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Photos: A ride in the 'Spruce Goose'

Photos: A ride in the 'Spruce Goose'Ummm....That's the flight engineers station shown in Image 3, not the pilot's console.

Tags: Spruce Goose, photograph

Discussion threads 2006-06-21

Photos: A ride in the 'Spruce Goose'

Reporter Daniel Terdiman climbs inside Howard Hughes' boondoggle, the Spruce Goose.

Tags: photograph, ride, Spruce Goose

Image galleries 2006-06-19

Photos: A ride in the 'Spruce Goose'

Reporter Daniel Terdiman climbs inside Howard Hughes' boondoggle, the Spruce Goose.

Tags: photograph, ride, Spruce Goose

Image galleries 2006-06-19

Photos: A ride in the 'Spruce Goose'

Reporter Daniel Terdiman climbs inside Howard Hughes' boondoggle, the Spruce Goose.

Tags: photograph, ride, Spruce Goose

Image galleries 2006-06-19

Additional Resources

Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide

There's always a lot of madness surrounding consumerist pseudo-holiday Black Friday, but with the economy in a chokehold, this year's event has been hard to predict. Will there be good deals because of a tanking economy, or did companies sign off on their specials before the...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Home Theater, Savings, HDTV, Price, LCD, Laptop Computer, Approx, SKIP, Home Entertainment, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Airman tells of night he was ordered to shoot down UFO

Airman tells of night he was ordered to shoot down UFOagreedYeah, this sounds like a credible explanation. You're right - all too often one part of the government does not now what the other parts are doing.The explanation is quite simple[i]But this doesn’t explain why Milton Torres was scrambled and...

Tags: Government, UFO, AIRMAN, craft

Discussion threads 2008-10-21

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo emailI bet he is praing for an Obama winin November, as that way he has a great change at receiving a pardon from him.If McCain wins, well five years in Guantanamo is not really [i]all[/i] that bad... ;)RE: Kernell indicted in break-in to...

Tags: Palin, Yahoo Email, Kernell, e-mail, break-in, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Save Pandora, Apple

Save Pandora, ApplePandora?Pandora? *yawn* Wake me up when Last.fm is in trouble.Pandora is a money loser.iTunes already has Internet Radio.The iPhone has AOL Radio, Last.FM, etc.Pandora is being killed by its inability to raise enough money for what it is doing. It has to pay royalties on the music...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Digital media, Digital music, Pandora, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-13

LIVE from the Apple event

LIVE from the Apple eventiPod NanoI'm glad I just bought my son a 4 GB Nano for $199 from the Apple web site. OUCH!Apple events are better than Sleeping pillsAnother Yawn event from Apple, there will be a day when no one comes to hear Steve Jobs pamper his ego...

Tags: Games, Apple Events, MP3/MP4 Player, LOL Here, accelerometer, Apple Inc., Apple Event, game

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

Real ready to fight Hollywood

Real ready to fight HollywoodBrass OnesYou've got to admit, this guy has a pair. RealNetworks has fallen behind, and Glasser is using a semi-extortion play to get back into the game. I'm betting that he's angling for some other deal from Hollywood, and this is the attention getter. The threat...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Consumer electronics, Digital media, Glasser, DVD, DVD Ripper

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

iGeneration: Iceberg (Iceberg: the software development revolution)

iGeneration: Iceberg (Iceberg: the software development revolution)Didn't someone just write about this?...A couple of weeks ago some person on your staff wrote and article to the effect of "do real men write their own web instructions" or use web page generation tools.Same here, all these tools are just cool and...

Tags: Development tools, iceberg, software development revolution, iGeneration, software development, software

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

The Importance of Dissent

Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his dissent on the road: At this point, however, Monty has done the right thing with his dissent. He has...

Tags: MySQL, Arjen, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-09-05

A new method to study origin of life

A new method to study origin of lifeStart from the other endStart with a conclusion, then only accept/invent things that support that conclusion. The kool-aid is so much smoother that way. ;)Phylogenetic algorhythmsAn evaluation of the worth of the methodology should start with examining how the analysis is accomplished.You may...

Tags: Biotechnology, kool-Aid, Darwin

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Dell repair adventure, day 4

Dell repair adventure, day 4Litigation"The expectation is that a person will arrive on site the next day having 1) the skills to diagnose and repair the problem, 2) the parts necessary to repair problem and 3) the tools necessary to do the work."1. Litigate: misleading advertising.2. Where is ZDNET's legal...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Fever Frenzy: Under the Microscope (zip)

Take care of some of the strangest patients you'll ever meet in this fun twist on popular service style games. Cure patients with baboonic plague, bipolarbear disorder, mother goose bumps, 3rd degree sideburns and many more, each with their own personalities and voices. Watch them graphically transform as you cure...

Tags: Patient, Legacy Interactive

Software downloads 2008-08-22

Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway

Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underwayGood article, Larry.Software companies are running out of ways to make you buy their latest version. There just isn't anything in newer versions that increase productivity. So they have to raise their revenue somewhere.I think it is better for companies to hire...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Internal IT, database manager, software, maintenance revolution

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

HSBC could order 200,000 iPhones

HSBC could order 200,000 iPhonesI see HSBCreceiving the really fantastic price they are looking for on the BlackberryHSBC Could Order 200,000 HTC Touch DiamondsReally, the title is simply not supported by the story.[i]We always explore the potential application of new technologies and this is no different....Hush said he did not...

Tags: 3G, Apple iPhone, HSBC

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

The Tech I.P.O. 2008, R.I.P.

There was not a single fresh offering of stock in a technology company to the public in the quarter ended June 30. That kind of goose egg hasn't been laid since 1978. Don't expect that to change any time, soon. Let's look at the...

Tags: tom steinert-threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-08

66ò0of online Republicans and 58ò0of online Democrats think that the internet is full of misinformation

66ò0of online Republicans and 58ò0of online Democrats think that the internet is full of misinformationI guess the rest of them don't know any better...Those numbers should be 100%.The internet is nothing but the thoughs of people, and people are not always right.I would agree . . .Anybody can say what...

Tags: Internet, misinformation, government

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

Apple's coming notebook transition

Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...

Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-24