TreeHugger:
Although some may assign credit for "W's" Presidential Center Platinum LEED application to the project architect, Robert A.M. Stern, who is simply a following a trend, I'm giving President George W Bush and wife Laura bene (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest stat (Read More)
LA Times:
The most animated act (think: Adult Swim) grabs the spotlight at a metal mash. It's telling that the most orthodox act on one of the seaso (Read More)
Ecademy: user blogs:
The day has finally arrived! The Dakar Dragons project commences for real with our first visit to Senegal to spend time with the inspirational Viola Vaughn and the girls running the 10,000 girls project.The final line up for (Read More)
Jalopnik:
You've seen the Angry Hamster Racing V65 Magna-powered Honda Z600 under construction, and of course you're familiar with the LeMons-winning CBR900-powered Geo Metro-Gnome… but the engineering behind these two machines pushes (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Social networking sends $15,000 shocker inspired by Fawlty Towers into box-office hall of fameThere is nothing remotely scary about the beige library in the Soho Hotel. It's calm, quiet, bland. Yet towards the end of a low-ke (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Keith Teare was hanging around the Real-Time CrunchUp today showing off his newest project – Speedi.ly. What does Speedi.ly do? One thing, very well and at scale. Speedi.ly takes a piece of content, or grabs the content from (Read More)
Gizmodo:
This video shows Earth's weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is, and how insignificant we are. It was created at a 7-kilometer resolution with NASA's GEOS-5 atmospheric general c (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Extracting meaning from the Web is a difficult undertaking. Keyword search skims the surface of contextual meaning that is locked in Web pages, Tweets and feeds. That’s where semantic search comes in. The semantic web deals w (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Virginia:
FERRUM, VA. -- Jessica Goode needed to clear her head. It was Tuesday afternoon, her senior project presentation was due by Friday and it wasn't going well. She wanted to be in the one place where she always felt better: the (Read More)
The Guardian:
He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it againThere's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itsel (Read More)
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According to Gadget Lab, app writers have somehow just realized that the reason open source fails in customer-facing use cases (as opposed to back on the server in a locked room) is that it splits like a bead of mercury into (Read More)
LA Times:
A judge denies a sentence reduction for Kai Harris, 32, who was convicted of the 2004 killings of two people during a drug dispute at Nickerson Gardens housing project. (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Robert Crumb's straight retelling of Genesis lacks his trademark humourIt's the old story. Milton tried to retell the Bible and discovered that Satan was a more interesting character than God, and now, three centuries later, (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
In the fourth of a series of Q&As with the shortlisted authors, Reif Larsen discusses his novelWhat moved you to write an illustrated account of a child prodigy's adventuresome life?This book, like most creations, grew in fit (Read More)
swissmiss:
Two weeks ago G, Ella and I checked out Cafe Moomah in Manhattan and we were impressed. It’s a beautifully designed space for children and their parents. It’s a cozy cafe and an art oasis for little ones. While G and I enjoye (Read More)
Ecademy: user blogs:
John came home with an unusual purchase. It was a Japanese Hi-Tech Humanoid Robot that John claimed was actually a lie detector. It was about 5:30PM that afternoon when Tommy, their 11 year old son, returned home from school. (Read More)