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Welcome to Cyberwar Country, Y'all
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/02/cyber_command Link: Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Battle to Host the Air Force's New 'Cyber Command' . "With billions of dollars in contracts and millions in local spending on the line, 15 military towns from Hampton, Virginia, to Yuba City, California, are...
02.11.08 | 9:09 AM -
Nokia's New Cellphones Show High-End Flair
Nokia's N96 is the sequel to last year's much-loved N95. All the same notes are struck—Symbian OS, lots of internal memory (16GB this time) and powerful N-Gage-ready 3D graphics. It's the leader of a pack that focuses on fancy GPS-based...
02.11.08 | 9:05 AM -
Symposium on Wearable Computers: Call for Papers
scifiberpunk Originally uploaded by brucesflickr (((The comic-book vinyl collectible.))) [Apologies for cross-posting] Call for Papers for the Twelfth Annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers Summary =============== Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Dates: September 28-October 1 2008 Paper/Poster Submission Deadline: April...
02.11.08 | 8:56 AM -
Most Dangerous Week Ever
Brains-on-a-chip, Angelina in Iraq, and spies in Second Life -- here are the highlights from another dangerous week... * DARPA Wants Supercharged Spy Cams * Pistol-Stoppin' TurtleSkin Armor * Anthrax Hoaxes Hit Scientology HQs, Bad Thetans * Air Force's New...
02.11.08 | 8:53 AM -
Robot Dinosaurs In Love
If you recall, a short while back I posted about the Skitter tool that allows one to "hack" your Pleo dino-robot and program it in a myriad of ways. Well, in a stroke of geeky business genius, the folks behind...
02.11.08 | 8:33 AM -
Charles Darwin Photoshop Tennis Update
Charles Darwin turns 199 on Tuesday, and Wired Science is celebrating Darwin Day with a game of Photoshop Tennis. The Father of Evolution is now sporting a few suitably bearded iguanas and a fresh Galapagos backdrop. Head on over and...
02.11.08 | 8:30 AM -
Xperia X1 Leads Charge of New Sony Ericsson Phones
Sony Ericsson will sell the Xperia X1, its first Windows-Mobile based cellphone, this fall. With striking design features, a touchscreen and fast 3G internet, it's just the flagship of a cellular armada that raised anchor this weekend, including laptop cards,...
02.11.08 | 8:16 AM -
European Lab Makes It To Space, European Astronaut Not Feeling Well
European astronaut Hans Schlegel had to take a sick day while the Space Shuttle was docked to the International Space Station. Schlegel was scheduled to do the first EVA spacewalk but instead is helping crew mate Stanley Love suit up...
02.11.08 | 7:58 AM -
Dead Media Beat: The NEXT that hosted the world's first website
cernwww Originally uploaded by brucesflickr It's in a glass vitrine in Geneva, where I took this snapshot.
02.11.08 | 7:45 AM -
Hail Our Papercraft Robot Overlords!
Coming thanks to Dark Roasted Blend, a link to an entire army of papercraft robots! The site is all in Japanese, but the savvy Geekdad can navigate his way to the downloads for hours of printing, cutting, and gluing. The...
02.11.08 | 7:39 AM
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Inventor's Day
Happy Inventor's Day! Coinciding with Thomas Edison's birthday (Monday is his 161st) February 11th was designated by Congress as a commemorative day to honor America's inventors. Coincidentally, fellow Twin Citian William Gurstelle, contributor to MAKE Magazine and author of a...
02.11.08 | 6:38 AM -
Video: Ben Stein Movie Supports Intelligent Design, Distorts WIRED Headline
Ben Stein's latest work is evidence that he slept through more science classes than Ferris Bueller. In the trailer for his new film, Expelled, the misguided comedian champions the cause of academics who feel ostracized due to their belief in...
02.11.08 | 6:27 AM -
Interview: Ubisoft's Yannis Mallat Wants Emotional Games
LAS VEGAS -- At a DICE Summit filled with surreal moments, nothing was so am-I-hallucinating-this-right-now as Yannis Mallat's presentation, during which he showed a YouTube video featuring clips from the movie Bambi, set to an Evanescence song. Mallat, the CEO...
02.11.08 | 3:27 AM -
They Might Be Giants to Play Trio of Family-Friendly Shows
Geeky American alterna-rockers They Might Be Giants are at it again. Their recent release Here Come the 123s continues in the spirit of previous works No! and Here Come the ABCs by delivering sing-along tracks that are kid-centered but still...
02.10.08 | 9:54 AM -
WGA Strike Vote Pending by Monday
Striking writers will not return to work Monday, as originally reported. But they will vote to ratify their new agreement by then in an accelerated ratification process before most likely heading back to their keyboards by Wednesday. According to a...
02.10.08 | 4:06 AM -
Obama Sweeps Three States; Clinton Raises $9 Million Online
Senator Barack Obama won decisive victories in the next four nominating contests in Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington and the US Virgin Islands Saturday, further boosting his bid for the Democratic nomination for president in a tight race against New York senator Hillary Clinton. In the meantime,...
02.10.08 | 3:50 AM -
I Just Got Back From a Trip Through the Bowels of the CERN Particle Detector
cern6 Originally uploaded by brucesflickr (((I toured it once for WIRED, ten years ago. Now it's even more crowded with gigawatts, gigabytes, duct tape and cable ties than it was before.))) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.07/mega_pr.html
02.10.08 | 3:31 AM -
How to Get a Spacecraft to Mercury Nowadays
(((I don't think they coulda planned a route like that with slide rules.))) Le voyage de Messenger by lefigaro
02.10.08 | 1:28 AM -
Professor Layton Sequel Confirmed For U.S.
What? Professor Layton isn't even out yet, and you want more? Nintendo will give it to you. The final page of the instruction manual for Professor Layton and the Curious Village confirms that the next game in the series will...
02.09.08 | 10:57 PM -
Wiring: By Geeks, For Geeks
Of all the geeky professionals in the world, NASA employees (down to the janitors, I strongly suspect) are definitely among the geekiest. They are unabashedly nuts about what they do, be it chemistry, aeronautics, astrophotography or any one of a...
02.09.08 | 8:16 PM
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WGA Deal Points Arrive; Writers Await Debate
More detailed deal points for the Writers Guild deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are emerging now. Rather than rehash the numbers here, aspiring labor negotiators, lawyers and math whizzes can check them out here and...
02.09.08 | 7:07 PM -
Video: Potassium Permanganate Fireworks
Fireworks usually include gunpowder, but a hobbyist has made this rather impressive bang using potassium permanganate in lieu of the more traditional ingredient. Permanganate is a purple crystal which can provide lots of oxygen to a fire -- allowing it...
02.09.08 | 5:39 PM -
Hybrid of a Different Sort: The Lambada Motorglider
Single-engine light sport aircraft, such as the sweet new Cessna 162 SkyCatcher, fly like a dream when the engine's running. Shut it down, however, and it won't be long before the party's over. On the other hand, to experience the...
02.09.08 | 2:13 PM -
Final Thoughts On DICE: Style Over Substance
LAS VEGAS -- This year's DICE was the best-run and most polished show the Academy has ever put on, which is why it's too bad there wasn't as much substantive discussion as in previous years. The Academy of Interactive Arts...
02.09.08 | 1:52 PM -
Report: Yahoo to Reject Microsoft Bid
Yahoo's board is planning to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer, arguing that it "massively undervalues" the company, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The board reportedly won't consider an offer below $40 per share, which, as we understand it,...
02.09.08 | 12:47 PM -
'Invisible' Material Key to DARPA Dream Display
Reason # 573854961875 why I love blogs. The other day, in a post about DARPA's new projects for 2009, I mentioned that the agency wanted to work on transparent displays. How would you make those? Simple... By "exploiting the optical...
02.09.08 | 12:32 PM -
Five for Fighting 2/9/08
* Gates: Iraq hurts Afghanistan * Air America's black helicopter * Ancient hand cannon? * Cloned trucks, security scourge * Video: shark jumps on tourist boat (High five: EM, SW)
02.09.08 | 9:47 AM -
Keith Short is in Your Favorite Films Sculpting Your Iconic Imagery
Truly there is no greater geek than the craft geek, and there’s no greater craft geek than Keith Short. This British sculptor has worked on everything from the Tim Burton’s vision of the Batmobile to the Emperor’s throne from Jedi....
02.09.08 | 9:38 AM -
Getting Rid of Schedules Speeds up Buses
A few years ago, AC Transit (East Bay, California) decided to get rid of traditional time-point schedules on its Rapid bus lines. Now, buses depart from their end points at a selected frequency (usually every 10 to 15 minutes). The...
02.09.08 | 8:00 AM -
WGA Deal Set for Vote; Writers Could Return to Work
Hollywood writers could be back to work Monday. A Writers Guild of America strike captain who attended a special leadership-level WGA meeting tonight reported that a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is ready for review...
02.09.08 | 5:54 AM
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The Ergenekon Gang: It's Turkey's Susurluk Scandal All Over Again
(((Readers of my book TOMORROW NOW will find this brand-new Turkish tale of state-supported antiterror terror gangs to be eerily familiar.))) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Çatlı http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link;=132454 Link: TODAY'S ZAMAN. "The investigation has found that the gang is linked to a clandestine phenomenon referred...
02.09.08 | 1:55 AM -
Literary Censor and Armed Terrorist
(((My, this certainly is gratifying news.))) http://pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1877/prmID/172 Link: PEN American Center - January 28, 2008:Pamuk Prosecutor Arrested, Charged in Plot. January 28, 2008: Pamuk Prosecutor Arrested, Charged in Plot FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: Larry Siems, (212) 334-1660...
02.09.08 | 1:47 AM -
The Joy of Black Swans
(((This is the canonical black swan definition from the canonical "black swan" guy.))) Dispatches from Extremistan (Nassim Taleb talk) A "black swan," Taleb explained, is an event which is 1) Hard to predict; 2) Highly consequential; 3) Wrongly retro-predicted. We...
02.09.08 | 1:38 AM -
Fantastic Factory Tour
This afternoon my son and I took a tour of the GM/Toyota NUMMI auto factory located in Freemont, CA. It's one of the few manufacturing plants in the Bay Area, and luckily for us they give free tours to the...
02.08.08 | 9:46 PM -
Publisher Sees 'No Evidence' That Amazon Kindle is More Profitable Than Sony Reader
We keep hearing from Amazon that the Kindle is sold out and it's doing great, yet we've yet to receive any concrete numbers to confirm the company's excitement. In a quick interview with the Silicon Alley Insider, Arthur Klebanoff, the...
02.08.08 | 8:44 PM -
House Leaders Oppose Immunity, Reid Prepares For Extended Negotiations
House leaders sent a letter to fellow lawmakers Friday saying they strenuously oppose handing amnesty to telecom companies that helped the government's secret, warrantless wiretapping program, even as the Senate is set to approve such a provision early next week. Perhaps in response to that...
02.08.08 | 8:39 PM -
Interview: Indie MMO Lila Dreams' Designer
According to traditional wisdom there are two distinct settings for MMO games: a fantasy realm blatantly lifted from Tolkien or a post-catastrophe future. Creatrix Games, the creators of indie MMO Lila Dreams, has no use for traditional wisdom and has...
02.08.08 | 8:28 PM -
Storytellers' Roundtable: Mass Effect, BioShock, and Rock Band
LAS VEGAS -- Organizers of the DICE Summit learned that the easiest way to fill an hour was to ask the developers of Mass Effect, BioShock, and Rock Band about how to tell a story in a videogame. It's a...
02.08.08 | 8:23 PM -
Report Pushes Open Access to Improve Healthcare
A new report published today prescribes openness in medicine, including open-access publishing of research data, as a means for improving the healthcare system (pdf). Published by the Committee for Economic Development, a nonprofit, nonpartisan thinktank, was released today in San...
02.08.08 | 8:04 PM -
Bush Administration Appeals Patriot Act Ruling
The Bush administration on Friday appealed a federal court decision declaring as unconstitutional a central provision of the Patriot Act, which Congress quickly adopted after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. At issue is a September ruling by an Oregon judge who said the Patriot Act...
02.08.08 | 7:44 PM
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Wiimote Challenger For Xbox 360, PS3 Due by End of Year
Around the time that the Wii became a certifiable hit, primarily due to its innovative Wiimote control scheme, we all knew that the other console makers were probably asking themselves the same thing: Why didn't we think of that? Now,...
02.08.08 | 7:42 PM -
Thief Scams Fortress D.C.
If you're looking for a great yarn, you could do a whole lot worse than the cover story in this week's Washington City Paper. Here's a snip: A little before 2 p.m.... a woman returned to her office [at the...
02.08.08 | 7:35 PM -
Bigelow Working With Lockheed to Human Rate the Atlas V
Bigelow is nearing an agreement with Lockheed Martin to buy launch services on a to-be-human-rated Atlas V 401 launch vehicle. It is a very reliable rocket, lacking the added complication of solid rocket boosters of the larger Atlas V's. The...
02.08.08 | 7:27 PM -
Report: Online Video Traffic Booming Amid WGA Strike
According to comScore, online video was big in December -- really big. Viewers in the U.S. watched more than 10 billion videos in December, amounting to the highest consumption on record for comScore. Likely catalysts include the proliferation of viral...
02.08.08 | 6:27 PM -
I'm Suffering An Evil Tidal Wave of Blogsurfing Public Relations Spam
(((Man, no wonder Chris Anderson lost his temper with these people. They pounce instantly now. If I blogged about teflon frying pans, I'd get three marketing droids by morning all eager to exploit my grass-roots word-of-mouth blogging network to promote...
02.08.08 | 6:10 PM -
Showdown: Developers Argue Pros And Cons Of Middleware
LAS VEGAS -- Representatives from Insomniac, Epic Games and Ubisoft gathered at the DICE Summit on Friday afternoon to discuss the question of whether it's wiser for developers to build their own game tech or to buy middleware instead. Developers...
02.08.08 | 6:01 PM -
Banned From YouTube: Parody Guitar Videos
Earlier this week, YouTube pulled the plug on funnyman and media artist Santeri Ojala, whose hilarious and popular "shredding" videos poke fun at the world's great guitar players. YouTube said it received three complaints of copyright infringement and automatically suspended...
02.08.08 | 6:00 PM -
Sarkozy Feeds Tabloids With One Hand, Beats Them With the Other
((("Let the Prince be hated so long as he is feared," as Machiavelli used to say. Sarkozy gave Carla her own personal cellphone; I'd bet very good money that was a secured and encrypted cellphone.))) Link: France's President Sarkozy Sues...
02.08.08 | 5:50 PM -
GeekDad failures: Wright Brothers "nerdy"?!?
My efforts to raise good geeklings are a litany of failures. Despite my best attempts to get them interested in the techie things that I obsess over, they persist in being regular kids, with no particular signs of sci/tech leanings...
02.08.08 | 5:39 PM -
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #15: Technologies from Orwell's 1984, Cool Gear From the Super Tuesday Primaries, and More
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast is sponsored by Kensington. In today's episode of the Wired Gadget Lab Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Daniel Dumas, and Jose Fermoso discuss Orwell’s 1984 and wonder whether his vision of technology exists today, including the Speakwrite...
02.08.08 | 5:28 PM
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Samsung Sued Over Defective Blu-ray Players
A class action lawsuit filed earlier this week (.pdf) against Samsung claims the company has knowingly sold defective Blu-ray players to the public since June 2006. The lead plaintiff in the case, Bob McGovern, says he purchased his BD-01200 Samsung...
02.08.08 | 4:47 PM -
Sega Sammy Cutting 400 Jobs, 80 Arcades
Amid news that Sega Sammy Holdings expects to lose 26 billion yen ($243.9 million) during this fiscal year, the firm announced that they will be cutting 400 jobs from their videogame software group. This sad news comes on the heels...
02.08.08 | 4:43 PM -
Angelina Jolie Invades Iraq, Pt. 2
Time to vote, people. Who got the better vanity shot with Petraeus? Angelina...
02.08.08 | 4:15 PM -
Rejected $36,000 Wine is a Case For the "Petrus Police"
Well, it beats: "Waiter, there's a fly in my soup". A furious diner at a swanky London restaurant returned a $36,000 magnum of vintage wine, without tasting it, because he feared it was "fake" the U.K.'s Daily Mail reports. The...
02.08.08 | 4:14 PM -
Champ Car, Indy Racing Announce 11th-Hour Talks for Reconciliation
We've been down this road before--countless times, in fact, reaching back to at least 1996--only to see the bitter feud between open-wheel leagues end in cynical disappointment. But just hours ago, IndyCar Racing officials announced that league chairman Tony George...
02.08.08 | 4:07 PM -
Alice in Bomberland
What do Lewis Carroll, the Air Force's next-gen bomber, and a drone named Snark have to do with one another? Click on over to Bill Sweetman's place to find out.
02.08.08 | 4:00 PM -
Exclusive Preview: Discovery Channel's Earth Live Web App
The Discovery Channel will launch a new visualization tool for understanding the dynamics of global climate change . Wired.com brings you an exclusive preview of the new app, seen in the screenshot above. It will go live at www.discovery.com/discoveryearthlive on...
02.08.08 | 3:19 PM -
Shareholders Want Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Done -- Pronto
Let's suppose Yahoo holds its board meeting today, as TechCrunch is reporting -- we wouldn't expect a definitive response to Microsoft's hostile $44.6 billion bid immediately, especially not on a Friday afternoon. Yahoo's standard party line is that its going...
02.08.08 | 3:18 PM -
AQI Leaders: Breaking Smokers' Fingers Backfiring
Jihadist note to self: People don't like it much, when we kill innocents by the dozen, break smokers' fingers, or blow up liquor stores. Strange, hunh? For a while, U.S. generals have been saying that Al Qaeda in Iraq's over-the-top...
02.08.08 | 3:08 PM -
First Project Gotham 4 DLC Announced
Project Gotham creator Bizarre Creations has just announced the first two DLC packs for their beloved racer Project Gotham Racing 4: the Free Challenge Pack and the Premium Challenge Pack. Both packs will be made available via the Xbox Live...
02.08.08 | 3:07 PM
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Puzzle Quest Sequel Revealed
A recent press release issued by D3Publisher stated that the firm plans to release "the eagerly-awaited follow-ups to the best-selling Ben 10 and Puzzle Quest" during 2008. The release was originally intended to announce the arrival of D3P's new Managing...
02.08.08 | 2:54 PM -
Parappa Creator Pushes For More Creativity In Music Games
LAS VEGAS -- The creator of Parappa The Rapper is pleased to hear that music games have become so popular in America. But he wants games to ditch the licensed music and embrace creativity. At his speech Friday morning at...
02.08.08 | 2:40 PM -
Is Retroactive Telecom Immunity Unconsitutional?
The Senate continues debate on whether to grant amnesty to telecoms that turned over Americans phone records to the nation's spooks and helped them spy on Americans' international phone and email conversations. But Findlaw columnist and Cardozo law school professor Anthony Sebok suggests that freeing...
02.08.08 | 2:26 PM -
The Freakiest, Most Out-There LIFT08 Presentation
Link: Lift conferences, webcams & interviews. (((Mieke Gerritzen, whose Dutch eccentricities have clearly been stimulated by life in Los Angeles.... Click video, and scramble your next-natural brain.)))
02.08.08 | 2:03 PM -
New British Bugging Scandal
(((Perfidious Albion... lo, even the jail cells are tapped.))) Link: Davis calls for tighter controls over bugging | Terror threat to Britain | Guardian Unlimited. David Davis, the shadow home secretary, today called the prime minister a "liar" over the...
02.08.08 | 1:58 PM -
Charles Darwin Photoshop Tennis Contest
Next Tuesday is Charles Darwin's 199th birthday -- and what better way to celebrate his relevance to the modern age than with an evolving game of Photoshop Tennis? If you haven't played Photoshop Tennis before, it's simple. Starting with a...
02.08.08 | 1:54 PM -
NASA Wants You to Name Its New Telescope
It's true, there's been a spate of NASA marketing advice here lately, but this time the agency is actually asking for help. The agency is calling for the public to submit names for a new space-based gamma-ray telescope that will...
02.08.08 | 1:51 PM -
EA's CEO: How I Learned To Acquire Developers And Not Screw Them Up
LAS VEGAS -- Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello is very sorry about what happened to Bullfrog. And Westwood. And Origin Systems. ""We at EA blew it, and to a degree I was involved in these things, so I blew it."...
02.08.08 | 1:34 PM -
State Faults SpaceShipTwo Builder for Blast Fatalities
State investigators in California say Scaled Composites, the commercial spaceflight company responsible for building the X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne, and Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, is at fault for the fatalities that occurred in a construction site explosion last year. The explosion took...
02.08.08 | 1:24 PM -
More Bad News for Biofuels: They Raise Greenhouse Gases
Several studies have intimated it, but two blockbusters published in the lofty journal "Science" yesterday confirm that biofuels cause more emissions than fossil fuels when everything is taken into account. Both studies take a detailed look at the effects of...
02.08.08 | 1:02 PM
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The K in KITT Now Stands for Kilmer
Arrested Development's Will Arnett has been asked to get out of the car -- the KITT car that is. The actor, who had already recorded all his lines as the voice of the Ford Mustang for NBC's two-hour sequel Knight...
02.08.08 | 1:00 PM -
Review: Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 Travels Light, Won't Cheat Power Users
Fujitsu's S6510 snorts at the MacBook Air. It may be thicker, but by stuffing a 14-inch display, beefy specs, and an optical drive into a form factor usually reserved for 13.3-inch models, it's all about bringing power, not fashion, to...
02.08.08 | 1:00 PM -
DHS Appoints Cybersecurity Official with Poor Security Record
The Department of Homeland Security has appointed an official to head a top cybersecurity position charged with overseeing a new multi-million-dollar national protection plan despite the official's poor security record and ongoing investigations by the FBI and the DHS inspector general into events that occurred...
02.08.08 | 12:57 PM -
Israel Mulls Viagra-Style Drugs to Keep Pilots Up (Updated)
Air Forces all around the world drug their pilots, to keep 'em alert. A new Israeli military report says the "Viagra family of drugs" might be the best pills for the job. Seriously. "Military researchers believe the ingredients that allow...
02.08.08 | 12:57 PM -
Gallery: The DICE Awards Red Carpet
Item! Your roving star watchers at Wired.com hit the red carpet opening of the Interactive Achievements Awards and rubbed shoulders with celebrities! SNL alum Jay Mohr hosted the festivities! Rumors had it he was on all kinds of drugs! ...Like...
02.08.08 | 12:44 PM -
China's 2030 CO2 Emissions Could Equal the Entire World's Today
If China's carbon usage keeps pace with its economic growth, the country's carbon dioxide emissions will reach 8 gigatons a year by 2030, which is equal to the entire world's CO2 production today. That's just the most stunning in a...
02.08.08 | 12:40 PM -
Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Spaceship Captains
Wonderful list up over a io9, applying the Getting Things Done ethic to our favorite space-opera leaders of the last forty years. If you want to learn good organization skills, look no further than some of the best leaders in...
02.08.08 | 12:33 PM -
Wanted or Not, Windows is Coming to the OLPC Laptop
The One Laptop Per Child project's XO computer, designed for children in developing countries, has been criticized, sued, mocked and otherwise derided ever since it was first announced three years ago. But if you want proof that idea is a...
02.08.08 | 12:29 PM -
Bring Some Bling to Your Web Galleries With FancyZoom
If you've ever been to Panic.com, home of OS X software like Transmit, you've probably noticed the very slick Javascript image zooming used in various places. It's quite possibly one the best image viewers on the web, just click a...
02.08.08 | 12:26 PM -
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Shemale Fish
Nearly all male smallmouth bass in parts of the Potomac River basin have hermaphroditic characteristics. These findings, published in the Journal of Aquatic Animal Health by researchers from the United States Geological Survey, are the starkest evidence yet of physiological...
02.08.08 | 12:14 PM
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Songerize: Hear (Almost) Any Song Now
Okay, this is really cool. Type any song by any artist into Songerize; if your experience is anything like mine was, you'll most likely hear that song play instantly. I've been feeding all sorts of artist/song combinations into this thing,...
02.08.08 | 11:57 AM -
How To Be A Stealth GeekDad
Here's one for the GeekDad who is told "sure, you can wire the house with your gigabat etherwhatsie, dear, just as long as no one can see it." They're spacers designed to let you hide your cabling behind regular crown...
02.08.08 | 11:23 AM -
Everything You Wanted to Know About That Weird French Internet Rabbit, Nabaztag
(((Straight from the guy who originated it...))) Link: Lift conferences, webcams & interviews.
02.08.08 | 11:22 AM -
Studies Say Biofuels Worse Than Gasoline
When all relevant factors are accounted for, biofuels produce more greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels. So conclude two studies published yesterday in Science, adding to a growing body of research suggesting that crop-based fuels, once hailed as a clean...
02.08.08 | 11:19 AM -
Five for Fighting 2/8/08
* Israel cuts power to Gaza * Army manual gets smart * Lasers in spaaaaaace! * Kitty 1, Marine 0 * MRAP maker goes belly-up (High five: AM, JQ)
02.08.08 | 11:13 AM -
The First Rule of Fight Club: You Take it to Broadway
Rumor has it that Fight Club will soon be knocking heads and ball busting falsettos on Broadway. To celebrate the film's 10th anniversary director David Fincher wants to adapt the book-turned-movie into a musical with Trent Reznor scoring the diddies....
02.08.08 | 11:13 AM -
Lift 08: that grimly factual gentleman from the international climate change panel
Lift 08 Impressions Originally uploaded by Dead Pixel Pray...
02.08.08 | 11:09 AM -
Warner Music Group CEO Faces Insider Trading Charges
Edgar Bronfman, Jr., the CEO of Warner Music Group, may have illegally sold shares of Vivendi using insider information, according to preliminary charges filed by French authorities. (Vivendi Universal is based in France.) The charges are apparently part of a...
02.08.08 | 11:07 AM -
Compubeaver Video Unleashes Horrors, Memes and Funny Smells
Xeni Jardin's posted video of the Compubeaver — yes, a computer hacked (literally) into a dead beaver — but reports that it suffers from Beaver Screen of Death. They should have constructed it using beefier specifications. BOING BOING TV: COMPUBEAVER...
02.08.08 | 10:56 AM -
LIFT08: wry commentary
Email is dead, long live... Originally uploaded by Martin Cahill Europeans sure love those mobiles.
02.08.08 | 10:56 AM
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John Mellencamp Gives John McCain a Ceasing Letter
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has been using tracks from John Mellencamp (pictured, right) during his campaign trail and the singer is not into it. Mellencamp, who was endorsing John Edwards before Edwards dropped out of the race, has sent...
02.08.08 | 10:50 AM -
Should You Watch the Grammys?
New York Magazine put together a great Grammy Award decision-making flowchart to help you decide whether to watch the award show this coming Sunday. Everything about it is funny except for the Herbie Hancock jab: NY Magazine's Vulture: Should You...
02.08.08 | 10:47 AM -
Lost's Second Episode Reveals More Clues
The second episode of Lost aired last night. Let the water cooler chatter begin [spoiler alert!]. Have you tried calling the Oceanic Flight 815 hotline number, 888-548-0034, shown on Frank's TV in Bermuda? Well it works! Right now there's just...
02.08.08 | 10:34 AM -
Video: Head Of RIAA Discusses Benefits of Copyright-Protective Spyware
At the State of the Net conference on January 30, Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), offered some remarkably candid opinions on how the music industry should cripple technology to ensure the sanctity of its...
02.08.08 | 10:31 AM -
Teaching Teachers About Wind Power
When science teacher Michael Arquin started educating students about wind power, he had no idea his curriculum would come to influence thousands of teachers and students all across the country. After earning his B.S. in Biology and Environmental Studies from...
02.08.08 | 10:20 AM -
India Prepares Desert War Game
What could be more fascinating to watch than a massive desert war game held at a nuclear weapons site? Not much, if you ask me. Counter-insurgency may be getting more attention lately, but some countries are still focusing on conventional...
02.08.08 | 10:04 AM -
Farecast Goes International with Airfare Price Predictions for World Travelers
Farecast, the airfare price prediction site for savvy travelers looking for the best deal, has finally moved beyond U.S. borders to offer predictions for those traveling to Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean and Canada. Farecast’s new international price predictions are available...
02.08.08 | 10:02 AM -
LIFT 08 -- where you learn something new every day
(((It would have been worth coming here just to hear about "Citizen Cyberscience" and "Powerpoint Karaoke."))) http://galaxyzoo.org/ (((There are now fifty of these web-based collaborative science efforts, from Seti@Home to Asia@Home, and CERN in Geneva will be starting a "Citizen...
02.08.08 | 9:58 AM -
Batman Dark Knight Trailer in Lego
Here, for your viewing pleasure, is the trailer to the forthcoming Dark Knight movie, rendered in Lego. Keshan, of Australian "film clan" Custard Productions, has re-created the trailer shot-for-shot. Especially good is the slow-motion shot of the Joker's truck flipping...
02.08.08 | 9:43 AM -
Social Browser Flock to add MySpace Features
The recently revealed MySpace platform might not fill the average MySpace fan with excitement given that it mainly targets developers, but fear not, Flock, the social web browser, plans to take care of the details. Flock, which uses the same...
02.08.08 | 9:31 AM
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High-Tech Weaponry at Las Vegas Gun Show
02.04.08 | 2:00 PM -
Photographer Captures America's Best-Kept Secrets
01.13.08 | 9:00 PM -
Tools of the Trade: The Lucrative and Lifesaving Industry of Biophysics
02.07.08 | 5:10 PM -
Three Smart Things You Should Know About Leap Years
01.18.08 | 6:00 PM -
NSFW Gallery: Blu-Ray Porn, Mechanized Masturbation and Upskirts at Japan's First Sex Show
10.04.07 | 12:00 AM -
Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?
01.18.08 | 6:00 PM -
With iPhone, 'Security' Is Code for 'Control'
02.06.08 | 9:00 PM -
How to Make Custom IPhone Ringtones Without Paying Apple $2
09.12.07 | 2:00 AM -
Startup Plans to Solve Online Identity Theft, But Does Anyone Care?
02.07.08 | 9:00 PM -
APIs
09.10.07 | 12:00 AM -
Steam-Driven Dreams: The Wondrously Whimsical World of Steampunk
06.18.07 | 2:00 AM -
Power From the People: Converting Your Kinetic Energy Into Electricity
10.22.07 | 12:00 AM -
Learning From Failure: Apple's Most Notorious Flops
01.23.08 | 9:00 PM -
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
01.09.08 | 6:00 PM -
Fantasy Love Hotels
12.19.06 | 12:00 AM -
The Wacker BH24 Breaker: Hard on Concrete, Easy on Hands
01.18.08 | 6:00 PM -
Stop Paying for Ring Tones
02.06.06 | 2:00 AM -
Real Sex Tantalizes as Processed Porn Gets Boring
01.31.08 | 9:00 PM -
The Natural History of the Only Child
02.07.08 | 9:00 PM -
Like Apple, Intel Wants to Put the 'Internet in Your Pocket'
02.07.08 | 6:30 PM