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from fastcompany.com A Head For Detail Gordon Bell will never forget what I look like. He’ll never forget what I sound like, either. Actually, he’ll never forget a single detail about me. That’s because when I first met the affable 72-year-old computer scientist at the offices of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Research Labs, in Redmond, Washington, he […]
Read more "..A Head For Detail.."from PhysOrg.com Colleges warn about networking sites Incoming college students are hearing the usual warnings this summer about the dangers of everything from alcohol to credit card debt. But many are also getting lectured on a new topic – the risks of Internet postings, particularly on popular social networking sites such as Facebook. From large […]
Read more "..Colleges warn about networking sites.."from PhysOrg Disney puts hit TV programmes online for free The Disney-owned US television network ABC will put full-length episodes of the saucy soap “Desperate Housewives,” the thriller “Lost,” the spy show “Alias” and the presidential drama “Commander In Chief” online for two months in May and June. Web surfers using a broadband internet connection […]
Read more "..Disney puts hit TV programmes online for free.."from PhysOrg Coming to Britain first cellphoneonly music single “Stop Me” by the Anglo-Italian dance group Planet Funk is to make a bit of music history when it becomes the first single in Britain to be distributed solely by mobile phone. British cellphone operator 3, a wholly owned unit of Hong Kong’s Hutchison Whampoa group […]
Read more "..Coming to Britain first cellphoneonly music single.."from Wired News What You’ll Wear in 10 Years Once-revolutionary synthetic fabrics such as polyester, Spandex, Gore-Tex and Ultrasuede are now used in a wide range of apparel and footwear. Recently, hip, Los Angeles-based denim designer Serfontaine Jeans started using DuPont’s Lycra T400, which is made from multicomponent yarns, to create stretch jeans that don’t […]
Read more "..What You’ll Wear in 10 Years.."from Yahoo! News Apple iTunes to sell monthly TV show subscription Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes music and video store on Wednesday took its first step toward a monthly subscription model with a new service called Multi-Pass that lets users buy TV shows on a monthly basis. The service is being launched by iTunes in partnership […]
Read more "..Apple iTunes to sell monthly TV show subscription.."Water ice was expected in the polar caps, since they represent the largest known reservoirs of water on Mars. Estimates suggest that if they melted, they would cover the planet in a layer of water up to 33 metres deep.
But as it scanned the region around the south pole, MARSIS also turned up an unexpected ice source. It lies near the southern polar cap and is underneath a region of Martian surface that shows no visible signs of ice. The radar signals reveal what appear to be relatively thin layers of underground water ice layers that may contain water of a equivalent to half of that locked up in the entire southern polar cap.
Read more "..Big new reservoir of water ice suspected under Mars.."Islam in Sci-fi Literature from the creator of Sultanpunk v
Read more "Islam in Sci-fi Literature"Silver Bullet Comics! interview… Johns at his LA office, tying up some final ends before he heads over to his house in Ottawa for some R and R. The plan is that in two years, John will pack his bags and move up north permanently. Get Shorty made LA look fun, but that followed the […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 