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Facebook Launches “Places” Feature »
Today, Facebook made a much waited for announcement about their entry into the geo-location game. They’ve announced Places, with a focus on finding friends, checking in and building stories. They’ve partnered up with other exsisting companies that already play a major role in geo-location, like Gowalla, Foursquare and Yelp. Should be nice, now Facebook pages [...]
The Interweb – Narcissism at It’s Finest. »
The interweb started out as this way for various military and academic groups to collaborate on projects. It was a way for data, thoughts, and theories to be exchanged very quickly to further the expanse of knowledge and expedite its acquisition – prior to this happening people had to use Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) to do this [...]
Invisibility Technology »
So apparently some guys over at Tufts have managed to make a new form of invisibility technology in the form of silk cloth. Throughout the ages people have often wanted to be able to become invisible for many reasons, most of which are Women locker room oriented, and apparently these guys have a tech that [...]
NEW: Blackberry Torch »
RIM, as of late, has been slacking in their smartphone game. I for one, haven’t been impressed by the BlackBerry OS 6 demo videos roaming the net, but the promise of a revamped UI and new, faster browser certainly got me interested. Here’s the review on Endadget. But honestly, RIM, I think you’ll have to [...]
Auction Websites »
Since the DotCom explosion there has been this massive growth in Auction based websites. The big one of these of course is eBay, the name being a nice little play on words, who has easily the lion share of the market. The thing about eBay is they are a rather broad paintbrush in the scheme [...]
HTML 5 Palette Swapping »
These guys are amazing – they use old school video game animation techniques for palette swapping to animate some images in HTML for a browser. You will want to look at this site in something other that Internet Explorer (which sucks badly these days) as IE will just throw some crappy error about needing a [...]
Amazon’s eBook Sales Overtake Hardcover »
Amazon is still being a little sneaky with the actual number, using the word “millions,” the company has revealed that sales of its Kindle have tripled since they dropped the price $259 to $189. News that downloaded kindle eBooks have overtaken its hardcover counterparts is certainly cause for major celebration.
According to a press release, 14.3 Kindle books have [...]
Google Discontinues Nexus One »
In the same amount of time it took Apple to sell 1 million iPhones, Google only sold 135,000 of the Android-powered Nexus.
On July 16, the company announced that it received its final order from the phone’s manufacturer, HTC. The phone that was supposed to change the way you buy wireless phones. On release, the Nexus [...]
Nokia and Blackberry Respond to Apple’s Antenna Claims »
Nokia and Blackberry have responded to Apple’s claim that all phones have the same antenna problem that the iPhone 4 has.
Nokia’s statement:
Antenna design is a complex subject and has been a core competence at Nokia for decades, across hundreds of phone models. Nokia was the pioneer in internal antennas; the Nokia 8810, launched in 1998, [...]
iPhone 4EVER… ooops. »
It would appear that Apple, the company known for amazing design, flawless interfaces and blah blah blah has a serious boondoggle on their hands: The iPhone 4 like to drop its signal. How? The antennae that runs down the side of the phone (internally) apparently gets crushed when you hold the phone in a phone call sort of [...]
Decode the Cipher for Caravaggio’s Cash »
Taking a break from posts dealing with both white and black bigoted idiots… Get ready for the Cryptogram Challenge: Cell Counting! Decipher the hidden message and enter it into the sweepstakes for a chance to win a spectrometer or a cell counter (I need one of both for the home lab I’m building! So [...]
Pity the Fool »
So… the email-gate that was hailed as the deathblow to climate science’s declaration of global warming has now been thoroughly reviewed and the original math and statistics underpinning the messages have been found to be intact and significant (otherwise known as proof of climate change sans any hocus-pocus). Let us all take a moment and [...]
I can feel what you feel. »
A very interesting watch about science, monkeys, and nuts… Ok so its a lot more than that but you have to watch it to understand it. I’m not going to take the time to spell it out for you. So for the monkey lovin sakes watch it.
Manny’s remains speak to Global Climate Change (if there was such a thing) »
One of the last shipments received from a bone bed in a thawing permafrost marsh in Northern Alaska, the picture shows two (2) mammoth tusks embedded in a tough matrix of ancient dried mud, plant material, and assorted bone fragments. (Note: Nope, no climate change here… nothing to look at… however, the dig team did [...]
Bioremediation – What is the Catch? »
Bioremediation, a process that was developed over 20 years ago and tested on a live marine based oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, is basically the act of dispersing micro-organisms specially designed to EAT oil onto the area covered in oil so that the micro-organisms eat the oil. In effect the microbes eat the oil, [...]