghorn)" Source: Boing Boing | 16 Jul 2008 | 6:10 am Nintendo rolls out Wii games, Sony takes to video (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 16 Jul 2008 | 6:04 am Spammers discuss breaking Craigslist verification systemThere's something grimly fascinating about this Blackhatworld forum in which spammers are discussing with comradely zest the best means of overcoming the new Craigslist phone-verification technique that prevents duplicate listings being posted in CL forums. There's the whole spectrum of netly emotion here: technical generosity; greed; self-pity; quick anger. They could be talking about debugging a video-driver, except that they're talking about turning a beautiful community service into a pile of shit.They've just started doing this in the computer services section too. I'm seriously freaking out now because I make the majority of my income off that section. I'm a freelance designer.Link Source: Boing Boing | 16 Jul 2008 | 6:04 am Report: Intel faces new EU antitrust charges (CNET)CNET - Intel is expected to face new antitrust charges from European regulators that focus on the chip giant's marketing and sales practices, according to a report Tuesday night on The Wall Street Journal's Web site, citing unidentified people familiar with matter.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 16 Jul 2008 | 5:55 am CyberLink Sees Opportunities in Netbooks, Linux (PC World)PC World - Cyberlink is putting more emphasis on Linux and netbooks since the Eee PC craze began.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 16 Jul 2008 | 5:40 am Making the Switch To Windows "Workstation" 2008snydeq writes "Disenchanted with Vista? Why not convert Windows Server 2008 into the lean, efficient, reliable 'power user' OS that Windows should be? InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy, who has been using a converted 'Workstation' 2008 as his primary OS since hitting a wall using Vista as a Visual Studio development platform four months ago, says the guerrilla OS has turned his Dell notebook into a well-oiled machine that never gets sluggish and rarely needs to reboot. Those interested in making the switch should check out win2008workstation.com, a clearinghouse for 'Workstation' 2008 tips and techniques. Kennedy also offers a link to a Windows 2008 Workstation Converter utility for those looking to quickly convert a fresh Server 2008 install without hacking the registry or manually installing/enabling lots of services and features."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 16 Jul 2008 | 4:35 am Intel 2Q profit jump reflects healthy PC demand (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 16 Jul 2008 | 4:25 am Gallery: Nuclear Blasts Show Terrifying Power : Courtesy National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site OfficeIt was 63 years ago today that the United States detonated the very first atomic bomb. Three weeks later, the only two A-bombs dropped in warfare destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Many nuclear -- and thermonuclear -- bombs have been tested since. Here are some images. Left: House No. 1, located 3,500 feet from ground zero, was completely destroyed on the first day of testing. The elapsed time from the first picture to the last was 2⅔ seconds. The camera was completely enclosed in a 2-inch lead sheath as a protection against radiation. The only source of light was that from the detonation. Frame No. 1 (upper left) shows the house lighted by the blast. Frame No. 2 (upper right) shows the house on fire.  : Courtesy National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site Office"The island of Elugelab is missing!" President Truman heard this short report from Gordon Dean, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, following the "Mike shot," conducted as part of Operation Ivy. Mike, which delivered 10.4 megatons, was the first full-fledged hydrogen bomb to be detonated. It vaporized the small islet of Elugelab in the Eniwetok Atoll.  : Courtesy National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site OfficeOfficial observers view the Wasp Prime air drop at the Nevada Test Site on March 29, 1955. It was the second detonation of the day. Apple-1 came five hours earlier, marking the first time two nuclear devices were set off on the same day. Operation Teapot consisted of 14 shots, or detonations, conducted during the first half of 1955. Teapot's objective was to evaluate the tactical applications of a variety of devices for possible inclusion in the nuclear-weapons stockpile, as well as to study civil-defense requirements.  : Courtesy National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site OfficeThis base camp near Los Alamos, New Mexico, supported Project Trinity. The first atomic bomb in history was successfully tested nearby in July 1945. Trinity represented the culmination of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. effort to build and detonate an atomic device. Within 24 days of this test, the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were laid waste by atomic bombs.  : Photo: CorbisThe first atomic bomb is readied for testing near Alamogordo, New Mexico, in July 1945.  : Photo: CorbisJ. Robert Oppenheimer, in white hat, and Gen. Leslie Groves, military commander of the Manhattan Project, examine the twisted wreckage that is all that remains of a 100-foot tower, winch and shack that held the first nuclear weapon before its July 16, 1945, detonation. On the far right is Victor Weisskopf of the Manhattan Project's Theoretical Division.  : Photo: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum/CorbisThe exact moment of detonation at Nagasaki is captured in this remarkable photograph. Notice the three people in the foreground, as yet unaware that anything has happened. The destruction of Nagasaki followed that of Hiroshima by three days and compelled Japan to surrender, ending World War II.  : Photo: AP/Kyodo News/Hirofumi KimataAsa Takii, 114, Japan's oldest woman, seen in this June 1998 picture, was a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing. The blast killed her husband and family, but Takii survived despite being trapped in the rubble of her home for days before rescue came. She died at a nursing home at Kurahashi Island near Hiroshima on July 31, 1998.  : Photo: CorbisJuly 1, 1946, in the Marshall Islands: A mushroom cloud erupts in the North Pacific Ocean over the Bikini Lagoon during the first of the two detonations of Operation Crossroads. The series studied the effects of nuclear radiation on large ships, and the United States assembled a fleet of 90 obsolete naval vessels, including a few captured German and Japanese warships, for the test. Several ships can be seen here, silhouetted against the blast.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 16 Jul 2008 | 4:00 am Alt Text: Grading Batman's GearI was thinking about the upcoming Batman movie, and I suddenly realized: Batman and Richie Rich are basically the same character. They both have butlers (Alfred, Cadbury), they both have sidekicks (Robin, Dollar), they both dress in ridiculous outfits (bat costume, short pants with bow tie) and they both have adventures in which problems are solved by the appropriate use of incredibly expensive material possessions. The main difference is that Richie Rich's parents weren't shot to death in a filthy alleyway right in front of him, but tell me that wouldn't have improved Richie's back story. At any rate, the point is that Batman has a lot of stuff. And, as with so many things, it falls to me to tally and grade this stuff. Batman's holdings are so extensive that this is merely Part 1. Part 2 will swing into action next week. Batmobile
When I was a kid, a superhero having a car seemed completely natural, yet utterly cool. Sure, Superman could reverse time and lift mountain ranges, but Batman had a car! With fins! Nowadays, though, the Batmobile seems painfully unlikely. I can accept that the police force would cooperate with an anonymous, violent vigilante with a series of fragile teenage sidekicks. I can't, however, accept that the Gotham Department of Parking and Transportation would let him get away with an unregistered vehicle. I don't care how advanced Wayne technology is, that sucker's getting towed. Batarang
Seems to me the Batarang's gotten a bit less versatile over the years. It used to be an all-purpose flying device used as a grappling hook, or to tie up fleeing criminal types, or to wonk some miscreant in the forehead before flying back to Batman's waiting glove. Too whimsical! Now, in most incarnations, the grappling duties have been taken over by a little handheld shooting device, and Batarangs are just small, mammal-shaped shurikens. They've lost their -arang! They're -arang-free! Smoke Pellets
These seem to work pretty well, because villains are stupid. As soon as Batman drops a smoke bomb, everyone starts shooting at the smoke. Guys! Batman's not going to waste a very expensive smoke grenade, then just stand there! You're shooting at the one place in the room he's guaranteed not to be! This is why you rarely see criminal masterminds promoted from within the organization. Batboat
Batman doesn't need a boat. He has a plane. And a helicopter. And a hang-glider? And possibly a Segway. They just made up the Batboat to complete the land-air-sea theme. Unlike the rest of Batman's vehicles, which are real. Maybe the Batboat's useful in submarine format. Maybe. But really, if Two-Face is underwater, how much harm can he do? They should really have just made the Batboat a submarine to begin with. What's Batman going to do on the surface? Trawl? Batman doesn't trawl. Batcuffs
I think it makes sense that Batman has a pair of handcuffs. Yes, yes, sex bondage, I'm trying to make a point here. There are occasions where you simply must cuff, I understand that. But the Batcuffs are, like so many pieces of Batgear, bat-shaped. That's where I think Batman may have gone a little too far with the visuals. You've caught the guy; you've won. You really can lay off the whole creature-of-the-night theme at that point. If you haven't scared the bad guy into abandoning his life of crime by then, binding his hands with scalloped cuffs isn't going to put him over the edge. - - - Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to campaign against the federal law that requires stories about superheroes to contain the phrase "swing into action."
Source: Wired Top Stories | 16 Jul 2008 | 4:00 am July 16, 1945: Trinity Blast Opens Atomic Age1945: The first atomic bomb is tested successfully at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in a remote section of desert near Los Alamos, New Mexico. The instant the bomb detonated at 5:30 a.m. that Monday, the atomic age was born, and the world changed forever. The Trinity test, as it was known, was the culmination of the American effort to win the race against Germany (and, ultimately, the Soviet Union) in building an atomic bomb. A mere three weeks after the test, the United States used atomic bombs to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But prior to the 16th, none of those involved in the project knew if they had built a devastating new weapon or a spectacular dud. With gallows humor, the Los Alamos physicists got up a betting pool on the possible yield of the bomb. Estimates ranged from zero to as high as 45,000 tons of TNT. Enrico Fermi, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938 for his work on nuclear fission, offered side odds on the bomb destroying all life on the planet. J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, was under no illusions about what he and his fellow physicists had wrought. The effects of the blast, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, moved the intellectual Oppenheimer to quote from the Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds." More prosaically, Dr. Kenneth Bainbridge, site director of the Trinity test, said: "Now we are all sons-of-bitches." The scientists and military men who were at the Trinity site when the detonation occurred were staggered by what they saw. T. F. Farrell, a brigadier general on the staff of Major Gen. Leslie Groves, the Manhattan Project's military commander, wrote:The effects could well be called unprecedented, magnificent, beautiful, stupendous and terrifying. No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before. The lighting effects beggared description. The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, gray and blue. It lighted every peak, crevasse and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described but must be seen to be imagined. The blast, which sent a mushroom cloud boiling 38,000 feet into the sky, was both visible and audible for hundreds of miles around. The heat generated at the blast point was described as being 10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun. Even at 10 miles removed from ground zero, witnesses said the resulting heat wave was like standing directly in front of a roaring fireplace. While Oppenheimer said he never regretted helping develop the bomb, he did have second thoughts about the way the United States used it against Japan. Lamont Lansing's book, Day of Trinity, quotes Oppenheimer, then near the end of his life:As for how we used it, I understand why it happened and appreciate with what nobility those men with whom I'd worked made their decision. But I do not have the feeling that it was done right. The ultimatum to Japan was full of pious platitudes.... Our government should have acted with more foresight and clarity in telling the world and Japan what the bomb meant. Source: Trinity Atomic Web Site
Source: Wired Top Stories | 16 Jul 2008 | 4:00 am MSM Noticing That Patent Gridlock Stunts Innovationtrichard tips a column on the editorial page at that most traditional of mainstream media, the Wall Street Journal, arguing the point (obvious to this community for a decade) that the US patent system costs more than the value it delivers. The columnist is L. Gordon Crovitz and here is an excerpt: "New drugs require great specificity to earn a patent, whereas patents are often granted to broad, thus vague, innovations in software, communications, and other technologies. Ironically, the aggregate value of these technology patents is then wiped out through litigation costs. Our patent system [is] a disincentive at a time when we expect software and other technology companies to be the growth engine of the economy. Imagine how much more productive our information-driven economy would be if the patent system lived up to the intention of the Founders, by encouraging progress instead of suppressing it."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 16 Jul 2008 | 2:46 am Playing the Gaming Game at E3Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo battle for the key to gamers' wallets with new videogames, new hardware and familiar bags of tricks.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 16 Jul 2008 | 1:00 am Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish?ya really writes "My family has one of those BUDs (Big Ugly Dishes) sitting in their back yard still. The other day they asked me if I would take it apart for them. Aside from simply recycling it, I was wondering if there ae any alternatives for its use. It was one of the last made before DirectTV and Dish took over satellite broadcasting, and even has a digital receiver. I'd say it was made around 1996."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 16 Jul 2008 | 12:58 am How to Compile Software From Source CodeMost of the time, installing a new program is a simple one-click affair. But venture out on the bleeding edge of open-source packages or nightly browser builds and you'll need to build your own executable application from raw code. Fear not -- this Webmonkey tutorial will show you how to compile and run binaries on your desktop.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 16 Jul 2008 | 12:30 am How to Optimize Your Surround Sound SystemNo matter how humongous your HDTV happens to be, your home theater isn't truly complete unless you've got a booming surround sound system. So make sure your surround speakers are properly set up and balanced to deliver optimal audio by following our guide. In Wired.com's How-To Wiki.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 15 Jul 2008 | 11:35 pm Giant Laser in the Works to Achieve FusionScientists are building the world's largest laser, which they hope will achieve fusion.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 15 Jul 2008 | 7:11 pm 'Easterbunny' Planet Gets Formal NameA dwarf planet on the fringes of the solar system gets a mythological moniker.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 15 Jul 2008 | 6:35 pm Fast-Spoiling Pear Mystery SolvedWhy do apples outlast pears in the fruit bowl? The secret is in the the way they "breathe."Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 15 Jul 2008 | 4:57 pm Calif. Firefighters Get Backup From NASA DroneAs wildfires rage in California, a NASA aircraft helps firefighters in the field.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 15 Jul 2008 | 2:57 pm Mystery Bug Stumps Museum ExpertsA tiny new insect appearing in a museum's garden has stumped experts.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 15 Jul 2008 | 2:11 pm
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At 12 hours, the dough had become drier and the baked cookies had a pleasant, if not slightly pale, complexion. The 24-hour mark is where things started getting interesting. The cookies browned more evenly and looked like handsomer, more tanned older brothers of the younger batch. The biggest difference, though, was flavor. The second batch was richer, with more bass notes of caramel and hints of toffee.
What I can tell you is that the dough darkened and became fully saturated, similar to the way that the dough usually looks after a couple of days in the refrigerator. It also changed the texture of the dough, making it a bit more elastic to the touch. The just made dough was too soft to shape and needed to chill, so I left in the fridge for about three hours before baking.
