Wednesday 30 July 2008
CivicEvolution
CivicEvolutionCivicEvolution - Imagine the possibilities
"Imagine the possibilities"
Collaboration and decision making
Tuesday 29 July 2008
Top 11 TED talks
Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks | Video on TED.com
Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii RemoteHans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TED.com
Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seenKen Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?Jill Bolte Taylor's powerful stroke of insight | Video on TED.com
Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insightStephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe | Video on TED.com
Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universeCameron Sinclair on open-source architecture | Video on TED.com
Cameron Sinclair: TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to house the worldTony Robbins asks why we do what we do | Video on TED.com
Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do, and how we can do it betterHelen Fisher tells us why we love, cheat | Video on TED.com
Helen Fisher: The science of love, and the future of womenMatthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness | Video on TED.com
Matthieu Ricard: Habits of happinessRick Warren on a life of purpose | Video on TED.com
Rick Warren: Living a life of purposeDan Dennett's response to Rick Warren | Video on TED.com
Dan Dennett: A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren
Friday 25 July 2008
Talks Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Jill Bolte Taylor's powerful stroke of insight | Video on TED.com
Talks Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Tuesday 22 July 2008
Spieleentwickler - ein Job mit Arbeitsplatzgarantie
Spieleentwickler - ein Job mit Arbeitsplatzgarantie - Golem.de
Spielebranche sucht nach Talenten
Die Spiele-Branche boomt. In den Entwicklerbüros herrschen Arbeitsbedingungen fast wie zu Zeiten der New Economy, gutes Personal wird überall gesucht. Deshalb haben sich die Studios auf der Spieleentwickler-Konferenz Quo Vadis in Berlin dem Nachwuchs präsentiert.
Crytek, Electronic Arts, The Games Company, Exozet, Radon Labs und viele mehr - alle waren sie da und haben sich dem Nachwuchs auf der Spieleentwicklerkonferenz Quo Vadis vorgestellt. Alle haben Personalbedarf - so sehr, dass die Angebote fast paradiesisch klingen. Crytek aus Frankfurt am Main beispielsweise bietet eine Art bezahltes Praktikum von mindestens einem halben Jahr an, das nach Angaben von Personalerin Katrin Winkler zu 99 Prozent in eine Festanstellung übergeht. Das sogenannte Internship bietet Vergünstigungen wie Mittagessen, eine Mitgliedschaft im Fitness-Club, eine Monatsfahrkarte der öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel und die Unterkunft in der Firmen-WG. Alles kostenlos.
Monday 21 July 2008
Ubisoft DRM snafu reminds us what's wrong with PC gaming
Ubisoft DRM snafu reminds us what's wrong with PC gaming
By Ben Kuchera | Published: July 20, 2008 - 10:05PM CT
The PC gaming industry likes to blame piracy for many of its ills, but it's clear that no one has found a cure-all for this particular disease. Various forms of DRM added to the retail versions of PC games are—at the very least—annoying for the gamer who bought a boxed or digital copy of a game. At the very worst, some methods of DRM can make the game unplayable. Ubisoft ran into such a glitch with the CD-check built into the PC version of Rainbow Six Vegas 2; users who downloaded the game from an official source didn't have a disc to pass the check, causing a new patch to break legally downloaded versions of the game. Ubisoft had a novel—not to mention cheap—way to fix this: a crack that allows the game to play without a disc in the drive. The issue? The crack came from the "warez" group Reloaded, with no attribution or notice that third-party code was used to fix the DRM issue.
64 Beautiful And Free Nature Brush Sets And Vectors
64 Beautiful And Free Nature Brush Sets And Vectors - Giant Design Pack
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64 Beautiful And Free Nature Brush Sets And Vectors - Giant Design Pack
Sunday 20 July 2008
The Ultimate American Dollar Collapse
The Ultimate American Dollar Collapse
October 22, 2007 McAlvany ICA presents financial, political and geo-political information to aid investors in developing sound alternatives for their portfolios in uncertain times. Topics of discussion: U.S. Real-Estate Market, China, Middle East and a declining U.S. dollar.
Saturday 19 July 2008
Zero Carbon House
Zero Carbon House > Project details
Project Aim
To pilot an approach to carbon-neutral living that can be replicated across the UK and elsewhere.
Objectives
1. To contruct a highly efficient, low embodied energy house on Unst, Shetland.
2. To install a low carbon energy system compromising two micro wind turbines, an electric car, an air to water heat pump, watery battery heat store, power store and control system.
3. To erect a high technology greenhouse for local food production.
4. To establish a viable business promoting low carbon living, supplying local, carbon-neutral food and managing an electric vechicle for community use.
5. To monitor performance of the energy system in real time, using students on placements staying in the house to experience zero carbon living, and expert consultants.
6. To disseminate the results of the project across Shetland, Scotland, UK and internationally through a variety of media including film, World Wide Web, talks and visits.
100 Things to do Before You Die
The Buried Life » About
The Buried Life is four regular guys on a mission to complete a list of “100 Things to do Before You Die” and to help and to encourage others to go after their own lists.
Relying on goodwill, guts and sheer determination Duncan, Ben, Dave and Jonnie travel the globe in a retro purple transit bus named Penelope and ask everyone they meet: ‘What do you want to do before you die?’ For every item they complete on their list, they help a stranger achieve one of their dreams.
Friday 18 July 2008
Results Junkies
About | Results Junkies
What is Results Junkies?
Results Junkies is a blog by Paul Singh about doing what it takes to get ahead in life.
Great Moments in Physics
Short Funny Stories 88
Great Moments in Physics
The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen.
"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."
One student replied:
"You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."
This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case. The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics.
For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use.
On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:
"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer."
"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper."
"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqroot (l / g)."
"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up."
"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building."
"But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'."
The student was Niels Bohr, the only person from Denmark to win the Nobel prize for Physics.
So cool, i had to quote it completely. Stolen from http://www.short-funny-stories.com
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Royalty Free Sounds from Hollywood Sound Effects Library
Royalty Free Sounds from Hollywood Sound Effects Library
Royalty Free Sounds from Hollywood Sound Effects Library
Why Germany lost the war
Why Germany lost the war
After 63 years of debate, Myself and my brother have reached a valid conslusion as to why Germany lost the war
Improve Your Vocabulary
Seven Easy Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary Without Even Trying
Seven Easy Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary Without Even Trying
by Anne Mathews, Jul 6, 2008
Whether you want to improve your vocabulary for success on college entrance exams or to better position yourself in your career, you can find painless ways to learn and use new words without changing your current lifestyle or investing hours and hours toward study.
Heavy Cannabis Use & Pregnancy
Untitled Document
Pediatrics, February 1994, Volume 93, Number 2, pp. 254-260
American Academy of Pediatrics
Comparing the heavily exposed and the non-exposed infants, the Brazelton clusters on day 30, showed that the offspring of heavy-marijuana using mothers had significantly higher scores on:
Google Public Relations
Google Public Relations [splitbrain.org]
Google Public Relations
Google Package Yesterday, I got an unexpected package from Google. It contained a “thank you” letter, a Polo-Shirt and a USB card reader.
The whole story began a few weeks ago, when I had a call on my answering machine and a mail in my inbox from the legal department of Google Germany. A Google lawyer asked me if he could talk with me on the phone
"Bar Stool Economics"
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Our Tax System Explained: "Bar Stool Economics"
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten
comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go
something like this:
The 25 Best High-Tech Pranks
The 25 Best High-Tech Pranks
Everyone loves a good laugh, and in the age of electronics, high-tech hijinks are just waiting to be pulled off. So snuggle up to your screen and get ready to unleash all sorts of shenanigans as we present the 25 best high-tech pranks known to man. Our apologies in advance to your friends and co-workers.
Tweaker's Guide To Firefox3
The Ultimate Tweaker's Guide To Firefox3
One of the main reason why Firefox has been so successful, is that you can tweak it to match your needs. Though there are another 12 million Firefox users out there, still you can make your Firefox installation unique, matching your personality.
This short guide gives you a myriad of options that can be tweaked in Firefox 3. Read along.
Green tower
Been-Seen.com:: Art & Design - Green tower
All eyes in Mumbai are on the Antilia, a 24-storey tower currently under construction. It's unlike anything ever built - in India, or anywhere else for that matter. Basically, it's a 490-foot tall tower, containing a private residence (for billionaire businessman Mukesh Ambani), offices -- and lots of green spaces.
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See also : vertical farming
The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes
StumbleVideo - The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes
StumbleVideo: The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes
Contact Juggling
Contact Juggling Video
Contact Juggling takes years of practice and incredible patience, but when you find someone who is really good at it you will be impressed.
Alice in Wonderland - Remix
Alice in Wonderland - Remix Video
Alice in Wonderland - Remix
It was pretty trippy before, this will blow your mind.
Thursday 17 July 2008
Touched Echo Interactive Exhibit Uses Bone Conduction Technology
OhGizmo! » Archive » Touched Echo Interactive Exhibit Uses Bone Conduction Technology
Touched Echo Interactive Exhibit Uses Bone Conduction Technology
Touched Echo Interactive Exhibit (Images courtesy livegrids.net)
By Andrew Liszewski
Most large museums and art galleries today provide some kind of personal audio device that visitors can carry with them if they wish to learn more about the various exhibits on display. A similar idea has been implemented at the Brühl’s Terrace in Dresden, Germany, but instead of having to wear headphones or hold some device to their ear, visitors simply need to rest their elbows on a metal rail and cover their ears with their hands
New windows double as solar panels
New windows double as solar panels - Science, News - The Independent
Instead of coating the entire solar panel with solar cells - the expensive semiconductor devices that turn the energy of sunlight into electricity - the new solar panel works on the principle of concentrating the light, and the energy, at the edges of a pane of glass where it can be collected by the solar cells.
Terry Pratchett Quotes
Terry Pratchett Quotes
Terry Pratchett Quotes
Type: Author
Category: English Author
Date of Birth: April 28, 1948
Nationality: English
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett
Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
Terry Pratchett
Funny MSN names
Messquoted, ONLY the Funny MSN Names: Top 150
ID#:164 | Rating: 216907 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Sniugnep
Before you insult a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, whern you insult him, you'll be a mile away, and have his shoes.
ID#:8 | Rating: 28963 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Doc
I USE CAPS LOCK BECAUSE I WILL BECOME NOTICED, POPULAR, AND GOOD IN BED
ID#:16 | Rating: 174 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Doc
If you smacked a kid in the face with a bottle of Johnson's No More Tears, would it create beautiful irony?
ID#:134 | Rating: 112 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: firestarter
Give a man a match and he'll be warm for a minute; set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
ID#:168 | Rating: 101 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Lyndsey 247
Imagine there were no hypothetical situations.
ID#:167 | Rating: 78 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Funny_man
Children in the dark cause accidents, accidents in the dark cause children
ID#:98 | Rating: 71 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: zzdan
In a world full of women, you're the man!
ID#:150 | Rating: 62 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: killer
Solution to two of the world's problems: Feed the homeless to the hungry.
ID#:133 | Rating: 59 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Granty
Anyone can quit smoking, it takes a real man to fight cancer
ID#:154 | Rating: 45 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Anonymous
Depression is just anger without enthusiasm.
ID#:71 | Rating: 43 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Doc
You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.
ID#:152 | Rating: 43 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: killer
if my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCULATOR = EVERLASTING FUN
ID#:72 | Rating: 29 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Doc
Hurricanes are like women: when they come, they're wet and wild, but when they leave they take your house and car.
ID#:83 | Rating: 29 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Phil
I wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself.
ID#:70 | Rating: 28 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Johnsee
I enjoy using the comedy technique of self-deprecation - but I'm not very good at it.
ID#:90 | Rating: 28 Vote Down Vote Up Submitter: Granty
The last time someone listened to a Bush, a bunch of people wandered in the desert for 40 years
The Pirate Bay Pledges ISPs to Block Sweden
The Pirate Bay Pledges ISPs to Block Sweden | TorrentFreak
In an response to the new wiretapping law that was introduced in Sweden this week, The Pirate Bay will ask international ISPs to block traffic to Sweden, to protect their customers. In addition, the BitTorrent tracker will add SSL encryption to their site, and roll out a new VPN service.
The Sack
The Sack | Inspiring Quotations
Mula came upon a frowning man walking along the road to town. “What’s wrong?” he asked. The man held up a tattered bag and moaned, “All that I own in this wide world barely fills this miserable, wretched sack.”
The Blind Climber Who "Sees" With His Tongue
The Blind Climber Who "Sees" With His Tongue | Senses | DISCOVER Magazine
The Blind Climber Who "Sees" With His Tongue
Erik Weihenmayer's BrainPort translates images into electrical signals.
Spin The Bottle, Video Games, And The Office
Spin The Bottle, Video Games, And The Office - Technology Blog - Tech Observer - Portfolio.com
1. Points - awarding points to users when they do certain things like post on a forum.
2. Levels - same principle as frequent flier elite status or karate's different belts
3. Challenges - people like to be given a mission, something to go out and achieve
4. Leaderboard - rankings spur persistent engagement. Think of how many quarters you wasted on Space Invader or Asteroids just to see your initials in the Top Ten.
5. Virtual Goods - critical for enabling community members to express themselves creatively and indicative of status. Avatar envy comes to mind...
16 Interesting facts about Google
16 Interesting facts about Google
Alan Williamson attend a talk conducted by Marissa Mayer, a Product Manager for Google and he’s able to gather some of these interesting facts for us.
16 Interesting facts about Google
1. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
Monday 14 July 2008
PEOPLE ARE STRANGE
Video PEOPLE ARE STRANGE (REMI GAILLARD) - rémi, gaillard, gag, imposture, morrison - Alice Video Share Your Videos
PEOPLE ARE STRANGE (REMI GAILLARD)
Breaking the Internet's glass ceiling
Breaking the Internet's glass ceiling - News and Events - University of Sydney
"This circuit uses the 'scratch' as a guide or a switching path for information - kind of like when trains are switched from one track to another - except this switch takes only one picosecond to change tracks. This means that in one second the switch is turning on and off about one million million times. We are talking about photonic technology that has terabit per second capacity."
This initial demonstration proves it is possible to achieve speeds 60 times faster than current Australian Networks. With further development, the process is likely to produce even faster results.
Natural Disasters Becoming More Frequent
Natural Disasters Becoming More Frequent | Worldwatch Institute
The trend of more frequent global natural disasters continues, due to an onslaught of weather-related crises in the first half of 2008.
The total number of disasters as of June 30, 2008 already exceeds the average number of disasters recorded at mid-year over the past decade. Although 2008 is not on pace to eclipse 2007 as registering the most natural disasters ever, an especially active Atlantic hurricane season is expected.
During the first half of each year between 1998 and 2007, the average number of disasters recorded was 380. So far in 2008, 400 disasters have been reported, according to data released last week by Munich Re, a German reinsurance group.
Geekbox
GeeXboX HomePage
What is GeeXboX ?
GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. Being a standalone LiveCD-based distribution, it's a ready to boot operating system than works on any Pentium-class x86 computer or PowerPC Macintosh, implying no software requirement. You can even use it on a diskless computer, the whole system being loaded in RAM.
Despite his tiny ISO image size, the distribution comes with a complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any driver to be added. It supports playback of nearly any kind of audio/video and image files and all known codecs and containers are shipped in, allowing playing them through various physical supports, either being CD, DVD, HDD, LAN or Internet.
GeeXboX also comes with a complete toolchain that allows developers adding easily extra packages and features but that might also be used to give birth to many dedicated embedded Linux systems.
Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader
ManyBooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook Reader
Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you'll find something interesting in the special collections. There are 21,169 eBooks available here and they're all free!
Atom-smasher: LHC factfile
Atom-smasher: LHC factfile | COSMOS magazine
GENEVA: The world's biggest atom-smasher, now close to completion at the CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) laboratory near Geneva, is a study in big numbers:
Abstract Digital Art and Fractals Gallery
Abstract Digital Art / fractals by Lauren Gary
Visionary digital and fractal art representing the new vibration of cosmic evolution.
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Art by Lauren Gary (Lauren Zorn)
Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote
Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks | Video on TED.com
Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii RemoteAbout this talk
Building sophisticated educational
tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks,
which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a
touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.
Money Can Change Your Behavior Toward Others
Money Can Change Your Behavior Toward Others - World of Psychology
In 2004, researchers James Heyman and Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational) devised a set of deceptively simple experiments that illustrated that the moment money enters a social relationship, it can change the very nature of our expectations and the relationship.
In the first experiment, they asked three different groups to perform a simple but menial task – drag as many circles as you can across a computer screen in 5 minutes. The groups only differed in what they would get for completing this task: $5, $0.50 or nothing. For the group that got nothing, the task was framed not as a task per se, but as a ‘favor’ to help out the researchers.
Sunday 13 July 2008
The Pit of Life and Death
Damn Interesting » The Pit of Life and Death
By 1983, the hill was so exhausted that the Anaconda Mining Company was no longer able to extract minerals in profitable amounts. They packed up all the equipment that they could move, shut down the water pumps, and moved on to more lucrative scraps of Earth. Without the pumps, rain and groundwater gradually began to collect in the pit, leaching out the metals and minerals in the surrounding rock. The water became as acidic as lemon juice, creating a toxic brew of heavy metal poisons including arsenic, lead, and zinc. No fish live there, and no plants line the shores. There aren’t even any insects buzzing about. The Berkeley Pit had become one of the deadliest places on earth, too toxic even for microorganisms. Or so it was thought.
20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
Did you know....
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
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More details in the original article
Photo Transfer Edge Effect
Photo Transfer Edge Effect | PS HERO
In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to create a cool old photo transfer edge effect using a piece of stock photography, an alpha channel and the burn and dodge tools.
Temples and Tombs
Egypt - Temples
Egypt is rightly famous for the Pyramids, but for me, its crowning glory are the temples.
Saturday 12 July 2008
100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online
Lose Your Wikipedia Crutch: 100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online - Distance Degrees.com
Lose Your Wikipedia Crutch: 100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online
World Conflicts Today
World Conflicts Today
Afghanistan
Full Report
Afghanistan Full Report Slideshow
Afghanistan Slideshow
Basque Country
Full Report
Basque Country Full Report Slideshow
Basque Country Slideshow
Chechnya
Full Report
Chechnya Full Report Slideshow
Chechnya Slideshow
Colombia
Full Report
Colombia Full Report Slideshow
Colombia Slideshow
Darfur
Full Report
Darfur Full Report Slideshow
Darfur Slideshow
Iraq
Full Report
Iraq Full Report Slideshow
Iraq Slideshow
Jammu and Kashmir
Full Report
Jammu and Kashmir Full Report Slideshow
Jammu and Kashmir Slideshow
Korean Peninsula
Full Report
Korean Peninsula Full Report Slideshow
Korean Peninsula Slideshow
Northern Ireland
Full Report
Northern Ireland Full Report Slideshow
Northern Ireland Slideshow
Palestinian Territories
Full Report
Palestinian Territories Full Report Slideshow
Palestinian Territories Slideshow
Troubleshooting Laptop Hard Drive Failure
Troubleshooting Laptop Hard Drive Failure - Won't Boot Windows, Drive Errors, Feezes or Laptop Noisy
Troubleshooting Laptop Hard Drive Failure
FACTBOX: Bank failures in 2008
FACTBOX: Bank failures in 2008 | Reuters
Following is a list of the U.S. banks that have failed so far in 2008:
July 11 - IndyMac Bancorp taken over by U.S. regulators. Total assets of $32.01 billion and total deposits of $19.06 billion as of March 31. Estimated cost to FDIC insurance fund between $4 billion and $8 billion.
May 30 - First Integrity Bank closed by regulators. First International Bank and Trust takes over all of the Minnesota-based bank's deposits. First Integrity held $54.7 million in assets and $50.3 million in total deposits.
May 9 - ANB Financial NA closed by U.S. regulators. Pulaski Bank and Trust Co takes over the insured deposits. ANB Financial had about $2.1 billion in assets and $1.8 billion in total deposits.
March 7 - Hume Bank closed by U.S. regulators. Security Bank takes over insured deposits. Hume had total assets of $18.7 million and total deposits of $13.6 million.
January 25 - Douglass National Bank closed by regulators. Liberty Bank and Trust Co takes over all deposits. Douglass had $58.5 million in total assets and $53.8 million in total deposits.
(Reporting by Rachelle Younglai; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
Ocean Power Systems
BioPower Systems - Biologically Inspired Ocean Power Systems
BioPower Systems is commercialising ocean power conversion technologies. Through application of biomimicry, we have adopted nature's mechanisms for survival and energy conversion in the marine environment and have applied these in the development of our proprietary wave and tidal power systems.
Our technologies inherit benefits developed during 3.8 Billion years of evolutionary optimization in nature’s ocean laboratory.The resulting systems move and sway in tune with the forces of the ocean, and naturally streamline when extreme conditions prevail. This leads to lightweight designs and associated low costs.
The inherently simple bioWAVE™ and bioSTREAM™ devices are designed to supply utility-scale grid-connected renewable energy using efficient modular systems. These systems will reside beneath the ocean surface, out of view, and in harmony with the living creatures that inspired their design.
Friday 11 July 2008
Sunday 6 July 2008
What is the LHC, or Large Hadron Collider?
Whats Next In Tech: What Is The Large Hadron Collider
What is the LHC, or Large Hadron Collider?
The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator complex spanning the border between Switzerland and France near Geneva. LHC will smash together opposing beams of either protons or lead ions inside a massive circular accelerator.
Best Photoshop Tutorials and Tips Sites
Best Photoshop Tutorials and Tips Sites :: Best Sites List
Best Photoshop Tutorials and Tips Sites
List of Photoshop Tutorial / Tip / Lecture sites.
You can use in Photoshop 4.0,7.0 ~ CS,CS2,CS3.
Talks Daniel Goleman: Why aren’t we all Good Samaritans?
Daniel Goleman on compassion | Video on TED.com
About this talk
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time.
About Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman, psychologist and award-winning author of Emotional Intelligence and other books on EI, challenges traditional measures of intelligence as a predictor of life success
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