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April 29, 2006
Ah, Publicity Stunts
Read the caption next to this pic.
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April 27, 2006
10 States Sue US to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
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April 26, 2006
Internet2 Boosting Capacity
Currently at 8.8 gigabits per second, they're aiming for 100 Gbps.
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Seagate Unveils 750-Gigabyte Hard Drives
For the hard drive industry, the capacity milestone pegs the biggest, fastest jump in its 50-year history.
The big leap stems from a new so-called "perpendicular recording" technology that allows drive makers like Seagate and rival Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to boost the density of a disk by aligning bits of data vertically rather than horizontally. At the same time, fewer moving components are needed in the drives.
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April 24, 2006
Digital 3D Movies Coming Soon
Will 3D films save movie theaters from the ravages of the internet, like cinemascope saved them from TV?
James Cameron would like to think so - Yahoo! News
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Death of the Generation Gap
Interestng and humorous study of the lessening age-restrictions on the zeitgeist.
Up With Grups -- New York Magazine
And in a related vein, an amusing NTY article I read a little while back: Baja for Beginners
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How to Destroy the Earth
Not just destroying civilization, not just wiping out all life, but actually demolishing the planet.
LiveScience.com - Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth
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Tongue Sensing
By routing signals from helmet-mounted cameras, sonar and other equipment through the tongue to the brain, they hope to give elite soldiers superhuman senses similar to owls, snakes and fish.
This is wild. Yahoo News
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April 22, 2006
4/20 Stoner Recipes
Hilarious! My fav is the second. I'm still giggling about it.
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Ads Soon Coming to YouTube?
It's bound to happen, their bandwidth bills must be huge.
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About Drawing Restraint 9
The Bjork-Barney Enigma Machine - New York Times
(Thanks Ben!)
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April 21, 2006
Giant Interactive Wall TV
Siiiiiiiick! Make sure to check out the video.
Total glimpse into the future (for rich people anyway).
(thanks DKB!)
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Another Star Trek Movie in the Works
That would be Star Trek 11.
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April 20, 2006
Two Articles on Flaubert
"Happy are they who don't doubt themselves and whose pens fly across the page," Gustave Flaubert wrote in 1847, when he was 25. "I myself hesitate, I falter, I become angry and fearful, my drive diminishes as my taste improves, and I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well-proportioned paragraph."
Too true.
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April 14, 2006
Rodney Mullen Skate Video
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April 13, 2006
One More Reason to Eat Less Meat
The average American diet requires the production of an extra ton and a half of carbon dioxide, as well as methane and other greenhouse gases compared to a strictly vegetarian diet.
Link.
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Living Off the Grid
Good article about wind and solar home power generation.
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April 12, 2006
Hilarious GI Joe PSA Overdubs
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April 10, 2006
A New Mission To the Moon
An orbiter and a projectile to smash into the surface and see what shows up.
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Bebe Music Video
Interesting sort-of sexy, water imagery.
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April 09, 2006
Touch and Voice Table Interface
Used to play Warcraft 3. Very clever, though probably in the end much slower than a mouse and keyboard.
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April 06, 2006
Study Shows Optimism Comes with Age
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Strong Economy Generates More Heart Attacks
Wow. America is definately based on the trade-off of economic benefit versus personal (and global) sacrifice. This just makes it obvious.
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Mikhail Gorbachev Interview
Short but interesting.
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Robot Dancing Video
Sick.
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April 05, 2006
First-ever Dedicated Optical SETI Telescope
Cool!
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All About a Fluffer
Friend of mine's short film at:
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EPA Still Trying to Gut Clean Air Act
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April 04, 2006
The History of Jay and Silent Bob
After finding that Clerks 2 trailer (see two entries below) I was led to Kevin Smith's blog in which he's been lately detailing out his perennial relationship with Jason Mewes, particularly regarding the latter's ferocious drug addiction. It's a long but very interesting read. Beginning with:
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The Simpsons Movie Teaser Trailer
It better not stink like the show has been stinking hard for the last few (5) years.
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Clerks 2 Trailer
YouTube. Now this actually looks funny.
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April 03, 2006
California Aims to Limit Greenhouse Gases
(extra: two new books on global warming)
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