A church in Jacksonville, FL had its air conditioners stolen, so the pastor decided to put the thief on notice that he better take good care of those units because he’s gonna need them: I like their style. Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon occurrence. I Googled “church air conditioner stolen” and came up with over 38,000 hits.
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Image credit: danielfoster437 / Creative Commons Out of all the issues on which the Sierra Club Allegheny Group in Pennsylvania urges people to take action, few have gotten as huge a response as natural gas drilling. While in Pittsburgh last month, I spoke with Claudia Kirkpatrick of the Sierra Club Allegheny Group about Pennsylvanians finding themselves at the center of a fight over
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Look, all we can tell you is that is one of the tiniest, thinnest, most lust-worthy laptops we’ve ever seen. We’re taking a deeper look at the device right now, but for the time being, enjoy the gallery below! Update: Video after the break! Gallery: MacBook Air (11.6-inch) Gallery: MacBook AIr 11 and 13 head to head! Continue reading MacBook Air (11.6-inch) first hands-on! (update: video!) MacBook Air (11.6-inch) first hands-on! (update: video!) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Another sign of the Demapocalypse : The biggest news in our new NBC/WSJ poll is that there’s no news — after a furious six weeks of attacks and counterattacks. Republicans continue to maintain their generic-ballot lead among likely voters (50%-43%); most registered voters (59%) think the country is headed in the wrong direction; and most (61%) believe the economy will get worse or stay the same in the next 12 months. This forecasts significant gains for the GOP two weeks from now. “Election Day is coming, the hurricane force has not diminished, and it is going to hit the Democrats head on,” NBC/WSJ co-pollster Peter Hart (D) said. “It’s hard to say that the Democrats are facing anything less that a Category 4 hurricane.” Adds co-pollster Bill McInturff: “The Democrats … are facing very, very difficult arithmetic.” The various generic polls are all starting to line up quite nicely, giving the GOP a solid lead of anywhere from 5 to 9 points, more than enough to guarantee enough wins to retake the House.
Continue reading …Odwalla Juice Soon to Come in "PlantBottles," HDPE Plastic from Plant-Based Materials
October 20, 2010 No Comment
Image: Flickr via Aaron Tait Starting in 2011, Odwalla will transition to “PlantBottle” packaging—an HDPE plastic bottle made almost entirely (at least 96 percent) from molasses and sugarcane juice. Even more exciting, most recycling facilities that currently process regular HDPE (high-density polyethylene) plastics will be able to accept PlantBottles, so people will be able to recycle them the same way they do regular plastic bottles. (Although there’s no word yet on whether or not the PlantBottle will be prone to the same issues with “
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Apple asked itself what would happen if an iPad and a MacBook Air “hooked up.” Benefits from the iPad? “Instant on… great battery life, amazing standby time… solid state storage… and it’s thinner and lighter.” It’s 0.68-inches thick at its thickest, 0.11-inches at its thinnest, and weighs 2.9 pounds (the old MacBook Air was 0.76-inches thick and weighed 3 pounds). Naturally, Apple is going unibody construction here, with one of those big new glass trackpads. They’re also sticking with a 13.3-inch screen, running at a 1440 x 900 resolution (with an 11.6-inch “little brother” to boot ). There’s SSD storage, a 1.86GHz or 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo processor (the same ones available on existing MacBook Airs, apparently), GeForce 320m graphics, and 2GB of RAM standard. Apple says its new “more stringent” battery life tests offer 7 hours of “wireless web” and 30 days of “standby.” Prices start at $1,299 for 128GB and $1,599 for 256GB of storage; they’re available today. Be sure to check out our complete live coverage right here ! Gallery: Apple’s New MacBook Air Continue reading Apple’s new MacBook Air Apple’s new MacBook Air originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Silicon Nanopores Breakthrough Could Boost Lithium-Ion Battery Anode Capacity by 10x
October 20, 2010 No Comment
Photo: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Nanotubes, Nanopores… The Future’s Happening on a Small Scale Last year, I wrote about a battery tech breakthrough by researchers at Stanford and Hanyang University in Ansan, South-Korea. By using silicon nanotubes, they boosted the capacity of a lithium-ion battery’s anode by a factor of about 10. Building on that work, a team of Rice University and Lockheed Martin scientists has done something that similar, but they instead… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …“WHAT!!” you say?
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Actors Jim Sturgess and Ryan Kwanten talk about lending their voices to new animation ‘Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole’ – the story of a young barn owl who embarks on an epic adventure. (Oct. 20)
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