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- Samsung Electronic laptop battery melts
- Samsung Electronic laptop battery meltsUsed for about 3.5 hours on a PILLOW.I'm still amazed at how STUPID people can be. No wonder we have so many Darwin-award nominees every year.You have to be an idiot to set a HOT electronic device on top of a EASILY FLAMMABLE pillow....
- Tags: engineering, notebooks, journalism, laptop computer, battery, samsung electronic, laptop battery melt, melt, pillow, laptop battery, samsung electronics co. ltd.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-24
- Top 10 little-known science stories of 2005
- It's always difficult to look at more than 330 stories published this year to select only ten. But here is my personal selection of science stories that I found either important, exciting or simply surprising.10. 'Haute Cuisine' on Mars? (June 15)If you're lucky enough to be a crew member of...
- Tags: pillow, spaghetti
- Blog posts 2005-12-22
- Our pillows are dangerous for our health
- I guess we shouldn't be surprised by the fact that our pillows are miniature zoos containing millions of fungal spores, with some species able to cause diseases and even death. Researchers at the University of Manchester have studied the fungal contamination of our pillows for the first time in seventy...
- Tags: pillow
- Blog posts 2005-10-15
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- Are we all just cognitive surplus?
- Clay Shirky, and his truly handsome hairline, is not into the ragehol like I am. That is, he does not anger easily. But he admits to nearly losing it recently, when after describing a Wikipedia skirmish to a TV producer, he got the question ...
- Tags: surplus, shirky, tvs, tv & home theater, wiki, personal technology, home entertainment, online communications, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Bath Treatment (exe)
- Baths are nice. Whether you bathe to clean up or to relax, a bath can be an enjoyable experience. Take a bath pillow, lie back, put your legs up on the tile, and relax. Some may say that how to take a bath is obvious, but most of what we...
- Tags: treatment, baths, e-books, personal technology
- Software downloads 2008-04-09
- JuicyCampus, free speech, and personal responsibility
- JuicyCampus, free speech, and personal responsibilityOn ending anonymity.When people write about ending anonymity, I always wonder how something like that could be accomplished. For example, how does any social site, forum, what-have-you actually _verify_ the information I give to them? Sure, they can log an IP address, but...
- Tags: internet, workforce management, juicycampus, personal responsibility
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Flaming MacBooks, iPods back in the news
- Two reports this week surfaced about fires related to a MacBook Pro and iPod. The Apple user community can only hope this is a statistical fluke. The notebook occurrence was posted on Chris Pirillo's blog. He said the report was from a reader named James Bayliss,...
- Tags: apple ipod, apple macbook, lg electronics inc., battery, apple inc., laptop computer, james, notebooks, engineering, hardware, notebooks & tablets, david morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- MacBook Air: Motion sensor 'bizarrely' enabled with solid-state disk option
- MacBook Air owners will find that Apple's motion-sensing technology — to protect hard disk drives in notebooks — is enabled even on models with the solid-state disk option. In his blog, developer Wil Shipley called the protection "bizarre." More bizarrely, if I drop the Air a...
- Tags: disk, apple macbook, sensor, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, david morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Is RF exposure from Wi-Fi routers hazardous to your health?
- A few months ago, I offered to install a Wi-Fi router for a friend so she could use her laptop anywhere in her home. My friend is a self-employed writer, and a fidgety one at that, so I thought she'd snap up the offer immediately. Instead, she said all those...
- Tags: router, radio, wi-fi router, health care, routers & switches, wireless lans, network technology, vertical industries, networking, wi-fi, wireless, enterprise software, software, rik fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 2
- First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 2My Backup BrowserLike its predecessors, Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 continues to work with my financial site and Cox TV listings. No version of Safari has ever been able to do this. Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 also passes the acid test, http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/. ...
- Tags: web browsers, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), firefox 3 beta 2, mozilla firefox, firefox 3.0 beta 2, firefox 3.0, web browser
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- "Enterprise software won't get you laid"
- "Enterprise software won't get you laid"You're chances are much better with enterprise softwareHow else are you going to meet all those charming women working out there in the business?If you are a women working in systems software of course then you might see it as being a little bit like...
- Tags: gender and diversity, tools & techniques, enterprise software
- Discussion threads 2007-12-10
- Primitive Internet killing new niches
- I had been meaning to try out Zoho, a Web site offering free Office applications. Consumer software as a service SaaS is considered such a promising niche that both Microsoft and Google are targeting it. My lovely bride of many years had a spreadsheet...
- Tags: bandwidth, phone, consumer software as a service, internet, cable, network technology, telecommunications, personal technology, networking, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Scientist invents computer pillow to stop snoring
- Scientist invents computer pillow to stop snoringSnoring or OSAAs someone who has obstructive sleep apnea I hope it works for him and others who snore, but don't have OSA. For those who aren't sure it's wise to look at OSA indicators - night time reflux, high blood pressure, waking...
- Tags: productivity, computer, osa
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- Employer group offers patient control of health records
- Employer group offers patient control of health recordsJust one questionHow do I verify that all extant copies have been deleted?Tooth FairyI am putting a quarter under my pillow now... ;)RE: Employer group offers patient control of health recordsGiven that Craig Barrett believes that the healthcare system is not capable of...
- Tags: vertical industries, benefits, dossia, patient, health care, health record
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- More on Vista network performance issue
- More on Vista network performance issueShssh. Don't let George or Ed hear this problem.They suffer from Stockholm syndrome and so will always side with their captors that hold them hostage Microsoft. It must be a hardware issue, driver issue, user error or the phase of the moon; anything but...
- Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), performance, network, vista now, microsoft windows vista
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- Did Jobs diss HD camcorder makers?
- Did Jobs diss HD camcorder makers?What media not telling the truth?"According to a Dow Jones report released on Tuesday, Aug. 13, Apple CEO Steve Jobs jabbed the manufacturers of HD camcorders at last week’s introduction of the new iMacs in Cupertino. Except, I was there that day and heard a...
- Tags: operating systems, job, camcorder, apple imovie, apple inc., imovie 06, imovie 08
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- Sitting here ... in my new Aeron
- Sitting here ... in my new AeronMy Aeron ExperienceThe Aeron really is a great chair and one which has served my posture well. But I've had two particular problems with mine that were less than great.First, the lumbar support pillow/brace. The grip where it attaches to the chair...
- Tags: marketing research, dan, aeron, chair
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me.Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today.Dan Farber: Now you've spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley. What made you decide to go into...
- Tags: uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me. Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today. Dan Farber: Now you've spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley....
- Tags: university of california at berkeley, network, student, computer science, institution, technology, computer, campus, berkeley, productivity, networking, wireless, andrew mager
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Failing to cross the great divide
- Failing to cross the great divideThe computer ate my homework - honestIf you noticed the late filing.. zdnet did a wordpress upgrade yesterday, and the automatic midnight filing did not happen last night. I have no idea why, but I believe it's the first time that I've been able to...
- Tags: linux, operating systems, unix, open source, few people, prejudice, power management, intel corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
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