Wind turbines are constantly getting taller because everyone knows
the higher you get off the ground, the better the wind speeds. But
building big towers is expensive, especially if you want one 15,000
feet tall. So why not ditch the tower and make the windmill fly?

IPAC (a public domain and Creative Commons advocacy group) has started
a campaign to provide iPods filled with public domain and Creative
Commons content to Senators who work with legislation dealing with such
issues.

Wired News’ production intern is thrown through a loop as he
tries to interpret a picture from the White House.

A University of Arkansas scientist has developed a technology that
makes undersea mud as clear as water, revealing deadly land mines. Now,
she’s adapting the technique to detect a type of biological land mine
– breast-cancer tumors.

It sounds like a project that just about any technology-minded
executive could get behind: distributing durable, cheap laptop
computers in the developing world to help education.

CNN Money is running a short paragraph on how misspelling words bypasses google’s search engine filter.

We take a look at the evolution of controllers from the days of Atari to Revolution.

A company that was criticized on Boing Boing has threatened to sue me,
and claims to have sworn out a complaint against me with the FBI.

If you hear about people achieving high payments per click with AdSense,
remember that’s only part of the story. You also need lots of page views and
a high click-through rate. Here are some ideas on how to achieve those three things.

How
many times have you been e-mailed a joke or cartoon and forwarded it to
friends or co-workers? And how many times have you done it today?

The people behind the X Prize that kick-started personal space travel
are planning prizes in a variety of non-space fields, from automobile
technology and genome research to nanotechnology and education.

Made
by MiniStatements, the “Mini Desk” looks good enough to drive.  Great photo.

Modernist prefab houses are all the rage.  Here is an extensive list of some of the possibilities.  Great photos.

Check out this beer truck.  Kinda make you thirsty just looking at it.

The Department of Energy’s latest estimate for the beginning of the
fuel cell vehicle era is just 4 years away. According to the just
released Roadmap on
Manufacturing R&D for the Hydrogen Economy (PDF), the challenges in streamlining the production of fuel cell membranes and storing hydrogen can be met soon.

The threat posed by climate change may be greater than previously
thought, and global warming is advancing at an unsustainable rate,
Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a report published Monday.

In March 2001, just a few months before Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling
resigned, an employee e-mailed him a joke about a policeman pulling
over a speeding driver, whose wife subsequently rats him out to the cop
for other offenses, including being drunk.

Highly analytical couples, such as scientists, may be more likely to produce children with autism, an expert has argued.

In a move that shows Hollywood is examining the benefits of a technology it long reviled, Time Warner
Inc.’s Warner Bros. is expected to announce today that it will sell
movies and television shows online in Germany using peer-to-peer
technology.

There is a lot of good advice to help us avoid becoming obese, such
as "Eat less," and "Exercise." But here’s a new and surprising piece of
advice based on a promising area of obesity research: "Wash your hands."

The
staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken
term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war
chest in an independent biography of the Lowell Democrat on a Web site
that bills itself as the "world’s largest encyclopedia," The Sun has
learned.

Dr. Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute of
Technology to go home and either flip a coin 200 times and record the results,
or merely pretend to flip a coin and fake 200 results. The following day he runs
his eye over the homework data, and to the students’ amazement, he easily
fingers nearly […]

The Bush administration wants to restart a controversial program to
reprocess spent nuclear fuel, a technology abandoned by the United
States decades ago as a costly security risk, a congressional source
said on Friday.

NASA’s top climate scientist said the Bush administration has tried to
stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture in December calling
for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases, The New York
Times said on Saturday.

A wireless local area network adapted for use by users traveling on a mobile platform such as an aircraft. Finally.