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Earth Dragon 1.0 (Mobile)

You are a dragon, doing what dragons do best: destroying castles, eating people, breathing fire, battling archers & wizards, hoarding treasure, and kidnapping princesses. Mother earth has sent you to punish the humans for mistreating her world. Flap, fly, burn, and smash your way through the middle ages.

Tags: Treasure, Mobile, Castle, Chaim Gingold, Mother Earth, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-28

A bit of global warming data to accept or dismiss as is your wont

So, If the previous high markwas 1998, not 2008, what happened to the temperature from 1999 to 2008?dismissntSo?Where I live it can be minus 40 celsius in the winter. Warmer weather is a good thing.

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Geeks in space

Geeks in spaceIf I had the moneyI would be SO there! That would be the first investment if I won the lottery. The second would be to buy a seat on a Virgin Galactic flight :DWhy? Because they are the forward thinkers.I mean if they weren't "futurists" they wouldn't...

Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Kinematics, Mother Earth, monument, AIAA, aerospace, cage

Discussion threads 2004-10-06

Additional Resources

Antarctic science denies global warming deniers

Oh now, oh my!Attention all people who pass gas you maypass your gas now.Plus, don't forget to tell Al Gore he isliving the good life selling carbon creditsand he is on his way of being a billionaire!If you want to walk to work, eat vegetables,stop using toilet paper and worship...

Tags: climate change, carbon dioxide, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Treece and truth

Treece, KSYes, Treece is pretty much a toxic wasteland. But instead of ranting about the blowing off of mountaintops, clear-cutting forests, plowing up the prairie, and providing a link to an informationless NYT blurb, why don't you actually *talk* about Treece?Why not tell some of the story of *why*...

Tags: Treece

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

My Top Scary Technology Trends

The Most Terrifying:Google.Kills good companies by handing out "freebies". VERY scary.Machines replacing humansI thought they were tools to enhance our experience on earth.The worst is when customer is an AI telephone. "I'm sorry, could you repeat your last phrase. I did not understand". I thought the buttons were bad enough.RE:...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Google Inc., hardware, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Help your company, help the earth

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average office worker in the US uses 10,000 sheets of paper, which comes out to 4 million tons of copy paper used annually. I want to share with you all the handy dandy Environmental Defense Fund Paper Calculator, which easily allows you to...

Tags: Savings, Paper Calculator, Document Management, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Doc

Sponsored content 2009-09-18

Poetry Book- If You Cut a Tree 1.0 (Windows)

This compilation of natural poems is a tribute to infinite elements of Mother Nature in its most glorious form. Each poetic stanza brings out the eternal beauty of the 'Natural Habitat' and proves time and again, that wildlife and nature are the two most quintessential parts of Gods celestial earth....

Tags: Poem, Environment, Microsoft Windows, NikhilParekh, Poet

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Head 'em up. Move 'em out. Keep those clunkers rollin'

Head 'em up. Move 'em out. Keep those clunkers rollin'Wow, this is a real tech issue.NOT.Oh come on! :) A tree hugger like you?Doesn't want Congress spending a measly 3 billion dollars to add 10 MPG to a million drivers?Think of all the *gasoline* that won't be burnt!...

Tags: clunker

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7

TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7A massive success for Windows 7!"On July 20, TechRepublic asked its pool of U.S. IT leaders if they planned to begin Windows 7 deployments by the end of 2010. The jury, made up of the first 12 respondents from the 90-member group, was...

Tags: Operating systems, SMB customer, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-07-28

Prosecutor: Cybercrime will follow the cloud

Prosecutor: Cybercrime will follow the cloudWrongConsumers dont want the tether to the mother ship.Consumers want a product in their hand in this case optical disk that they can put in a drawer and use if their pc blows up.Logical or not. Tangible product for their $ is what the consumer...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, TVs, TV & Home Theater, cybercrime

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket Foundry

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket FoundryResourceAn excellent resource on the Saturn program is "Stages to Saturn", by Roger E. Bilstein. It is part of the NASA History Series (NASA catalog number SP-4206), and is still available (US$50, + shipping) from the US GPO (http://bookstore.gpo.gov/subjects/sb-222.jsp).While being somewhat dry as...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Rocket Foundry, Boeing Co., Saturn, F-1

Discussion threads 2009-07-11

Can we engineer insect-free crops?

Can we engineer insect-free crops?I think that if the past has taught us anythingit is that it is not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Genetic crop engineering is a nice idea, but who knows the long term health consequences.We, after about 50 years of trying, still can't engineer a...

Tags: Food & Beverage, food, patent, Agribusiness

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Geo-engineering can save this planet

An article in the next issue of "Atlantic" puts geo-engineering front and center for stopping the ill effects of global warming. Faster and cheaper than the more political proposals like cap and trade or efficient cars. It's written by Graeme Wood, called "Moving Heaven and Earth." When they...

Tags: Atmosphere, Blade, Radiation, Wood, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-12

JavaOne's days are numbered

JavaOne's days are numberedSeriouslyAre you sure you know what you be 'talkin bout'?If BIG movers and shakers like Google are supporting Google Web Tookit and Android Java GUI on top of Linux and Oracle's Ellison is thinking of putting together a Netbook with Linux on ARM with a Java interface,...

Tags: Programming languages, Linux, Java development tools, Java

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

Global warming will force dictionary re-write

Global warming will force dictionary re-writeLose some gain some?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5301082/Climate-change-The-elements-conspire-against-the-warmists.htmlAnd elsewhere I read that sun spot activity is very very low and the experts don?t know why.Let's all please be cautious about what we understand and what we don't. And what we can predict and what we can't.The hole in the...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Report: Conficker in attack mode

Report: Conficker in attack modeI was concerned.For a moment there I thought this wasn't business as usual.How many companies went under?I wonder how many companies are put out of businessdue to the software flaws in Windows?RE: Report: Conficker in attack mode*yawn*RE: Report: Conficker in attack modeI am dissecting conficker.eIf you...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Conficker, attack mode, virus creator, virus

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

Let's put CO2 underground, and then...

Let's put CO2 underground, and then...C02 is the gas in soda waterA Pakistan newspaper article is the source of your global warming fear?morons!CO2 storage is the largest scam perpetrated by the echo nuts.It boils down to a slow release from underground that would have ZERO effect on green house gases...

Tags: C02, CO2 storage, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Too young and too thin?

We're not talking about pop singers or scrawny fashion models. We're talking Mother Earth. Specifically the Arctic ice sheets. The latest data from NASA shows the Arctic ice sheets and thinner and younger than at any time since humans started measuring them. In dealing...

Tags: Ice, Arctic, Ice Sheet, Network Technology, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Poop power, the old dream revisited

Poop power, the old dream revisitedMother Earth NewsThey could save some research and read that mid-70's favorite of the hippies counter culture - The Mother Earth News.TMEN also published an article about a hydraulic regenerative energy system for a VW beetle that got 107 mpg ... University of Oregon did...

Tags: Mother Earth News, Poop

Discussion threads 2009-04-06