Irony oh sweet irony
A Seattle man who’d admitted to raping two women at Myrtle Edwards Park was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday.
Earlier this year, Angel Galvan-Hernandez pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree rape in the separate August 2007 attacks at the waterfront park.
In both attacks, Galvan-Hernandez, 26, was accused of beating and [...]

Hey why blow your hard earned cash on your mortgage create an artillery stockpile instead
A sign in front of Jack Kimball’s Route 1 Bypass business advertises his cleaning services, as well as his politics.
President and owner of Great Bay Facility Services, Kimball’s sign now displays a message to southbound drivers reading, “Let’s all stop paying [...]

Makes me think of that Guinness beer commercial that has the tag line that is “Brilliant”
Reading Japanese isn’t easy – even for the Japanese.
Take Prime Minister Taro Aso. He’s made so many public blunders that an opposition lawmaker tried to give him a reading test during a televised session of parliament.
The Japanese leader bungled the [...]

 
Be careful not to run into anything or worse yet get hit by a car
crossing the road when you are tuned out of reality
Forget headache-inducing goggles and hissy sound, full sensory virtual reality – dubbed ‘real virtuality’ – is just around the corner.

Don’t these make you feel so geeky
It’s OK, you’re in safe company. We know you didn’t really buy that gadget because it could interface seamlessly with the cloud, or because it offers the best range of features for Small to Medium Enterprises, or even because it has the fastest processor this side of a supercomputer.
You [...]

 
Monday’s Night with a Futurist offered perspectives on “Next Generation Learning” provided by Michael Cushman. To Cushman, the opportunity for improved learning and training derives from the historically static nature of education combined with the potential offered by the increased pace of technology development. While “our founding fathers were born with the same technology they [...]

A fine photographic idea turns video ready

Eye-Fi, the people who make the SD cards that can upload photos from your camera automatically to Flickr and such, have just announced two new models that will also upload video automatically to YouTube or Flickr. (The latter of which just announced video uploading for all members, not just [...]

Powerful Plants

Remember the Australian farmers who are growing their own oil with the Brazilian diesel trees? Now comes the story of another enterprising Aussie, who is also seeking his fuel salvation, via a different South American plant. This time it is the succulent from which Tequila is derived – Agave.

Because it’s much easier to hack music that has a perfectly even tempo, drummers often use a click track to make life easy for producers and remixers. Coder and music technologist Paul Lamere developed a program that plots the deviations of a drumbeat from its own overall tempo, which tells us who brings a metronome [...]