Tech Ramblings

Sun - June 18, 2006

My kinda factory!

Then, you're handed the keys, your picture is taken, the glass doors open and your brand-new car appears.

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Thu - May 4, 2006

Even More Firebird Accessories!

Professor Sir John Pendry, of Imperial College London, who helped pioneer superlenses, said: "If the speck of dust is close enough it induces a very aggressive response in the cloaking material which essentially acts back on the speck of dust and forces it to stop shining.

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Tue - April 18, 2006

I want one for my Firebird!

"Our advanced designs, like the gas core and the ablative engine concepts, could take astronauts to Mars in half that time, and perhaps even in as little as 45 days," said Kirby Meyer, an engineer with Positronics Research on the study.

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Mon - February 20, 2006

Oceans to be more corrosive than when the dinosaurs died

Better quit skinny-dipping...

Increased carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly making the world's oceans more acidic and, if unabated, could cause a mass extinction of marine life similar to one that occurred 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs disappeared.

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Thu - February 9, 2006

Bush Budget Cuts

Gotta fund those 1%'ers tax cuts from somewhere!

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Sat - February 4, 2006

28,000 MPH Plasma Trail

Don't forget to sign up for Stardust@Home and help locate deep space particles in the Aerogel!

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Fri - February 3, 2006

Transistors powered by single electrons

In the first figure, the pattern of diagonal lines indicates the charge is correlated throughout the device and current is flowing at levels ranging from 0 amps, shown in red, to 1.4 nanoamps, shown in violet.

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Sun - January 22, 2006

New Tag Cloud

Just wanted to let everyone know about the new Tag Cloud on the left side of the page. If you've never seen one before, it's basically an aggregator of RSS (Really Simple Syndication), ATOM, and XML feeds from a multitude of news sources. It changes in real time as the news around the world changes. The larger the phrase or word, the more news there is about that particular item at that moment in time. Clicking on it will take you to a page that lists all of the news stories with links.

If you have a particular news site that you would like me to add to the Cloud, please let me know!

Also BTW: All the pages on this site should now be loading much faster!!

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Wed - January 18, 2006

Engage Impulse Engines, Mr Sulu

Tests on a prototype called the Dual-Stage 4-Grid (DS4G) thruster, at ESA’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory in the Netherlands showed that DS4G’s two-step process produces an ion exhaust plume that travelled at 210 kilometres per second – more than 10 times faster than possible with the engine in SMART-1, and four times faster than the latest prototype ion engine designs.

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Mon - January 16, 2006

Text of Al Gore Speech

This effort to rework America's carefully balanced constitutional design into a lopsided structure dominated by an all powerful Executive Branch with a subservient Congress and judiciary is-ironically-accompanied by an effort by the same administration to rework America's foreign policy from one that is based primarily on U.S. moral authority into one that is based on a misguided and self-defeating effort to establish dominance in the world.

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Fri - January 13, 2006

Al Gore to call out Dubya!!

Coming only a few weeks after U.S. Representative John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, introduced resolutions to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and to explore the issue of impeachment, Gore in expected to "make the case that the country -- including the legislative and judicial branches and all Americans -- must act now to defend the systems put into place by the country's founders to curb executive power or risk permanent and irreversible damage to the Constitution."

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Sun - December 4, 2005

Me, Al Franken

Al did a wonderful job today at his book signing!

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Sat - December 3, 2005

Just add laser & webcam!

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Thu - December 1, 2005

Yin & Yang (in an odd sense)

"The construction of Taipei 101 is totally different to many other high-rise buildings because it used hybrid structures made of both concrete and steel, to give it added protection from earthquakes and fire.

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Tue - November 29, 2005

Love the Louse

Where even some skeptical scientists were comfortable acknowledging that dogs, dolphins and chimpanzees show signs of personality, this new field sees a spectrum of temperament and emotions among almost all animals: octopuses and lizards, crayfish and spiders.

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Cool, but what's the Frames Per Second?

Focus on this

D'OH 101

Don't look here... Look HERE!

Remember the environmental movement from the 60's & 70's? We weren't kidding, too bad you didn't listen....

I was strolling through the office one day....

Craziness

You're #1

$5.87 a gallon. Today. See pic.

You know those odd sounds you hear in the middle of the night?

HA!