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Insulating Placemat Made from Old Wine Corks
The equation balances, and the idea is obvious, so we wonder why on earth we never had this idea. We throw corks away by the dozen (daily, in my home) and then go out and buy insulating cork mats to protect delicate countertops from hot pans. Surely there’s some disconnect here? The Salvamanteles Bakus from Ciclus [...]
06.22.09 From Gadget Lab -
TXT Island, a parable of economic development
*Where did he get that huge pegboard? *I know where he found the time; he’s probably unemployed and he also quit websurfing. *Someday — maybe someday SOON — all my entertainment will look like this, and my washing machine, constructed by the same postindustrial practices, will look like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/3649200921/ *Also, my new home will look like this: https://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13837400 *Probably because of, uhm, this: https://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/03/boomers-future-went-down-drain.html *And [...]
06.22.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
Extremophile microbes on Wired Science
https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/extremophile/ *Pondering these gaudy images, I find it hard to believe that Mars lacks microbes.
06.22.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
Airport Stories From the Ethnically Indeterminate
*Okay, first try to imagine you’re a British hiphop guy self-named “S-Endz” and you’re from a touring bhangra electronica band named “Swami”… https://turimusic.com/blog/ “I’m gonna share a couple of anecdotes with you today “The first one comes from the Swami tour of India in 2007. We were on a Kingfisher Airlines flight from Delhi to Hyderabad (the only airline [...]
06.22.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
Extreme Life Thrives Where the Livin’ Ain’t Easy
<< previous image | next image >> Once upon a time, scientists routinely found life in places where it wasn’t supposed to exist. That doesn’t happen anymore, and not because the pace of discovery has slowed. If anything, it’s accelerated. It’s simply become clear that life can exist almost anywhere on Earth. After 3 billion years of [...]
06.22.09 From Wired Science -
How Apple, AT&T; Are Closing the Mobile Web
A growing chorus claims that Apple’s questionable approval policy for its iPhone application store raises issues with net neutrality. Free Press, a group that advocates the idea of an open internet — that is, one in which consumers have the right to browse the web and run internet applications without restrictions — is the latest of [...]
06.22.09 From Epicenter -
I’m back from Marseille and Lift France 09.
*I’d have to say this one was one of the more out-there LIFT conferences. Although it’s hard to beat eating live Korean octopus.
06.21.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
An Italian steampunk mag.
https://www.carmillaonline.com/archives/2009/06/003083.html Steampunk fantascienza. I hope they can get together with those Polish guys for some European joint steampunk fantastyka-fantascienza maneuvers. Imagine sitting down to whip out a Polish Italian steampunk story. Actually, I’m pretty sure that’s doable.
06.21.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
Weekend Thrifting: Spinning Bird Kick
“Do you collect these?” asked the cashier at the thrift store as I was purchasing a carded Chun Li G.I. Joe action figure for $2.50. “No,” I answered truthfully. “But I had this when I was a kid.” Leaving the store, I took the Chun Li out of my bag to reminisce about how truly godawful these [...]
06.21.09 From GameLife -
The Geek Atlas Shows You Where, and How
Have you ever wanted to tour Bletchley Park, the World War II headquarters of Britain’s codebreaking efforts? How about the Gutenberg Museum, dedicated to the invention of movable type? The Geek Atlas by John Graham-Cumming collects 128 of those dream destinations, every one an important aspect of our geek heritage. In the National Air and [...]
06.21.09 From GeekDad
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10 Geeky (Re)Discoveries as a GeekDad
Before I became a father, friends and family warned me that I’d have no time for geeky pursuits. I was afraid they’d be proven right but, after six years of fatherhood, I can safely say that Ben and Naomi have helped me become a better geek. To celebrate Father’s Day, here are ten things that [...]
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Happy Father’s Day From GeekDad!
Hopefully you’ll get to spend some time playing videogames, or going out geocaching or building a robot with your family today. Whatever it is, keep it geeky! Feel free to share your warm or funny Father’s Day experiences with the community in the comments section below!
06.21.09 From GeekDad -
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Pogue’s Liver Kicks Ass
How fitting: Real Steve is due back later this month after a live-saving liver transplant, and Fake Steve breaks a nearly 11-month silence to show signs of his own life. In the third of a sudden three-day spree of blog updates Fake Steve reveals the source of “his” liver transplant: no other than New York Times [...]
06.20.09 From Epicenter -
Flip Has Little Chance In An iPhone World: TechCrunch
TechCrunch makes the intriguing argument that time is running out for the darling Flip video camera now that video has debuted on the iPhone 3GS. Part of the argument is the “second device” conundrum. With a portable device that takes 3 MP pictures, has reliable GPS and now video, what are else are you apt to [...]
06.20.09 From Epicenter -
Technology Review: Wikipedia Gets Ready for a Video Upgrade
Wikipedia contributors will soon be able to access and add video to articles, MIT Technology Review reports. The change will come in 2-3 months and is will initially draw from only three repositories. But the idea is to encourage content providers to put more video into the public domain via the vast online encyclopedia. Eventually the means [...]
06.20.09 From Epicenter -
New York City Gets Its Geek On At The World Science Festival
The World Science Festival 2009 hit New York City on June 10th with a Gala Opening at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center and culminated on June 14th with a street fair held in Washington Square park. In between there were lectures and presentations in multiple locations around the city for science lovers [...]
06.20.09 From GeekDad -
Celebrating Father’s Day GeekDad Style
While there is the Hallmark holiday picture perfect Father's Day, we all know it doesn't always go like that. Generally, it goes a little something like this:
06.20.09 From GeekDad -
Hey rich American guys: you’re gonna get sick and hungry, like everybody else
https://globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts “Climate changes are underway in the United States and are projected to grow. Climate-related changes are already observed in the United States and its coastal waters. These include increases in heavy downpours, rising temperature and sea level, rapidly retreating glaciers, thawing permafrost, lengthening growing seasons, lengthening ice-free seasons in the ocean and on lakes and [...]
06.20.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
It’s sustainable design day here at Lift France 09
#liftfrance09 on Twitter. Just getting going this morning but… wait a sec, was that a Turinese hydrogen car? From *General Motors*? Wow, anything is possible these days: https://www.gmeurope.info/social_media_newsroom/archives/762-Torino-first-stop-on-the-road-to-Hydrogen-in-Italy.html General Motors and Regione Piemonte today unveiled a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle which could become part of the first real-world demonstration program in Italy. GM’s fourth generation fuel cell [...]
06.20.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
Star Wars Universe Invaded By ‘Hello Wars,’ Adidas
In the Star Wars universe, there’s good, fair and painfully awkward marketing ideas. The best concepts are pretty well established — like action figures, video games and t-shirts. The fair ideas might include flash drives, bed sheets and, now, Adidas shoes and apparel. According to the shoe and clothing maker, “Adidas Originals is proud to announce a unique [...]
06.20.09 From Underwire
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Jobs Had Liver Transplant - WSJ.com [Updated]
(Updates with details and background) Steve Jobs has had a liver transplant during his medical leave but is expected to return to work as expected later this month after a medical leave he announced to a shocked Apple community in January, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Journal cited no source in particular for its story, and [...]
06.20.09 From Epicenter -
The Ultimate Father’s Day Gift: Your Chance To Win An Exclusive GeekDad Shirt
If you attended Maker Faire this past month, you had a chance to see, first hand, these wonderfully dapper shirts created just for the staff of GeekDad. To say they were popular is an understatement, we had literally dozens of offers to buy the shirts off our backs. And who wouldn’t want one of these beautiful, [...]
06.19.09 From GeekDad -
Taking Microsoft to Task Over IE8 ‘Myths’
Microsoft recently launched a campaign promoting its Internet Explorer 8 browser, making some bold claims about IE8’s capabilities. The campaign, called “Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the Facts,” trumpets IE’s speed, stability, ease of use, safety and customizability. It also provides a chart and several data points intended to show how IE8 surpasses other browsers in [...]
06.19.09 From Webmonkey -
Gallery: Antique Windmills Go About Their Daily Snuff Grind
<< previous image | next image >> ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Most windmills today are used to generate electricity or pump water. But along the shores of a man-made lake in Rotterdam, two giants of antiquated machinery remain conscripted to their original purpose: pulverizing the fruits of the land for human consumption. See also: Snuff Lures Tobacco Fiends [...]
06.19.09 From Underwire -
Snuff Lures Tobacco Fiends With Whiff of Exotic History
A small round tin is produced from the pocket. It’s about an inch and a half in diameter, with a green label bearing a German brand name. The top pops off with a twist, revealing the contents: a fine, dark brown powder. A pinch of powder is removed, brought to the nose and inhaled with a [...]
06.19.09 From Underwire -
GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Sam’s Sly Shipping Service - Solution
This week, super-villain Jack Smith’s right-hand, Samantha Sly is shipping out counterfeit action figures to a number of duped toy stores around the US; she needed a little help with packing the shipping cartons. Thanks to Kenny Taylor, Sam found a way to satisfy her customers and her boss, which is usually impossible. Kenny will [...]
06.19.09 From GeekDad -
Hands-On With the Smart, Retro Olympus E-P1
This first look at the Olympus E-P1, aka the ‘Digital Pen,’ is by Wired UK editor Holden Frith. The Olympus E-P1 is a handsome camera, and it takes handsome pictures. It also comes at a handsome price, but a day of taking photos and an hour spent examining the results suggest that it may be a [...]
06.19.09 From Gadget Lab -
Awesomely Bad Corporate Video: ‘Let’s Drink to the Russian Gas’
It may not qualify for Iron Eagles, our collection of the awesomely bad videos of the military-industrial complex. But Gazprom, Russia’s state-run gas monopoly, certainly has enough Bond-villain cache to qualify for some kind of prize. Take the company’s schlocky theme song. Danger Room reader Rob was kind enough to forward the link to a video [...]
06.19.09 From Danger Room -
Old People May Be Immune to Swine Flu
Just having been alive for a while could protect you from getting the novel swine flu circling the planet. In 1977, a type of H1N1 virus, commonly known as the “Russian flu,” spread across the world, infecting people under 25 at much higher rates than their elders, who had been exposed to similar viruses in the [...]
06.19.09 From Wired Science -
New NATO Boss: Colombia Prepared Me for Afghanistan (Corrected)
Navy Adm. James Stavridis, arguably the sea service’s intellectual leader, is making the leap from Latin America’s U.S. Southern Command, to the top job at European Command. That means he’ll also be NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, which puts him at the head of in the chain of command for the faltering NATO war effort [...]
06.19.09 From Danger Room
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Aero-mobile Brings $1 Million at Auction
A super-slick, super-quick Lincoln once owned by the wildly eccentric Howard Hughes recently sold at auction for $1 million. The car started life as a 1936 Lincoln K Model V-12, but Hughes had it extensively reworked to create a boat-tail rear end in the art-deco styling popular at the time. With improved aerodynamics, less weight and [...]
06.19.09 From Autopia -
Tweet Me to the Moon, Let Me Play Among the Nerds
How would you like to talk to someone on another continent by bouncing your voice off the moon? Yes, you can do that, and many of your fellow Wired Science readers and @wiredscience followers entered our moon bounce contest in hopes of scoring a chance to join in a massive translunar conversation in celebration of the [...]
06.19.09 From Wired Science -
Arizona UFO Update
Were you reading my “UFO” post last week with great interest, but wanted to know more about it? Your quest is over. Here is some information, direct from one of the physicists working on the project. After my original article was posted, I heard from William Grainger, a physicist from Cardiff University in Wales, who worked [...]
06.19.09 From GeekDad -
First Look: FlashForward Spins Global Blackout Into Time-Warp Mythos
BURBANK, California — It’s been a tough season for prime time sci-fi as NBC’s My Own Worst Enemy, Fox’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and ABC’s Life on Mars all got whacked. Still, judging from its new time-warp drama FlashForward, ABC remains bullish on series packed with head-spinning mythology. The show, created by The Dark Knight [...]
06.19.09 From Underwire -
Future Of F1 In Doubt As Teams Bolt
The simmering feud between the major Formula 1 teams and the sport’s sanctioning body has erupted into a full-blown civil war, with eight of the 10 teams announcing they are leaving at the end of the season to launch their own race series. The Formula One Teams Association has been at odds with the Federation Internationale [...]
06.19.09 From Autopia -
Palm Pre App Catalog Makes a Slow Start
Palm may have wowed gadget geeks with its new Palm Pre phone but the company seems to be having a much tougher time convincing application developers to get on board. The Pre’s app store, known as the App Catalog, had just about 30 apps one week after the device’s June 6 launch. The number has remain [...]
06.19.09 From Gadget Lab -
Activision: We May Stop Supporting Sony
The world’s largest third-party video game publisher says it may stop supporting Sony’s consoles. In an interview with The Times (London), Activision CEO Bobby Kotick expressed concern for the PlayStation 3’s software sales and the cost of development: The PlayStation 3 is losing a bit of momentum and they don’t make it easy for me to support [...]
06.19.09 From GameLife -
Eclectic Method Remixes the Future of Open Video
Eclectic Method’s kinetic live shows splice music, film, TV and videogames into a body-rocking audiovisual concoction that gets clubbers hopping and synapses popping. “We are constantly in the process of remixing media and researching new forms of narrative that multiscreen stimulus brings,” said the trio’s Jonny Wilson in an e-mail to Wired.com. “We also rock a [...]
06.19.09 From Underwire -
Fewer Customers Line Up for iPhone 3GS
SAN FRANCISCO — The line to purchase an iPhone 3GS was short and sweet this morning at the downtown Apple store. When the doors opened at 7am, the queue stretched down the block and was maybe 150 humans deep, far fewer than the hundreds who showed up for the launch of the iPhone 3G in [...]
06.19.09 From Gadget Lab -
Pentagon Deploys Experimental Missile Shield to Hawaii
When North Korea threatened to launch a ballistic missile in March, the Pentagon responded coolly. No effort would be made to shoot down the test missile, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said. The experimental, floating SBX missile-defense radar, would stay in dry-dock. This was a test, not an imminent attack, after all; and it would’ve [...]
06.19.09 From Danger Room
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Gallery: iPhone 3GS Teardowns Reveal Underclocked CPU, More
If you love something, take it apart and see what’s inside. That’s the geek mantra that some zealous gadgeteers are applying to the iPhone 3GS today. Their biggest discovery: a CPU that’s running at just 72% of its capacity. Both iFixit and Rapid Repair, companies that specialize in repairing broken gadgets, have got their hands on [...]
06.19.09 From Gadget Lab -
Facebook, Google Go Persian, Aiding Iran’s Activists
Some of the Web’s leading firms are rolling out new features, to accommodate worldwide interest in the protests in Iran — and to not-so-subtly help out the pro-democracy movement inside the country. Iran’s activists have been relying on blogs, Tweets, text messages, Facebook groups, and uploaded YouTube videos to share information with one another, and with [...]
06.19.09 From Danger Room -
Comics Recommended by the Geek Daughter
I have three voracious young readers in my house. They love fantasy, science fiction, romance, comic books, manga and whatever story I happen to be writing at the moment. (I occasionally take requests.) But I have one kid who doesn’t have the focus to read chapter books. She’s ten and reads quite well but because of [...]
06.19.09 From GeekDad -
Cure Rotting Summer Brain Drain Syndrome
The general consensus is that most kids lose two months of learning during the summer break. In the age where everything is given a medical label, the experts have dubbed this, Summer Brain Drain. In the title above, I added a few more adjectives to the title as it did not sound ominous enough for [...]
06.19.09 From GeekDad -
Terrifying Three-Headed Gadget Tree is a Mobile Medusa
If you chop one of the heads off the Super Universal Car Mount, two will grow in its place. The suction-cup mounted gizmo holder brings a touch of gorgon-glamour to your dowdy car interior, and while it will not actually spawn new gooseneck brackets, if you’re still worried, you can use the rear-view mirror to glance [...]
06.19.09 From Gadget Lab -
Video: Iran Supremo Threatens Demonstrators
So much for resolving Iran’s political crisis peacefully. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told pro-democracy demonstrators Friday that their cause was bunk, and that their leaders would be “responsible for the bloodshed” that came from further protests. If you think “that by turning out onto the streets that you can pressure the officials your demands is wrong,” he [...]
06.19.09 From Danger Room -
IPhone Camera Remote Gets Improved UI, Nikon Support
Are you a Nikon shooter? And an iPhone owner? Are you jealous that those pesky Canon fanboys get to remote control their DSLRs directly from the phone itself? Are ya? Then calm down. We have good news. OnOne, the makers of DSLR Camera Remote, have a new version in the works that not only improves the user [...]
06.19.09 From Gadget Lab -
Stealth Jet Revolt Could Mean Pentagon Budget Showdown (Updated)
Washington has been expecting a showdown between the defense secretary and Congress over his plan to radically overhaul the Pentagon’s arsenal. That fight may finally go down, after a key House panel defied Robert Gates Wednesday by adding money to keep making stealth fighter planes — with an apparent assist from a top Air Force [...]
06.19.09 From Danger Room -
The EV Offspring of Maytag and R2-D2
We’ve seen some wild ideas for cars here at Autopia, but this funky EV mashup of a Smart car, a washing machine and R2-D2 takes the prize. The all-electric Cube looks like it was designed by Maytag, but it’s the work of industrial designer Carlos Mendez. Like so many other wild concepts, it’s nothing more than [...]
06.19.09 From Autopia -
Breaking: iPhone 3GS Camera Doesn’t Suck
One of the worst parts of the iPhones 2G and 3G was the camera. It wasn’t just that it was a low-res two-megapixel piece of junk. More, it was that it seemed tacked on in decidedly un-Apple way, a vestigial afterthought that, although integrated throughout the iPhone software, never felt as polished as it could. [...]
06.19.09 From Gadget Lab
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Spain’s iPhone 3GS Plans as Bad as Old 3G Plans
Today, you may be aware, is the day that the iPhone 3G S launches just about everywhere. Last year, Spain’s Telefónica (or, more correctly, its mobile arm Movistar) messed up terribly, first by letting lines form outside stores which had no handsets, yet still enjoying the free publicity from TV crews, and later by offering [...]
06.19.09 From Gadget Lab -
IPhone Teardown Reveals Underclocked 833MHz CPU
Rapid Repair has, as expected, descended on the new iPhone 3G S, bristling with sharp tools like some sci-fi torture-bot, and splayed its remains on the cold slab of the teardown lab. It’s not an easy job — you’ll need a heat gun to remove some parts, other sections can be taken apart but not [...]
06.19.09 From Gadget Lab -
DeLorean’s Life Would Make a Great Movie. Three, Actually
There are few people in the history of the auto industry quite like John Z. DeLorean. He lived large and dreamed big, and his life story reads like the script of a Hollywood movie. Perhaps that’s why there are not one, but three, films about him in the works. DeLorean was a man of action who [...]
06.19.09 From Autopia -
Chinese Coal Rides A Maglev. Why Don’t We?
Two Chinese companies are developing Maglev trains to transport coal from mines in Inner Mongolia. If all goes as planned, Chinese coal will have a faster, greener trip than passengers riding from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Coal-fired power plants are filthy beasts in general, and historically the Chinese coal industry has taken quite a toll [...]
06.19.09 From Autopia -
New Doctor Who Concept Art Teases BBC America Specials
New concept art offers a spoiler-laden look at monsters and props in the Doctor Who specials coming to BBC America this summer. The promo art, just released by the BBC, teases a series of five one-off specials that already ran in the United Kingdom: “The Next Doctor” aired on BBC One last Christmas and “Planet of [...]
06.19.09 From Underwire -
MST3K Fails to Stop Sequel to Disastrous Hobgoblins
There are bad movies. And then there are God’s mistakes like Hobgoblins (above) — a movie so painfully inept that any sequel to it might disprove the existence of said deity. Sadly for people of faith everywhere, Shout Factory has announced the release of Hobgoblins 2 on DVD. Set for release next Tuesday, it will befoul [...]
06.19.09 From Underwire -
FCC to Examine Mobile Phone Exclusives
Exclusive deals that lock cool handsets to a single carrier will soon get scrutiny from federal regulators, the acting head of the FCC announced Thursday. The announcement (.pdf) comes just a day after a Senate subcommittee heard competing arguments over whether deals like Sprint’s six-month lock on the Palm Pre and AT&T’s long-running U.S. monopoly on [...]
06.18.09 From Epicenter -
Jury in RIAA Trial Slaps $2 Million Fine on Jammie Thomas
A federal jury on Thursday found Jammie Thomas-Rasset liable in the nation’s only Recording Industry Association of America file-sharing case to go to trial, dinging her $1.92 million for infringing 24 songs. Thomas-Rasset (then just Jammie Thomas) went to trial two years ago, and was ordered to pay $222,000 by a different jury for the same [...]
06.18.09 From Threat Level -
Group Calls Foul on AT&T; Blocking Some iPhone Video Apps
If you want to watch the Yankees on your iPhone using its 3G connection, you’ll need to pony up $10 to Major League Baseball. Sure, you have a SlingBox at home and could watch the game through SlingBox’s iPhone app — but only if you are using WiFi, because Apple and AT&T won’t let it [...]
06.18.09 From Epicenter -
Court Stiffs Veterans Caught in Privacy Breach
Veterans suffering anxiety and paranoia following the theft of a government hard drive containing the medical histories and Social Security numbers of 198,000 of their brethren cannot recover financial damages, a federal appeals court says. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in largely dismissing a class-action, ruled Wednesday that the veterans could recoup at [...]
06.18.09 From Threat Level
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Video: Spinal Tap Attempts to Discuss New Album
Wondering about the deeper meanings behind Spinal Tap’s music? So are they. In these clips from the bonus DVD included with the band’s new album, Back From the Dead, the fictitious rockers reunite to discuss each track. Or rather, they’re supposed to, but they just end up on random tangents about loud music, Native Americans and [...]
06.18.09 From Underwire -
Report: Cruise and Abrams to Make Mission: Impossible IV
It could be kiss and make up time for Tom Cruise and Paramount Pictures. Unceremoniously fired by the studio’s parent company boss Sumner Redstone in 2006, Cruise is said to be returning to the Paramount fold for another Mission: Impossible movie to be supervised by J.J. Abrams. Updating last summer’s rumors, Variety reports that Cruise and [...]
06.18.09 From Underwire -
How Firefox Is Pushing Open Video Onto the Web
The underlying language used to build web pages is being substantially re-written for the first time in a decade. The W3C, the web’s primary standards body, is revising HTML with an eye on improving the performance and capabilities of rich, browser-based applications. One of the great promises of HTML 5, the emerging standard, is that content [...]
06.18.09 From Webmonkey -
TJX Hacker Was Awash in Cash; His Penniless Coder Faces Prison
Accused TJX hacker kingpin Albert Gonzalez called his credit card theft ring “Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin.” He spent $75,000 on a birthday party for himself and once complained that he had to manually count $340,000 in pilfered $20 bills because his counting machine broke. But while Gonzalez apparently lived high off ill-gotten gains, a [...]
06.18.09 From Threat Level -
CSI Somalia: Interpol Targets Pirates
The war on Somali pirates has moved to the bargaining table,to the crime labs, and to Somalia’s white beaches. With the beginning of East Africa’s stormy monsoon season, hijackings at sea are down, giving the coalition of pirate-fighting nations a chance to counter-attack. Their weapons: fingerprints, grassroots anti-piracy leagues… and 500 Somali men, in shorts [...]
06.18.09 From Danger Room -
Inside Jesse James’ Record-Breaking Hydrogen Racer
Motorcycle madman Jesse James has broken the land speed record for a hydrogen-powered vehicle, and he did it in a car that packs modern technology into a vintage racer more than 40 years old. The guy behind West Coast Choppers blazed across El Mirage Dry Lake Bed at 199.7 mph in a car he claims he [...]
06.18.09 From Autopia -
Chaotic Multiplayer APB Will Make You a Smarter Criminal
LOS ANGELES — It’s easy to imagine a massively multiplayer Grand Theft Auto where every cop and every criminal in the city is played by a human being. It’s more difficult to imagine such a videogame being anything more than nonstop chaos. Game designer David Jones, who helped create the quintessential criminal gaming experience with GTA [...]
06.18.09 From GameLife -
Psychedelic Sunspot Video Useful for Science, Too
Behold the first complete simulation of a sunspot, the product of a new 76-teraflop supercomputer that’s allowed scientists to model the sun’s magnetic processes in unprecedented detail. The beautiful virtual sunspot (see video below) was built using new observations about the structure of the sun. It represents an area 31,000 miles by 62,000 miles to a [...]
06.18.09 From Wired Science -
Airliner Lands Safely After Captain Dies
A Continental Airlines jet flying from Brussels to Newark, New Jersey, landed safely in heavy fog and rain this morning after the captain died mid-flight. CNN says Continental Flight 61 arrived at Newark International Airport at 11:49 a.m. ET after the 60-year-old captain died of what appear to be natural causes. The airline says a relief [...]
06.18.09 From Autopia -
Open Video Conference Pushes for Free, Ubiquitous Video
Now that online video has gone supernova, will its future by shackled by intellectual property and copyright wars and other restrictions? Will it become television on the internet, owned and managed by the few and sold to the many (along with mind-numbing ads)? Or will it evolve to become a more participatory workspace, where suits, [...]
06.18.09 From Underwire
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NATO Targeting Russia in Baltic War Game?
There’s a massive, U.S. Navy-led exercise taking place on the Baltic, this week, involving 11 European nations plus the U.S. — but, notably, not Russia. Despite participating in previous incarnations of the annual BALTOPS war game, Moscow is sitting out, this year. And depending on who you ask, Russia is even the target of the [...]
06.18.09 From Danger Room -
Personalized Plate Earns Chicago Man 170 Tickets
Talk about bad luck. A Chicago man with the license plate “0″ has received 170 tickets because of a snafu by the city. The unusual plate has been in Tom Foddor’s family since 1971, and for most of that time it wasn’t a problem. But the city’s Department of Revenue had his number - literally. About [...]
06.18.09 From Autopia -
Iran Activists Get Assist from ‘Anonymous,’ Pirate Bay
Iranian democracy activists, meet your new pals: a masked protest movement best known for needling the Church of Scientology, and a group of file-sharers so infamous they’re facing a year in jail. Anonymous Iran is a collaboration between The Pirate Bay — operators of the world’s largest torrent site, convicted in April of copyright infringement — [...]
06.18.09 From Danger Room -
Do Not Taunt Twitter!
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke her elbow Thursday, and CBS Radio News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller (@markknoller) has a theory on the reason why. Herewith is his up-to-the-minute reporting, on Twitter (captured with all the immediacy that typos and shorthand conveys): Perhaps the Twitter gods were not amused by Hillary Clinton’s Twitter crack yesterday. [...]
06.18.09 From Epicenter -
Five for Fighting (Tehran Edition)
* Huge rallies expected in “Day of Mourning“ * “The numbers are very high“ * Iran signals new turn in U.S. democracy-promotion? * YouTube changes policies to allow protest vids * “Tear down this firewall!“
06.18.09 From Danger Room -
Electric Audi Has Solar Headlights
Ten years ago solar headlamps would have been relegated to the same bin as glow-in-the-dark sunglasses and inflatable dartboards. Today, they’re just another innovation in the EV/hybrid race to a green Shangri-La and a nice feature on a slick solar hybrid built by college kids. Members of the Georgia Tech Solar Jackets yanked the engine out [...]
06.18.09 From Autopia -
Wet, Green Paint From Mazda
For some Mazda engineers, watching paint dry has never been so rewarding. The company that promotes the philosophy of “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom” has developed an environmentally friendly water-based paint application technique that will come as a great relief to anyone whose ever spent time in a foul-smelling body shop. Mazda says the new Aqua-tech Paint System reduces [...]
06.18.09 From Autopia -
Heading for #liftfrance09 in Marseilles
This ought to prove edifying. https://www.liftconference.com/
06.18.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
How Innovative Scribblenauts Recognizes 10,000 Different Words
In Scribblenauts, you can conjure up pretty much anything you need to solve puzzles. And by “pretty much anything,” we mean tens of thousands of different objects. The upcoming Nintendo DS game lets players write out the word for any object they can think of, and make the item appear in order to reach a given goal. For [...]
06.17.09 From GameLife -
Do You Have the Right Stuff to Be a NASA Pillownaut?
NASA will pay you $160 per day to lie in bed — and they’ve got plenty of takers. Lying on your stomach at a slight downward angle for months on end used to stand in for the effects of nearly no gravity. Now, the scientists at NASA’s Human Test Subject Facility in Galveston, Texas, are trying [...]
06.17.09 From Wired Science
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Appeals Court Backs Prison for E-Mail Obscenity
Sharing an obscene sexual fantasy over e-mail is a federal crime that enjoys no protection under the First Amendment, a federal appeals court said Monday, in a decision that drew sharp dissent from one judge and potentially set the stage for a Supreme Court appeal. In a 10-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [...]
06.17.09 From Threat Level -
Bill Would Ban Unfair Data Plans, Even For Mobiles
A freshman legislator who won headlines opposing pay-by-the-byte internet plans being tested by Time Warner Cable has introduced a bill that would make unfair usage plans illegal and make ISPs — including mobile phone carriers and satellite providers — justify their internet subscription plans and overage penalties to federal regulators. The bill, as written, would apply [...]
06.17.09 From Epicenter -
How to Stop Yourself From Staring
People with disfigurements would probably rather not have strangers staring relentlessly at them. And many starers surely wish they could stop. But experts believe it’s a Herculean effort to control such gaping, because it’s triggered not by insensitivity but by instinct. People become transfixed due to the work of the amygdala, a primitive part of the [...]
06.17.09 From Wired Science -
NY Times/ProPublica Team Wins $719,000 Knight News Challenge Grant
A project to build and maintain a crowdsourced database of primary source material for use by investigative reporters was awarded a Knight News Challenge grant of $719,000 Tuesday, pairing old media stalwart the New York Times and non-profit news upstart ProPublica in an initiative that seeks to break the habits of sloppy reporters who “throw [...]
06.17.09 From Epicenter -
Fossil Catches Dinosaur Red-Handed, Evolving Into Bird
A newly discovered dinosaur provides a fossil snapshot of the reptiles’ evolution into birds, and neatly fills a troublesome transitional gap. Living 159 million years ago in what is now Western China, Limusaurus inextricabilis was a small, herbivorous member of the theropod family. The coelurosaur branch of that family survives today, in highly modified form, as [...]
06.17.09 From Wired Science -
Harold Ramis Glad He Turned Down Mario Movie
Harold Ramis was offered the chance to direct the ill-fated 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie, but turned it down — and he’s glad he did. “(Producer) Roland Joffe wanted me to direct the Super Mario Bros. movie. I took the meeting because I loved the game,” Ramis told the Associated Press. The AP notes that this [...]
06.17.09 From GameLife -
NSA Secret Database Ensnared President Clinton’s Private E-mail
A secret NSA surveillance database containing millions of intercepted foreign and domestic e-mails includes the personal correspondence of former President Bill Clinton, according to the New York Times. An NSA intelligence analyst was apparently investigated after accessing Clinton’s personal correspondence in the database, the paper reports, though it didn’t say how many of Clinton’s e-mails were [...]
06.17.09 From Threat Level -
Paris, Spring 2019
*Well, that was calming and refreshing. *Via We Make Money Not Art. I can’t keep up. Can anyone? There are whole universes in there.
06.17.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
Scientists Tell Obama Where to Go — to Sea
President Barack Obama has said all the right things about safeguarding the oceans. While campaigning, he promised to improve their management and research. Last Friday, he gave an Ocean Policy Task Force 90 days to develop a comprehensive oceans policy. Of course, it was just four-and-a-half years ago that the bipartisan Commission on Ocean Policy presented [...]
06.17.09 From Wired Science -
Cellphone becomes ‘air pen’
https://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/forthcoming_air_writing_lets_you_wield_the_cell_phone_like_a_pen_13792.asp “List of Objects Subsumed by the Cell Phone: Camera, camcorder, calculator, computer, Walkman, wallet, newspaper, and now…pen? A new technology called “air writing” aims to use a cell phone’s built-in accelerometer to enable the entire phone to be used like a pen, producing messages scrawled in mid-air. “Speed writers may still want to stick with texting [...]
06.17.09 From Beyond The Beyond
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Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate Now Available
Continuing its new policy of pushing updates to beta testers first, Mozilla has made the first release candidate of Firefox 3.5 available a bit early for those using the beta 4 release. Firefox 3.5 RC1 is actually listed as simply Firefox 3.5 in the update panel, but note that this is not actually the final [...]
06.17.09 From Webmonkey -
From Sewage to Salmon, Climate Change Hitting Here and Now
The impacts of climate change are as American as Vermont maple syrup, according to the surprisingly unchanged final version of a Bush-era report on global warming within our borders, released Tuesday by the Obama administration. Assembled by scientists from 13 federal agencies, the report represents the most comprehensive effort to detail the changes wrought by a [...]
06.16.09 From Wired Science -
Op-Ed: Microbes May Be More Networked Than You Are
When we think of networks, we think of humans and the cables we’ve run around the world to connect our species. Figuring out how to move electrons has transformed human society, but we are not the only species on earth that lives in a wired world. From the Fields is a periodic Wired Science op-ed series [...]
06.16.09 From Wired Science -
Team Ninja Gets Back in Game With Metroid: Other M for Wii
LOS ANGELES — When Nintendo needed a development team to handle one of its few hard-core game properties, it knew where to turn: ninjas. In what was easily the most surprising announcement of this year’s E3, the game company said it had tapped the developer of the Ninja Gaiden series of ultraviolent action games to produce [...]
06.16.09 From GameLife -
Q&A;: Yoshio Sakamoto, Yousuke Hayashi on Metroid: Other M
LOS ANGELES — The unlikely pairing of family-friendly Nintendo and the team behind the bloody, sexy Ninja Gaiden games is delivering us the latest in the storied Metroid franchise. Should fans be excited or worried? Earlier this month at E3 2009, Wired.com spoke to the leaders of both sides of the partnership. Yoshio Sakamoto has been [...]
06.16.09 From GameLife -
Video: Playing Super Mario Bros. With a Theremin
Microsoft wowed E3 with Project Natal, but there’s already been another controller-free device used to play games: the theremin. Glaswegian YouTube user “conquerearth” recently posted a video of himself using the electronic musical instrument to control Mario and play Super Mario Bros. The theremin, patented in 1928 by Russian inventor Léon Theremin, works with two metal [...]
06.16.09 From GameLife -
Fallen Earth: Too Many Corpses For Teens
In Fallen Earth, an MMO where players struggle for survival in a no-holds-barred, post-apocalyptic world, the developers thought that they could never have enough cadavers. But they were wrong. You can have enough dead bodies — the Entertainment Software Rating Board told them so. The independent body that assigns game ratings in the U.S. ruled that [...]
06.16.09 From GameLife -
Rumor: Upgraded Xbox Console In Works For Natal Launch
Are we not getting the whole story about Microsoft’s Project Natal? In the wake of Microsoft’s E3 announcement of its new camera-based game controller for Xbox 360, enthusiast game sites are reporting that the device will actually launch alongside a new version of the Xbox console, reports which Microsoft did not deny. 1up.com editor-in-chief Sam Kennedy wrote [...]
06.16.09 From GameLife -
Host Your Own Facebook With Opera Unite
Opera Software has unveiled a new service, dubbed Opera Unite, for its flagship browser. Opera Unite is essentially a web server built in to the browser — instead of just passively browsing the web, Opera Unite lets you share photos, chat, and host your web site directly on your own computer. Opera Unite is currently in [...]
06.16.09 From Webmonkey -
Lawyers in DVD-Copying Case Charge up to $765 Hourly
SAN FRANCISCO — Hollywood studios are paying up to $765 an hour for attorneys litigating a lawsuit aimed at preventing RealNetworks from marketing software that allows movie fans to copy their DVDs, according to court documents. All told, legal fees in the nearly year-old case against the Seattle-based company are likely to total millions, as Hollywood [...]
06.16.09 From Threat Level
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Gallery: iPhone 3GS Teardowns Reveal Underclocked CPU, More
06.19.09 -
Jobs Had Liver Transplant - WSJ.com [Updated]
06.20.09 -
Snuff Lures Tobacco Fiends With Whiff of Exotic History
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Gallery: Antique Windmills Go About Their Daily Snuff Grind
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Old People May Be Immune to Swine Flu
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Breaking: iPhone 3GS Camera Doesn’t Suck
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Top 10 Ways You Know You’re Married to a GeekDad
06.19.09 -
DeLorean’s Life Would Make a Great Movie. Three, Actually
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First Look: FlashForward Spins Global Blackout Into Time-Warp Mythos
06.19.09 -
How Apple, AT&T; Are Closing the Mobile Web
06.22.09 -
Palm Pre App Catalog Makes a Slow Start
06.19.09 -
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Pogue’s Liver Kicks Ass
06.20.09 -
Extreme Life Thrives Where the Livin’ Ain’t Easy
06.22.09 -
Facebook, Google Go Persian, Aiding Iran’s Activists
06.19.09 -
Tweet Me to the Moon, Let Me Play Among the Nerds
06.19.09 -
Hands-On With the Smart, Retro Olympus E-P1
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Eclectic Method Remixes the Future of Open Video
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Hey rich American guys: you’re gonna get sick and hungry, like everybody else
06.20.09 -
Star Wars Universe Invaded By ‘Hello Wars,’ Adidas
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Flip Has Little Chance In An iPhone World: TechCrunch
06.20.09
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