After booby drones will be going to work in the UK (a country known for ten thousands of CCTV cameras and for sporting speakers and microphones in public spaces), the US cops are employing them no as well. To make them palpable to the public, big brother is introducing them with the usual [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Surveillance drones combing urban landscapes
Posted in big brother on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
NASA’s new moon vehicle tearing the moon apart
Posted in general technology, science on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to the New Scientist and Engadget we can get a pretty good idea of what NASA’s new Chariot lunar vehicle can do. Just think of the lunar landscapes mining and deforesting operations create here on Earth and you’ll get the picture. Fortunately there are no trees on the moon and the landscape is lunar [...]
Yahoo Messenger offers Skype-like service
Posted in computers on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Mac OS X only: The latest beta 3 release of Yahoo Messenger for Mac adds voice and voicemail capabilities ala Skype. Using Yahoo Messenger, computer to computer voice calls are free, and you can purchase a PhoneOut and/or PhoneIn account to call land line or cell phones, or receive calls on your computer, or even [...]
Free folder synch software
Posted in computers on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Gina Trapani on Lifehacker suggests using some free software to synch folders either on your network or, like with FolderShare, even over the Internet. Lifehacker found quite a few uses for the application, from maintaining a consistent workspace, to syncing your Firefox extensions and Greasemonkey scripts between computers; Gina also explains at great length the [...]
Wilkins Ice Shelf continues to break up
Posted in climate, ecology on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Antarctica’s massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has continued to disintegrate under the effects of global warming. The collapse of a substantial section of the shelf was triggered on 28 February when an iceberg measuring 41km by 2.4km broke off its southwestern front. That movement led to disintegration of the shelf’s interior, of which 414km.sq have already [...]
Google recommends ‘NO’ vote on human right and anti-censorship proposals
Posted in global justice on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Google has recommended a no vote against two shareholder proposals to be put to their annual general meeting May 8 that relate to free speech and human rights.
Proposal 4 comes from the The Office of the Comptroller of New York City and St. Scholastica Monastery. The Office of the Comptroller of New York City is [...]
New Diesel OLED watches
Posted in shopping on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Diesel released a couple of timepieces featuring OLED. With their more traditional look they certainly aren’t as futuristic as last year’s models, but I don’t mind the one where you can actually read the digits without a magnifying glass - although, maybe you can choose not to have the animations obscure your view. The DZ7076 [...]
Super-efficient light bulb
Posted in general technology on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Chroniton writes with news of a Silicon Valley company, Luxim, that has developed a tiny, full-spectrum light bulb (check out this video), based on a plasma of argon gas, that gives off as much light as a streetlight while using less power. The Tic Tac-sized bulb operates at temperatures up to 6000K and produces [...]
What god reall said to Adam and Eve
Posted in humour on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
If even Adam and Eve didn’t get it right, no wonder those religious freaks who are their descendants still don’t. Unfortunately we all have to pay the price .
[via Neatorama]
University of Pennsylvania warns students of Vista SP1 use
Posted in computers on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I personally don’t know why people even bother with Vista; I guess those with new computers don’t have a choice. Given M$’s market power, I find it pretty appalling, that it can’t manage to give users what they pay for: a trouble-free OS.
“At least one university liberal enough to accept the deeply flawed and [...]
