December 2007
November 2007
Alarm Sounds Like ... What??? [PIC] →
The photograph is blurry … I’m guessing the cameraman was cracking up. WTF?
Click a mouse, feed a mouth in U.N. campaign →
FreeRice offers participants multiple choice definitions to the meaning of a word, with each correct click generating 10 grains of rice for the United Nations World Food Programme. A food-linked word game put on the Internet a month ago has proved a runaway success and has already generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people.
New Process Turns Silicon Chips into Solar Panels →
What this process does is remove the remnants of the intellectual property from the wafers surface. This allows the wafers to be reused, or ideally, turned into solar panels. The process has been deemed innovative enough to be awarded the “2007 Most Valuable Pollution Prevention Award” from The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable.
Polls: 51% of Democrats Want Cheney to be... →
Among Democrats, 51% say the Vice President should be impeached while only 22% disagree. Just 8% of Republicans and 30% of unaffiliated voters favor impeachment of the Vice President. Twenty-five percent (25%) of all voters say they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate who works to have Cheney impeached.
Fedora 8 sees strong adoption in first week →
Fedora 8 has been installed over 54,000 times since its release last week according to statistics from Red Hat.
Latest Mac OS X 10.5.1 build fixes Finder data... →
Apple Inc. on Monday continued to pound away at its first maintenance and security update to the recently released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system, issuing a new test build to developers that fixes the much publicized Finder data loss issue. The new build, labeled Mac OS X 10.5.1 build 9B16, was accompanied by a note to developers that speci
Bin Laden relative to get supersonic business jet →
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi businessman Tarek bin Laden, half-brother of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, became the first customer to sign up for the $80 million Aerion supersonic business jet on Monday. The retirement in 2003 of the Concorde, which…
Halo 3 Heat Maps Now Available For All Levels at... →
Really cool function to see where (NOT) to go while playing Halo 3. “Is carnage splattering the walls of Valhalla’s hot gates? Should you be adding camping stools into the top of Construct via Forge? Our stats radar is tracking every kill and death in Halo 3. The darker the red, the more frequent the carnage.”
Border Patrol agents brutalize protestors during... →
At the end of a bi-national march from the site of the No Borders Camp and rally at the Mexicali/Calexico port of entry, around 100 Border Patrol officers and attacked a group of about 30 demonstrators on the u.s. side and with pepper gas pellets, tazers, and batons. 2-3 people were severely beaten and more suffered from the use of chemical weapons
Swedish Feminists Launch Campaign For The Rights... →
“They’re “just breasts”! This is the rallying cry of a network of women who have launched a campaign for the right to bathe topless at Sweden’s swimming pools.”
99 Top Resources for Web 2.0 Design →
This is the all encompassing list for the latest resources that will help you improve your Web 2.0 design…
Net neutrality foes back FCC investigation into... →
One of the most vocal anti-network neutrality lobby groups has written to the FCC… in support of an investigation of Comcast. Pressure is building on the FCC to act, and opponents of net neutrality would rather have an industry-friendly FCC investigating the issue than a new law.
Learn how to navigate thru New York Traffic from... →
A bike messenger race. The video is taken from the helmet of one of the racer. You will see all the tricks they use to get thru the city faster than anyone else. Insane!
Porsche Had World's First Hybrid 100 Years Ago →
Surprise! The first hybrid car is a 100-year-old Porsche! The car had in-wheel electric motors and an onboard gas engine to recharge the batteries. This makes the car a serial hybrid (only one engine drives the wheels) like the Volt, instead of a paralell hybrid (both engines drive the wheels) like the Prius.
First Look: Zachary Quinto as Spock →
Here is a first photo of Zachary Quinto as Spock in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. The production is currently shooting in a chapel that has been converted to looked like a Vulcan Council Chamber of some sort.
Free UML - style Modelling Tools for Visual Studio... →
Coding Horror: Yes, But What Have You *Done*? →
ウノウラボ Unoh Labs: ブラウザから使用できる仕様書を書くツールまとめ →
砂袋ソファ →
Christiane Hognerにより海岸に砂袋でつくられたソファ。Josef HoffmannのKubus seatにインスパイアされているのだとか。
http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2007/10/30/
フルーツステッカーボウル →
フルーツに貼られているステッカーを貼り付けたフルーツボウル。
http://www.eatock.com/project/fruit-sticker-bowl
Fossilized possum →
Fossilized possum
supinate: 1. To turn or rot... →
su•pi•nate
[soo-puh-neyt] — verb
1. To turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm faces up or forward. 2. To turn or rotate (the foot) by adduction and inversion so that the outer edge of the sole bears the body’s weight.
Portal →
Portal
任天堂のすごさを垣間見たとき - ksh Days →
RIAA tells Universities to stop P2P downloads or... →
Why am I angry? The new Higher Education Bill (HEA §494) requires that the Universities stop all P2P downloads that RIAA doesn’t like AND buy Napster or Rhapsody subscriptions for every student on the campus or lose all federal financial aid.
fladdict.net blog: かなり画質のよいFLVの作り方メモ →
Technophilia: Double Your Productivity with a... →
Finnish police detain boy for YouTube video threat →
Police in Finland have detained a 16-year-old boy who posted a video called “Maaninka massacre” on the YouTube Web site, days after eight people were killed by a student who had posted a similar video on the Internet.
10 Worst Free-Agent Baseball Contracts in the Last... →
#2: Darren Dreifort, Dodgers (5 years, $55 million!) - L.A. rewarded its young (29 at the time) righty with this deal in the winter of 2000 — despite a 39-45 career record with a 4.28 ERA. Dreifort responded with one full season — as a reliever, in ‘04 — nine wins, 15 losses, one save, a 4.64 ERA, several trips to the DL and an early retirement.