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Nessie Unveiled

Friday, February 29, 2008

Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway has announced the discovery of one of the largest dinosaur-era marine reptiles ever found – an enormous sea predator known as a pliosaur estimated to be almost 15 meters (50 feet) feet long. The 150 million year-old Jurassic fossil was discovered on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, at [...]

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Judge Not

Friday, February 29, 2008

Civil libertarians scored a decisive victory on Friday when a federal judge reversed two controversial orders meant to disable Wikileaks, a website devoted to disclosing confidential information exposing unethical behavior. Earlier this week, attorneys representing the Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union and other groups filed motions in the case arguing that White’s orders [...]

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Fatty Oils

Friday, February 29, 2008

A ‘green,’ petroleum-free brand of motor oil is due to appear on store shelves soon. Green Earth Technologies said it’s shipping its line of green motor oils to national retailers starting within the next month. Waste fats from cattle instead of fossil fuels are the key ingredients. “We turn that into liquid form and use [...]

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It’s Raining Bugs

Friday, February 29, 2008

The sky is not an ethereal, sterile realm. It’s teeming with bacteria, and scientists say that the microbes play a powerful role in producing rain and snow. While the idea that bacteria could prompt precipitation was previously known, a paper published this week in Science shows that they’re more important than anyone expected. More

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Home Router Fit For a Living Room

Friday, February 29, 2008

Source Jonas

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Ownership, Not Renting

Friday, February 29, 2008

Most online video platforms such as Youtube, MySpace and Metacafe use Flash video streaming (.flv) rather than simple links to files we can download. There are various reasons for that with the main one being the common business model most of those services relay on: advertising. In other words – we get to watch the [...]

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Solar Panel Notebook

Friday, February 29, 2008

More Maybe they’ll market it as the Dell Photon. Jonas

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Ve Are Apple, You Vill Obey

Friday, February 29, 2008

Apple Inc. will have the final say over which third-party iPhone and iPod touch applications are deemed suitable for release, according to a new report, which also confirms several other suspicions previously waged regarding the firm’s upcoming software developers kit (SDK) and its associated policies. More

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The Power of the Press Heat Ray

Friday, February 29, 2008

Remember the US Military ray gun that makes people feel like they’re on fire? Well, 60 Minutes sent out a reporter to see if he could take the heat. Standing in plain view of the ray gun made his body feel like “scalding water,” so David Martin attempted, with little success, to hide behind a [...]

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Faster Than Fios!

Friday, February 29, 2008

In papers presented at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, Alcatel-Lucent researchers disclosed research that they believe will likely pave the way to successful implementation of the very high speed transmissions. “Several new technologies were used,” the firm said in a statement, “including a highly linear, balanced optoelectronic photoreceiver and [...]

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TGIF – Is That a Frog in Your Pocket…?

Friday, February 29, 2008

Zoos and aquariums across the country are celebrating the official start of “The Year of the Frog” with activities Friday (Leap Day). At the National Geographic Museum’s “Frogs! A Chorus of Colors” exhibit, featuring more than 150 live frogs, the museum’s frog wrangler will conduct demonstrations at 11 and 1, and leaping contests at 11:30 [...]

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Holding Out for $500 Million

Friday, February 29, 2008

The high-definition format war isn’t over yet, as DreamWorks Animation is still releasing its movies exclusively on HD DVD. Just kidding. Well, kidding about the format war part – the victory is clearly in the hands of Blu-ray Disc – but not kidding about DreamWorks. While both Universal and Paramount have been set free to [...]

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NASA Clears Endeavour

Friday, February 29, 2008

NASA managers on Friday cleared the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour for lift-off on March 11 on the first of three flights to deliver a huge Japanese research complex to the International Space Station. Blastoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is scheduled to take place at 2:28 a.m. EST (0728 GMT). More

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Meme

Friday, February 29, 2008

A meme (pronounced /miːm/) consists of any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. Examples include thoughts, ideas, theories, practices, habits, songs, dances and moods and terms such as race, culture, and ethnicity. Memes propagate themselves and can move [...]

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More Money, Less Brains

Friday, February 29, 2008

Looks may be deceiving when it comes to the Polywell Poly X3800 ($3,975 direct, $4,499 with 24-inch widescreen LCD monitor). At first glance it appears to be merely a standard, underwhelming tower server or desktop PC. But inside you’ll find some serious performance parts—namely, an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 quad-core processor and a single [...]

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