At some risk to my ego I am injecting a little democracy into NR. When you look at an individual post, there is a bar at the bottom which lets you rate the post from 1 to 5. Move your mouse over the bar, and you’ll see how it works. The highest-rated posts [...]
UPI reports that Japan has launched the WINDS satellite, which promises internet service faster than today’s normal broadband service.
“Among other uses, this will make possible great advances in telemedicine, which will bring high-quality medical treatment to remote areas, and in distance education, connecting students and teachers separated by great distances,” the statement said.
While I was [...]
The AP reports that Oscar Pistorious, a double-amputee sprinter, cannot participate in the Beijing Olympics because his prosthetics give him an advantage over other runners.
It’s a cool world where this can actually happen. “We can rebuild him. We have the technology…”
Should he run in Beijing? No, of course not, any more than if [...]
A CNet blogger reports that iRobot, maker of the Roomba as well as military robots, is looking to advance robots in oil exploration.
Exploration is dirty and dangerous. When I was in the field, I had to leave my wedding ring and watch off so that they wouldn’t get hooked on equipment and cost me a [...]
It had been awhile since I used my Sony HandyCam to capture much of anything, but I made use of it Wednesday night at the kids’ first Christmas program.
The HandyCam records first to MiniDV videotape, then later I usually use the camera’s recording feature to save video files to a MemoryStick. Problem was, neither MemoryStick [...]
Drudge linked in red this article (link dead) from Yahoo News, which states that a new scientific report shows a link between wireless technology and autism.
In the first paragraph, the publisher (PressReleaseHelp) states that the study was published by “the peer-reviewed Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine.” There is no Google hit for this association [...]
We have an old Gateway laptop that ran Windows 98SE. I installed Xubuntu, the lightest-weight of the friendly Ubuntu 7.10 series. It dual boots with Win98, but as soon as I get everything working, we’ll wipe out the Windows 98 partition.
The only trouble I’ve really had is getting the wireless networking card to [...]
ABC News reports that retired radio station owner John Kanzius may have discovered a way to beat cancer — with radio waves.
“It’s beyond remarkable,” said Dr. Steven Curley of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas. “He was just a private citizen who just came up with an idea and had the [...]
