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- Chuck Hayes Picked Up by Houston Rockets from Albuquerque Thunderbirds for Remainder of 2006; John Lucas III Rockets Back to Tulsa 66ers After 10 Day Looker - NBA D-League Basketball MLN Newswire - HOUSTON – Houston Rockets General Manager Carroll Dawson announced today that the team has signed forward Chuck Hayes for the remainder of the season. He was signed to a 10-day contract on Jan. |
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- An international team of scientists affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center has coaxed a self-assembling material into forming never-before-seen, three-dimensional nanoscale structures, with potential applications ranging from catalysis and chemical separation to semiconductor manufacturing. Image: Thin films of a lamellar-forming block copolymer on 2D surfaces chemically patterned with a square array of spots form 3D bicontinuous morphologies. Top-down scanning electron micrographs (top right) show that a series of spots arise on the free surface. The mean field simulation results (bottom right) indicate that both of the copolymer domains (the blue domains were removed from the image for clarity) of the self-assembled morphology are continuous and connect the substrate to the free surface. |
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- Nullsoft Scriptable Install System is a tool for creating quick and user-friendly installers for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is a script-based system that adds a very small overhead, only 34 KB. It features LZMA compression, support for multiple languages, and an easy-to-use plugins system License: zlib/libpng License Changes: This release fixes a critical bug introduced in version 2. |
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- JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Police have arrested a woman who is believed to have abandoned her newborn boy early Monday in an apartment house hallway. |
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- Materials scientists at Lehigh University and catalyst chemists at Cardiff University have uncovered secrets of the "nanoworld" that promise to lead to cleaner methods of producing, among other things, spices and perfumes. The materials scientists, headed by Christopher Kiely of Lehigh, have determined the structure of a type of gold-palladium nanoparticle, which is the active component of a new environmentally friendly catalyst that promotes the oxidation of primary alcohols to aldehydes. The researchers reported their results Jan. 20 in Science magazine, one of the world's top science journals. The article was titled "Solvent-free oxidation of primary alcohols to aldehydes using titania-supported gold-palladium catalysts. |
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- C Algorithms Library is a collection of commonly used Computer Science algorithms. The focus is on code that is well documented and tested, portable, and reusable. |
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- The DBIx::Wrapper::Config module allows the use of a configuration file in XML specifying information required to connect to databases using DBIx::Wrapper. This way, your database connection specifications can be kept in one place. |
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- URL::Grab is a Perl module that drastically simplifies the fetching of files. It is designed to be used in programs that need common (but not necessarily simple) URL fetching features. It is extremely simple to drop into an existing program, and provides a clean interface to protocol-independent file access. |
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- Julian Smith Drops Shootout Winner Bypassing Blazers - Austin Ice Bats 3, Oklahoma City 2 - CHL Hockey MLN Newswire - Austin forward Julian Smith scored two goals and an assist, including the shootout winner, to give the Ice Bats their seventh straight win, 3-2 over Oklahoma City Saturday night at the Travis County Expo Center. Already in sole possession of the fourth and final Southern Conference playoff position, the Ice Bats moved within two points of second-place Rio Grande Valley in the Southeast Division. Oklahoma City wasted little time getting on the board, Michel Beausoleil opening scoring just 17 seconds into the contest. |
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- So, if you're spending the evening for whatever reason with Daniel Craig, the latest version of James Bond, keep the liquor coming. Seems the drunker he gets, the more clothes he takes off. Especially on a movie set, where... |
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- Essential Plugins at Dakar Release (TWiki 4.0.0) What is an essential plugin? That is a subjective view. And we can never agree. |
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- The Nanotechnology Foundation of Texas has awarded Rice University doctoral student Vinit Murthy its 2006 George Kozmetsky Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Nanotechnology. The award includes a $5,000 prize. Murthy and Shravanthi Reddy of the University of Texas at Austin earned top honors in the Kozmetsky competition, which drew stiff competition from the state's leading research universities. Only 14 out of a possible 600 points separated the top four finalists, which represented diverse fields, including medicine, engineering and natural science. Read more! |
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- Researchers at Melbourne's Howard Florey Institute have discovered how the brain prioritises pain and thirst in order to survive - a mechanism that helps elite athletes to 'push through the pain barrier'. The Florey's Dr Michael Farrell and colleagues discovered that pain sensitivity is enhanced when people are thirsty. The scientists also found that a part of the brain is uniquely activated when pain and thirst are experienced together, suggesting these regions may act as an integrative centre that has a special role in modifying pain senses. Read more! |
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- David Pescovitz: Pioneering video artist Nam June Paik passed away yesterday. "The future is now." --N.J. |
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- Arte Moreno finished his testimony today. Moreno also testified that he was unaware of the “emotional curtain” that divides Orange County and Los Angeles when he thought about the name change. Arte just continues to endear himself to the people... |
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- Chemical reactions in space could have triggered life on Earth, University of Leeds chemists have discovered. Evidence suggests exotic phosphorus molecules falling to Earth in meteorites may have been used in our early chemistry - giving a whole new angle on the origin of life studies - and could even lead scientists to the building blocks of life elsewhere in the universe. Phosphorus is found in all living cells, but many scientists believe that the most common source found on Earth - phosphate - may not have been the first source used in pre-biotic chemistry. Drs Terry Kee and Dave Bryant believe the answer may lie further afield, in a more reactive type of phosphorus not found on Earth called phosphinate: ? |
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- On One Smoot Short of a Bridge, eeka discusses an issue straight married couples don't have to deal with: The federal government considers health insurance provided by one person as income for the other: ... I'm not even sure if we're supposed to base it on the premium; it just says "coverage. |
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- Common wisdom among astronomers holds that most star systems in the Milky Way are multiple, consisting of two or more stars in orbit around each other. Common wisdom is wrong. A new study by Charles Lada of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) demonstrates that most star systems are made up of single stars. Since planets probably are easier to form around single stars, planets also may be more common than previously suspected. Astronomers have long known that massive, bright stars, including stars like the sun, are most often found to be in multiple star systems. |
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- The 81-year-old grandmother suspected of shooting and killing her granddaughter’s ex-husband confessed today to Times reporter Mai Tran at the Orange County jail—where she is the eldest inmate, the paper reports. CBS2/KCAL 9 also got to her.... |
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- A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, and the Russian Academy of Sciences has used sound waves to induce nuclear fusion without the need for an external neutron source, according to a paper in the Jan. 27 issue of Physical Review Letters. The results address one of the most prominent questions raised after publication of the team?s earlier results in 2004, suggesting that ?sonofusion? |
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- ESPN is broadcasting the World Baseball Classic. That's good news. The worldwide leader in sports is great at covering multi-game tournaments like this.... |
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- radlib is a C language library developed to abstract details of interprocess communications and common Linux/Unix system facilities so that application developers can concentrate on application solutions. It encourages developers to use a proven paradigm of event-driven, asynchronous design. By abstracting interprocess messaging, events, timers, and any I/O device that can be represented as a file descriptor, radlib simplifies the implementation of multi-purpose processes, as well as multi-process applications. In short, radlib is a sincere attempt to provide real-time OS capability on a non-real-time OS. License: |
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- TrueMusic is a simple Java music player that supports MP3 and WAV (and AIF without seeking). The GUI attempts to mimic the native look and feel of the running environment. It requires JRE 1.5.x or higher. |
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- Technorati Tracker will examine an Apache Web server log and will display hits generated by clicks from technorati.com, and will also track the visits by Technoratibot. Each hit from Technorati will be displayed in a row with these columns: Time, IP Address, Section (Tags, Search, Blog Finder, Popular), and Keywords. At the bottom of the page, a bar chart will be displayed comparing the number of hits from each section on Technorati. |
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- CGI-Musicbox is a collection of programs to manage a digital jukebox via CGI. Music is played on server which is controlled through a Web interface. It can play lists, individual files, directories, and audio CDs. Lists can be created and edited through the interface. CD ripping and encoding (to ogg, mp3, or m4a) can be fully controlled. |
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- myPhile is a Web application that serves as a customizable generic front-end to any MySQL table. It provides "view" control and user access privileges for editing, deleting, adding records, and more. Field control allows default strings or MySQL calculations on adds or edits. All functions are provided in a single PHP file. Simple and complex searches are possible and the most recent searches are stored. |
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- The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing GIF/PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Magic OID prefixes for 'difficult SNMP devices'. |
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- Erik Westrum Snaps Tie To Cage Chicago; Wolves 5, Houston Aeros 4 - AHL Hockey MLN Newswire - HOUSTON, Texas – AHL leading scorer Erik Westrum snapped a tie with his second goal of the game with 5: |
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- BustoBot, a modern pop-up book. |
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- MythoBeast writes "In the latest episode of the Intellectual Icebergs podcast, Brett Thorson of Ravenwing provides a very good review of how ready our industry is for IPv6. He also provides a pretty good implementation guide for those who want to set up IPv6 at home." |
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- Rivermen Can't Paddle Against Grand Rapids Stream; Griffins 4, Peoria 2 - AHL Hockey MLN Newswire - PEORIA, Ill. – |
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- A vote to end debate on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court will be held today at 4:30 pm. |
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- Finland President Tarja Halonen, a political leftist, won reelection over the conservative Sauli Niinisto by a small margin in a runoff vote held Sunday. |
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- A Missouri pharmacist was fired by Target over her refusal to fill or refer emergency contraception prescriptions. |
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