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Solar Power With A TwistSolar power is now available with a twist, thanks to U.S.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Oct 2008 | 12:29 pm Q&A: Nintendo of America chief on game industry competition - VentureBeat
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 6 Oct 2008 | 12:06 pm Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censorsunlametheweak recommends an Ars Technica report that the US Senate has unanimously passed a bill requiring the FCC to explore what "advanced blocking technologies" are available to parents to help filter out "indecent or objectionable programming." "...the law does focus on empowering parents to take control of new media technologies to deal with undesired content, rather than handing the job over to the government. It asks the FCC to focus the inquiry on blocking systems for a 'wide variety of distribution platforms,' including wireless and Internet, and an array of devices, including DVD players, set top boxes, and wireless applications."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 6 Oct 2008 | 12:05 pm Ask revamps for faster Web search, better relevance (Reuters)Reuters - IAC Corp's Ask.com is overhauling its Web search engine to deliver faster results and improved relevance as it bids to win share from market leader Google Inc.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 6 Oct 2008 | 12:04 pm Survey Finds 'Bleak Picture' for World's Mammals - Washington Post
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 6 Oct 2008 | 12:01 pm Artvertising Skateboards - Reach for Light Promotes Roarockit (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Reach for Light is hand-built flower art made from skateboards by Ted Hunter from the Roarockit Skateboard Company in Toronto, Canada. Ted used freehand vacuum veneer bending...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:59 am What Can We Expect From NASA In The Next 50 Years - dBTechno
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:53 am Apple Brick is No Gadget - Techtree.com
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:49 am Suggestive Celebratory PSAs - Stockholm Celebrates Condoms (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) These Champagne-popping ads are not really promoting Cristal or Dom Perignon; instead, they are a celebration of safe sex by the city of Stockholm. The explosion of the popped...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:39 am Live Search Cashback may be paying off for Microsoft search - Ars Technica
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:22 am Hands-Free Drinking Devices - Clip-On Wine Holders(TrendHunter.com) Perfect for cocktail parties, the Clip-On Wine Holders, found on Handpicked Collections, is a smart metal product that can be easily clipped onto any plate to hold your wine glass...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:19 am Alert Thingy Looks To Be All-In-One Social Desktop ToolFor those nuts out there like us that use just about every social website there is, the upcoming version 2 of Alert Thingy's AIR desktop application may be just what you need. The current version of the...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:17 am Verizon says $28.1B buyout of Alltel on track (AP)AP - Verizon Wireless says it is moving forward with plans to acquire Alltel Corp. for $28.1 billion, although the country's financial climate has worsened since the companies reached an agreement four months ago.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:14 am Spacecraft Zooms by Mercury for Second Time - Space Com
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:06 am European, Asian Markets Plunge on Crisis FearAsian and European stock markets plunge as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears that the global financial crisis would depress world economic growth. Britain's benchmark stock index fell 4.42 percent and Germany's DAX index fell 4.22 percent to 5,552.27. Across Asia, all markets were also in the red; Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index fell to its lowest level in 4 1/2 years, sinking 4.25 percent to 10,473.09.Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:02 am Little Change In Chemical Leaching At County Park ; Officials Say Monitoring Of Leachates Will Continue.By Jon Rutter jrutter@lnpnews.com The results are in for Lancaster County Central Park's latest environmental health checkup.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am SuperVision Entertainment Inc. (TICKER SYMBOL: SVET): Major Contract for Television Shopping Channel Appearance for Sales of FDA Approved "All Natural" Sweetener Product. Company Expects 1 Million Unit Sales @ $29.95 (Approximately $30 Million). First SalSuperVision Entertainment Inc.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am South Korea Finds Harmful Chemicals in 10 Chinese Food ProductsText of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap Seoul, Oct. 6 (Yonhap) - South Korean health authorities said Monday that they have found traces of harmful chemicals in 10 Chinese food products that can cause kidney problems in humans during a nationwide inspection.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am Two Dead, Two Recovering in Mavericks Fishing AccidentBy Aaron Morrison PRINCETON BY THE SEA -- Two of four fishers died Sunday after a boating accident near a famous big-wave surf spot near Half Moon Bay. San Mateo County Sheriff's Lt.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am LS Power Closer to Coal DealBy John G. Edwards By JOHN G. EDWARDS REVIEW-JOURNAL An independent power developer on Friday moved one step closer toward construction of a giant coal-fired power plant at Ely, but the prospects for the project remain uncertain because of environmental issues.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am Plow & Hearth(R) Announces "Campaign to Reforest America"Plow & Hearth, Inc., a Madison, Virginia based subsidiary of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc., has announced the roll-out of a major new national initiative in collaboration with the National Forest Foundation.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am EDITORIAL: Petition RequirementsA federal judge on Monday threw out a state law that requires petition circulators to collect signatures in all 17 Nevada counties, ruling the statute "favors residents of sparsely populated counties over residents of densely populated counties" and therefore violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am Gold Butte Land Bill Too LimitingBy C. Douglas Nielsen There was a time when the great thing about living in Southern Nevada was its wide-open spaces, most of it on public land. One could travel in just about any direction and find someplace new and interesting to visit or someplace new and inviting to hunt.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am Water TrailsBy Currents Afloat The Department of Conservation and Natural Resouces, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and the National Park Service have signed an agreement to develop and enhance Pennsylvania water trails.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am HP Pays $360m for SAN Vendor LeftHandHewlett-Packard has agreed to acquire storage virtualization and SAN provider LeftHand Networks for $360m in a counter-move to Dell's acquisition of LeftHand rival EqualLogic for $1.4 billion last November.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am AOEware Selects Baltimore's Sawmill Marketing Public Relations for Launch PRBALTIMORE, Oct.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am Americans Throw Caution to the Wind When It Comes to Social Networking ; Survey Reveals More Than Half of Respondents Are Concerned With Security on Social Networking Sites, but 64 Percent Participate RegardlessMONTREAL, CANADA--(Marketwire - Oct.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am MTV Networks International Names Veteran Music and Talent Executive Bruce Gillmer Senior Vice President of Talent and MusicNEW YORK, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- MTV Networks International (MTVNI), owned by Viacom Inc. , has named Bruce Gillmer as Senior Vice President of Talent and Music for MTVNI.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am MessageLabs Intelligence September and Third Quarter 2008: Intercage Demise Linked to 8 Percent Decline in SpamMessageLabs, the leading provider of messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for September 2008 and the Third Quarter of 2008.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am Akamai President and CEO Paul Sagan to Preside Over the Opening of The NASDAQ Stock MarketAkamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced that Paul Sagan, president and chief executive officer, will open The NASDAQ Stock Market in New York tomorrow, Tuesday, October 7 at 9:30 a.m.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am Motorola Wins Pakistan WiMAX ContractMotorola has won a WiMAX contract from wireless broadband internet provider wi-tribe Pakistan. Datamonitor estimates the value of the contract to be approximately $30m over three years. Motorola will provide infrastructure and wireless broadband services to wi-tribe's customers.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am IBM Wins $56m Medicare Australia Contract ExtensionIBM has won a one-year A$70m ($56m) technology outsourcing contract extension from Medicare Australia.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am Sceski-NoltRonice K. Nolt and Jason M. Sceski, Lancaster, announce their engagement. Ronice is the daughter of Ron and Capri Nolt of Newmanstown. She is a 1998 graduate of Ephrata Senior High School, and received a B.S. in Library Science with a minor in Music at Clarion University.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am Adva Optical Networking's Fsp 150 to Be Deployed in Thus' National NetworkYork, United Kingdom and Martinsried/Munich, Germany. October 06, 2008.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG): Very Powerful Accelerator - Product Reviews
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 6 Oct 2008 | 10:30 am iSleep Pillow Turns Your Laptop Into Something UsefulBy Evan Ackerman With some exceptions, laptops make horrible pillows. I mean, what were they thinking, designing them out of plastic and metal with no soft squishy bits for you to rest your head on? But...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 10:22 am OhGizmo! Review - PLANon PRINTSTIK PS910 Mobile PrinterBy Andrew Liszewski Even though we were promised that innovations like the PC, email and wireless communications would pave the way to a paper-less office, just taking a quick look around my desk alone...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 10:12 am IBM Expands Cloud Computing Offerings - CRN
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 6 Oct 2008 | 10:01 am Faceless Fame - Yeardley Smith and James Earl Jones Give Pop Culture a Voice (VIDEO)(TrendHunter.com) Most people wouldnt be able to pick Yeardley Smith out of a lineup, but theyd be able to identify her as soon as she opened her mouth; the same could arguably be said of James Earl...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 9:26 am BofA Gives Details on Loan Modification ProgramNice to see that the Feds aren't the only ones bailing people out. Tonight I see a release from BofA wherein it essentially bails itself out itself via a $8.4-billion mortgage modification program for...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 9:25 am Challenger and the Trouble with Value-At-RiskLots of people are newly smart and chattering away about the essential stupidity of value-at-risk modeling. Oh, those dumb financial engineers, they keep saying, How stupid do you have to be to imagine...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 9:10 am Mark Vernon: Religion can't be explained by evolutionary scientistsMark Vernon: Contemporary research that focuses on what people may say about God puts the cart before the horseSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 8:47 am Mark Venron: Religion can't be explained by evolutionary scientistsSran Kierkegaard used to tell parables by way of doing philosophy. One went like this. An ancient Greek was asked to define religion. He asked for time to prepare an answer. When the agreed period had...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 8:47 am 14 Ways to Honor James Earl Jones as the Voice of Darth Vader (CLUSTER)(TrendHunter.com) Its hard to imagine Darth Vader without James Earl Jones voice, but at one point in Jones life, the simple act of speaking aloud was an overwhelming task. James Earl Jones was mute...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 8:35 am Lord British to "Ascend" into Orbit Aboard Russian Soyuz Spacecraft - PC World
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 6 Oct 2008 | 8:24 am Tunebite 6 is Once Again Setting Standards to Help Solve Problems With DRM Copy-Protection and as a Universal Converter for Music, Audio Books, Videos, and FilmsKARLSRUHE, Germany, October 6 /PRNewswire/ -- RapidSolution Software AG has released the 6th generation of its international bestseller Tunebite onSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 8:20 am Relatives honor submarine crew - Boston Globe
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 6 Oct 2008 | 8:17 am Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're HereWired is running a story about the small but vocal, and growing, number of people who aren't waiting for automakers to deliver plug-in hybrids. They're shelling out big money to have already thrifty cars converted into full-on plug-in hybrids capable of triple-digit fuel economy. "The conversions aren't cheap, and top-of-the-line kits with lithium-ion batteries can set you back as much as $35,000. Even a kit with lead-acid batteries — the type under the hood of the car you drive now — starts at five grand. That explains why most converted plug-ins are in the motor pools of places like Southern California Edison... No more than 150 or so belong to people like [extreme skiing champion Alison] Gannett, who had her $30,000 Ford Escape converted in December. Yes, that's right. The conversion cost more than the truck."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 6 Oct 2008 | 8:11 am mobiclear Names Paul Pasion, Payments Industry Expert, as CIOMANILA, Philippines, and LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- mobiclear, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: MOBI; Frankfurt: B3CA), (Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Autonomy Unveils New Situational Awareness Web Portal to Revolutionize the Security CenterSecurity and Surveillance Solution to Allow Organizations Secure Access to Intelligence Information over a Standard Internet Connection CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am SAP Appoints John Papandrea to Lead Healthcare Business UnitWALLDORF, Germany, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that John Papandrea has joined SAP as senior vice president of the Healthcare...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Exercises With Stock Options of Nokia CorporationESPOO, Finland, October 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Based on Nokia's (NYSE: NOK) 2003 and 2005 employee stock option plans, 103,835 shares of Nokia Corporation were...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 7:30 am Gawker cutbacks reveal Denton's achilles heelGawker Media - the blog empire run by Brit Nick Denton - has made plenty of noise by deciding to slash staff and batten down the hatches for some upcoming financial difficulties. The announcement, which...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 7:15 am The ‘Brick’ is …By Seth Weintraub, Publisher and Editor, 9to5MacThe MacBook Brick is a block of high-quality, aircraft grade aluminum. It is the beginning. The beginning of what? It is the beginning of the new Apple manufacturing process to make MacBooks. It is totally revolutionary, a game changer. One of the biggest Apple innovations in a decade. The MacBook manufacturing process up to this point has been outsourced to Chinese or Taiwanese manufacturers like Foxconn. Now Apple is in charge. The company has spent the last few years building an entirely new manufacturing process that uses lasers and jets of water to carve the MacBooks out of a brick of aluminum. Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 6 Oct 2008 | 7:04 am Can’t Open Your E-Mailbox? Good LuckBy Randall Stross, Professor, San Jose State UniversityLogging on to Gmail or other e-mail service has become a routine of daily life, completed without a thought. What would you do, however, if you woke up tomorrow, plugged in your user name and password as you always do, but then received an unfamiliar message: “User name and password do not match”? If you’re a Gmail user, what you’ll want to do after a few more unsuccessful, increasingly frantic attempts is to speak with a Google customer support representative, post haste. But that’s not an option. Google doesn’t offer a toll-free number and a live person to resolve the ordinary user’s problems. Discussion forums abound with tales of woe from Gmail customers who have found themselves locked out of their account for days or even weeks. Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 6 Oct 2008 | 7:03 am A Broken Link Economy? Then Fix itBy Charles Cooper, Executive Editor of Commentary, CNET News.comJust as many of you settled into your seats to watch Thursday evening’s debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, Allen Stern of CenterNetworks was attracting his own crowd on Twitter after raising a question that strikes at heart of the blogosphere. “It’s clear the link economy is broken,” he wrote, pointing to a write-up CNET News published on Friendster’s support for Facebook applications. The piece contained nine links, six of which pointed to previous CNET posts. Not long after, Matthew Ingram piled on with a post dinging us for attempting “to prove how authoritative” we are “by making it look as though the only stories worth linking to are their own. To say that their internal links are better than anything else they could possibly link to is just ridiculous.” Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 6 Oct 2008 | 7:02 am Kids Keep Parents in the Dark About CyberbullyingBy Desiree Everts, Writer, CNET News.comOnline bullying could be more pervasive than you think. Three out of four teens were bullied online over the last year, according to a study released this week by psychologists at the University of California at Los Angeles. And while that number may seem high at the outset, only 1 in 10 of those kids told their parents or another adult about it, the study showed. The anonymous Web-based study surveyed 1,454 kids between the ages of 12 and 17. Of those, 41 percent reported between one and three cyberbullying incidents during the year; 13 percent reported four to six incidents; and 19 percent reported seven or more. In other words, no longer are victims of bullying relegated to the geeks and nerds of yore when it comes to the Internet. Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 6 Oct 2008 | 7:01 am Supremes Mull Whether Bad Databases Make for Illegal SearchesBy Ryan Singel, Staff Writer, WiredIf a false entry in a database leads to a unconstitutional police search that reveals illegal drugs, does the government get to hold it against you? That’s the question the Supreme Court will tackle on Tuesday in a case civil liberties groups such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center argue will have broad implications in a world where we are constantly being evaluated against databases and watch lists that are riddled with frustratingly persistent errors. “In these interlinked databases, one error can spread like a disease, infecting every system it touches and condemning the individual to whom this error refers to suffer substantial delay, harassment, and improper arrest,” EPIC director Marc Rotenberg argued in a friend of the court brief. Not surprisingly, the government disagrees. Source: AllThingsD.com Consolidated Feed | 6 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am University of KwaZulu-Natal Physicists Make History in Establishing Durban as the World's First Quantum CityDURBAN, South Africa, October 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Physicists at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for Quantum Technology are all set to install a quantum...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Financial literacy for kidsAdults make plenty of mistakes with their money. Themint.org wants to keep teenagers from doing the same.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Baidu Appoints Yinan Li as Chief Technology OfficerBEIJING, Oct. 6 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Baidu.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU), the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced the appointment of Yinan Li...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 6:00 am blinkx Withdraws Proposal to Acquire MIVASAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx plc ("blinkx") (LSE AIM: BLNX) today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire MIVA, Inc....Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 6:00 am Information Security Training From AbsolutelyLONDON, October 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Compliance requirements and security standards vary from organisation to organisation, but information security and data loss has becomeSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 6:00 am Judge halts sales of RealDVD (CNET)CNET - A judge has ordered RealNetworks to suspend the sale of RealDVD, the controversial software that hands users the ability to copy and store films to a hard drive, according to a report published by NewTeeVee.com, a technology-news blog.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 6 Oct 2008 | 5:39 am Unprecedented Gathering of China's Mobile Leaders in MacauLeaders of China Mobile and China Unicom to speak at Mobile Asia Congress HONG KONG, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 edition of the GSMA's Mobile Asia Congress...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Oct 2008 | 5:08 am Old-school Bluegrass godfather Dr. Ralph Stanley cuts radio ad for Barack ObamaThe Barack Obama endorsement ad here [direct mp3 link, and alternate link] featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley is currently running on radio stations in Southwest Virginia. That's about 900 kinds of wow, and I say this as someone born and raised in this part of the country, familiar with the social fabric. Blogger NMC at folo.us explains:[Ralph] Stanley is the survivor of the Stanley Brothers, one of the few remaining figures of the first generation of bluegrass musicians. He’s from the part of the mountains the Carter Family came from, and has had a recent career revival for his part in the Oh Brother Where Art Thou music.Ralph Stanley cuts the best radio ad of the cycle (folo.us via Ned Sublette, via TPM) They've embedded a classic Dr. Stanley television performance clip at folo.us, below is another -- they're playing the Clinch Mountain Backstep, on an old television show with Pete Seeger. This is my favorite Stanley Brothers song ever, "Little Maggie," but I can't embed it. I know all the lyrics, and sometimes sing it to myself (and anyone in earshot unable to run screaming) on long car trips along old American roads. Whenever I hear this old-time music, I feel really proud to come from Virginia.
Source: Boing Boing | 6 Oct 2008 | 5:05 am No Naked Black HolesScience News reports on a paper to be published in Physical Review Letters in which an international team of researchers describes their computer simulation of the most violent collision imaginable: two black holes colliding head-on at nearly light-speed. Even in this extreme scenario, Roger Penrose's weak cosmic censorship hypothesis seems to hold — the resulting black hole (after the gravitational waves have died down) retains its event horizon. "Mathematically, 'naked' singularities, or those without event horizons, can exist, but physicists wouldn't know what to make of them. All known mechanisms for the formation of singularities also create an event horizon, and Penrose conjectured that there must be some physical principle — a 'cosmic censor' — that forbids singularity nakedness..."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 6 Oct 2008 | 4:17 am Wired.com Photo Contest: MotionThis week's photo contest topic is Motion. We want you to cram as much action as you can into the stillness of a frame Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best Motion photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. The 10 highest-ranked photos will appear in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage. Nothing we can say will hold back the deluge of streaky, unintelligible photos, we know, but motion blur is only a small part of capturing the action. Show us bucking bulls at rodeos, sparring swashbucklers and collapsing buildings. We want to see arrows in mid-flight, jumping kangaroos and rockets blasting into the air. Capture the beauty of a single frame of action that the human eye can't catch, and we will be forever grateful. The photo must be your own, and by submitting it you are giving us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit images that are relatively large, the ideal size being 800 to 1200 pixels or larger on the longest side. Please include a description of your photo, which may include exposure information, equipment used, etc. We don't host the photos, so you'll have to upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you're using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, please provide a link to the image directly and not just to the photo page where it's displayed. Using an online photo service that requires that you login will not work. If your photo doesn't show up, it's because the...Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 6 Oct 2008 | 4:00 am Oct. 6, 1956: Sabin Polio Vaccine Ready to Test1956: Dr. Albert Sabin announces that his live-virus, oral polio vaccine is ready for mass testing. It will soon supplant the Salk vaccine. Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease caused by viruses. Its effects range from complete recovery to death. Intermediate possibilities are mild after-effects, moderate to severe paralysis of a limb or limbs, or paralyzed chest muscles, necessitating the confining but lifesaving use of an iron lung. Polio epidemics periodically ravaged American cities in the first half of the 20th century. Children were especially vulnerable, but the disease also struck adults, most notably former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1921. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, and he founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (as the disease was then often called) in 1938. The foundation conducted a huge annual fundraising campaign called the March of Dimes. The polio epidemics of the early 1950s terrified American parents and their children. Between 1950 and 1952, the number of severe or fatal U.S. cases doubled to 55,000. Authorities closed swimming pools during the warm months when new polio infections peaked. Parents kept kids at home instead of exposing them to possible contagion at summer camps. If you didn't know someone who had been stricken (though most recovered), you knew about a kid at your cousin's school, or the cousin of some kid at your school. So, America breathed a sigh of...Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 6 Oct 2008 | 4:00 am Top 10 Wired.com Fall Photos, Decided by Us: Though Wired.com readers selected 10 excellent photos in our fall photo contest, we here at the photo department like to fight for the underdog. Here are our 10 favorite submissions that we think deserved more attention. Our next twice-monthly photo contest theme is motion. We want you to take dynamic movement, and make it still. Check out the contest page for more information. Left: A dry flower head Submitted by Marty Mignard Photographer's comment: "Shot with my trusty old 4x5 Crown Graphic.” : Halloween Submitted by Tyler Klemp Photographer's comment: "Crows in the sky, taken on Halloween." : Watch the Grass Glow Submitted by Anonymous Photographer's comment: "Evening sunlight." : Fading Light Submitted by Brian Cooper Photographer's comment: "Australian autumn light in a monastery crypt." : Mist Returns to the Moors Submitted by Kerrigan Swan-Garcia Photographer's comment: "This time of year the days begin with a blanket of hazy, ethereal fog, giving everything ordinary a mysterious, melancholy air." : Nightfall Submitted by Scott Photographer's comment: "The leaves are just starting to turn." : Sleeping Golden Retriever in the fall afternoon ... Submitted by Vladimir Sterkin Photographer's comment: "The adorable old three-pawed Golden Retriever from the pumpkin farm in August, Missouri." : Slow Submitted by Brian Cooper Photographer's comment: "Fall slips it into a lower gear." : Solo Bench Submitted by Dave...Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 6 Oct 2008 | 4:00 am Convert Your Car to a Plug-in HybridIf you really wanted to go green with your hybrid, you'd be plugging into the power grid. Furthering your fossil fuel independence is possible by converting your Prius to a plug-in. Whether you have the cash to pay someone to do it or are doing it yourself, there are several conversion packages available and we have a list.Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 6 Oct 2008 | 4:00 am Top 10 Wired.com Fall Photos, Decided by You: Being based in San Francisco has its advantages, but having seasons is not one of them. Our readers were kind enough to share their fantastic fall photos with those of us who are seasonally challenged. These are the top 10 photos, according to your votes. Javier Echaiz takes home the gold with his photo "Gate to the fall" at left. Mr. Echaiz will be receiving a subscription to Wired magazine and a digital picture frame for his desk. Since we had so many great photos that we thought should've received more votes, we've also compiled a Wired.com Editor's Choice Fall Photo Gallery. Our next twice-monthly photo contest theme is motion. We want you to take dynamic movement, and make it still. Check out the contest page for more information. Left: Gate to the fall Submitted by Javier Echaiz Photographer's comment: "This image comes from a rural area somewhere in the south of Argentina.” : shadows on yellow Submitted by Javier Echaiz Photographer's comment: "Magic carpet made by thousands of yellow leaves and beautiful shades." : Wipperwill Drive Submitted by Anonymous Photographer's comment: "…" : Floating Submitted by Patrice Peyre Photographer's comment: "HEC Campus - Jouys en Josas, France." : Fall Elements Submitted by Gregory Tapler Photographer's comment: "The fall elements as seen at the Monocacy Creek in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania." : Fall in Paris Submitted by Tyler Photographer's comment: "Fall in Paris. Was walking through a...Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 6 Oct 2008 | 4:00 am Linux Turns 17 TodayMeshach writes "Over at the Linux Journal, Doc Searles is noting that today marks 17 years since Linus posted to Usenet, starting Linux (post). As a Linux user at work and at home I say, thanks Linus!" The anniversary is also featured on the top page of the Encyclopedia Britannica.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 6 Oct 2008 | 1:54 am Bible as Glossy
So I thought I was breaking some new ground in Testament by interpreting the Bible through the comics medium. It gave me the chance to play with a near-future frighteningly like the deep past being described in the ancient mythical stories.
Now, a Swedish adman and former CEO Dag Soderberg is leading a team called Illuminated World that's reinterpreting the Bible as a magazine - complete with sidebars, coverlines, and subheads. He's using the straight text, for the most part, but embellishing it with Bennetton-style photos and pull quotes. On the one hand, I feel like objecting to the project outright. Something about the combination of an advertising perspective with the Bible feels like a contradiction. This project is provocative, but it's also oh-so slick, and comes off a bit like what happens when an adman hires a team of people to manifest his vision for selling the Bible to a new generation. The Illumination is there to make the Bible easier and trendier, not truer. On the other hand, I tend to feel about St. Paul's modifications on Judaism much the same way. As someone who reworked Bible stories to promote my own cultural agendas, I'm in no position to criticize someone else for doing the same - even if the agendas are a bit different than my own. Plus, it's only the New Testament Soderberg has reworked (in English) so far. And the message there is a bit different than the one in the Hebrew Bible - which he's releasing shortly.
This is an interesting object to peruse, and it does make you consider both the Bible - and efforts to illuminate it - in a new light. Source: Boing Boing | 6 Oct 2008 | 1:00 am Games Without Frontiers: 'Pure' Shows Off Fun of 'Artistic' Physics"The tricks in this game are pure fantasy. Do not attempt them in real life." That's the warning that flashes when you first boot up Pure, the giddily awesome new ATV-racing game. And no wonder: Pure sends you driving around mudsplacked tracks with furious velocity, racing up steep hills and then -- woo hoo! -- launching yourself with escape-trajectory speed into the air. The goal is to pull off stunts -- 720s, forward rolls, one-armed handstands -- so you can earn "boost," which lets you go higher and, of course, pull off even crazier stunts. After about 15 minutes, I was scraping the bottom edge of the ionosphere. Man, I had enough hang time to wander over to the fridge and grab a beer before I landed. So in one sense, yes, Pure is unadulterated fantasy: These sorts of tricks aren't remotely possible under the normal rules of gravity. But the game isn't completely divorced from reality, either. The control scheme for the ATVs is forgiving, but only so much: You can survive a slightly sloppy landing, but not one that is one notch more careless. And when you first take off from a jump, you have only milliseconds to deduce whether you're going to go high enough to pull off a lengthy stunt. The upshot is that the physics in Pure encourages you to take crazy risks -- while still requiring you to think carefully about what you're doing. In essence, the in-game physics cooked up by Pure's designers isn't merely a matter of being realistic or unrealistic. The...Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 6 Oct 2008 | 1:00 am Beatbox Rave Oonsk-Oonsking with a Jaw HarpJean Jean french beatboxer guimbarde UP YOUR SOUND !, YouTube (Thanks, Brendan via "friends list") Source: Boing Boing | 6 Oct 2008 | 12:04 am Jobs Rumor Debacle Besmirches Citizen JournalismOn Friday someone posted a false rumor that Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack on CNN's unverified citizen journalism site, iReport. Apple's stock price went vertical, losing 9% before Apple stepped in and denied the rumor; the stock then recovered most of its loss. The SEC is investigating. PCWorld looks at the hit taken by citizen journalism as a result of this incident. "[The] increasingly blurred line between journalism and rumor is a serious concern for Al Tompkins, the broadcast/online group leader at The Poynter Institute — a specialized school for journalists of all media forms. 'How could you possibly allow just anybody to post just anything under your [CNN] label unless you have blazing billboards that say, "None of this has been verified, we've not looked at any of this, we have no idea if this is true?"' he asks."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 5 Oct 2008 | 11:35 pm How 18th-century nuns held clue to possible breast cancer cureValerie Beral's Million Women study follows research that began 300 years agoSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Oct 2008 | 11:03 pm Vaccine for breast cancer within reach, says expertNew study confirms disease is caused by abnormal hormonal patterns associated with childbirthSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Oct 2008 | 11:03 pm The rise and rise of the YouTube generation, and how adults can helpWhen Alex Day started keeping a video diary on YouTube, he wasn't sure how it would turn out. The teenager, from Hornchurch in Essex, admits that he was just looking for some frank feedback on his funny...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Oct 2008 | 11:02 pm Sarah Palin in 30 seconds
Sim says: Here's my latest video remix, this time of America's latest sweetheart/demagogue. Source: Boing Boing | 5 Oct 2008 | 10:56 pm Mimicking Electric Eel CellsAn anonymous reader writes "A team of US researchers has asked the following question in the new field of systems biology: 'Do we understand how a cell produces electricity well enough to design one, and to optimize that design?' They believe it should be possible to build artificial cells replicating the electrical behavior of electric eel cells. In fact, such artificial cells could deliver better performance — as much as 40% more energy than real eel cells, a computer model suggests. They could be used to power medical implants and other small devices."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 5 Oct 2008 | 10:23 pm A Wikipedia Conspiracy and the Wall Street MeltdownPatrickByrne writes "This is The Register's world-class investigative piece concerning one aspect of the meltdown on Wall Street ('naked short selling') and how the criminals engaged a journalist to distort Wikipedia to confuse the discourse. The article explicitly and formally accuses a well-known US financial journalist, Gary Weiss, of lying about his efforts to distort a Wikipedia page under assumed names, and accuses the Powers That Be in Wikipedia (right up to and including Jimbo Wales) of complicity in protecting Weiss. This is not another story about a 15-year-old farm kid in Iowa pretending to be a professor. This is like the worst Chomskian view of Elites manipulating mass opinion. But it is all documented." We discussed the alleged Wikipedia manipulation when The Register first wrote about it last December. The submitter is the CEO of Overstock.com and a major player in this drama from the beginning.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 5 Oct 2008 | 9:14 pm This week's Guardian Technology letters and blog pingbacks in fullMOBILE DATAI was surprised that you overlooked Windows Mobile, which offers many of the features you highlighted as lacking in today mobile world. Windows Mobile 6 & 6.1 helps increase your ability...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 5 Oct 2008 | 8:24 pm Encrypted Images Vulnerable To New Attackrifles only writes "A German techie has found a remarkably simple way to discern some of the content of encrypted volumes containing images. The encrypted images don't reveal themselves totally, but in many cases do let an attacker see the outline of a high-contrast image. The attack works regardless of the encryption algorithm used (the widely-used AES for instance), and affects all utilities that use single symmetric keys. More significant to police around the world struggling with criminal and terrorist use of encryption, the attack also breaks the ability of users to 'hide' separate encrypted volumes inside already encrypted volumes, whose existence can now for the first time be revealed." The discoverer of this attack works for a company making full-disk encryption software; their product, TurboCrypt, has already been enhanced to defeat the attack. Other on-the-fly encryption products will probably be similarly enhanced, as the discoverer asserts: "To our knowledge is the described method free of patents and the author can confirm that he hasn't applied for protection."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 5 Oct 2008 | 8:04 pm Fraud plagues prepaid calling card market (AP)AP - Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 5 Oct 2008 | 7:54 pm Birth of a New African OceanKhemisty writes "Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one no scientist has ever witnessed. Yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most inhospitable corners of the globe. Africa is splitting apart at the seams. From the southern tip of the Red Sea southward through Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique, the continent is coming unstitched along a zone called the East African Rift." This stretching of the earth's crust has been going on for 20 million years, and within another 10 million the Red Sea will have broken through to create a new sea.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 5 Oct 2008 | 6:53 pm Dispelling Myths About Geomagnetic ReversalUniverseToday has an interesting look at geomagnetic reversal, the process in which the Earth's magnetic poles trade places. The article cites known trends and recent studies to debunk doomsday myths and unsubstantiated claims about the process. One such study is attempting to model the earth's core with a 26-ton ball of molten metal. Another recently found evidence that the Earth has a second, weaker magnetic field. "We do know that this magnetic pole flip-flop has occurred many times in the last few million years; the last occurred 780,000 years ago according to ferromagnetic sediment. A few scaremongering articles have said geomagnetic reversal occurs with 'clockwork regularity' — this is simply not true."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 5 Oct 2008 | 5:43 pm Weird Al: Forefather of the YouTube SpoofWhen "Weird Al" Yankovic packs for the road, he brings the following items: One red leather Michael Jackson jacket, one foam-rubber double chin, one Segway, one garden hoe, one silver dress suit, five Amish beards, five Jedi robes, and two accordions. That's actually just a partial inventory, as Yankovic employs so many costumes and hairpieces during his shows that a makeshift dressing room must be set up directly behind the stage—a sort of musical-parody triage unit. His performances usually last two and a half hours, and between each song he slips back to this space, where a wardrobe assistant affixes whatever wig or fake appendage he needs for the next number. When he reemerges, he'll have morphed into one of his countless music-video personas: There's Yankovic as the bearded laborer from "Amish Paradise" (a riff on Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise"), as the marble-mouthed grunge singer from "Smells Like Nirvana" (a satire of "Smells Like Teen Spirit"), and as the diet-obsessed nag from "Eat It" (a parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It"). At some point, Yankovic will switch into an old bowling shirt or thick, aviator-style glasses, his standard uniform in the '80s and '90s: Yankovic has been imitating others for so long that nowadays he occasionally has to imitate himself. Weird Al Yankovich "Hey Ricky" This year marks the 25th anniversary of Yankovic's first music video, "Ricky," in which he reimagined Toni Basil's "Mickey" as an ode to I Love Lucy....Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 5 Oct 2008 | 5:33 pm Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming They're HereA small but vocal -- and growing -- number of people aren't waiting for automakers to deliver plug-in hybrids. They're shelling out big money to have already thrifty cars converted into full-on plug-in hybrids capable of triple-digit fuel economy.Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 5 Oct 2008 | 3:00 pm Annual Alfred Korzybski LectureAbout ten years ago, Genesis P-Orridge, Richard Metzger, Parker Posey, and I hopped in a cab to see Robert Anton Wilson give the Annual Alfred Korzybski Lecture in New York on behalf of the Institute for General Semantics. None of us knew much about general semantics at the time, but it was a fun talk in a swank location, completely free, and decidedly mind opening.General Semantics spawned everything from cognitive psychology to NLP, and informed everyone from William Burroughs to Richard Bandler. This year, I was invited to present the 56th Annual Alfred Korzybski Lecture. Besides being a tremendous honor, it's also an opportunity for me to take everything I've been talking about and rethink it in the context of general semantics - which might really mean beyond any context at all. In any case, the talk itself is free, it's an important annual event even if I'm not as important as the usual annual speaker, and you're all invited. It's followed by a one-day symposium that I plan on attending as well. Here's the way they described my talk after I described it to them - as well as the details.
We are in the midst of a new renaissance fostered largely by a revolution in the way that we relate to our symbols and symbol systems. The new media of computers and computer networks invites an ethos of interactivity that empowers users and invites creativity, an ethos that might best be characterized as playfulness.Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger. Source: Boing Boing | 5 Oct 2008 | 1:51 pm 'Truthiness' Could Swing Stephen Colbert Into Marvel White HouseIs loving America a superpower? Faux newscaster Stephen Colbert saves Spidey and makes a bid for the Oval Office in an upcoming issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. Marvel's wisecracking comic book honchos are tickled red, white and blue.Wired.com Source: Wired Top Stories | 5 Oct 2008 | 1:49 pm
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