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- Our young friend Pieter Friedrich has given a fine rebuttal to an asinine comment from Sen. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ). With... |
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- This should be a no brainer, especially since he refuses to step down: Gov. John G. Rowland vowed again Wednesday... |
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- Apparently this morning I met Sandy Peardon without knowing it, thanks for a social engagement skills deficit on the part of Dan James. |
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- François Nonnenmacher on iSight hacks. |
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- A spray-paint image of George Bush on the traffic signal switching box, corner of University Avenue and Grafton Street, Charlottetown: |
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- [source] (Sept. 11) was a big thing for me. I was saying to liberal America, “Well, what are you offering?”... |
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- LiveWarehouse offers the refurbished Palm IIIc 8MB handheld for $39 with free shipping. That's $40 less than the next best price we could find and...(more) |
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- The refurbished Palm m105 8MB handheld costs $29 with free shipping at LiveWarehouse. That's the best price we've seen by $21, although only a 7-day...(more) |
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- LiveWarehouse offers the refurbished Palm IIIc 8MB handheld for $39 with free shipping. That's $40 less than the next best price we could find and...(more) |
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- The refurbished Palm m105 8MB handheld costs $29 with free shipping at LiveWarehouse. That's the best price we've seen by $21, although only a 7-day...(more) |
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- It looked like miserable weather in Kitty Hawk--a cold rain, as the president spoke. I doubt if they got off... |
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- My next Wright essay is now up at National Review Online. Lawrence Reed has a piece that also contrasts the... |
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- Phil Fraering is putting together an FQQ on Iraq, and seeking inputs.... |
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- The first of my Wright essays is up, at TechCentralStation. [Update at 10 PM PST] While I'm at it, I'll... |
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Busy (Dec 17 2003 14:59 GMT) - Sorry, but I'm working on three Wright essays today. But meanwhile, go over to RLV News, (which I think should... |
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- Dr. Irving Finegarten: Come to think of it, why should I give you a vitamin shot? I'm the one with the hangover. B-12, B-Complex, Crude Liver, and a generous jolt of adrenal cortex. |
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- FastCompany's January 2004 cover story focuses on Apple's continuing innovation, yet lack of sweeping success. "The battle over digital music is just another verse in Apple's sad song," the magazine says, "this astonishingly imaginative company keeps getting muscled out of markets it creates." |
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- A MacNN reader notes the use of an iSight, EvoCam shareware, and a Power Mac G4 helped catch thieves stealing items from an office a Brigham Young University (BYU): "We set up an Mac OS X shareware called EvoCam with an iSight on our office G4. It starts recording automatically after sensing motion. Soon it recorded two guys wearing gloves and BYU sportswear entered our office with the aid of a key, removing several items from our office and the office next door and putting them in their backpacks. Footage was turned over to university police. |
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- December 16, 2003 Da Vinci Project engineers have a radical idea for getting into space: a rocket and balloon combination. This is just one of 23 innovative spacecraft designs competing to win the X-Prize |
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- We've been following the Stillwater school board and a program begun earlier this year to put laptops in two, and then one of the district's junior high schools for many months now |
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- Steve Jobs gave an interview to USA Today concerning Apple's music strategy. According to the story resulting from that interview, Mr |
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- Microsoft has reorganized its Platform Group, announcing the formation of a new engineering division to concentrate on next-generation software and shuffling the responsibilities of some key players in its OS and client units. |
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- Washington - Dec 17, 2003 sir, your taxi is waiting The Reuters news agency reported late Tuesday night that the space tourist company Space Adventures has selected two unnamed tourists for Soyuz flights in 2004 and 2005 to the International Space Station. Both tourists were reported to be Americans including a 38-year-old male Manhattan real estate developer. But no other details were available. |
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- Berkeley - Dec 17, 2003 Radioactive potassium, common enough on Earth to make potassium-rich bananas one of the "hottest" foods around, appears also to be a substantial source of heat in the Earth's core, according to recent experiments by University of California, Berkeley, geophysicists |
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- San Diego - Dec 17, 2003 Sony Electronics announced Monday the industry's first single-chip CMOS Global Positioning System (GPS) LSI that incorporates a built-in RF circuit in an ultra-miniature design. Designed independently by Sony, the CXD2951 offers high sensitivity and minimal power consumption |
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- Independent Online- 25minutesago Paris - Leaders from the boldest nuclear initiative since the Manhattan Project gather this weekend to decide on a beauty contest with a $10-billion (about R64-billion) prize: which country will host the world's first large-scale nuclear fusion reactor? |
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- The Globe and Mail- 4hoursago The Canadian Recording Industry Association's threat to sue file sharers isn'ta change of tactic or an aggressive new policy, but a move to target heavy users, CRIA's president said yesterday. |
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- CNN International- 30minutesago ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- They came dressed in sweatpants, pajamas, hobbit cloaks and even chain mail, each proudly bearing a precious treasure a ticket to the all-day "Lord of the Rings" marathon, a back-to-back-to-back viewing of .. |
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- Calendar Live (subscription)- 5hoursago "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," the 1969 Western outlaw romp, was one of 25 "culturally or aesthetically significant" movies selected for preservation by the Library of Congress' National Film Registry on Tuesday. |
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- American workers won't like what venture capitalist Ravi Chiruvolu says about why his tech start-ups are built using Indian workers. But they'd better listen. |
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- Danish researchers claim life's most important chemical reaction was underway by 3.7 billion years ago. |
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- Despite summer heatwaves, 2003 looks likely to have been only the fifth warmest year in the UK, and the third warmest globally. |
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- Australian astronomers have discovered an extra cosmic arm in the Milky Way that they believe wraps around the outskirts of the vast galaxy like a thick gas border. |
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- A group of open-source hardware developers unveils a system-on-chip microprocessor built without patented technology. Advocates say the development shows that the open-source movement isn't just about software anymore. |
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- Martial arts movie junkies currently need a black belt in copyright law to determine when and where it is legal to buy foreign versions of U.S.-distributed films. Some movie buffs are fighting back. |
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- Hoping to grab the eyeballs of viewers hooked on video games, television honchos search for a silver bullet. Their bright idea: More TV shows about gaming. |
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- Med-Tech Monsanto hopes to settle its lawsuit against a small Maine dairy that labels its milk as hormone-free. The agricultural giant says the labels hurt its business for Posilac, a hormone that increases milk production. |
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- Philips Electronics is about to launch a new digital rights management system. They say encoded songs can be played anywhere on any device, but absolutely cannot be copied. Hackers, take note. |
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- Cancer researchers studying air pollution say they are surprised to learn that breathing polluted air is twice as likely to cause death from heart disease than from respiratory disorders. |
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- But a federal judge rules that a California company selling software that blocks pop-up ads can use their own pop-ups -- no matter how intrusive -- until the matter is settled in court. |
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- By JOHN MARKOFF Technologists say advanced semiconductors will improve the quality of large-screen digital televisions and substantially lower their price. |
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- By MATTHEW L. WALD Electricity engineers said that the industry should be more tightly linked, through mutual regulation and data sharing. |
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- The medical researcher is thought to have been infected in his lab - colleagues and family have been told to stay at home |
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- The unseasonal storm will not affect the landing of three approaching spacecraft, but has a slim chance of reducing the missions' length |
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- roundup MCI will more than triple the number of access points. Also: T-Mobile teams up with iPass. |
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- A Web site that offers desktop applets for the Macintosh desktop is gearing up to provide similar gadgets for Windows. |
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- Wristwatches embedded with Microsoft's smart technology are expected to appear in retail stores next month, a move that comes after a delay of several months. |
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- Cisco Systems loses another entrepreneur to the start-up world as Andreas Bechtolsheim, father of Cisco's gigabit Ethernet products, leaves the company. |
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- The top five U.S. cable providers remain divided this week between traditional and cutting-edge ways to sell telephone service. That's good news for makers of old-fashioned phone equipment. |
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- The software maker continues its move into the Linux market with the release of its first Linux-based desktop services package. |
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