Archive for General
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Underwater Robot That Swims Like A Fish
Robot Fish Students and professors at Nanyang Technological University have developed robots that swim like fish. They have developed robots that swim like a fish. To perfect their robot's seamless movements underwater, the researchers have for two years been studying how a fish swims in water...
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Adding my 2 cents. Stamp prices increase.
Mail those bills and belated holiday greetings today, or pay two pennies more. Starting tomorrow, the price of a first-class stamp jumps to 39 cents. The increase is necessary because of a congressionally-imposed requirement that stipulates that the US Postal Service must set aside $3.1 billion e...
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World of Warcraft Spyware
Blizzard is looking for more than just your $15/month. This behavior places the warden client squarely in the category of spyware. What is interesting about this is that it might be the first use of spyware to verify compliance with a EULA. I cannot imagine that such practices will be legal in the...
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Running Makes You Smarter!
I can make you smarter in 30 minutes. Not the kind of smart that's acquired through learning something new, like small-engine repair or quadratic equations. I'm talking about improving your brain from the inside out, the kind of smart that leads to faster and more accurate decision making, yields gr...
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Explore the possibilitie of Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a text-based graphics language that describes images with vector shapes, text, and embedded raster graphics. SVG files are compact and provide high-quality graphics on the Web, in print, and on resource-limited handeld devices. In addition, SVG supports scripting...
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Avoid dying while playing computer games
Have you ever played a game so long you died? Well this guy did. A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday. Wow you either have to be addicted as m...
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Can Cognitive Fitness Be a Workout for Your Brain?
There is growing interest to exercise your brain using something called "cognitive fitness." It’s a known fact that exercise and meditation reduce anxiety, ease depression, and give you a general feeling of wellness. Can ideas about the brain be discovered from these practices to help ...
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Do You Want to Buy this Gift Card?
January’s retail sales strength is reflected in people redeeming their Christmas gift cards. The average adult received 3.2 gift cards this holiday season, up from 2.5 gift cards last year. Gift cards are more popular and this also moves spending into January. Consumers are also interested ...
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Should You Ever Consider an Extended Warranty
You've made the decision and you're ready to check out when the salesperson asks "Would you like the extended warranty with that?" Your first instinct is to say no, but the salesperson who was so helpful, suddenly begins to detail a litany of things that could go wrong with the product. You break...
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Funny ad
Funniest ad I've seen in a while: http://haacked.com/archive/2005/06/13/4681.aspx...
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Don’t miss SegwayFest in Manchester New Hampshire
SEG America continues its regional SegwayFest schedule with the second event in Manchester, New Hampshire! Deep in the heart of New England, Manchester is home to the company that designs and manufacturers the Segway HT and its inventor, Dean Kamen. This one-and-a-half day event will be held at Segw...
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Where in the World is Dave Chappelle
In this week's TIME, Christopher John Farley reveals why Dave Chappelle decided to leave his hit show and what he's been up to since he disappeared to South Africa two weeks ago. Last Friday night, TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Simon Robinson met with the comic at uShaka Marine World on the beach i...
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How to Get the Best Mortgage
This is a guide on how to get the best mortgage deal. Do not rush into the first offer that is made to you even if you are in a hurry for a mortgage. Take your time, check out what is on offer from local banks, building societies and mortgage brokers. The more time you spend doing this will equate t...
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How To Design A Web Site
I'm not a professional web site designer and openly admit there is a lot that I don't know. But if you're a beginner I probably know more than you do, so the listen up. Rather than give a lengthy dissertation on web design I have broken it down into the following points: Keep your navigation b...
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How To Stop Spam
I imagine you have seen, heard about, or already know what spam is. But just in case you don’t, it is unsolicited and unwanted emails that arrive in your email inbox from a person or company that you don’t know. What you might not know, however, is that now there is a law in the USA...
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Phishing – email, phone and mail scams
"Phishing," the latest craze among online evil-doers, has nothing to do with sitting at the end of a dock on a sunny afternoon dangling a worm to entice hungry catfish. But, if you take their bait, this new breed of online con artist will hook you, reel you in, and take you for every dollar you h...
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Area 51 on Google Maps
Area 51 on Google maps Area 51, also known as Groom Lake, is a secret military facility about 90 miles north of Las Vegas. The number refers to a 6-by-10-mile block of land, at the center of which is a large air base the government will not discuss. The site was selected in the mid-1950s for t...
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New Bigfoot video footage
Hundreds of people have now streamed through a home in northern Manitoba to view a 2-minute 49-second video that has folks believing: Bigfoot lives. Missy Flett, a self-described cynic, said she was stunned by the image of a massive hair-covered creature walking upright calf-deep in water along a...
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Mailboxes that fight back
Boing Boing had a post about three amazing mailboxes designed to deter, punish, or catch mailbox vandals and mail thieves. One mailbox transfers "skunk oil" on a vandals baseball bat (Company literature states: "We hope that some of the skunk oil gets wiped onto clothing and car upholstery.") ...
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected 26th Pope
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was elected the 265th pontiff today by the College of Cardinals. He was announced as tens of thousands of people cheered in St. Peter's Square. Ratzinger has chosen the name Benedict XVI, the Vatican announced. The announcement came shortly after white smok...
