CNET’s 10 hot vehicles for techies
I’ve got another year of payments to make on my 2001 Xterra, and I’ll probably keep it for a year or two after just to enjoy some time with no monthly car payments.
That said, I’m still looking forward to my next car already..something a bit more high-tech. C|Net’s article has me drooling. 🙂
Thanks to Scott for bringing this one to my attention:
Astronomers: Earth’s ‘bigger cousin’ detected
This, to me, is huge. Think about how long its been since the first extra-solar planet was found. Just a few years, right? And already we’ve gone from gas giants to the first rocky worlds.
I can’t help but think that this all but proves that there are other planets out there capable of sustaining life. We’ve looked a such a tiny percentage of the galaxy and we’re already finding planets. Its likely that eventually one (or dozens) will be found in the right ‘belt’ to have liquid water.
And while this doesn’t mean that there’s any other life out there, it does mean that there are horizons still to be explored.
It saddens me that I grew up with the Apollo program and the future held such promise and then…it just stopped. For 30 years the exploration of space crawled forward where it had been bounding before.
I truly hope that the kids who’re growing up with SpaceShipOne and other private space exploration endeavors see the excitment build and build, rather than dropping off. We need the room and the resources, but most of all, as a race, we need to keep exploring.
Report: Five worst jobs for young workers – Jun. 9, 2005
My god, can we swaddle the world in any more layers of padding? Now they’re saying that lawn mowing is one of the 5 most dangerous jobs for teenagers.
“Working to help save for college, contribute to your family’s budget, or just to enjoy some spending cash is a great idea,” said Darlene Adkins, vice president for fair labor standards policy at the consumer organization. “But teenagers and their parents need to ask: is this safe work?”
The article goes on to say that more than 175 teens died on the job in 2001. I’d love to know what percentage of the teen workforce that represents. And in that same year, how many teens died while riding their bikes to a sporting event?
Cut the damned apron strings, will you America!?
Thanks to Kevin Gerich for pointing me to this.
t3h blox0r is an RSS aggregator along the lines of bloglines, but its built on Gecko’s XUL toolkit. So you’ll need Firefox or something along those lines to use it. (Firefox is a great browser anyway, if you don’t have it, get it.) Anyway, it’s a lot more ‘slick’ than Bloglines. I think I’ll be switching…
UPDATE: Nope, I won’t be switching, yet. Some of my feeds that work in bloglines don’t work in blox0r. I imagine they’ll get that sorted out, though. I’ll check back in later.
DLO Flexible Dock Cable for iPod shuffle
I don’t have an iPod Shuffle, but if I did, this would be a pretty neat gizmo to have since the USB ports on my iMac are on the back of the system.
Mars rover freed from sand dune
They clearly need a ‘let some air out of the tires’ routine for situations like these. 🙂
I honestly didn’t realize these rovers were still crawling around on Mars. Anyone know how long they’ll run for?
CNN.com – iRobot co-founder comes clean – May 30, 2005
Nice little article about one of the co-founders of iRobot, the company that makes those Roomba vaccuum cleaners, as well as “PackBot” for the military.
Pardon me for being so old-fashioned, but I must admit I was surprised to find out she was a woman.
Need a little light reading for your PDA? How about a free Dr. Who e-book?
There are bad movies, and then there are BAD movies. House of the Dead is a BAD movie. It isn’t even entertaining in its bad-ness. In fact, there are only two redeeming qualities to the movie.
First, director Uwe Boll does pay homage to the Sega video games that the movie is based on. Both in the title credits and in little ‘cut scene’ transitions between movie scenes, we see brief clips of the game. Often they match what’s going on on-screen.
Second is Ona Grauer as Alicia. This lady looks hot in a bustier, and Boll pays loving attention to her, ahem, assets in some slow motion clips that really educate the viewer on the effect of physics and inertia on the female anatomy. 🙂
Skip this one. It just plain sucks.
Since I bought my new iMac I’ve been spending almost all my time in OS X “Tiger”. I even shelled out $100 for a .Mac account so I could sync bookmarks and mail accounts and stuff between my 3 active Macs.
Then I found out that .Mac only syncs Safari bookmarks. Doh! But I’m kind of liking Safari 2.0, especially the quick and easy RSS reading.
But I really hated losing Firefox’s cool “Find at you type” feature. So I went back to the ‘fox (not a bad thing, mind you…its an excellent browser).
Then today, I stumbled upon AcidSearch. This is a little ‘plug in’ for Safari that gives you mega-super-duper search options from the search bar, AND the ‘find-as-you-type’ feature I’d been missing out on.
So far it seems to work great. And better yet, its freeware. Check it out, Mac users!