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FebruaryFeb 10 Tuesday 09

Fallacy of volume and revenue: The iPhone difference

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From Microsoft to Dell to Motorola, 2008 has been a very burdensome year for number-chasers. For those who find value in and thus only pay attention to market share, units shipped and revenue, the argument for …

FebruaryFeb 8 Sunday 09

Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable

Urchin writes "Although scientists are agreed that we must cut carbon emissions from transport and electricity generation to prevent the globe's climate becoming hotter, the most advanced 'renewable' technologies are too often based upon non-renewable resources …

About that deflation risk

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There has been a distinct change in tone from the Obama team today, as they seem to have become suddenly aware that there's a real risk that the stimulus plan will either fail to pass, or be emasculated to the point that it doesn't come close to doing the …

Rob Moxon

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Third year student, Rob Moxon, is currently seeking work placements in and around the UK.

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Thelonius Monk's advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)

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A Genius is the one most like himself.

- Thelonius Monk

Thelonius Monk's advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)

Maker Profile - Music Machines on Make: television

Enter the plugged-in world of Tim Kaiser, a maker who creates experimental musical instruments from scavenged objects. Tim seeks out unique sounds everywhere he goes plucking chimes out of grandfather clocks and jingle mechanisms from children's toys. And he doesn't …

The smart grid

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What if you power the 21st century with 21st century power?

GE shows their innovation. Built up on a great website.

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Pure Data - open source audiovisual processing environment

Pure Data is an open source patch programming language, similar to Max/MSP, written by Miller Puckette. It's a high-level visual programming environment, where you add input and data manipulation objects to a stage and drag connections between them to define how …

IBM Offers to Send Laid-Off Staff to Other Countries

TheAmit writes to tell us that many recently laid off IBM employees have been offered jobs if they will only move somewhere it is cheap to employ them. IBM's new Project Match program offers some financial assistance for moving and immigration help for visas. "However, …

Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival 2009 (Japan)

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JanuaryJan 20 Tuesday 09

Sense.

A few moments ago, shortly after President Obama took the oath of office, a switch was flipped and a new website for the Whitehouse was unveiled. Since the 90's there have been more than a handful of upgrades, updates, and redesigns to the President's website but this …

What a Hat

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I really don't think enough attention is being paid to Aretha Franklin's hat. I mean, that was some hat. She walked out on stage and a TNR colleague, who is manning the office with me, and I both uttered, "Wow." And my mom immediately texted me, "The hat! Yes. …

JanuaryJan 12 Monday 09

The Worlds Hardest Game - Free Arcade & Classic Game from AddictingGames

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for cryin' out loud

The Worlds Hardest Game, a Free Arcade & Classic Game from AddictingGames: Don't Get Hit By Blue Balls! Keep your Red Square away from the Blue Balls on your way to the Green Zone or you'll DIE! And trust us; you'll …

Writing Blazing Fast, Infinitely Scalable, Pure-WSGI Utilities

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Makes sense to me.

Lately I've really fallen in love with writing utilities whose interface is
simply HTTP. By making it accessible via HTTP, it's really easy to write
clients that talk to the utility and, if the need arises, there are …

JulyJul 16 Wednesday 08

Incorrectly Cleaved Protein Leads To Schizophrenia

The causes of schizophrenia are not yet clear. But now, researchers have discovered that a disturbed cleavage of the Nrg-1 protein lies at the basis of the development of the disease. Greater understanding of this molecular process is a first step toward improved …

Rock Port, Missouri, First 100 Percent Wind-powered Community In U.S.

Rock Port Missouri, with a population of just over 1,300 residents, has announced that it is the first 100% wind powered community in the United States. Four wind turbines supply all the electricity for the small town. Rock Port's 100% wind power status is due to four …

A Vast Repository for Greenhouse Gas? [Deep Sea News]

Admittedly, before reading the actual paper I was a little uneasy about the latest paper in PNAS by Goldberg et al. The paper describes a deep-sea basalt formation that would allow for storage of anthropogenic carbon dioxide. The area is the Juan de Fuca plate of the …