ScienceDaily (Jun. 12, 2008) — Flying saucers may soon be more fact than mere science fiction. University of Florida mechanical and aerospace engineering associate professor Subrata Roy has submitted a patent application for a circular, spinning aircraft design reminiscent of the spaceships seen in countless Hollywood films. Roy, however, calls his design a “wingless electromagnetic air vehicle,” or WEAV.
2009 September 21
Newly fixed Hubble's deep space photos again amaze
WASHINGTON - A refurbished Hubble Space Telescope is showing Earth the sharpest photos yet of cosmic beauty, complete with heavenly glows.
Kirk, Bones and Spock
Of the Original Star Trek
Star Trek: TV series adventures of the starship Enterprise premiered (1966)
Happy Birthday [1950 August 11]: Steve Wozniak: cofounder of Apple Computers
From 2009 March 14 answers.com: “The Greek letter π (pi) is the symbol for the number you get
when you
divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter; it can't be expressed as a fraction and it goes on forever.
Equal to approximately 3.14, it's an irrational and transcendental number with an infinite, non-repeating decimal expansion. So far, it has been calculated out to over a trillion decimal places. We honor π today, on 3/14, Pi Day:
Some college math departments have parties or ceremonies discussing π and how it has affected our lives.
Some celebrate by eating pie — pizza, fruit and otherwise, drinking piña colada and playing piñata.
It's fitting that today is also Albert Einstein's birthday; he was born in 1879.”
Quote: “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” — Albert Einstein
Rod Serling: Submitted for your approval: an ex-boxer and much-decorated former army paratrooper begins to write stories.His tales are performed on radio and television. Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight and A Town Has Turned to Dust win rave reviews,
but studio executives are not always comfortable with some of the messages the writer wishes to convey. So he turns to science fiction and fantasy, saying, "I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say."
The show is The Twilight Zone. The writer is Rod Serling, born on this date [Dec 25] in 1924.
In the five years the show was on the air, Serling made only one Christmas episode.
It was called "The Night of the Meek", and starred Art Carney as a down-and-out drunkard who wishes to become Santa Claus.
Quote: "There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on." — Rod Serling
67 yrs ago (Sunday 1941 December 7) Pearl Harbor: Japan launched an attack on a Hawaii naval base, drawing the US into WW2
Rivet from USS Arizona that exploded right threw Perry A. Rowe's barricks on Ford Island 12/7/1941
Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1==>
Spotlight: When an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, there is an increase in air resistance, called the sound barrier. There is a difference in the way the air flows around the plane's surface, which causes the planes to slow, unable to increase speed. On 14 October in 1947, Air Force test pilot Charles E. ("Chuck") Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell X-1 aircraft — which had been named the Glamourous Glennis — over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Spruce Goose: made of birch, not spruce, the largest flying boat was flown
on its first and only flight by its designer, billionaire Howard Hughes(1947 November 2)
“The Altair 8800: The computer age reached a milestone when the Altair 8800 — a precursor to the PC — became available on this date [19 Dec] in 1974, allowing anyone to build a computer at home. The microcomputer kit was originally intended to be sold to hobbyists, but it was an instant hit, and in 1990 the computer went on display at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology in Washington, DC. The microcomputer was designed by Ed Roberts, who had been producing calculator kits for hobbyists. Altair BASIC, the interpreter for the programming language that ran the 8800 was the brainchild and first product
of Bill Gates' and Paul Allen's new company, Micro-$oft.”
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“The Linutop is a small Linux PC. Of course, if you think the Mac Mini is small,
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“Considered one of the most startling achievements of the 19th century, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 has come to life 150 years later. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to see the machine in action and meet the men who turned Babbage's dream into a reality.” |
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 Google TiSP (short for Toilet Internet Service Provider) is a free broadband service supposedly released by Google. This service would make use of a standard toilet and sewage lines to provide free Internet connectivity at a speed of 8 Mbit/s (2 Mbit/s upload) (or up to 32 Mbit/s with a paid plan). A user would drop a weighted end of a long, Google-supplied fiber-optic cable in their toilet and flush it. Around 60 minutes later, the end would be recovered and connected to the Internet by a “Plumbing Hardware Dispatcher (PHD).” The user would then connect their end to a Google-supplied wireless router and run the Google-supplied installation media on a Windows XP or Vista computer (“Mac and Linux support coming soon”). Alternatively, a user could request a professional installation, in which Google would deploy nanobots through the plumbing to complete the process. The free service would be supported by "discreet DNA sequencing” of “personal bodily output” to display online ads that relate to culinary preferences and personal health. Google also referenced the cola-and-Mentos reaction in their FAQ: “If you're still experiencing problems, drop 8 mints into the bowl and add a 2-liter bottle of diet soda.” Other Google-April-1st-Services |
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 Remember when that room was kept air-conditioned and food and drinks were not allowed inside? Well, that was before the personal computer changed the world. In 1977, Apple, Commodore and Radio Shaft all came out with versions of a home or office computer; they were usually called microcomputers. They held a maximum of 64K of memory and used floppy disks. On this date, 1981 August 12, IBM launched its first personal computer, the IBM 5150, operating under Microsoft's MS-DOS. It came with a one- or two-floppy-disk storage system. In today's terms, it would take 10 floppy disks to hold one MP3 song's worth of music. Quote: "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." — Steve Wozniak |
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Fifty-five years ago, 13 April, Ian Fleming's first 007 novel,
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 Google announced the launch on Monday night of its long-awaited, Web-based competitor to PowerPoint. Google Presentations, which is free, is part of the company's online office suite, Google Docs. |
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“w00t” was Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007
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Last year, the phone and cable companies convinced the Federal Communications Commission and the Courts to change how the Internet is operated, making a few unelected officials responsible for a decision with billions of dollars of impact for millions of Internet consumers. These decisions reversed the safeguards that made the Internet so great – the freedom known as “Net Neutrality,” which allows you to go anywhere you want to go on the Internet. The Internet was designed by American universities, and made available to the general public over an open platform that required phone and cable companies to treat all traffic in a neutral manner. Now, however, the phone and cable companies boast that they will create premium lanes on the Internet for higher fees, and give preferential access to their own services and those VIPs who can afford to “pay to play.” They have already blocked certain services and have the power to block or degrade any service that competes with them:
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The man behind the Commodore 64, Commodore founder Jack Tramiel gives a rare |
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“.Mac remote has firewall glitches” “See through menus make no sense” free Bootcamp is CRAP (compared to Parallels Desktop for Mac) “eye-candy”, “a prettier .... ”, blah, blah, blah “While Time Machine can perform backups over a network, the backup destination can only be a hard disk connected to a Mac running Leopard.” “The Dock's new Stacks feature is a mess” Peer Review: Leopard's secret flaws revealed! |
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“.Mac remote has firewall glitches” “See through menus make no sense” free Bootcamp is CRAP (compared to Parallels Desktop for Mac) “eye-candy”, “a prettier .... ”, blah, blah, blah “While Time Machine can perform backups over a network, the backup destination can only be a hard disk connected to a Mac running Leopard.” “The Dock's new Stacks feature is a mess” Peer Review: Leopard's secret flaws revealed! |
InformationWeek gPhone Slideshow Inside The GPhone: What To Expect From Google's Android Alliance ==> “ While the GPhone won't be revolutionary
Android - An Open Handset Alliance Project
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 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5 — Google took its long-awaited plunge into the wireless world today, announcing that it is leading a broad industry alliance to transform mobile phones into powerful mobile computers that could accelerate the convergence of computing and communications. |
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 The Vanity Ring, a project by Markus Kison, is an update of the ring as a status symbol. Basically it keeps a running tab on the number of Google hits your name gets. You personalize the ring using some custom software, and every night you plug the little sucker into its docking station and it updates your hit count. Great idea, if you're famous and vain as hell. But if you're anything like me, the counter will never pass the number you do yourself unless you change your name to “nude pictures”, “free porn”, or “hot singles ready to have sex in my area” |
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insect-sized flying spies. A number of people reported what appeared to be flying mechanical insects, larger than dragonflies, over an antiwar rally in Washington DC last month. The reporter got mostly no-comments from the agencies he called trying to pin down what it was they saw. Only the FBI said through a spokesman: "We don't have anything like that." The article describes work on insect cyborgs as well as purely mechanical flying spies, but quotes vice admiral Joe Dyer, former commander of the Naval Air Systems Command now at iRobot in Burlington, Mass., as follows: |
Zamzar is a free online file conversion service. Supporting a huge number of file formats, you can make any file into just about any other type of file. Select your file, choose the type of file you would like it converted to, and pull the trigger. The source file is uploaded, and within several minutes, or an hour at most, you will get an email with a link to download the resulting file from Zamzar's server. |
 Windows XP SP2c Release to Add New Product KeysMore product keys are needed to support the continued availability of Windows XP Professional through the scheduled system builder channel end-of-life date of January 31, 2009. Service Pack 2c (SP2c) will be released to provide system builders with a new, extended range of product keys. System builders who use imaging must create new Windows XP Professional images with SP2c when shipping product keys; otherwise end users will not be able to complete installation. |
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Another iPhone feature -- it crashes!
Activation problems plague iPhone debut |
In 2007, the U.S. Postal Service will issue the Forever stamp, which will always be valid as First-Class postage on standard envelopes weighing one ounce or less, regardless of any subsequent increases in the First-Class rate. |
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Crave is a new CNet blog about “gorgeous gadgets and other crushworthy stuff.”
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 “Spotlight: Twinkies! Can junk food get any sweeter? Twinkies are comfort food; they're sweet and light and easy to eat. They have about 145 calories apiece. Everyone makes fun of them. Very few people will admit to it, but someone in the U.S. is eating an awful lot of them. Hostess (owned by Interstate Bakeries Corporation) sold about ½ billion Twinkies last year. First invented on this date in 1930, Twinkies became a lunch box favorite and were a snack food of choice to satisfy the need for a mid-afternoon sugar fix. In 1999, US President Bill Clinton chose a package of Twinkies as one of the "enduring American icons" to be preserved in the nation's millennium time capsule.” from ==> http://www.answers.com/topic/friday-april-6-2007 |
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Do you want to develop computer games without spending countless hours Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, you can create professional looking games within very little time. You can make games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects, and even 3d games! And when you've become more experienced, there is a built-in programming language, which gives you the You can do anything you want with the games you produce, you can even sell them! Also, if you register your copy of Game Maker, you can unlock extra functions, which extend the capabilities of the program. Game Maker comes preloaded with a collection of freeware images and sounds to get you started.
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James Gray, founder and manager of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco, won the A.M. Turing Award — the "Nobel Prize of computer science" — in 1998, has been missing since Sunday (28 Jan), when he sailed from San Francisco Bay with his mother's ashes aboard the 40-foot vessel Tenacious, intending to scatter the ashes near the Farallon Islands.
A high-technology search of waters off Northern California for engineer Jim Gray, Computer scientists from Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.,
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 Astronomy Picture of the Day “Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.” Archive |
"I can spend as much time as I can doing what I like to do, which is to work with computers and schools and kids." from ==>  rg |
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 After first
saying they'll charge $4.99 for the 802.11n update to Core 2
Duo MacBook & MacBook Pros and then changing that to $1.99
it is now FREE!The download patch is available today |
UFO HACKER TELLS WHAT HE FOUND.......... “The search for proof of the existence of UFOs landed Gary McKinnon in a world of trouble. After allegedly hacking into NASA websites -- he says he found images of what looked like extraterrestrial spaceships.” [free] (from Shell Extension City.net Daily Update) |
 NASA is asking people to choose the best photograph taken by the Cassini spacecraft as it approaches its second anniversary at the planet Saturn.  |
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“Al Shugart--the man who founded Seagate Technology, convinced his pet dog to run for public office, and favored Hawaiian shirts over business suits--has died at age 76. The California native passed away at a hospital from heart failure Tuesday, a Seagate representative said. Al Shugart Shugart played an integral role in the development of the hard-drive industry. He was part of the original team of engineers at IBM that developed the first hard-drive storage system, which came out 50 years ago this year.”
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Many
last-minute shoppers procrastinate because they aren't sure
what to get their loved ones. For the undecided, this site
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and more. Each item's description comes with links to
online stores where you can make a purchase. Innovative
categories like Has Everything Already (wall-mounted aquarium)
or Lives in a Small Apartment (zero gravity spice rack) make
finding a gift for even the hard-to-buy-for a breeze. Categories
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“Misdiagnosis is still a common occurrence in the medical profession despite all the tools available such as the blood tests and state of the art scanning equipment. Studies of autopsies have shown doctors seriously misdiagnose fatal illnesses about 20 per cent of the time. So millions of patients are being treated for the wrong disease. And the more astonishing fact may be that the rate has not really changed since the 1930s.” |
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Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 1,517,472 people from around the globe.  |
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NASA will send a team of astronauts to repair the
orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, extending its life to 2013 and ensuring
more discoveries about distant galaxies. |
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On the morning of November
8, the planet Mercury will pass directly in http://astroday.net/MercTransit06.html |
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a comparative review of office suites in 
Berkeley
just announced the discovery of “Governmentium”
