News in Science - Scramjet smashes world speed record - 29/03/2004
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Thought it was over in the sixties? Nope. Thanks to long, "slow & steady" type progressive missions, NASA has long been researching faster jet technologies. Now, the scramjet we've been hearing about has officially broken the world speed record by breaking through and flying past Mach 7!
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PCWorld.com - Spam Slayer: All's Fair in Politics and Spam: "A new class of spam is sliding into in-boxes alongside pitches for Viagra and low-interest loans. It's coming from President George Bush and Democratic frontrunner Senator John Kerry and their supporters."
Unfortunately, It was only a matter of time...

:( - Tamas is halting development on AIDA32.
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Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com: "Airline Halts Plan for Lip-Shaped Urinals" - Self explainitory..
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Apple told to halt 'world's fastest' claims for G5 | CNET News.com Ha! Sorry it had to happen to Apple, but I can't stand it when marketing folks strech misinformation into outright lies.
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Microsoft looks to unite PC, Xbox games | CNET News.com It's about time.
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Gates: Internet firms riding a 'mini bubble' | CNET News.com Gates calling Spyware parasitic is good for everyone.
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In one week, my baby sister turns legal. My how time flys...
Well, have fun sis.
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The Temple for Performing Arts [ Now Playing ]: "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" Apparantly, the unofficial tradition is for someone to propose to someone else at every performance.
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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
--Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.
We've all heard that quote, right? I just found who it is acredited to.
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News and Information about Hybrid Vehicles While 2 Hybrid pickups got introduced this year, about a dozen more are coming out in the coming years! Imagine a Hybrid Tahoe!

Techworld.com - All Kylie's videos on a pinhead I find it humorous that Kylie Minogue's videos are being used as the bellwether for storage space in this article
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Yes, I have an interest to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, even though I've been warned it's depressing. It can't be any more depressing than House of Sand and Fog!
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Ever wonder why you hear about crude oil prices on the news (besides the obvious)? A $1 increase in barrels of crude takes 7 billion dollars out of people's pockets in this country that could otherwise be spent elsewhere.

X-rated miniature railroad models Not in a million years, would I have put these two things together.
via Boing Boing
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In case you've been in a cave: It's official. There was water on Mars.

Calling all maggots- Slipknot is looking for local fans for their next video.
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Google's new local beta search is another interesting use of geo metadata.

Gnomedex 4.0 ; Don't know if I can go, but the 3-day-72-hour open-bar concept sounds interesting.

Main Page - Wikipedia It is fun to trod through here.
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"It doesn't matter one Iota." Ever wonder where that came from?
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Embrace, extend and extinguish: Ahh, they have a word for it.
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Arizona just raised their speed limit to 80mph.

<...Don just shakes his head...>
Microsoft Found With Hand Deep in SCO Cookiejar -> The Register: "Email 'leak' suggests SCO got up to $100m from MS"
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NewsForge | Analysis: Microsoft, SCO have a lot more explaining to do -> The Register: "SCO confirms MS 'smoking gun' email is genuine"

I guess I haven't been to as much of the country as I'd thought.;

create your own personalized map of the USA
or write about it on the open travel guide

TREK TECH / 40 years since the Enterprise's inception Humanity writes it's own future in Science Fiction.
via Slashdot
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Recently looking at GeoURLs, I cruised by Matt Poush's site. The 'How people got here' part is funny.
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IHT: Ford will use Toyota's hybrid technology Future american cars will be even more like imports.

McDonald's Wi-Fi recipe could define industry | CNET News.com: "'Why would these customers use this service when they can go back to their offices to use their computers?'" See how easily you can tell when people don't get it? Things like this come out of their mouths. This is analogous to someone saying "Why would customers use cell phones when they can go back to their offices to use the phone?" !!
At least it looks like McDonald's is going forward with Wi-Fi plans.

WinXP/2k - (56.64) NVIDIA's newest driver set now includes a popup blocker. Damn guys, you gonna throw in the kitchen sink next? bloat bloat bloat bloat bloat bloat bloat. This confirms the guys in green are going the wrong way. I think my next graphics card will be an ATI. 'nuf said-/rant off/

AnandTech: Removing the MHz Myth, Again

X86-secret.com : Tous les secrets des constructeurs For myself; good site, but in french.

I love to support beginning artists, espesially filmmakers in the 'indie' catagory. You know, the type that plays out at the Fleur. While studios like Fox have sites hosting films they have had a hand in (like Farm Sluts), I like the short films section on ifilm.

Wired News: Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious: "the highly connected people just listen to the important people"
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short introduction to story of a lady who cruises through the Chernobol blast area on her Kawasaki.
via BlogPulse
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Howard Stern - The shock jock in winter.: "He's a provocateur whose time has passed, a shock jock who shocks no one. "
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How To Speed-Read the Net - Ditch your browser?RSS makes surfing for news a joy. Now Slate has an article on RSS. If you still don't know what this is- go read this!

03.03.2004 - UC Berkeley Researchers Developing Robotic Exoskeleton that can Enhance Human Strength and Endurance
via BlogPulse
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Calvin and Hobbes at Martijn's - Calvin and Hobbes Extensive Strip Search
via BlogPulse

In Linux, you can use hdparm to force your HDs to spin down. I wish you could do that in Windows.
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Is IBM's JRE really faster then Sun's?
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Seen what POV-Ray is capable of lately?
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Mess with MSN Messenger (too many) tricks and downloads for the client. It's only an IM client people. I mean, come on, it's not Trillian. :)
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Pharyngula: "The TRUE story of Nemo"

gamesindustry.biz - Development section: "Microsoft ships first Xbox 2 development kits using Apple G5 hardware" aka -the Windows OS kernel running on Mac CPUs. hmmm....

Those who know me know I'm crazy about getting these beastly machines quieter. The Silent PC guide and The Silent PC are resources to aid in this endevor.
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Wired News: Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine: "the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act " yet another bad bill about to start it's way through congress.
via Boing Boing
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Popular Science | The Worst Jobs in Science: "From fart sniffer to postdoc, the most torturous ways to make a living in science."
via Boing Boing
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Ten Years of My Life While inspired by others, Matthew had an interesting idea. Take and post a picture a day for Ten years, and he'd then have a collage of (a piece of) his life.
Matthew did/does ticketstubs and PVRblog too.
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note to self; link Tom > Andy> TCP Consulting > iSpot.

DesMoines365.com; Have I linked here before? If not, I should have. Run by the YDMSC, it's a good site to check to see what's playin' & happenin' in this fair city of ours.
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Comedy XPeriment! tonight at Billy Joe's! , $4 cover.
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Midwest High Speed Rail Coalition This is awsome!
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It's The Song I Hate Odd, but interesting links. takes time.

GeoBike Geo-logging (mapping) all of Iowa's bike trails. (yes, the site needs work)
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So, McyDs is ousting SuperSizes... let's see how long that lasts.
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a quick word on e-voting-
There is nothing that calls for an open source solution more than Democracy.
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I saw this somewhere: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Dutifully in line to copy whatever they can't buy, MSN now has a toolbar, like Google's and Yahoo's.
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Act for Love
Apparently, Spring Street has another site up. Has it gone to far yet?....

Fool.com: Top 10 Overlooked Tax Breaks [Tax Q&A] February 27, 2004

CustomFlix - Tour; DVD Duplication, On-Demand Video Sales and Publishing
You make your own DVDs and send them a master. Then link to them. They'll sell copies on their site, make the copies one-at-a-time as ordered, ship them to the customer, and send you checks. They charge $10+5% (off the profit) per disc.