(YouTube link) Co-founder Jimmy Wales explains how Wikipedia came about ten years ago, how it works, and some interesting facts you might know about the website. -via Boing Boing Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Neatorama Discovery Date : 18/01/2011 16:46 Number of articles : 7
Continue reading …Tunisia’s day-old government was shaken by the resignation of four ministers today, undermining its hopes of quelling simmering unrest by sharing power with members of the opposition to the old regime. All four who resigned were opponents of deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s iron-fisted 23-year rule, and protesters…
Continue reading …Ah, “The Rachel:” That flippy hairstyle so popular in the mid-‘90s, thanks to Jennifer Aniston’s character on Friends . How did Aniston herself feel about it? “That damn Rachel … was not my best look. How do I say this? I think it was the ugliest haircut I’ve ever seen,” she…
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Energy audits are usually performed with thermographic cameras and blower tests, but Alex Wilson of BuildingGreen.com describes what I would call the Yogi Berra Energy Audit: “You can observe a lot by just watching.” The principle is pretty simple: the less insulation in a house attic or at the rafters, the more heat escapes through the roof. That escaping heat melts the snow. As I’m driving into town, if I see that most of the nearly two feet of snow we received is still sitting there and the depth ev… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A French nun has described her Parkinson’s disease disappearing after she prayed to the late Pope John Paul II. The Vatican has approved the miracle and set a May 1 date for John Paul’s beatification. (Jan. 18)
Continue reading …Bloodhound SuperSonic Car begins construction: 1,000mph on Intel Atom processors (video)
January 18, 2011 No Comment
We saw the mockup back in July and, soon, we’ll be seeing the real thing. Construction of the Bloodhound SSC is underway, with a planned top speed of over 1,000mph courtesy of a jet engine borrowed from a Typhoon jet fighter sitting in the back — and a trio of Intel Atom processors in the cockpit that will run a number of onboard diagnostics and telemetry systems. Sure, they won’t be adding to the overall thrust of the thing but neither will they be putting much of a drain on the electrical system. If all goes according to plan the car will be completed by the end of this year and will start speed runs by the beginning of 2012. Maybe by then Intel will have something a little quicker to slap in there. Continue reading Bloodhound SuperSonic Car begins construction: 1,000mph on Intel Atom processors (video) Bloodhound SuperSonic Car begins construction: 1,000mph on Intel Atom processors (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have announced that their daughter, Sunday Rose, now has a little sister. They have a second daughter, called Faith Margaret, who has been born through a surrogate. (Jan. 18)
Continue reading …Sonos recounts its successes, dishes on future plans but not Android support
January 18, 2011 No Comment
Amid the doom and gloom of the economic… whatever it is we’re stuck in at the moment, it’s nice to look at a success story. Sonos is such a tale and GigaOm has taken the time to profile the upstart, which started in 2002 and has gone on to produce a series of high-end docks , networked audio players, and an iOS controller app that ties it all together. Sadly, users of non-Apple devices have been left out in the cold and, while Sonos VP of Sales Tom Cullen wouldn’t say when other versions are coming, he did at least say “We can see a handful of other potential platforms, and we want to see which one has the biggest concentration of music lovers.” We say why choose one? Plenty of music lovers exist on them all. Moving back to hardware, Cullen indicated that a person’s music largely moves with them these days, and so the company is looking to moving into the car and personal audio areas, meaning we could see some Sonos-branded headphones and head units in the not too distant future. This could be in addition to what looked to be a potential move into proper home theater. These are crowded spaces compared to the world of wireless audio that the company currently plays, but another quality option is certainly not a bad thing. Sonos recounts its successes, dishes on future plans but not Android support originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …As the House prepares to consider a repeal of health care reform, the Obama administration has released a startling statistic: Up to 129 million non-elderly Americans have pre-existing health conditions. That means anywhere from one-fifth to one-half of people under age 65 in the US are at risk of being…
Continue reading …Hu Jintao arrives in Washington today, and President Obama will be rolling out the red carpet in public, even as the gloves come off in private. The Chinese president will have two dinners with Obama—one an intimate affair tonight, followed by a lavish state dinner tomorrow—and a State…
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