De South Reviews: May 2008

Saturday, May 31, 2008

As if, and what it takes to act that way

Ask any self-help guru and theyâ€™ll tell you straight up: getting there is equal parts thinking and doing: thinking, to figure things out and doing, toâ€"well, to do the damned things. Of course, if it was easy, weâ€™d all be there, right? Happy, graceful and accomplished, speaking five or six languages as we waved to our two perfectly behaved children while playing a mean game of tennis in the same shorts we wore back in high school. Or rather, the same-sized shorts: weâ€™d be so rich, weâ€™d own a

Hitachi to Bring Low-power Consumption HDs to Consumer Electronic Market

Source : TGdailyHitachi decided to follow Western Digital and to offer low-power consumption HDs. The Cinemastar 5K500 is a 500 GB 3.5" HD consuming only 2.7 to 3.2 W, representing a power saving of 50%. The notebook version, named Cinemastar 5K320 should allow 10 to 20% power saving while offering 320 GB of storage space. Such low power consumption HDs, with also lower performance levels, will be dedicated to standalone recorder or other HD-based multimedia centers for which heat release mig

2008 SAAB 9-3 Aero Convertible 2.8TS

2008 Saab 9-3 Aero Convertible 2.8TS Road Test Model tested: Saab 9-3 Aero Convertible 2.8TS Recommended Retail Price: $93,300. Options fitted: None fitted. Engine, style. Price, scuttle shake. CarAdvice rating: (3.75) â€œSAAB is responsible for more automotive World Firstâ€™s than almost any other car company on the planet, but itâ€™s best known for its iconic SAAB Convertibleâ€ - Written & photographed by Anthony Crawford Read moreâ€¦ Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebloaget or SAAB as we k

The Power Chess Program: Book 1: A Unique Training Course to Improve Your Chess

The Power Chess Program: Book 1: A Unique Training Course to Improve Your Chess Batsford | 2003-06-30 | ISBN: 0713484152 | 256 pages | PDF | 12,1 Mb Begun as a correspondence course, The Power Chess Program is now available between covers! A series of 12 lessons guides the student through the essential elements of chess strategy. The key points are then reinforced with a set of thematic test positions for the reader to solve. Random PostsNeurobiology of DiseaseModern Food Microbiology

CONTINUUM / MIXED MEDIA LIVE @ Artsenal63

Artsenal63 - FirenzeVia Santa Reparata 19r50129 Firenzewww.a63.it 10 GIUGNO ore 21.00CONTINUUM / MIXED MEDIA LIVE "Wir mussen wissen, wir werden wissen" (David Hilbert) video-improvisation: SELFISH / music: U.S.O. - Unidentified Sound Object (aka Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi) Milan/Rome based Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi are sound artists whose work spans from digital music to electro acoustic improvisation. Unidentified Sound Object is born from the desire to discover new paths

Help WantedDigital Media Archivist

If interested in position, then please send cover letter and resume (no attachments) to: info [AT] farmlab [DOT] org No phone calls, please. Overview: Responsible for assessing, selecting, organizing, preserving and providing both immediate and longer-term access to archival information key to Farmlabâ€™s (The Studioâ€™s) work. Uses a variety of automated and manual archival systems to accommodate a diversity of materials (digital, documents, images, maps, photos, films, audiotapes, physical obj

Matt Simon's Take on the Barr Presidential Nomination from the Libertarian Party

Matt Simon's Take on the Barr Presidential Nomination from the Libertarian Party Federal As many Conspirators know, Matt Simon is one of the most principled advocates of liberty currently working and writing. His solid efforts in New Hampshire have been recognized nationally now, and his take on the contentious nomination of Bob Barr as the LP presidential candidate is worth reading. Well done, Matt! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-simon/liberatarians-nominate-ex_b_103... New

CIA watching for al-Qaida `succession crisis'

CIA watching for al-Qaida `succession crisis' â€¢ More Nation/World Â» OUR WIRE PICKS J.R. Simplot scored with two kinds of chips Phew! Craft withstands Mars landing Â» MOST POPULAR STORIESUPDATED EVERY 30 MINUTES 1. Outbreak of violent crime stretches Tacoma police 2. â€˜Bikini baristasâ€™ stirred up other cities 3. Seattle to get look at draft prospects 4. GIG HARBOR: Woman killed on Highway 16 was told not to drive, police say 5. Montana river searchers find body of Tacoma rafter

Obama fundraising too large to handle for FEC, media

It seems as though the Federal Election Committee, the media, and other organizations are having a bear of a time digging through and processing the massive fundraising reports submitted by the Obama and Clinton campaigns, well, mostly the Obama campaign. The report from the Politico: The record-shattering fundraising by Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has reshaped the financing of presidential elections and generated breathless coverage and analysis of th

"Women are treated better than men online," says NerdBoobLoot-man

by Hoyden and Shaker Lauredhel of Hoyden About Town From a CyberPsychology & Behavior issue earlier this year: "Gender Swapping and Socializing in Cyberspace: An Exploratory Study"1 [fulltext PDF available free]. The goal of this small online survey was to examine issues around gender swapping in MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games). MMORPGs include such games as Everquest, World of Warcraft, and Lord Of The Rings Online. The researchers primarily recruited from forums

Border officials may seize iPods under trade deal

Border officials may seize iPods under trade deal - Via National Post : OTTAWA - The federal government is secretly negotiating a copyright agreement that could make some information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal electronic devices illegal. Called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the new plan would see Canada join other countries, including the United States and members of the European Union, to form an international coalition against copyright infringe

Nanogen to Consolidate Operations of Point of Care Manufacturing Operations

Nanogen is taking steps to reduce costs and improve margins by consolidating its point of care manufacturing operations. The cost-cutting effort will transfer operations in Toronto, CA to the companyâ€™s San Diego facility; the move should be complete by year-end. According to estimates, the consolidation will eliminate 30 jobs and reduce overall costs, starting in 2009, by approximately $3 million. For the quarter ended March 31, 2008, Nanogenâ€™s loss from operations was $8.0 million, compared t

The Tone Generation - Show 7 Eastern Europe

The Tone Generation - Show 7 Eastern Europe Over 10 programmes, artist/musician Ian Helliwell delves into his archive to look at the development of electronic music right across the world in the classic era of analogue technology. Starting in Europe and finishing up in the Southern Hemisphere, he will be playing vintage tracks from celebrated and overlooked composers from each country. This episode covers Eastern European electronic music. From Podcast: The Tone Generation.

Study:Cell Phones bound to affect your health

Are you using cell phone frequently? Beware of that you are exposed to a whopping 200 to 400 percent greater risk of the diseases you have always feared, cancer, leukemia, Alzheimerâ€™s and even conditions like impotency and infertility. According to Dr.Howard Fisher, the founder and Senior clinician at the Glen Park Clinic, Toranto, Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) are constantly radiated from modern electronic appliances like radios, laptops, blue tooth headsets and power tran...

Cranky Geeks Episode #117 â€” Now on Cage Match

Cranky Geeks Episode #117 â€" Now on Cage Match Published on May 22nd, 2008 Posted by hhopper in General No Comments Click image to see Cranky Geeks. Todayâ€™s Guests: Sebastian Rupley, Co-Crank, PCMagCast.com Patrick Norton, Managing Editor, Revision3.com Danny Oâ€™Brien, International Outreach Coordinator, Electronic Frontier Foundation The Topics: Microsoftâ€™s New Plans for Yahoo!: No Acquisition? Former Insider Reportedly Claims One Laptop Per Child is a Con Google Under Fire Again

PINK FLOYD - Animals (1977)

Review Permalink | Submit a review for this album | Buy this album from PA partners Symphonic Prog (Studio Album, 1992) 2.90/5 (35 ratings) EMERSON LAKE & PALMER â€" Black Moon Review by TGM: Orb (Rob Nield) Review 38, Black Moon, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 1992 StarStarStarStar I really like this much-maligned (here, at least) album, though it's probably not for everyone. Greg Lake's voice has certainly faded since its glory days, but is still passable, and has a certain verve and

New Efficient Methanol Fuel Cell

Methanol Fuel Cell Membrane MIT engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much broader market, particularly in portable electronics. From MIT: The new material key to the work is also considerably less expensive than its conventional industrial counterpart, among other advantages. â€œOur goal is to replace traditional fuel-cell membranes wit

1998 B18C1 OBD2 in a 1990 CRX si

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SSP 2008 - Digital Preservation Part 2

Eileen Fenton â€" Portico Why worry about digital preservation? E-resources can and do disappear! (about 13% of linked content in articles canâ€™t be found in 27 months, obsolescence due to format/ devices, loss â€" NASA lost the original moon landing recordings, funding, orphans) Digital preservation is NOT: reformatting from print to digital for access (digitization doesnâ€™t result in preservation â€" creates digital object that can be preserved)/ back-up or byte storage on various media/ mirror site

Youth and Civic Engagement

Last month, the Program in Comparative Media Studies hosted an MIT Communications Forum entitled "Youth and Civic Engagement." The official event description asked, "The current generation of young citizens is growing up in an age of unprecedented access to information. Will this change their understanding of democracy? What factors will shape their involvement in the political process?" The forum featured three speakers with expertise on engaging young people in more active citizenship from

E-Lit Conference Call for Papers 6.20

E-Lit Conference Call for Papers 6.20 Call for Papers and Works Seminar on Electronic Literature in Europe University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway September 11-13th, 2008 The Fall 2008 Bergen Seminar on Electronic Literature in Europe will build upon the work of the e-poetry seminar held in Paris in February 2008 at the University Paris 8, the 2007 e-poetry conference in Paris, the 2007 Remediating Literature Conference in Utrecht, and other recent activity in the field of electronic literat

Shanghai: AmCham Shanghai is seeking an Associate Editor

Shanghai: AmCham Shanghai is seeking an Associate Editor Posted by Banyue, May 27, 2008 4:14 PM This is a recruitment advertisement. Please contact the advertiser directly if you are interested. See all job ads or place a job ad. Job Description AmCham Shanghai is seeking an Associate Editor to join the Communications and Publications team. The Communications team is responsible for the corporate communications and public affairs activities of the Chamber including: media relations, issues m

Mortgage Electronic Registration System

Last Friday and Saturday I attended the Teaching Consumer Law Conference hosted by the University of Houston Law Center. There were a number of terrific presentations, but Christopher Petersonâ€™s presentation on Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc. (MERS) really caught my attention. MERS is a privately held company that â€œregistersâ€ mortgages. Ordinarily, the mortgagee (lender) must record its interest in the mortgage in the county land records. Any subsequent transfers of the mortgagee

Obama has too many contributors for old computer programs to handle

Politico reports: The record-shattering fundraising by Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has reshaped the financing of presidential elections and generated breathless coverage and analysis of the otherwise arcane area of campaign finance. Yet itÂ's had another consequence that has gone all but unnoticed. The campaign finance reports filed by Obama and Clinton have grown so massive that theyÂ've strained the capacity of the Federal Election Commission, good gove

Book Expo Session

I am hosting a Panel discussion at BookExpo this week. Please join us for an interesting look at digital content and how publishers are learning to experiment with social networking and consumer interaction. Feel free to contact me if you are attending BookExpo and would like to meet. (michael.cairns @ infomediapartners.com) Here is the panel description and some background on the panelists. Digital Bundling: Considerations, Combinations & Costs 1:00AM - 12:00PM (Thursday, May 29, 2008)

What to Do About Data in the EU?

While the collection, review and production of e-mails and other electronic documents have become routine for U.S. companies involved in civil litigation, internal investigations and various other legal matters, there is an increasing number of cases that involve foreign or multinational clients, and the collection and production of electronic documents from these clients can be anything but routine. Clients with operations in the European Union pose a particular problem for electronic discove

I&B Ministry playing positive role for promoting govt, media relations

RAWALPINDI: Federal Secretary for Information and Broadcasting Akram Shaheedi has said that I&B Ministry is playing positive role for the promotion relations between government and media. He stated this while addressing function organized by Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (Constitutional) President Haji Muhammad Nawaz Raza in honour of former Information secretary Syed Anwar Mehmood on Saturday. Akram Shaheedi pointed out that the press freedom was very vital in democracy, adding that P

Chicago judge named to FISA bench

by Andrew Zajac The Washington-based Secrecy News, a careful observer of government behavior in the capital, has posted this item about the appointment of a pair of federal judges, including James Zagel, of the Northern District of Illinois, to the secret court overseeing government applications for domestic eavesdropping under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. INTEL SURVEILLANCE COURT GETS TWO NEW JUDGES Two new judges were named to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court th

THEY CAN'T EVEN READ!

In order to "justify" illegal wiretapping, John Yoo ignored his own knowledge of the law and the English language. Sentence in Memo Discounted FISA By Robert BarnesWashington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 23, 2008; Page A15 What does "exclusive" mean? The answer was at the heart of a highly sensitive memo by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2001, when Bush administration officials were keen to institute warrantless domestic surveillance after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

ATMs can fail, too

It isn't just voting machines. If ordinary bank ATMs can be made secure and reliable, why can't electronic voting machines? It's a simple enough question, but unfortunately the answer isn't. Secure voting, unfortunately, is a much more complex technical problem than electronic banking, not least because a democratic election's dual requirements for ballot secrecy and transparent auditability are often in tension with one another in the computerized environment. Making ATMs robust and resistan

All Systems Go 100 days until Republican National Convention

'All Systems Go' As GOP Convention Marks 100 Days Out Convention staff, local leaders ready to make Minneapolis-Saint Paul 'center of the politicaluniverse' (SAINT PAUL, Minn.) - Observing an important milestone, 2008 Republican National Convention President and CEO Maria Cino today marked the 100-day-out threshold, saying the convention and the host cities of Minneapolis-Saint Paul will be ready to make history when the gavel drops at the Xcel Energy Center on Sept. 1, 2008. "With 100 days rem

â€œVictorian internetâ€

I found this great quote in an article on literacy in the Economist: Literacy may be under attack from electronic media, but thatâ€™s actually nothing new. In fact, the assault on the written word began not with the Macintosh computer in 1984, but with Samuel Morseâ€™s demonstration of the telegraph in 1844â€"an innovation a colleague on The Economist insists, quite correctly, on calling the â€œVictorian internetâ€. The article itself is very interesting.

CT students shared nude photos

In yet another state, middle and high school students in Westport, Connecticut, "have been sharing nude pictures of themselves electronically, the school district's superintendent told parents this week." The Greenwich (Conn.) Time reported that Superintendent Elliott Landon wrote in a letter to parents that the photos had been sent to "countless people" in and beyond Westport. He said "electronic transmission, or receipt of sexually explicit or pornographic material in which students are engage

Various Artists - Tellus 1 & 2

Various Artists - Tellus 1 & 2 Genre: Modern Composition, Other, Avant-Garde, Spoken Word Tellus was a bimonthly audiocassette â€œmagazineâ€ devoted to promoting new and experimental music. It was published from 1983 to 1992 and featured many of the most innovative artists in music, spoken word, and performance arts. Ubuweb has almost all 27 issues available as free downloads. Much of this music has rarely been heard while some tracks have been accepted as seminal works in this post-modern era.

Google, the NAB, and a Third Way in â€˜White Spacesâ€™ Debate

By Drew Clark Google co-founder Larry Page came to Washington last week to take on the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the lobbying group that represents over-the-air television stations. Itâ€™s a whole new adversary for the beleaguered broadcasters, who have been fighting cable and satellite television for years. The Federal Communications Commission is currently considering a proposal, by Google and other tech players. It would allow tech companies to build electronic devices that

Antonov Dual-Speed Ancillaries

We previously saw Antonov advocating the use of a dual-speed supercharger which allowed boost to be delivered effectively over a wider range of engine speeds. Antonov seems to be taking this dual-speed thing quite seriously, with a new range of gizmos that take advantage of mechanical-based gear shifting. Their latest idea is allowing belt-driven devices like alternators, water pumps, air-conditioning systems and other engine ancillaries to be driven by two-speed systems. A two-speed planetar

ASTAK 2.4G Night Vision Wireless Color Security Camera - $87.88

Walmart has a great price on a complete wireless security camera setup. Itâ€™s $87.88 + $0.97 shipping = $88.85 shipped! Wireless you say? Yes. No wires to run and with a 300 foot transmission distance itâ€™s the perfect home sercurity camera. Features: Key Features & Benefits: Excellent night vision capabilities Provided by 7 powerful built-in LEDâ€™s Professional quality and durable design Just connect to your TV or VCR; no wiring needed, installs in 5 minutes Equipped with a built-in micro

Berniergate: Down the Rabbit Hole

Let's play what's wrong with this statement? Prime Minister Stephen Harper rejected an expanded probe, telling reporters there is no evidence to suggest official secrets have been revealed, and he dismissed outright questions about electronic eavesdropping. "There is no evidence to indicate that documents have circulated," the Prime Minister said at a media briefing in Paris, where he is meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "The documents were returned to the government of Canada,

Economic development marketing awards announced

The New York State Economic Development Corp. todayÂ announced the winners of its 2008 Marketing Awards, presentedÂ during its annual meetingÂ in Cooperstown last week. Winners were divided into two categories: those with budgets less than $60,000, and those with budgets greater than that figure. Regional award winners, all in the smaller category, were the Greene County IDA in Catskill, winning two certificates of excellence and one honorable mention in the development brochure category; the C

Obama, Clinton, Pwn Excel

The spreadsheet counting his donors was too large: A milestone of sorts was reached earlier this year, when Obama, the Illinois senator whose revolutionary online fundraising has overwhelmed Clinton, filed an electronic fundraising report so large it could not be processed by popular basic spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel 2003 and Lotus 1-2-3. Those programs canâ€™t download data files with more than 65,536 rows or 256 columns. Clinton got there eventually. By March, the reports

Thomas M. Disch '80s Computer Game

From the science fiction author's Wikipedia entry: In 1987 Disch collaborated with New Jersey software company Cognetics Corp. and games publisher Electronic Arts to create the interactive fiction text adventure Amnesia, which could be played on the Commodore 64, IBM PC or Apple II computers. The title, based on technology pioneered by Cognetics' Charles Kreitzberg, was produced by Don Daglow and programmed by Kevin Bentley. It showcased Disch's vivid writing, a stark contrast to other game-pr

Antonov Applying Dual-Speed Drives to Engine Accessories

The Antonov dual-speed front end accessory drive uses a planetary gear set to enable either a direct of step-up ratio. Click to enlarge. Antonov Automotive Technologies, which is currently offering a simple dual-speed supercharger for downsizing engines to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions (earlier post), is developing other applications of the dual-speed drive unit for alternators, water and air-conditioning pumps, and other engine ancillaries to allow them to operate more often in t

BenQ HD LCD V2400W

BenQ launch HD LCD called V2400W. It is an elegant, 24 inch Full HD (WUXGA) LCD BenQ. In Japan Available for â‚¬ 371 with new features LCD-D HDCP DVI, HDMI and D-Sub-connector. With a thin body (24mm) BenQ V2400W LCD screen has a contrast ratio of 1000:1 and brightness of 250cd/m2. The offer V2400W far from the breathtaking performance but has an excellent design! Post from: Computer Electronic Review BenQ HD LCD V2400W

BookExpo eSwag Preview: Get Gladwell's Newest in PDF

BookExpo America attendees will be able to sign up for digital delivery of Outliers, the forthcoming book from Malcolm Gladwell, at the NetGalley booth. Gladwell's publisher, Hachette Book Group, is one of the first publishers to partner with NetGalley, which provides various resources online for publishing industry and related media professionals, including digital press kits and catalog services as well as electronic versions of advance reader copies. I'm told that the e-galleys for Outliers

GameStop Reveals New Stores, Top 5 Q1 Sellers [The Retail Empire]

GameStop opened a record 210 stores during the first fiscal quarter of 2008, the company announced today. GameStop now operates a total of 5,400 stores worldwide, and said it plans to open between 550 and 600 new stores in 2008, half of them slated for outside the U.S. The first fiscal quarter brought strong results for GameStop, with earnings up 151.4 percent to $62.1 million, and sales up 41.8 percent to $1,813.6 million. The planned new store openings would grow GameStop's international s

Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is an action-adventure sandbox style action adventure computer and video game, produce by Rockstar North. It is the third 3D video game in the Grand Theft Auto Video game series. This game was originally release for the Playstation 2 in October 2004, the game has since been ported to the Xbox and Microsoft Windows, and has received wide acclaim and very high sales figures on all of the afore mention platforms.

LG Boast of Display Technology Again!

For Samsung Electronics and LG Display, selling their latest panel technologies to potential clients is their top concern amid the globally booming flat screen industry. They aim to steal the limelight at a leading North American show for electronic-displays in Los Angeles by introducing their newest products, which the companies claim are the worldâ€™s first, even though experts doubt their marketability.On Sunday, Samsung Electronics showcased an ultra-high definition 82-inch liquid crystal disp

The AP knows what Republicans want!

I came across this intriguing article (via DrudgeReport) about John McCain's Memorial Day guest list (seeming VP short list). The subject--and some of the facts, were useful, but I'm intrigued by how clueless the writer seems about Republican ideals. The writer fawns over Charlie Crist, dismisses Bobby Jindal and all-but-ignores Joe Lieberman. From the article:Crist, 51, provided a major boost to McCain prior to Florida's Jan. 29 primary with a well-timed endorsement. Elected governor in 2006,

Interview for node: Blogs, Theory and other German Issues

Interview for node: Blogs, Theory and other German Issues filed under Uncategorized , geert @ 12:05 Interview with Geert Lovink by Jan-Peter Wulf For the German trend newsletter Node (May 21, 2008) URL: http://www.viacombrandsolutions.de/de/research/nodes/index.html Node: Your term â€œzero commentsâ€ hints at the phenomenon that, besides the A-list blogs like the Huffington Post, most blogging is simply noise, not read at all, let alone commented. So, is blogging a self-referential thing, th

exclusiveâ€¦

The Yoo â€œExclusivityâ€ Opinion: More Outrageous Hackery By: emptywheel After significant efforts, Senator Whitehouse has finally gotten the Administration to declassify the fourth of the four outrageous opinions John Yoo wrote to justify the warrantless wiretap program (the other three Pixie Dust provisions basically allow the President to write his own laws). This one pertains to the exclusivity provision of FISA, which states clearly that FISA was the "exclusive means by which electronic sur

Friday, May 30, 2008

Links 26/05/2008: GNU/Linux in Cuba and Russia

Links 26/05/2008: GNU/Linux in Cuba and Russia Posted in News Roundup at 5:49 am by Roy Schestowitz GNU/Linux Kicking Cubaâ€™s Free Software Switch Into a Higher Gear The purpose of the move is to â€œattain sovereignty and technological autonomy,â€ as recommended by the Ibero-American Charter on Electronic Government, approved by the Ninth Ibero-American Conference of Ministers for Public Administration and State Reform, held in Chile in June 2007. Moscow regional government to migrate to Open

How telecoms are attempting to buy amnesty from Congress

(updated below - Update II) One of the benefits from the protracted battle over telecom amnesty is that it is a perfect microcosm for how our government institutions work. And a casual review of the available evidence regarding how telecom amnesty is being pursued demonstrates what absurd, irrelevant distractions are the pro-amnesty justifications offered by the pundit class and the Bush administration. Just in the first three months of 2008, recent lobbyist disclosure statements reveal that

Exodus Continues: id Software Leaves ESA

GamePolitics is reportingÂ that id Software is joining theÂ mass exodusÂ of companies leaving the Entertainment Software Association. ESA executive Rich Taylor confirmed: We can confirm that id Software has decided not to renew its membership in the ESA.Â Â We admire their creativity and innovation.Â We also respect their decision. The ESA continues to lead the thriving video and computer game industry.Â We are dedicated to protecting intellectual property, preserving First Amendment rights and f

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Investing in Urbana

Investing in Urbana Posted May 24th, 2008 at 08:23 AM by B is for Business in Economic Development Urbana Urbana has been aggressive in downzoning and imposing unattractive and costly restrictions on developers. The restrictions on demolition is a great example where a developer can be 100% in compliance with zoning guidelines, meeting all the costly requirements as required, and not be able to build their project. City Staff openly admits to property owners that the neighborhood ass

Podcast: TEPR Cell Phone Project

The just-completed Towards an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) conference featured the unveiling of the TEPR Cell Phone Project, an eight-month effort to study and prove the efficacy of the mobile phone as a hub of interoperability in healthcare. (You can read my Digital HealthCare & Productivity story about the project here.) The Medical Records Institute, which puts on TEPR, is partnering with AllOne Health Group, a Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based health and wellness services provider, to conduc

Sentence in Yoo Memo Discounts FISA

Sentence in Yoo Memo Discounts FISA By QuestionGirl | May 23rd, 2008 - 12:49 pm What does â€œexclusiveâ€ mean? The answer was at the heart of a highly sensitive memo by the Justice Departmentâ€™s Office of Legal Counsel in 2001, when Bush administration officials were keen to institute warrantless domestic surveillance after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A 1978 law appeared at first glance to be an impediment to using new procedures for such surveillance. It stated that the Foreign Intelligence

Links

Links Over at Fragmenta, Matt writes: Peter Leithart suggests that â€œlinking intention to the literal [sic] sense, while acknowledging multiple senses, makes possible a proliferating richness of meaning while preventing what Eco calls hermeneutical drift.â€ But I donâ€™t care about proliferating meaning. I want to know â€œwhat Saint Paul really saidâ€ â€" which may or may not be â€œliteralâ€, a word fraught with over-simplistic dichotomies. The other, â€œmultiple sensesâ€, if they differ from the authorâ€™

Update: Mobster Marrapese due to leave ACI after 1

Marrapese Mobster and soon-to-be ex-convict Frank L. â€œBoboâ€ Marrapese Jr. wonâ€™t leave jail before 1 p.m. today, according to Tracey Z. Poole, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. The 67-year-old will be leaving from the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston after being fitted with an electronic monitoring bracelet. Last month, The Providence Journal reported that the 65-year-old had landed a job at a Anthonyâ€™s Restaurant in Johnston. The consequential news coverage re

U.S. Postal Service Begins E-Waste Recycling Program

In an effort to improve electronics recycling in the United States, the U.S. Postal Service is developing a free national collection program for small electronic items. The program, now in a pilot stage, provides courtesy envelopes with pre-paid postage for patrons to deposit their unwanted digital cameras, printer cartridges, MP3 players, cell phones, and PDAs. International recycling company Clover Technologies Group processes the devices in its U.S. and Mexican facilities and then refurb

Bike Sharing Comes to America

A new bicycle sharing program in Washington DC provides subscribers with convenient, green rides. An annual $40 membership fee entitles SmartBike DC subscribers access to three hour blocks of emissions-free travel. Bikes are obtained by card-swipe at self-service rental kiosks located throughout the central business district and returns are monitored by an electronic system. Similar programs have been successful in Europe; this is the first program of its kind in the United States. --D.W. Sou

Hypocrite GOP House Leader Boehner wants wiretapping protection -- but only for himself

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Tim Jones sez, "If you've been following the fight to hold phone companies accountable for illegal wiretapping, you probably thought the level of hypocrisy on display in the Republican leadership couldn't get any more blatant. Well, you thought wrong. Politico reports today that Republican Leader John Boehner has been fighting hard for his own right to protection from illegal wiretapping, even though he's simultaneously trying to to deny ordinary Americans th

New York State document study is available

See the â€œMay 2008 Electronic Documents Report to the Governor and Legislatureâ€. I especially like this bit in the executive summary: Increased numbers of formats for doing the same office tasks do not increase choice in any positive manner. Use of multiple formats increases complexity and ongoing costs. The use of single, standardized formats increases efficiencies and furthers compatibility and interoperability. Choice comes into play in two ways: (a) the choices made by vendors to directly

Plug at Nasdaqâ€™s closing bell

Plug Plug Power Inc.Â CEO Andrew Marsh (shown center, with board chairman GeorgeÂ McNamee to the left)Â presided overÂ the closing bell at the Nasdaq Stock Market this afternoon in New York City. Plug, which makes fuel cells for cellphone towers and for use inÂ fork lifts,Â Â will hold its annual shareholdersâ€™ meeting tomorrow morning in New York at the Nasdaq offices. Being an electronic market, the closing bell at the Nasdaq is largely symbolic.

Mobster scheduled for release from prison tomorrow

Jailed mobster Frank L. "Bobo" Marrapese Jr., imprisoned more than two decades for murder, will be released from the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston to a home confinement program with an electronic bracelet after 1 p.m. tomorrow, according to Tracey Poole, Department of Corrections spokeswoman. He has employment, a requirement of the program, but corrections would not disclose what or where. Marrapese, 65, had been scheduled for release last month but because of media attention, h

What Should You Be Paying Attention To When You're Shopping For A Flat Screen Television

Although it may seem brand new the technology behind flat screen TV has been around for a number of years. This technology was once considered to be unobtainable however due to advancements in manufacturing it is now easier to produce and as a result more affordable to everyone. The modern version is fast becoming a staple in your standard home theater system and is often accompanied by additional high-tech equipment such as surround sound speakers.

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Topsgrup acquires 51% majority stake in a USD 140 million British security company - 'The Shield Guarding Company Limited'

/India PRwire/ - In the first ever overseas acquisition by an Indian securitycompany, TOPSGRUP with a market capitalization of Rs 1000 crores (07-08) hasacquired a 51% majority stake in UKâ€™s leading security service provider â€˜TheShield Guarding Company Ltdâ€™ for an all cash deal of Rs 125 crores. According to Dr.Diwan Rahul Nanda, Global Chairman & Managing Director, TOPSGRUP, â€œShieldâ€™s acquisition in the United Kingdomwill act as a strategic gateway for our global growth plans in the coming

An Inexorable March Towards Simplicity

Technology makers continue to work hard to make their products easy to use Humankind's innovative prowess, particularly in the technology space, has seen a peak in the current decade that is perhaps unprecedented in history. Whether corporate technology buyer or inveterate gadget freak, we have happily been inundated by a cornucopia of ever newer and more sophisticated products, delivered by the rich pipelines of technological innovation. Much of this innovation is powered by the advances in

Postal Service Wants To Recycle Your Junk Through The Mail

Free and green. Those are the goals of a pilot program launched recently by the U.S. Postal Service that allows customers to recycle small electronics and inkjet cartridges by mailing them free of charge. The â€œMail Backâ€ program helps consumers make more environmentally friendly choices, making it easier for customers to discard used or obsolete small electronics in an environmentally responsible way. Customers use free envelopes found in 1,500 Post Offices to mail back inkjet cartridges,

COMELEC, AFP, PNP gears for the August 11 ARMM polls

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) held a command conference this morning at the AFP General Headquarters in preparation for the forthcoming August 11, 2008 elections in the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). COMELEC Chairman Jose A.R. Melo presided over the meeting which was attended by Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr., AFP Chief of Staff Alexander Yano and PNP ARMM Regional Director Joel G

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You may not realize it, but Montreal has been a global cultural mecca for decades. Sure it's frequently visited by University of Vermont students interested in legal boozing, but the city is also home to one of the most progressive electronic music, fashion, design and cuisine scenes in all of North America. Lucky for you, then that the good folks from Tourisme Montreal have made planning a long weekend there even easier with a new website.

An Open Letter to expresso: Supply-Side Reform of Law Review Submissions through an Electronic Commitment to tahe the First Offer

Paul Caron collected some recent blog posts, including mine, discussing law review submission reform. His Cincinnati colleague Lin Bai offered an interesting solution to the circus of mass submission and expedites: As compromise between the circus and the single-submission system common in other disciplines, authors can submit to as many journals as they like, but should be expected to accept the first offer. That would make authors more selective about submissions, because if you really want

Media Mixes and Everyday Cultural Production

My kids are totally into Yu-Gi-Oh!. For me it's still a very arcane and complex game and manga. Mimi Ito's Technologies of the Childhood Imagination: Yu-Gi-Oh!, Media Mixes, and Everyday Cultural Production (PDF, 140 KB) out of Structures of Participation in Digital Culture can shed some light for adults who sneer at it. Ito concludes: Working with highly technologized and phantasmagoric social sites like otaku practices and the media mix for Japanese children suggests a differently inflecte

foot village

i don't remember talking to anyone from the uk's tome records, but, nevertheless, received a promo copy of foot village's newest. i won't complain. friendship nation [2008, tome] foot village are the los angeles based group of joshua taylor (friends forever), brian miller (deathbomb arc, rose for bohdan, gang wizard, gabbertree), grace lee (rainbow blanket, (ex-) barrabarracuda, a++, grace's amazing kitty cat band and extreme double bubble) and rowan. don't know much about him. ah, foot villa

Book Review - Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology

Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology, by Sabine Seymour (Amazon UK and USA.) Published by Springer, abstract: The interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, wearables for short, and fashion, design and science is a highly promising and topical subject. Offered here is a compact survey of the theory involved and an explanation of the role technology plays in a fabric or article of clothing. The practical application is explained in d

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Slide Five - People, Places and Things (1997) Link 2 Like so many groups that started with the "acid jazz" sound, Slide Five moved into the electronic realm. This album mixes the live sound of the first album with electronics, creating trance-like, danceable tracks. Slide Five - Rhode Trip (1996) Link 2 This feel-good album has crisp production that inspires the feet more than the mind. "Up & Out" swings, with Jacko Peak's saxophone work as a guest artist blending ni

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Joey Mariano has released a number of classical madrigals composed on a Gameboy. Joey reinvents the madrigalâ€™s sound with 8bit music, including Gameboyâ€™s chord arpeggiator, extreme pitch bends, portamento effects, and glitchy break-ups. From the II [Pause] page: Early composers of the madrigal used only two to three voices to create counterpoint. Realizing the opportunity for reinterpretation through the gameboy sound chip, Joey Mariano set out to create a body of Chiptune madrigals inspir

David Pogue posts about copyright concerns (again)

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Sanyo Turns to Sharp for LCD Display Production

Â© james.thompson Sanyo recently announced that they have started buying liquid crystal display panels from Sharp to manufacture their flat televisions. Sanyo is also looking to other suppliers for procurement of LCD panels as well. According to a recent Reuters post, Sanyo is focusing their future on rechargeable batteries and solar cells as a result of a disappointing consumer electronics performance. Sanyo said it started procuring LCDs from Sharp in April, and would also continue pr

Bad Company achievements one-up kill count, again

Filed under: News When Bizarre Creations' third-person shooter The Club released its list of achievements, gamers laughed at the team's one-up of the Gears of War online kill count--months later it appears DICE wants in on the joke too. Peaking at the achievement list available at MyGamerCard, Battlefield: Bad Company includes one achievement, "Beans Bullets Bandages," that awards players 30 GS points for achieving 10,002 kills online. While it was humorous the first time now we're just worrie

Help Me Choose My Next Car!!

Alright folks! I'm still undecided as to what I should lease next, so I want your help. The candidates:BMW 328i (manual/black/black) Mercedes-Benz C300 (manual/black/grey) The price and equipment are virtually the sameâ€¦ the differences are pointed out below. NOTE... BETTER implies IMO of course!!! 328i ProsBetter interior ergonomics Better driving dynamics (not by much though) Better acceleration (6.7s vs. 7.2s) Electronic limited slip differential (not sure about the C) :t-hands: Free

INTEGRATED NEWSROOMS DELIVER BIGGER AUDIENCES

The Guardian reports: Telegraph.co.uk overtook guardian.co.uk in April to become the most popular UK national newspaper site, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic figures issued today. The Telegraph Media Group website, which carries articles from the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph as well as original output, saw its unique user numbers rise 9.45% from March to 18,646,112 for April. This was an increase of 153% year on year compared with April 2007. Well,

NSN Powers Singtel TV Service

Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) has launched a Mobile TV service using Nokia Siemens Networksâ€™ (NSN) Mobile TV streaming solution. This complements its mio TV service and adds another dimension to accessing quality pay-TV content anytime, anywhere. NSNâ€™s says its Mobile TV streaming deployment, including a mobile client application, is one of its first in Asia Pacific and that SingTel will be the first mobile operator to launch this service in Singapore. The service includes live TV

BS from MLB

God knows baseball isn't perfect. After all, errors exist as a statistic, along with wild pitches, balks, and passed balls. So when umpires make egregious errors, how can we take umbrage? MLB has become dependent on technology, from Ques-tek for evaluating umpiring accuracy, to every statistical analyses imaginable,to video analysis of pitching, fielding, and hitting. But when it comes to incorporating electronic analysis of live action, MLB suffers paralysis by analysis. What is the downside

Call for Photo Books

Wendy is working on several projects and would like to feature your photo books, articles about photo books or tutorials related to photo books! If you are interested in participating in one of these digi publications, please email Wendy with the following information: FOR LAYOUTS EMAIL THE FOLLOWING: 1. Name/Username 2. Email address 3. Link to your gallery 4. At least 3 high quality photos of your photo book (cover and inside pages) 5. Credits 6. Software used 7. The photo book prin

EU-Digest: Google Blogger customers experiencing constant FTP publishing problems

For the complete report from the EU-Digest special edition click on this link EU-Digest:Google Blogger customers experiencing constant FTP publishing problems For several years now EU-Digest has been one of the most widely read news blogs related to events impacting on Europe. To publish this electronic daily newsletter in Blog format EU-Digest has used Google Blogger File Transfer Protocol (FTP) on the Internet via its Europe House provider Globat. This publishing technology has not always been

Night + Day: Calendar Picks for 5/28

Chuck Palahniuk, 7pm, $35 Sundance Kabuki Cinemas - 1881 Post The outer reaches of porn are a little hard to fathom. Splosh films? Furry fetish? 2 Girls 1 Cup? (Wait â€" forget about 2 Girls 1 Cup.) Fortunately â€" or maybe not â€" Chuck Palahniuk makes the world of world-record gangbanging a little easier to swallow with his new book, Snuff. Using first-person alternating narratives, he gets into the heads of three of the 600 people awaiting their shot at Cassie Wright, aging porn star, who is

Amazon's Kindle Wireless eBook ($40 price drop, In-stock) $359.00 (amazon.com)

* Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper. * Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing. * Wireless connectivity enables you to shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindleâ€"whether youâ€™re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed. * Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute. * More than 88,000 books available, including 100 of 112 current New York TimesÂ® Best Sellers. *

"[S]hore up the library."

Stock it with printed matter. Reinforce its reading rooms. But don't think of it as a warehouse or a museum. While dispensing books, most research libraries operate as nerve centers for transmitting electronic impulses. They acquire data sets, maintain digital re-positories, provide access to e-journals, and orchestrate information systems that reach deep into laboratories as well as studies. Many of them are sharing their intellectual wealth with the rest of the world by permitting Google to di

YUP, MORE "WHO CARES FOR THE TROOPS"

There are several problems with the military's health cares system and sending people on 3 or 4 tours only exacerbates them. I wonder what Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin will say? Wartime PTSD cases jumped nearly 50 pct. in 2007 By PAULINE JELINEK â€" 32 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The number of troops diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder jumped by roughly 50 percent in 2007, the most violent year so far in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pentagon records show. In the first tim

Criminalizing Distraction

Criminalizing Distraction Because police in Ontario, have nothing better to do than chase down people who smoke with their kids in the car, and ticket people for carrying on a conversation on the hands-free... Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said yesterday he is considering a ban on cellphones and other electronic gadgets while driving. Mr. McGuinty said he has asked Minister of Transportation Jim Bradley to look at the "next-generation legislation" that would outlaw cellphones and other ele

Throw Away the Wiiâ€“3D Sensing Technology Due Within a Year, Says SoftKinetic

By Chris Morrison, Writer, VentureBeat While weâ€™ve written several times recently about the progress of next-generation, camera-based game control technologies, including the hefty funding received by Prime Sense and an earlier update on several competing companies, thereâ€™s one detail weâ€™ve edged around: When youâ€™ll get to use them yourself. Thatâ€™s because most of the companies developing gesture recognition technology arenâ€™t sure themselves. The firms developing the 3D cameras that make moti

MedPage Today

I would like to thank MedPage Today for their continuing sponsorship at Kevin, M.D. MedPage Today is the only medical news service for physicians that links consumer medical news and the professional medical analysis needed by clinicians. Through their daily coverage of breaking medical stories and topics widely reported in the consumer media, they provide clinicians with the real-time information they need to address their patients' questions and to find out how new developments might impact

Introducing ... Treasury Secretary Phil Gramm?

David Corn has the goods on Phil Gramm's role in facilitating Wall Street's woes in Mother Jones. As David Kurtz notes at Talking Points Memo, it's a must-read. And it requires me to clarify a slight misstatement I made in my own post on Gramm yesterday. I wrote that Gramm "spearheaded legislation deregulating energy futures trading (which facilitated Enron's misdeeds)." Actually, this was a Gramm family affair. In 1992, Wendy Gramm, then chairwoman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Sony Playstation 3 Review - Does It Meet All The Hype?

Search Engines have long been posting quick references to PS3 Reviews, even before the console was released a full year after it's competition, Xbox 360. Most Reviews point out the obvious downfall that the console doesn't meet the attention grabbing Nintendo Wii in motion sensing, but fail to point out that the good of the game console. Before you buy the console, you should consider, as one Review points out, that you are not just buying a gaming console.

When Rational People Make Irrational Choices

Ori Brafman introduces his forthcoming book, â€œSway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behaviorâ€ by sharing a very sobering tale which illustrates how even the most trusted professionals (airline pilots) can depart wildly from the rational under certain pressure conditions. The passengers aboard KLM Flight 4805 didn't know it, but they were in the hands of one of the most experienced and accomplished pilots in the world. Captain Jacob Van Zanten didn't just have a knack for flying. His att

HomeCast Tvus HM960 PMP GPS Device

Home Cast announced the launch of its terminal navigation PMP device Tvus HM960 in Korea. Adoption of 4.3-inch touch screen and large Soft & Mâ€™s Mappy software that supports Tvus HM960 T-DMB, video and electronic dictionary function. With 16.5mm of thickness and weight of 195g, which is non-HM960-flash memory instead of a hard drive. It comes with the election of 8 GB or 16 GB, and a suggested price of 389,000 (KRW) and 419000 (KRW). Post from: Computer Electronic Review HomeCast Tvus

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Author and futurist Arthur C Clarke is credited with predicting the emergence of a number of technologies, including a tablet-like device called a â€œNewspadâ€, which could serve the latest news stories from electronic versions of newspapers. So far more has been said about comparing the Newspad to PDAs or Tablet PCs, but the Newpad also worked in a very similar way to todayâ€™s news aggregators, or RSS feed readers. In the novelised version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, (chapter title â€œMoon Shuttleâ€

Wamu Savings Accounts

Me and brother plans to open new Savings Accounts or may be switching account and we choose WaMu for reat saving account. This company offers 100 percent secure transaction and that make me suprise is there is no monthly service charges and also free electronic statements and free online banking. If you dont want monthly service charge fee ($4) , you must maintain a minimum balance of $300 . If you need money urgently you can access your money anywhere via ATM .Itâ€™s more secure Banking indus

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Engineers, please practice proper chemical hygiene

Engineers, please practice proper chemical hygiene By Elia Diodati Fox told me yesterday that the engineers in his building were routinely and wantonly disposing of liters of hydrofluoric acid down the sink after using them for etching. Although a quirk of fluorineâ€™s electronic structure makesÂ hydrofluoric acid a weak acid, in the technical sense used by chemists, there is absolutely nothing weak about the corrosive nature of HF. Itâ€™s still one of the nastiest substances known to mankind

Of classified documents, ex-girlfriends and biker gangs

I didnâ€™t post on the whole Maxime Bernier/Julie Couillard â€™scandalâ€™ originally because I agreed with Harper and Bernierâ€™s statements that this really wasnâ€™t anyoneâ€™s business. I figured this was just another instance the opposition making unsubstantiated noise; that was until Bernierâ€™s incompetence was reviled. Originally the opposition and media focused the mere fact that Maxime Bernierâ€™s ex-girlfriend, Julie Couillard, once dated members of a bicker gang, but that wasnâ€™t the real issue. When

Beware FISA Compromises that Enlarge the Role of the FISC

The chatter about a compromise bill on FISA to replace the expired PAA got louder last week: The new Republican proposal_ which Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri said is backed by the White House and intelligence agencies, would allow the FISA court to decide. It would require the attorney general to certify that the companies acted lawfully and at the request of the president. The court would be allowed to read classified warrantless wiretapping documents, and the plaintiffs could file their compla

Garmin eTrex Vista Handheld GPS System

If you are planning to get a new navigational device, here is one that could be the best choice. You can get a lot of advantages by buying Garmin eTrex Vista Handheld GPS SystemÂ from a very popular GPS manufacturing company called â€˜Garminâ€™. The deviceÂ comesÂ with Garmin eTrex Vista Deluxe GPS receiver which has the potential to receive signals from wide channels. You can buy this handheld system for your personal uses. The compact dimensions of the Garmin eTrex GPS System is:

Amphibico announces Phenom Z7LE housing for Sony HVR-Z7U

Amphibico is proud to announce the new Phenom Z7LE underwater video housing for the Sony HVR-Z7U HDV camcorder. The stand-alone housing with no port will be introduced at a price of $4795CAN. Three port options are available, including a standard dome, flat port, and 94Â° wide-angle port. The Phenom Z7LE for the Sony HVR-Z7U is an electronic and mechanical combined housing which gives a complete control of your camcorder while filming your underwater scenes. Amphibico has also added a 2-ye

SimCity Creator Announced For Wii, DS

Electronic Arts has earned huge piles of cash with their myriad SimCity spinoffs in recent years, but with the newly announced SimCity Creator, it looks like the company is getting back to the series' roots. The game, which will hit the DS and Wii on September 22, lets players use the two system's unorthodox control systems to zone land, place roads, and manage the ongoing welfare of your own customized metropolis. While the Wii version seems to be a direct translation of the series' trade

Myvu Shades 301 â€“ Personal Media Viewer

Myvu Shades 301 â€" Personal Media Viewer By Zak | Add a Comment Â» This is a groundbreaking product that you can watch videos, movies, play video games or just listen to your favorite band while wearing a new style of sunglasses. Once you slip on these space age shades, youâ€™ll be tuned in for hours. From the outside, it looks like you are a member of the Enterprise. From first person view, your eyes are blocked from the sun and you get great sound and video from an iPod or other electronic devi

New Cut Copy video: â€˜Hearts on Fireâ€™

I may just have watched the best music video for the whole month of May, namely the video for Cut Copyâ€™s latest single â€œHearts on Fire.â€ I donâ€™t know exactly what makes love this video so much, but I, personally, find it beautifully brilliant. Basically weâ€™ve got a heartbroken dude, that canâ€™t seem to shake the feeling of unfulfilled love, a sentiment that follows him around, literally, like a dark cloud. Sit back, stretch your sack and enjoy this lovely video. The song is off Cut Copyâ€™s latest

Atlas Shruged Challange

I officially challange each and every one of you to Read "Atlas Shrugged" over the summer, if you haven't already. I read it in about a week and a half (it was winter, I didn't get outside much), so I doubt it will take you all summer, but I figured you probably have jobs and such. As a reward: Anyone who finishes the novel (Honor code!) by September 1 2008 will be awarded all of my tokenz (will be split up between finishers), as many possible positive reps as I can allow myself to give, I

packed and delivered like UPS trucks

My first thoughts, when the opening band took the stage at the M.I.A. concert last night, were â€œhey, theyâ€™re not a duo, theyâ€™re certainly not electronica, and I have serious doubts that they are even Finnishâ€. They werenâ€™t. They were some hip-hop quartet whose name I didnâ€™t catch and whose name I donâ€™t even want to know. I pretty much hated them as soon as I saw the trucker hats and the continual crotch-grabbing. Their music was derivative, their lyrics misogynist, and I couldnâ€™t wait for them

define life

So i am patiently waiting for my very first post to show up. I posted it under questions and i am assuming that the reason it did not show up was the fact that it was posted in the wrong area. the title of the OP was "would you play God?" and i had speculated that maybe stars are conscious entities who are aware of their surrounding's and are aware of us and are aware of the fact that we are aware of ourselves. this musing seems to be supported by physics and proposes that "God" may actual

Border Patrol Agent Skynet

Robot + Super Gun = â€˜Crowd Controlâ€™ What do you do with a robot armed with a million-round-per-minute gun? â€œCrowd control,â€ naturally. For several months, Metal Storm, the troubled electronic gun developer, has been working with iRobot â€" the makers of military machines and cute, semi-autonomous vacuum cleaners â€" to arm some of their new, 250-pound unmanned ground vehicles. Last week, at a defense trade show, the two firms showed off the results of their joint venture. I posted before about Me

Clevelandâ€™s NewsChannel 5 Follows Local Studentsâ€™ Journey to Scripps National Spelling Bee

CLEVELAND, Ohio â€" The 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee takes place this week in Washington D.C., featuring six contestants from Northeast Ohio and other top spellers from across the U.S., including competitors from Europe, Guam, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, American Samoa, Ghana, South Korea, Canada and New Zealand. NewsChannel 5 reporter Deb Lee is profiling the six local contestants; watch her reports every day this week on Live On Five and NewsChannel 5 at 6.

Austrian Economics as a Progressive Research Community: Roger Koppl

Some of our readers have questioned whether the contemporary Austrian school of economics is making any progress. Some have questioned applied work, others believe they have identified fundamental flaws in the theoretical system, and yet others just think the Austrian school has outlived its usefulness altogether. To counter this, I suggested that we provide links to contemporary Austrian economists and their work to see if this would at least give us a place to start the conversation rather

Awesome

This can only be considered great news. The campaign finance reports filed by Obama and Clinton have grown so massive that theyâ€™ve strained the capacity of the Federal Election Commission, good government groups, the media and even software applications to process and make sense of the data. A milestone of sorts was reached earlier this year, when Obama, the Illinois senator whose revolutionary online fundraising has overwhelmed Clinton, filed an electronic fundraising report so large it c

Constant vigilence on FISA

Constant vigilence on FISA Posted by Greg on May 28, 2008 Here we go again.Â Courtesy of Daily Kos: Before decamping again for recess last week, the Republicans gave notice that, after vacation, theyâ€™re going to hold their breath until they turn blue over FISA: Republicans unveiled their latest compromise offer Thursday to rewrite electronic surveillance rules, saying they can make no more concessions to Democrats. Hereâ€™s our first problem, and one the Democrats would do well to remember:

Who loves Bobby and Blumm?

Bobby and Blumm Everybody Loves (Morr Music) By Max Goldberg Over the last decade, Berlin label Morr Music has carved its niche as a purveyor of delicate down-tempo pop. Bobby and Blummâ€™s debut, Everybody Loves, is as winsome as it gets, though W.S. Blummâ€™s electric hollowbody guitar imbues the sweet-nothing melodies with an autumnal glow. Blumm, a classically trained musician, has himself released three fine solo albums of Burt Bacharach-inspired electro-pop on Morr, but Everybody Lov

Mechanical Technoloogy looking to raise $23 million

Mechanical Technology Inc. said in a regulatory filing that it expects to raise between $23 million and $26.5 million in a stock and warrant sale. The filing was made last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Colonie-based company said it will use most of the proceeds to commercialize its Mobion micro fuel cell for handheld electronic devices. The calculation is based on the sale of 7 million units that consist of stock and warrants, plus about 1 million units for overallotm

glitchDS - Cellular Automaton Sequencer For The Nintendo DS

GlitchDS is a free cellular automaton music sequencer for the Nintendo DS that could be great for creating IDM and Glitch style loops.Â Features include: Customizable Cellular Automaton sequencer Create your own â€œtrigger pointsâ€ Load in your own sounds Save and load your work BPM settings, or â€œstrum modeâ€ for controlling tempo Up to 6 sounds can be loaded at once Each sound has its own 32 step frequency modulation sequencer Global Distortion setting R4DS is required for using this applic

Cents for Sense: Raising Money for Voter Registration

Cents for Sense: Raising Money for Voter Registration Raising money for youth organizing - even straight voter registration - can be tough. So kudos to HeadCount or an innovative fundraising strategy that draws on their greatest strenghts: artist relationships. And kudos to all the artists for stepping up like this to support a kindred organization that does good work. From a press release issued by Head Count (emphasis mine): More than a dozen artists and promoters are backing HeadCount by

Permanent link to Impulse Generator Creates Indoor Lightning

Impulse Generator Creates Indoor Lightning May 29, 2008 at 9:30 am Â· Filed under Science & Tech Youâ€™re looking at an impulse generator at the National Grid High Voltage Laboratory at the University of Manchester. No, itâ€™s not a part of a Star Trek spaceship, but it does something pretty cool: it lets researchers study how materials react to lightning. Ian Cotton, a senior lecturer at the University of Manchesterâ€™s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, says: "We do a lot of lig

Oil falls back ahead of expected gains in US oil inventories (Oil-Prices)

BANGKOK, Thailand _ Oil fell back Thursday in Asia ahead of a report expected to show U.S. inventories of crude and petroleum products grew last week.Prices remained volatile, though, buffeted about by threats against Nigerian oil facilities, worries about falling gasoline demand in the U.S. and volatility in the dollar.Late afternoon in Singapore, the light, sweet crude contract for July delivery was down 63 cents at US$130.40 a barrel in electronic trade on the New York Mercantile Exchange.The

Top Gear - BMW X6 Xdrive50i

Quote: What was the question again? Somebody at BMW thinks the X6 is the answer. Trouble is, nobody can remember what the question was. While you're figuring that out, we'll take it for a drive Fashion is a brittle thing. Breathe too much mass-market attention on it and you'll find it evaporates faster than teenage logic - the super-fashionable always wanting to skip one step ahead. But BMW doesn't really do fashion. Stylistically arrogant, yes. Controversial, yes. But you don't see BM

Trampauline

Meet Trampauline a Seoul based electro-pop with sweet dialects. Please share us some story about the music scene in Seoul music business wise, it is brutal. because of numerous almost-free download sites and all that, no oneâ€™s really getting any pies that they deserve. in indie scenes everyoneâ€™s doing their jobs and working pretty hard to get known without hurting their pride as an artist. music wise, lots of varieties and experiments are being tried. people are still enthusiastic to taste

The Ballmer Youth (Updated)

The Ballmer Youth (Updated) Posted in Microsoft, GNU/Linux, Intellectual Property, Patents at 1:50 am by Roy Schestowitz Itâ€™s already here How does Microsoft fight GNU/Linux? Just as it explicitly stated in its most recent SEC filing, itâ€™s about education, otherwise known as well-funded brainwashing for â€˜IPâ€™. The company said it would approach children. Do have a look. â–ˆ Update: It seems clear now that this post lacks context, so here is something to bring you up to date: 1. Can Microsoft t

Impulse Generator Creates Indoor Lightning

Youâ€™re looking at an impulse generator at the National Grid High Voltage Laboratory at the University of Manchester. No, itâ€™s not a part of a Star Trek spaceship, but it does something pretty cool: it lets researchers study how materials react to lightning. Ian Cotton, a senior lecturer at the University of Manchesterâ€™s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, says: "We do a lot of lightning protection work here." Electricity is taken straight from the mains, at the UKâ€™s standard 24

9/11: Cover For A Coup Dâ€™Etat? by Ed Encho

Dandelion Salad by Ed Encho www.opednews.com May 27, 2008 â€œA coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.â€ -Edward Luttwak On Memorial Day, a day that is intended to be one of somber remembrance and the recognition of our nationâ€™s war dead although it is perversely come to be more associated with boozing barbecues, silly NASCAR races and the inevitable retail extr

DVD-R Hard Drive Recorder Media Center

I have been putting up with prerecorded television on its traditional formats for years now. I guess that it would have been around 3 or 4 years ago when I decided that I could do without the VHS, it was a sad day saying goodbye to some of the movies I owned on Video Cassette but it was a relief to not only lose the necessity to store these bible sized monsters in the house, but also to remove the triple wired dinosaur form the living room.

New 3G T68 mobile phone from Hisense but only in China

Hisense has just announced its new T68 mobile phone, which is 3G and made its first appearance at the HITECH 2008 Fair in China. The Hisense T68 mobile phone supports the Chinese 3G/TD-SCDMA network, which is so new it is not yet fully developed, and only the second mobile phone to support the TD-SCDMA, the other being the Samsung SGH-L288. The T68 is of a candy-bar design with a similarity to a Nokia handset, and other than 3G support the Hisense T68 is dual-band GSM, incorporates handwriting

2008 VolksWagon Tiguan First Steer

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Now that John McCain has been pressured to throw overboard the lunatic evangelists whose support he begged for, perhaps he can unwind with The Wittenburg Door's home screenings of the "Ten Worst Movies About Jesus." As David Gallagher starts things off in the latest issue of the magazine: "These are the movies that make the story of the Son of Man look like the story for Son of Flubber. THE ROBE Keeping Jesus off camera for most of "The Robe" is the only thing 20th Century-Fox ever did to help

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Prior to passing a law banning smoking in cars carrying children in Ontario, Dalton McGuinty's Liberal goons claimed they would not approach that slippery slope, but predictably, the slope got even icier. The promise not to raise taxes has been a boon to taxspenders, the latest windfall being the new recycling "fee" that will inevitably be passed onto consumers by the evil makers of what they desire. Soon, The Gimp hopes to ban not only cell phones in vehicles, but all electronic devices that co

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Most people accepts that the role of the new media plays an important role in the country's political climate lately. People gets fed up reading the MSM since it is lopsided going for the ruling government. Nobody at the beginning believes that the new media can influence the voters to swing their vote as being shown on 8th of March. Accepting the influence of the new media, now the government is going to engage bloggers in cyberspace. Does that equivalent fighting the lions in the latter's den

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