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Seen that? - Ercoupe - A Plane I Want to Fly

Ercoupe - A Plane I Want to Fly at The Aviation Weblog Don't ask me why, but I've fallen in love with the Ercoupe. Maybe it's because in it's day it was touted as the safest plane in the air, stall-proof in fact. Though I'd hav...

Seen that? - Olympic Torch Hoax

Olympic Torch Hoax at I got Spam?! My Dad recently got the following email (excerpt only). You should be alert during the next days: Do not open any message with an attached filed called "Invitation" regardless of who sent it. It is a vi...

Seen that? - Fusion Anyone

Fusion Anyone at IfEnergy Are we there yet? Or more exactly, is fusion power feasible yet? Well we know how to make a fusion reaction occur, the problem is that temperatures reaching into the millions of degrees either C or F must be generated to ...

Oil spike and the nuclear equation

Keep an eye on the oil price over the next few weeks. Oil prices have tumbled with US figures showing unemployment has hit 9.8%, well on its way to double digits. That's on the demand side. More people out of work means fewer people buying things which means less demand for fuel. That&#...

For Mozilla and Google, Group Hugs Get Tricky

• For Mozilla and Google, Group Hugs Get Tricky • Massa 之鉴，Renault 遭禁 • 七龙珠/魔人布欧树脂手办 • Twitter Generates $48 Million of Media Coverage in a Month • 巴菲特：看卡通，跟我学理财 • PNG Optimization Guide: More Clever Techniques • Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man • Ericsson Wins Auction to Bu...

Larry Summers: the worst is yet to come

Alarming revelations by Larry Summers, director of the US president's National Economic Council in the Financial Times . Summers says the recession has a long way to go and the worst is still ahead. Summers says: "I don't think the worst is over ... It's very likely that m...

Jackson Memorial Service Internet Viewing May Match Obama's Inauguration

• Jackson Memorial Service Internet Viewing May Match Obama's Inauguration • Introducing the Google Chrome OS • Michael Jackson's Funeral - the Online Version • 微软将揭开Gazelle（瞪羚）浏览器面纱 • Demand for Apple's 13" MacBook Pro may be outpacing supply • Google Drops A Nuclear Bom...

The banking crisis and Eastern Europe

The world's banking crisis is hitting Eastern Europe with Russian stocks going into free fall . The Financial Times reports that Moody's says Eastern Europe is looking increasingly vulnerable. According to the FT, Moody's warns of "continuous downward pressure on east Europe...

WordPress.tv: The Oficial WordPress Channel

• WordPress.tv: The Oficial WordPress Channel • Watch videos right in Gmail chat • taskless: the sticky notes web application • Must Love Wine Community • OperationalMemory.com - A New Way To Boost Productivity • PhotoCliches.com - How Original Was That? • Web Prosperity Central • Hop...

Why Obama should take up cricket

Here's a suggestion out of left field from Michael Fullilove at the Financial Times . As a cricket tragic, I agree with him totally. Fullilove argues that Obama should ditch baseball and turn to cricket, a far more complex game and one that offers him seven lessons. Number one is that...

Dick Cheney Explains Why Bush Can Fire Nuclear Missiles Whenever He Wants

Outgoing Vice President, Dick Cheney, took a last stab at terrifying the world a few hours ago. During an interview with "Fox News" he issued a frightening reminder that George Bush still has the means and authority to light off America's nuclear arsenal. During the interview, which t...

India-Pakistan: Bad for business

Despite commitments from some large outsourcing players to continue their India-based operations, a more widespread perception of the dangers raised by the Mumbai attacks which I wrote about last week is starting to gain broader concern in the industry. The terrorist attacks, however, are y...

Cheap oil and global risk

The plunging price of oil , dropping to its lowest level in more than three years, is likely to reshape the world significantly. It's great for motorists and businesses, but there are some disturbing signs when you look at how it will affect business and other countries. Big companies are ...

The Datacenter of your Dreams

Tell me that your secret CIO fantasy isn't to "appropriate" some of those funds painstakingly carved into your budget for replacement mice and build yourself one of these instead: a super-secure underground datacenter in a former nuclear bomb shelter buried beneath the bedro...

Mini-Atomreaktor für den „Hausgebrauch"

Innerhalb der nächsten 5 Jahre wird ein Mini-Kernreaktor frei verkäuflich sein. Mehrere Firmen, darunter auch Toshiba, wollen jedem Menschen seine "persönliche" Atomkraft ermöglichen. Diesmal hinken die Zukunftsvisionen der Wirklichkeit hinterher. Die Regierung der USA hat die Technik ...

Brown Rice Compound, Bioactive Against Diabetes

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 7005293 Researchers have identified bioactive compounds in pre-germinated brown rice which may be responsible for its claimed health benefits in cognitive function and as an anti-diabetes. In order to identify the bioactive compounds in the rice, researc...

Cyberwar in the South Ossetia conflict

We've seen the headlines before, most recently in the Russia/Estonia dispute which never escalated to armed conflict, but they're coming out again in the fighting between Russia and Georgia over the disputed South ossetia region. Most people I know tend to roll their eyes at t...

MyCMDB: the cool BSM software with the funny name

I made fun of Managed Objects new social-networking influenced CMDB interface product myCMDB when it was announced last month, critiquing both the kindergarten playground name of the software and the fact that something as prosaic as a configuration management database product was jumping o...

17 款 Google Maps 的 Mashup

- 5tvs.com - AntennaSearch.com - AWorldOfNirvana.com - ASCIIMaps.com - DaylightMap.com - DoctorWhoLocations.org.uk - EasyTZ.com - Geography Of Seinfeld - GhostLogs.com - Goocam - If You Dig Straight Down - MapBuilder.net - N2YO.com - Nuclear Blast Effects - PackageMap...

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky Dated

The prequal to the heroically buggy yet innovative free roaming FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R has now been dated; a worldwide release is planned for the 29th of August 2008. If you lived in a cave when the original was released, the basic premise of the game involved venturing into the Chenobyl nuclear...

Carbon principles

Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at the massive impact that climate change will have on the financial services sector, particularly the banks. Now, global law firm Winston & Strawn has put out a briefing paper on the carbon principles being championed by Citibank, JPMo...

African-American Achievements in Aviation and Aerospace

As Black History month comes to a close, I wanted to share with you a timeline of African-American Achievements in Aviation and Aerospace. 1952: Frank E. Petersen, Jr., B.S., M.S.- U.S. Marine Corp's first African American aviator. 1954: David Blackwell- the first African American to hold a ...

Three-Parent Embryo

Using in-vitro fertilization techniques, scientists have successfully created an embryo with DNA material from three donor parents: nuclear DNA material from the mother and father, and mitochondrial DNA from a third party. The scientists hope that this approach will help eradicate genetic disea...

Maybe it was Ninjas

Sure, some might call me irresponsible, but the ninja theory is at least as credible as some of the others floating around out there right now attempting to make some sense of the suspicious rash of undersea cable disruptions which have plagued the Middle East and India over the past week. As...

Court Appoints Britney Spears' Dad Her Conservator

It looks as if Britney Spears has finally had a nuclear meltdown. Britney has had a Conservator, her father, appointed to look after her well being. This means that at this point she is no longer considered capable of handling her own affairs and is considered to be the equivalent of a child...

Toshiba's Micro Nuclear Plant: Nice Idea, But A Hoax

Normally, we like to cover real gadgets here at The Gadgets Weblog, but occasionally, it's worthwhile to cover a gadget that's clearly a fake. A blog called Next Energy News leaks a story about Toshiba building a "Micro Nuclear Reactor" that would be nothing short of a mirac...

The Age Of Turbulence

When Alan Greenspan was at the height of his influence as Fed chairman, the financial news network CNBC would film him arriving for Federal Open Market Committee meetings and focus on the size of his briefcase. According to the Briefcase Indicator, if the briefcase was thin it meant that Greenspa...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R MMO? Maybe

Developers GSC Game World have posted the result of a public Q&A session on their forums, with some rather suprising news included. Other than the standard news about their upcoming prequal to STALKRE, Clear Sky, and how it will keep all the support of the current STALKER engine, there is ...

核爆视频集

　　核爆恐怕是人类迄今创造出的最壮观同时也是最残忍的景象之一了，当它足够大的时候，地球也会变成宇宙粉末。你在电视或互联网上或许已经见过一些核爆片段了，但在下面这段视频里，作者将互联网上所流传的大部分核爆视频集合起来了，让你一次看个痛快： （ 备用视频 ） 　　如果世界末日到来，非死不可时，我宁愿选择这种方式结束生命。至少痛快一些。当然，在那之前，千万别碰上这些玩意儿=,,= 　　[via digg ]

Pregnant Women Exposing Unborn Children to Radiation

According to recent study , pregnant woman are exposing their unborn children to high doses of radiation by receiving high-tech imaging exams. This exposure is higher than those reported ten years ago. The study reviewed examinations on more than 5,235 pregnant women from 1997 to 2006. Researcher...

Mac OS X 软件更新 20071115

Yahoo: evil in China

So Yahoo has reached a settlement with the families of Chinese journalists who were jailed after the company ratted on them. It comes after a savaging from Congressional representatives but this case is not going to go away. As Bloomberg's Ann Woolner points out, this case really hig...

Mapping the climate change industry

The climate change industry is in its early stages and it's worth monitoring. Business is now obsessed with carbon and carbon neutrality, which is difficult to define because we don't yet have any objective standards, has become the symbol of the virtuous corporation. We are now seeing mo...

Mac OS X 软件更新 20071013

Kim Kardashian Shakes Her Booty In Las Vegas

Source:www.anemicroyalty.files.wordpress.com Kim Kardashian , the chick with the nuclear radiation enhanced ass, hit the dance floor here in Las Vegas recently, and registered about a 7 on the Richter Scale. The occasion was, well, actually there wasn't any occasion, but then there really...

RFID and its history

I come across a lot of people who ask me innumerable questions with regards to RFID and one of the most common questions is whether RFID is a new concept and I feel there is a strong urgency to educate people on this concept. Today I will tell you something about the history of RFID and on reading...

Interview with Triodos Bank executives

This week I talked to the head honchos of Dutch-based sustainability bank Triodos which invests in projects offering social and environmental value. Triodos' funds total EUR3 billion ($US4.25 billion) and its products include a European renewables fund, a large-cap equity fund, a bond fund...

Apocalypse Pah! Suzuki Has The Answer

Ok, so sooner or later we are going to be plunged into an apocalyptic scenario beyond our wildest reckonings, and it's going to be a trifle difficult to nip down to the shops due to the skin peeling pollution levels or nuclear winter. Suzuki mocks at such inconveniences with its new concept vehi...

This Week in Outdoor History: The First Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier

This week in outdoor history features the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the first round-the-world flight. September 14, 1959: The Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the Moon when it crashed onto the lunar surface. September 17, 1908: Lt. Thom...

Mac OS X 软件更新 20070920

62 个更新，重要更新包括 iToner 1.0.2、Missing Sync for Palm OS 6.0.1、Apple MainStage 1.0.1、VoodooPad Pro 3.2.1、VoodooPad 3.2.1、VoodooPad Lite 3.2.1、Sound Grinder 3.1.1 等。

How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 25

We're getting closer to the end of our 30-part series in which we pick through Warren Buffett's Letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders for clues on how we can be as rich as the man. Part 25 covers the year 2001, a year in which few people got rich and most of us had our worldviews ...

This Week in Outdoor History: Thor Heyerdahl, Jesse Owens & Thomas Stevens

This week in outdoor news includes a few firsts, including the first woman to swim across the english channel and the first climbers to submit Mont Blanc. August 3, 1958: The nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. August 4, 1884: T...

The Simpons Mobile Game: Minutes to Meltdown

The Simpsons Movie is set to premiere worldwide on July 27, 2007. So, while you're waiting, you can check out the Java game, titled The Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown , available as a download from O2 UK : It's the game of the blockbuster movie of the world's favourite cartoon ser...

SeaAway: RFID soll Schmuggelware auf hoher See erkennen

Einem Bericht bei Engadget zufolge, sollen künftig Offshore-Wachtposten mit RFID-Chips Container mit Schmuggelware ausfindig machen. Die Firma SeaAway aus dem US-amerikanischen bundesstaat Florida: s looking to make our ports a good bit safer in the future by implementing an offshore...

Harrah's Chester kicks off 2nd season

Harrah's Chester Casino & Racetrack will kick off its second live racing season on Monday, July 9. The 95-day stand will feature racing on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays through December 20. First post time will be 3:30 p.m. in July, August, and September. The track will shif...

GSeeker Reading List（2007.07.06）

* Telling Google Your Domain Moved 当你换了域名，你需要做的和Google有关的步骤。 * 加州的阳光 CW的新闻稿，嘿嘿！

Panic! No More!

Looks like Brando's hitting home runs today. Up next: the USB Stress Panic Button , a simple device that takes the old panic button you attached to your keyboard and takes it to the next level. How so, you ask? Open the plastic casing (which goves the panic button an old-school cold war nuc...

Big threats from KPMG avoided charges

Just how powerful are the Big Four accounting firms? Extremely, or that seems to be the implication from memos written by KPMG lawyers when they were negotiating with prosecutors in 2005, telling them not to prosecute the firm for selling fraudulent tax shelters. KPMG defence lawyers told prose...

Nuclear energy and climate change

All over the world, governments are looking at nuclear energy as the answer to climate change. But nuclear power is the most contentious and emotive of all methods of energy production. You have the long term consequences of accidents, the threat of proliferation and the question of wast...

NIH Awards Almost $21 M in High-End Instrumentation

The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will grant a total of $20.65 million to research institutions around the country in 14 High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grants to purchase cutting-edge equipment for advanced biomedical research....

Looking for an Interesting Father's Day - or Anytime- Gift? Get BREACH On DVD- Out June 12

Want to give Dad the ultimate thriller of a gift? Give him BREACH on DVD Based on the true story, FBI upstart Eric O'Neill ( Ryan Philliipe) enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen ( Chris Cooper) , an agent who was ultimately convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Unio...

Laser Fusion

The myth of Laser Fusion may become a non-myth soon. This article from The Guardian says that a multinational project that is being led by British researchers aims to replicate how the sun (and other stars in the universe) creates energy. And this group of rocket scientists are doing it with hi...

Interesting Concept: Solartopia

Here is an interesting link to an interesting concept called Solartopia . According to them, Solartopia is a a democratic, green-powered 21st Century civilization that is based on total renunciation of all fossil and nuclear fuels, all-out conversion to renewable energy, (primarily wind ...

Profit from Global Warming

Like the Japanese. But this time, you too can profit from the deluge of investments that are related to addressing global climate change by way of renewable energy technologies. Of course, a few days back I wrote about this and the fact that the investment bubble may burst (anytime soon, I hope n...

New Fallout 3 Shots

Here are some new Fallout 3 artwork from the official site over at http://fallout.bethsoft.com/ . Waittaminute, is that a power armor lying on the ground there? Also, check out the nifty soundtrack .

Cell-Culture Assay to Determine Genetic Toxicity of Drug Candidates

A cell culture test for assessing a drug candidate's genetic toxicity has been developed. It may be cheaper than existing animal tests and would allow genetic toxicity tests to be examined far earlier in the drug development process. Like the current FDA-approved test, the new test l...

US Energy Department Proposes Loan Guarantees for Renewable Energy Projects

The US Energy Department has proposed regulations that would lead to government backed guarantees for commercial loans for renewable energy projects. The loan guarantees would cover financing for biofuel, particularly ethanol distilleries, nuclear plants, carbon dioxide capture, and other cle...

Storage Award

Looking for systems implementation solutions that deliver? How about one that wins awards? Quantum Corporation, a San Diego-based backup, recovery and archive specialist, has announced that its customer, European-based CERN , has won the prestigious "Best Practices in Storage" aw...

24 种从 YouTube 下载视频的方法

在线工具 1. YouTubeX 2. KeepVid 3. VideoDownloader 4. YouTube Downloads 5. Zamzar 6. YouTubia 7. VidGrab

Mobile Phones as Anti-Terrorist Weapon

In the near future, saving the world might entirely and randomly fall in our hands! According to Home News Tribune , the Homeland Security Department is eyeing mobile devices to help detect nuclear/radiological isotopes, biological and toxic chemicals threats, consequently neutralizing terrorist...

The Economic Cost of Global Climate Mitigating Action

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that the world could mitigate climate change now through an energy revolution that would cost a fraction of global growth requirements if and only if all governments act now. Through a report it issued this week, the IPCC said: ■ putting a co...

Diabetes Damages Sperm, May Affect Fertility

To all the male readers out there, hear ye, hear ye! For the first time scientists found that sperm from diabetic men have greater levels of DNA damage than sperm from men who do not have the disease - this DNA damage may actually affect a man's fertility. Although the researchers found t...

Carbon Capture

Capture carbon from industrial processes, pump it into the ground, or pass it through seawater to diffuse it. These are the suggestions of a study from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (this and nuclear electricity generation) to save the planet. You can find the details of th...

More Nuclear More GM

That is the suggestion of about 2,000 climate scientists, to mitigate climate change. It is a collision course with environmentalists of course, as noted in this article . This position resulted from a survey, of which the results are outlined in a draft report called Mitigation of climate Chang...

Vintage Racers, Naval Display, Air Show, Highlight San Diego Fleet Week

San Diego is one of my favorite cities and in the autumn of 2005 I had another opportunity to visit, courtesy of Volkswagen. The setting was a media presentation of the new Jetta. Test drive colleague Colin Hefferon and I drove across the San Diego Bay bridge to Coronado, drawn by curiosity to se...

Climate change and world peace

Last year, the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia out out a paper Heating up the planet which has scenarios of weather extremes and wilder fluctuations in rainfall and temperatures transforming the region, resulting in a large-scale displacement of people in heavily populated areas and trigge...

Cryostasis Preview

Brrr..Whats with the frozen themed games coming out? First, Lost Planet and now Cryostasis via 1C. Check out the backstory:   Year 1968. arctic circle , Russian North Pole station "Pole 21". The main hero Alexander Nesterov is a meteorologist occasionally caught inside a...

Snake Venom Toxin Inhibits Human Prostate Cancer Cell Growth

A study published in a recent issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics report on the effectiveness of the snake venom toxin (SVT) Vipera lebetina turanica in the inhibition of androgen -independent prostate cancer (AICAP). The molecular focus of this report was on nuclear factor ΚB (NF...

BMW & DaimlerChrysler Collaborate On Hybrid Design

Feeling a bit out-foxed by Toyota, BMW AG and DaimlerChrysler AG are aiming to play the old American foreign policy game of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," by joining together to develop a hybrid drive that can find its way to specific "green" models in three years time....