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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

Why spaghetti does not break in half

Why spaghetti does not break in halfLets get CRACKIN!HAD to say it! ;)Cross-discipline lack of communicationAnyone familiar with the tendancy for high-power hunting bows to break if the string is released witout an arrow could have told the spaghetti researches what the problem was.These scientific explanations are all very wellbut...

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Discussion threads 2005-09-12

Why spaghetti does not break in half

As we are Sunday, you might have more time to spend in your kitchen than during week days. So try a little experiment: take a dry spaghetti, and bend it until it cracks. How many pieces do you think you'll get? Two? Wrong. An uncooked spaghetti can break into three,...

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Blog posts 2005-09-11

Additional Resources

Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all

Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after allGeee ......Sounds like the stole ... errr "emulated" a page right out of the *NIX playbook ....RE: Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after allMary Jo,After watching the video last week as well, my take away was that the current incarnation...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., MinWin IS, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, kernel, Microsoft confirms MinWin, Microsoft Confirms

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security

Microsoft: Third party apps killing our securityI use Youtube oftenand what they did is good. I really disliked the whole real player thing as well.It was a horrid thing. Aside from which platform it was run on.Tell That To Some Web SeminarsI had to attend one last week, one of...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital media, Digital music, Construction, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Microsoft Windows Vista, security

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

First 2009 SOA predictions arrive; see fading of the hype

Dave Linthicum has beat everybody to the punch and issued his predictions for the year ahead in service oriented architecture. These are good predictions, my thoughts added: 1. The interest in cloud computing will drive many enterprises toward SOA. Agreed....

Tags: SOA, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Sony Bravia Internet Video Link (DMX-NV1)

The moment Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link (also known as the BIVL or DMX-NV1) was announced last year, we knew the product would face an uphill battle. What could Sony's proprietary video streamer offer that you can't already get from Apple TV, Xbox 360, Sony PS3, Vudu, or the Netflix...

Tags: Video on demand (VoD), Corporate communications, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Cable, Broadband Internet, BIVL, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2008-10-02

Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'

Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...

Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, PHP

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

In remembrance of scoundrels past

In remembrance of scoundrels pastSame mess - different scum.I agree. I did some consultancy work for a large brand name in sportswear and was horrified by their IT systems. It had been held in thrall by one man who started his IT career in the 70s and was still going...

Tags: Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, information technology, IT System

Discussion threads 2008-09-15

UK educator: Teach creationism

UK educator: Teach creationismthe virus is spreadingindeedI didn't see the partabout the Universe being created from a drop of blood (Qu'ran) or the whole fire-and-ice thing from the Eddas or any of hundreds of others. How about equal time for the Navajo and Hopi creation accounts? Why not...

Tags: Monotheism, creationism, Creationism

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1All part of the MS plan to keep browsers dumbded down. If we had reallygood browsers, how would they get people to use MS proprietary solutions for rich internet applications.RE: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1The title says Firefox 3.0.1The graph...

Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Quality, Adrian, Firefox 3.0.1, Mozilla Firefox, JavaScript, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Internet Explorer 8 Beta, Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up?

Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up?Google and Search are ONE.Yin/yang, Google is search, search is Google, they are one, inseperable and harmonious. To tear them apart would rip the fabric of the universe.Google won when it became a verbSeriously, I'm surprised Google only has 62%. Like the...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

An Event Apart 2008: Day 2

The second day of An Event Apart will feature plenty of web standards jargon. I will be posting photos and notes from today's events. Unfortunately, the slides are reserved for attendees only, but I will try to gather as much information as...

Tags: Google Inc., Microformat, Tool, Post-it Note, Eric Meyer, CSS, Productivity, Keyboards, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Do you know where your computers are being recycled?

I have almost 200 really old iMacs that are supposed to be recycled by Apple before school opens in September. I have an abandoned school building closed last year due to budget cuts with another 100 or so badly battered PCs that are in really sad shape, too. ...

Tags: boy, e-waste, nigeria, computer, productivity, christopher dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-10

In America money is life

In America money is lifeWhat a crock[i]while the U.S. is both rich and powerful, it is “woefully behind when it comes to providing opportunity and choices to all Americans to build a better life.”[/i] OK, let me get this straight. There is someplace else in the world that...

Tags: Warm-Weather, Woody Allen

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

Google has legacy system issues too

Google has legacy system issues tooGoogle is Apple's largest corporate customerI just thought I would share that. Maybe they are migrating even more old stuff into new better stuff.Done by September?Are they being melodramatic about the size of the problem? Or is Google really able to consolidate 24 text...

Tags: Hardware upgrade, Google Inc., Google has legacy system, legacy system

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Google has legacy system issues too

Google's growth has led to redundant systems and the need for a "Project Spaghetti" designed to unravel the potential rat's nest. That's one of the big items in a Wall Street Journal story on how Google is struggling to sell ads on YouTube. Most of the world...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Legacy System, YouTube Inc., Armstrong, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Ten ways to tell it's not SOA

Ten ways to tell it's not SOAInteresting listAlso interesting is that I disagree with items 3 and onward.Ways to tell it's SOAIf it it doesn't work, it's SOA.If its a 3 hour lecture with no information content, it's SOAIf it's recommended by non-tech people, then it's SOAIf it's as useful...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Time for open source to build a Code Recycling Center

Time for open source to build a Code Recycling CenterExcellent ideaExcellent idea. Often companies have utilities created for in-house use that are no longer needed. Years ago I wrote a utility to determine the answer date on lawsuits in Texas, which does not work on a "20 days...

Tags: Code Recycling Center, open source

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Bill GatesÂ’ greatest hits and misses

Bill GatesÂ’ greatest hits and missesWhat is it with tablets?I sketch, I rush to the whiteboard to draw boxes and arrows, yet I've never owned a Tablet PC and I have only the mildest curiosity toward trying them. Why is that? There's just something missing from the experience -- I...

Tags: Tablets, Keyboards, PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, miss, Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2008-06-25