A group of eminent natural sciantists from some of the worlds best know instituations (like Harvard, the Smithsonian and the Natural History Museum) have gotten together to launch an ambitious project to build a catalog of the 1.8 Million known…
There is a good post on Massively that discusses some of the ill conceived marketing efforts in Secondlife. I have not been spending much time in Secondlife lately. This is partly due to not having much in the way of…
Since being offered a 62% premium over their market capitalisation from Microsoft to buy the company, Yahoo executives have been doing everything they can to avoid getting sold. They have shopped around for other buyers and looked to adopt poison…
My initial thoughts on the Apple Air release were not positive. I have seen many previous attempts by other companies to release ultra-light notebooks (Toshiba, HP, Compaq, Dell, NEC, etc) and all of them have eventually been killed because the…
University of Michigan has created a laser that produces 300 TerraWatts of power (which is a large number). It only produces it for a millionth of a billionth of a second in an area 100th of the diameter of a…
When deciding what sort of information you want to publish about yourself online, you almost need to treat yourself like a brand you are marketing. It is always worth a second thought about how a piece of information may impact…
An Australian developer and technical director has gone overboard with automation of his home. Not to say that does not have a geeky coolness, but connecting his curtains to ethernet (to control their opening and closing of course) is maybe…