Topic: VIDEO - on July 18, 2007 at 1:57:00 PM CEST
You Stream, I Stream, We All Stream with Ustream.tv
Live webcasting has come a long way since the days of CU-SeeMe. Now, with the proliferation of broadband access, inexpensive data center hosting, and cheap or built-in webcams, live webcasting is making a comeback. Ustream.tv is a Palo Ato-based company that does this well by allowing anyone with a webcam and a broadband connection to reach large live audiences for free.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on July 18, 2007 at 11:16:00 AM CEST
The 7 Most Exciting Moments in Science...according to Discover Magazine
One of science’s most well loved stories is that of Archimedes, fresh from discovering the principle of buoyancy during a bath, running naked through the streets of Syracuse yelling “Eureka!” (“I have found it!”) Unfortunately, the story, told for the first time two centuries after Archimedes’ death, is hogwash. Myths like this one sometimes make it seem that science moves along in a series of epiphanies, hopping from one transcendent moment to another.
In reality, science generally pushes forward with all the alacrity of tectonic plates, painstakingly testing and disproving theories until new laws emerge.
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Topic: VIDEO - on July 18, 2007 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
Apache Ultimate Re-Remix (Prodigy - Breath)
Just for fun :) I re-remixed the Tommy Seebach Prodigy Classic.
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Topic: TV - on July 18, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CEST
Trek Bloopers [mp3]
Shortly after my graduation from high school (which was 20 years ago this year), I began exploring the world of record shows, thrift stores, and collector catalogs in search of rare and unusual albums for my collection.
While perusing through an issue of Goldmine Magazine, I came across this listing in a private collector sale that was advertised. What arrived in my mailbox was this rare, then much-soughtafter collector's item from the whole Star Trek phenomenon.
The back liner notes state, these bloopers were rescued from old reel-to-reel audio tapes from a "Hollywood garbage can" and sold to a Star Trek collector... only after they created this album to cash in! The rest of the liner notes detail the entire process of what "Fifty-five apples, take one" mean, why several of these tracks are painfully similar, and other info.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on July 18, 2007 at 10:46:00 AM CEST
Möbius strip unravelled
Mathematicians solve 75-year-old mystery of infinite loop's shape.
Eugene Starostin's desk is littered with rectangular pieces of paper. He picks one up, twists it, and joins the two ends with a pin. The resulting shape has a beautiful simplicity to it — the mathematical symbol for infinity (infinity) in three-dimensional form. "Look," he says, as he traces his finger along its side, "whatever path you take, you always end up where you started."
Discovered independently by two German mathematicians in 1858 — but named after just one of them — the Möbius strip has beguiled artists, illuminated science lessons and stubbornly resisted definition.
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Topic: PHOTO - on July 18, 2007 at 10:40:00 AM CEST
Toy Camera Catastrophes
mistakes, not deletions
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Topic: PHOTO - on July 18, 2007 at 10:35:00 AM CEST
Deleted Images
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 18, 2007 at 10:34:00 AM CEST
'Big Brother' plan for police to use new road cameras
"Big Brother" plans to automatically hand the police details of the daily journeys of millions of motorists tracked by road pricing cameras across the country were inadvertently disclosed by the Home Office last night.
Leaked Whitehall background papers reveal that Home Office and transport ministers have clashed over plans for legislation this autumn enabling the police to get automatic "real-time" access to the bulk data from the traffic cameras now going into operation. The Home Office says the police need the data from the cameras, which can read and store every passing numberplate, "for all crime fighting purposes".
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Topic: W A R - on July 18, 2007 at 10:32:00 AM CEST
Military Prepping for a Ray Gun War
No one has quite figured out how to put together a battlefield ray gun -- yet. But that isn't stopping the U.S. military from getting ready.
The Air Force Research Lab is "conducting research... to accurately predict the effects of lasers on various threat targets. Laser vulnerability assessments on space, tactical/ground, and missile, systems, subsystems, and components shall be completed to accurately predict the consequences of lasers interaction with these targets. "
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