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- Juliette has collected several fine links for your amusement, including a big slam on Kwanzaa, the "traditional African holiday" invented in the Seventies.... |
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- Taking a lesson from the Columbia disaster, NASA plans to embed high-tech sensors in the wings of the three remaining space shuttles to detect any blows from debris, an oversight panel said Thursday. |
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- Ulkoministeriö ja kahdeksan kehitysyhteistyötä tekevää |
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- Japanin avaruusohjelman vaikeudet ovat viime aikoina kasaantuneet. Tuorein vastoinkäyminen sattui tiistaina, kun viranomaiset ilmoittivat luopuneensa yrityksistä saada Marsin luo lähetetty Nozomi-luotain punaista planeettaa kiertä |
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- Lumirakentaminen on talvesta kiinni. Se on taas kerran todettu Kemissä, jossa lumilinnan rakentajat ovat tuskailleet ja odotelleet vesikelien kourissa. |
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- CompUSA.com - Microsoft 802.11g MN-700 Broadband Networking Wireless Base Station $39.99. |
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- CompUSA.com - Microsoft 802.11g MN-700 Broadband Networking Wireless Base Station $39.99. |
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- CompUSA.com - Microsoft 802.11g MN-700 Broadband Networking Wireless Base Station $39.99. |
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- As John Kerry descends into oblivion, he makes the tactical mistake of slamming the current Democratic standard-bearer in a case of (very) sour grapes. The Kerry Dropoutwatch is on...... |
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= != == (Dec 11 2003 14:23 GMT) - En daar dan pas na een uur achterkomen. Zonde van m'n tijd...... |
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Sexism? (Dec 11 2003 14:23 GMT) - 5 former execs at HealthSouth sentenced The man goes to prison for five months, the four women get probation and... |
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- CNN: Sex sells, especially to Web surfers - Internet porn a booming, billion-dollar industry I keep a list of the funniest and smarmiest domains that come across the verify and DNS addition screens. It's frightening. Truly frightening.... |
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- Dias 23 e 24 de abril do ano que vem, acontecerá em Curitiba um festival de Choro. Serão vários eventos ligados ao choro, um dos mais bacanas será um concurso que distribuirá mais de seis mil reais em prêmios. Vá logo tirando suas músicas do baú q... |
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- Eis mais um exemplo de como o choro cada vez mais é a referência em matéria de música instrumental brasileira. Até um lugar como o Mistura Fina, que sempre foi reconhecido como um lugar importante de jazz, está abrindo lugar para o choro aos domin... |
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- List Account (Dec 11 2003) |
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- Dror Shalev (Dec 11 2003) |
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- Kristian Hermansen (Dec 10 2003) |
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- Microsoft and SAP vowed to play nice in the enterprise software market, but the gloves are about to come off. |
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- Jerry Jarvis: I can't take that responsibility. I better get my boss. Chief Donaldson: You better do something, you idiot, because in ten minutes you're going to have two hundred tons of locomotive smashing through Central Station on its way to Marshall Fields! |
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- O'Reilly has released "AppleScript: The Definitive Guide," a book by Matt Neuburg that explores the scripting language "from the ground up." According to Neuburg, there has long been a need for a complete, systematic book about AppleScript. "AppleScript is a fairly small language," says Neuburg, "but I was amazed by how difficult it was to write this book! It took more than twice as long as I'd expected. |
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- Apple next year is expected to launch a next-generation iMac featuring magnesium-alloy cases and "a high proportion of plastic parts for cost reduction, according to a Digitimes report: "The first model of New iMac using a magnesium-alloy case will come with a 20-inch LCD display and is expected to hit the market in January or February...Apple will outsource production of the New iMac to Taiwan-based Quanta Computer, which will manufacture the machines in Songjiang, Jiangsu Province (China)." |
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- December 10, 2003 World War II opened doors for American women in a number of ways. Of the 1,600 reporters permitted to wear the armband emblazoned with a "C" that meant war correspondent, 127 were women. They proved that in reporting war, women were the equal of men. |
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- filed under homeentertainment You'll probably be hearing a lot in the coming year about HDMI, or high-definition multimedia interface, a new cable standard which can transmit an uncompressed digital audio and video so that you could conceivably have just one cable connecting your DVD player to your digital surround sound A/V receiver. Besides improving picture quality, making it a heck of a lot easier to connect things together, and clearing some of that cable clutter, HDMI allows components to communicate between themselves, so that your DVD player could tell your digital TV that it is about to start playing a movie in widescreen movie and to adjust its settings. The first TVs and DVD players with HDMI started showing up earlier this year and there should be tons more next year. |
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- filed under laptopspcs We are in no way endorsing this as a product, but Arkon is selling a laptop mount for car steering wheels that could conceivably let you work on spreadsheets and such during your daily commute. Though, of course, they're billing the Executive Laptop Steering Wheel Mount as a way to get work done when you're not actually driving, the temptation for true road warriors might prove irresistable |
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- PDF Zone.com has published an article examining the quality of Panther's PDF support. According to the author Don Fluckinger, Apple's claims that you can make proper PDF documents using Panther itself is false when it comes to the world of professional printing. |
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- Rob Enderle has built his career, in part, on being wrong about Apple. Today I am not actually bringing you a Death Knell, but Mr. Enderle has been talking some smack about Apple and Steve Jobs |
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- A security firm has discovered new ways for hackers to exploit two known flaws in the Windows operating system to propagate worms similar to the SQL Slammer or the MSBlast attacks that infected computers across the globe earlier this year. |
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- The National Weather Service, harbinger of flash floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes, will be relying on 900 IBM eServer IntelliStations workstations and 160 IBM eServer xSeries servers running Linux to improve forecasting speed by 400 percent, according to IBM. |
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- A Lindows team, headed by CEO Michael Robertson, is in Europe this week meeting with resellers to discuss, among other things, Microsoft threats against the firms. Robertson said he sent a letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saying, 'Call off the dogs -- this is nothing but harassment.'" |
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- Saturday Night Live's "Tiny Elvis" may now have the perfect guitar, thanks to Cornell University researchers who have perfected the world's smallest version of this rock and roll essential. By playing the new, streamlined "nanoguitar," physicists demonstrate how such devices could make electronic circuits smaller, cheaper and more energy-efficient. |
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- Paris - Dec 11, 2003 The growth in government spending on space may surpass US$50 billion by 2010, up from today's US$43 billion, according to Euroconsult's newly released report World Prospects for Government Space Markets: 2004 Edition. Prospects for the space industry are good, with strong growth to be driven by the increase in the military space spending, especially in the US. The overall picture masks regional differences however |
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- Orlando - Dec 11, 2003 Northern Sky Research has released the latest update to its industry-standard study "Broadband Satellite Markets" providing comprehensive analysis of the worldwide market for enterprise & SME VSAT networks, consumer and SOHO broadband satellite services, and ISP applications. |
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