New York Times ReportsWarner Brothers is preparing a major new Internet service that will let fans watch full episodes from more than 100 old television series. The service, called In2TV, will be free, supported by advertising, and will start...
Here awhile back I was on Microsoft’s website and I filled out a form to receive a partner pack and that apparently entered me into a drawing for a RIO Carbon mp3 player. Well I won. I was one of 10 people in the entire country that won one. Thank you Microsoft ;)
When you shine a light on quantum dots or apply electricity to them, they react by producing their own light, normally a bright, vibrant color. But when Bowers shined a laser on his batch of dots,..."The quantum dots were supposed to emit blue light, but instead they were giving off a beautiful white glow."
Microsoft and Yahoo! are set to announce the linking the Microsoft Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger networks. This is big news. Interoperability like this should change the landscape of the instant messaging market and really shake things up.
There is a ridiculous fuss over MS's plans to create their own RSS icon deviating from the orange box that says XML in white. Oh the horror!! sheesh. Did everyone forget that Firefox has already done this?
The Stirling engine, also known as the hot air engine, is a heat engine of the external combustion piston engine type. Its invention is credited to the Scottish clergyman Rev. Robert Stirling in 1816 who made significant improvements to earlier designs and took out the first patent. He was later assisted in its development by his engineer brother James Stirling.
Microsoft to release stripped down thin client OS version of Windows Steven Bink is reporting that there will be two products, currently codenamed Eiger and Mönch. (Eiger is the base version and Mönch will add security, wireless, and other additional...
Adobe buys Macromedia? I hadn’t expected this particular merger. I have always joked what a powerhouse it would be if Adobe did buy Macromedia but I was really hoping Microsoft would by Adobe and offer some massive competition to Macromedia.
Americans who want to fight back against high gas prices are taking a tip from moonshiners. An unemployed Michigan ditch-digger (is) using his time off to build personal home distilleries that let folks turn corn, potatoes or other starchy materials into ethanol – an alcohol that can be used to power cars.
We've taken this well-designed, highly popular advanced vehicle and souped it up -- or more accurately, "green-tuned" it! We've added batteries and grid-charging, and you get PRIUS+, a "gas-optional or plug-in" hybrid (PHEV). That means no gas when you do your errands on local streets at 35mph. On the highway, it runs just like any other Prius, with the gasoline engine doing most of the work -- and the extra batteries kicking in to improve performance at ALL speeds.
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We haven’t seen much snow this season here in Oklahoma so for those of you who haven’t seen many flakes this year, the frozen water kind not those people around you, I thought I would post a link to some amazing photos of snowflakes. These Snow Crystal Photographs are one of a kind…literally.
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MIT grad Limor Fried decided to build an MP3 player using an Altoids tin as the case. The player is the latest in a line of electronic devices that make use of the tins, according to an Altoids marketing representative.
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I saw this on the best blog in oklahoma about oklahoma House media - For the first time ever, members of the public, the media, and lawmakers in the Oklahoma House of Representatives will have wireless Internet access at...
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Friday we saw the documentary "Moog" at the Oklahoma Museum of Art. It’s about Bob Moog who invented the Moog synthesizer.
I am a big fan of old school electronic instruments and unusual sounds so this documentary was really a treat. I love the analog sound of a Moog. There are virtually no boundaries to the creativity you can achieve with electronic sound.
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This is a great thing for Oklahoma. zdnet.com article- In another example of U.S. tech companies seeking to offer low-cost alternatives to offshoring, systems integrator Ciber has opened a facility in Oklahoma City. Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Ciber said the Oklahoma...
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The reported loss of a communications satellite owned by a Bermuda-based company has left 10 South Pacific nations and territories and part of Antarctica without telephone contact with the outside world.
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Don't have enough websites to waste time on in a day? Well try out the Internet Pinball Database for all your pinball machine research needs. The database is constantly expanding, but currently includes 23,818 images of 4,717 games and...
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I’ve installed and tried out the new spam fighting tool “Windows AntiSpyware” recently released by Microsoft. They purchased a company called Giant and have retooled their spyware detection and removal tool. I am really liking this app. I recommend people to give it a try.
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The Trans-Texas Corridor project, as envisioned by Republican Gov. Rick Perry in 2002, would be a 4,000-mile transportation network costing an awesome $175 billion over 50 years, financed mostly if not entirely with private money. The builders would then...
AOL released a prototype version of their new Netscape browser (0.5.6+) based on firefox 0.9.3. It appears to be available for a limited time download. I’ve installed it in order to give it a once over and I’m not at all impressed or wowed in any real way.
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I happened across this “H-wing car” a custom job that takes a 1995 Honda Civic del sol and turns it into a Star Wars A-wing star fighter. It’s called the H-wing because, of course, it’s a Honda. It only...
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The Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 website has a map of the country showing who is ahead in the Electoral College, along with graphs, charts, movies, spreadsheets, commentary, and more...
I came across these great guides to learning all about anamorphic-enhanced widescreen format as well as a primer on film aspect ratios in general. I enjoy articles that cover everything in brief detail over one subject like these do...
WaterBall Launchers use the natural surface tension of water to launch balls of water. Just pull the handle back and fire, and a ball of water will fly through the air, retaining its shape until it hits a target.
Germans have created Pongmechanik the electromechanical version on the classic video game "Pong". The game is played identically, but instead of playing on a computer or TV monitor, the play is represented mechanically. Game logic is controlled by telephone...
