Handily aligning with the unleashing of The Beatles’ music into the iTunes computerverse, as well as with the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s death, Rolling Stone magazine has published heretofore unreleased portions of the slain Beatle’s final interview … (continued) Related Entries December 1, 2010 Amazon Evicts WikiLeaks November 29, 2010 Is Fox Censoring ‘The Simpsons’?
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A Kennesaw State University professor in Georgia has been arrested after authorities say he exposed himself to students in a classroom. (Dec. 8)
Continue reading …Monster builds Daft Punk Edition Tron Headphones, unwittingly unleashes moral quandary of a generation
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We can’t tell, is this (and by “this” we mean the entertainment machine that is Disney / Daft Punk / Tron / Jeff Bridges, melding with the monster that is Monster , and creating a pair of $350 ultra-glossy headphones) the ultimate payoff of our childhood hopes and dreams, or their ultimate ruination and desecration? Both? Gallery: Monster builds Daft Punk Edition Tron Headphones Continue reading Monster builds Daft Punk Edition Tron Headphones, unwittingly unleashes moral quandary of a generation Monster builds Daft Punk Edition Tron Headphones, unwittingly unleashes moral quandary of a generation originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Steve Martin is more than just an actor and a comedian. He’s also a musician and writer. Martin’s latest novel is called “Object of Beauty” and follows the rise of a young art dealer named Lacey Yeager who lives in Manhattan. (Dec. 8)
Continue reading …Pioneer’s Discussion Table is the Surface competitor your business can’t live without (video)
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We’d all like our tables to be a little smarter, and anyone who works for a company would surely like their meetings to have a bit more intelligence, too. Pioneer is hoping to kill two birds with one rather sizeable piece of furniture: the Discussion Table, due sometime next year. Interestingly it’s simply a Core i7 -based PC running Windows Embedded Standard 7, with minimal custom coding on top of that. Users can bring their mobile PCs nearby and share documents to the table or remote desktop right into their machines from it, showing their docs and displays in scalable and rotatable windows. The Windows underpinnings handles the multitouch details, also offering what must surely be the biggest virtual keyboard ever seen in the wild. The Table has a single-sheet scanner built in the side and even offers TransferJet, so that everyone can download pictures of Boss’s drunken holiday party antics wirelessly. Continue reading Pioneer’s Discussion Table is the Surface competitor your business can’t live without (video) Pioneer’s Discussion Table is the Surface competitor your business can’t live without (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Same Media That Fretted Over ‘No Compromise’ GOP, Now Distressed Obama ‘Caving In’ On Taxes
December 8, 2010 No CommentIn the wake of November's election results there was much discussion in the press over whether or not the newly strengthened Republican Party would be willing to compromise with Democrats. However, since Monday's announcement of a deal on extending current tax rates, many in the media have been critical of President Obama for giving in to the GOP. Before the votes had even been cast in the midterm election, on ABC's November 2 Good Morning America, former Bill Clinton advisor and co-host George Stephanopoulos worried: “[Republicans] have to make a choice, as well. Do they choose to cooperate with President Obama or stand firm on principle, which is going to guarantee gridlock?” read more
Continue reading …NASA successfully launches NanoSail-D solar sail from microsatellite in space
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Took ‘em long enough, don’tcha think? After talking things up for years (and getting dangerously close to pulling the trigger in mid-2008) NASA has finally ejected a solar sail into space. But that’s not the kicker — it managed to eject NanoSail-D from a microsatellite, dubbed FASTSAT. We’re told that this “is the first time NASA has mounted a P-POD on a microsatellite to eject a cubesat,” and sure enough, things have gone swimmingly ever since the mission began on Friday. Aside from giving NASA the ability to test out the effectiveness of using a solar sail in orbit, this also proves that FASTSAT is a “cost-effective independent means of placing cubesat payloads into orbit safely” — that’s according to Mark Boudreaux, FASTSAT project manager at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Moreover, the NanoSail flight results could lead to new methods of de-orbiting space debris in the future, not to mention get more and more of ‘em there to begin with at a lower overall cost and with far less hassle. NASA successfully launches NanoSail-D solar sail from microsatellite in space originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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State Department spokesman says attempts to persuade Israel to stop settlement construction dropped because issue ‘became an end in itself rather than means to an end,’ adding that administration will ‘try to begin to make progress on core issues themselves’
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A six-month, group-based early intervention program with a special emphasis on social development can improve some of the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder in children as young as age 2, according to a study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
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photo: lamoix / Creative Commons Sorry to be the downer on the already depressing subject of overfishing, but a new study in the journal PLoS ONE (coming to TreeHugger via Mongabay ) just reinforces the notion that we’re fishing… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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