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 -> A "kilogram" by any other name..
The kilogram is defined by a platinum-iridium cylinder, cast in England in 1889. No one knows why it is shedding weight, at least in comparison with other reference weights, but the change has spurred search for a more stable definition.
629 views | 28 May 2003 |
 -> Supercomputers out of playstations?
Another use for gaming consoles? The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) has assembled a supercomputer from an army of Sony PlayStation 2's.
573 views | 28 May 2003 |
 -> Broadband through balloons?
A UK company called SkyLinc has found a happy medium in base stations, floating 1.5km above the surface of the Earth on balloons, or tethered aerostats as they are more technically known.
601 views | 28 May 2003 |
 -> The Semantic Web
Required Reading. "Properly designed, the Semantic Web can assist the evolution of human knowledge as a whole."
577 views | 28 May 2003 |
 -> Nice memorial page
Some of the best war-related quotes and pictures I've heard/seen of late. Including, "Leaders who make war should be required to have participated in one".
505 views | 28 May 2003 |
 -> N.Korea in threatening mode
Japan will "meet a fatal fiasco" if it continues to blindly follow U.S. policy, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Tuesday.
666 views | 27 May 2003 |
 -> Even faster than 3G!
NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese company that introduced the first third-generation digital mobile phone service in the world, is preparing to pioneer wireless services that are at least 40 times as fast.
391 views | 26 May 2003 |
 -> Bye bye to PDAs?
GPS, Java, and push-to-talk give smart phones a clear edge over PDAs, says Scwartz from InfoWorld.
790 views | 26 May 2003 |
 -> Huge archive of Economic Thought
What a satisfying find! A noble attempt from McMaster university to collect in one place a large number of significant texts in the history of economic thought.
449 views | 26 May 2003 |
 -> "Things me and my GF have argued about"
Now this is one website that could use Snipurl! :)
979 views | 26 May 2003 |
 -> Can men and women be friends without sex?
An interesting question, and even more interesting comments.
1,124 views | 26 May 2003 |
 -> School Shootings - Why they're hot
First Bowling for Columbine swept the Best Documentary at the Oscars (a whimsical thing in itself given how little of documentary was in it), and now this one takes the Cannes top award.
611 views | 26 May 2003 |
 -> Math and Origami?
Origami really does have many educational benefits. And interestingly intertwined nuances with math.
522 views | 25 May 2003 |
 -> Air cars, anyone?
What could be a more appealing vision of the world of tomorrow than stepping into one's own flying machine and and heading off into the wild blue yonder?
690 views | 25 May 2003 |
 -> To P or not to P?
Trend Micro is alerting its solution providers and customers about a bug in an update to one of its security products that inadvertently blocked all incoming e-mail containing the letter P.
532 views | 24 May 2003 |
 -> Office-hour habits of professors
An important, seminal analysis of academicians in humanities education.
589 views | 24 May 2003 |
 -> Euro bank notes to embed RFID chips by 2005
The European Central Bank is working with technology partners on a hush-hush project to embed radio frequency identification tags into the very fibers of euro bank notes by 2005.
738 views | 24 May 2003 |
 -> F# -- A new programming language?
F#, a new project from Microsoft on the heels of C# (pronounced "C Sharp") is meant to bridge the best of the functional, imperative, object-oriented and typed-classed languages.
539 views | 24 May 2003 |
 -> Star Wars kid is found
The two videos were downloaded 1.1 million times, a staggering 2.3 terabytes of traffic, placing a geeky little kid at the center of the web's attention practically overnight. So who was he and what was he thinking? (PS. See videos from the site)
759 views | 24 May 2003 |
 -> The investigation of Swiss Air
A Flash movie chronicling the investigation of the Swissair Flight 11 (that crashed).
462 views | 22 May 2003 |
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