Jun 10, 2009

www.guardian.co.uk Phone harvests radiowaves from TV, radio and other mobilesStandby mode is often accused of being the scourge of the planet, insidiously draining resources while offering little benefit other than a small red light and extra convenience for couch potatos. But now Nokia reckons a mobile phone that is always left in standby mo (Read More)

Jun 04, 2009

CNET News.com | Tech news blog Privacy group creates Web site that makes it easy for people to monitor changes to terms of service for companies including Google, Facebook, eBay and Apple. (Read More)

Dec 05, 2008

Submitted by Squid Lord from Google Reader: Slow Blogging is a rejection of immediacy. It is an affirmation that not all things worth reading are written quickly, and that many thoughts are best served after being fully baked and worded in an even temperament.  . (Read More)

Sep 27, 2008

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Jan 06, 2009

Google Blogoscoped Google-acquired Gapminder published a different kind of world map in November last year. While there’s a compass and a sea monster on the map, the directions are not North and South, but Healthy and Sick, and not West and East, but Rich and Poor. The data the visualization is based on is from 2006. You can access the PDF of (Read More)

Jan 04, 2009

Submitted by Bushmanbill: The virtual world Second Life, a landscape of primping avatars, ballroom dancing bears, space stations and vampire castles, has a new -- and maybe even more surreal -- inhabitant: the Arlington County government.The county's cyber-office, on the first floor of a virtual glass-and-steel tower, sits behind tinted sliding door (Read More)

Jun 02, 2008

EIN News: Hungary Economy News ... amply justified. Speculation has left the global economy more vulnerable to a financial collapse than ... exclusive preserve of the court of the Austro-Hungarian emperor in Vienna. In reality, however, the ... the financial crisis was accompanied by rising inflation - as demand for oil and food ... (Read More)

Jan 02, 2009

Times Online Caroline Kennedy is not the only politician to suffer from, you know, a verbal tic. Yes, she may have used the phrase some 144 times in a New York Times interview. But she can reassure herself that she's in pretty good company. Here are some other multiple offenders.1) Barack ObamaThe President-elect is widely regarde (Read More)

Jan 04, 2009

www.drudgereportarchives.com The accent throughout has been on the positive. Making things possible has marked the whole tenor of his campaign. Hope, optimism, ambition, confidence, reform amounting almost to renaissance - such has been his appeal. “Yes, we can” was a cocky, but not an empty slogan. A deep and swelling sense of the possible, focused on (Read More)

Jan 03, 2009

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Jan 03, 2009

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Jan 03, 2009

RB | Climbing Over the holidays, I saw my parents. Typically, our conversations go towards computers and the internet because they know I know about those things and they really do not know many other people who do. This time was different, because the context of the conversation was regarding newspapers. Their main complaint was that if (Read More)

Jan 01, 2009

Submitted by Bushmanbill: J. K. Rowling and the Courtroom of MugglesBy Jennifer 8. LeeLord VoldemortHe-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was named today in court. (Photo: Warner Brothers Pictures)As the author J. K. Rowling took the witness stand on Monday to testify in the copyright lawsuit over a Harry Potter encyclopedia, the line between her magical world a (Read More)

Dec 31, 2008

guardian.co.uk Politics Gordon Brown may use May's G20 summit photo opportunity with Barack Obama to kick off a spring election, muses the Economist.A 2010 election would be more in the interest of the British voter, maintains the Times in a leader column.Gordon Brown's famous "five tests" for euro membership are now outdated and should be reconsi (Read More)

Dec 30, 2008

Tomorrow Museum Some of the bathrooms at MIT have chalkboards in them. It plays into the fantasy of being an MIT student: the head-in-the-clouds genius who will come up with the answer to a seemingly unsolvable theorem while standing over a urinal. He just must jot it down! But it also combats more permanent bathroom graffiti. Given a plac (Read More)

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