After the iPhone 3.0 firmware update, we wondered whether the the next gen iPhone would bring a new chip with support for 802.11n. Now a job posting on Apple’s website is feeding that theory. We’ve already seen that the newest … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Single Photo Tutorial: How to Make a Mask With Photoshop [Photoshop]
Get it? Get it?? Yeah, I bet you got it. [tumblr via tumblr via Super Punch]
Five Things to Watch in the New Year
Credit: NASA Well first off I hope everybody had a good year and 2010 is even better. Here’s my list of five things to watch for in the new year: 1. Hubble’s new camera. The servicing mission is complete and … Continue reading
Top 10 Most Popular Articles of 2009 [Zeitgeist]
Dear 2009, thank you for all the stories, the good and the bad ones. Here are the top 10 most popular articles. Now we have to say good bye forever, because 2010 and the new decade are here. So long!
Newsletter: December 31: The Monk Who Starts the Day with a Silly Face
Laptops in the Year 2000 Were the Smartphones of Today [Decades]
Art, Meet Science | Cosmic Variance
Apologies for the dismal lack of blogging — apparently even scientists travel around the holidays, who knew? I’m in South Carolina at the moment, so instead of the well-constructed argument (complete with witty parenthetical asides) on a pressing issue of … Continue reading
Thorium, the Next Uranium [Science]
Wired has a fairly epic look into a material that could make nuclear power both clean and safe called thorium—named after the Norse god of thunder. Of course, scientists recognized its promise back in the 1950s. Whereas uranium is extremely … Continue reading
Year End Statement
Thank you for your continued support and interest in ItalianFuturism.org. Your scholarship and enthusiasm has made this year’s centenary celebrations a success. Capitalizing on this year’s momentum, I look forward to providing you with up-to-the-minute information in the new year. … Continue reading
fire figting
i want to have some information about how to supervise aproject of fire fighting in big hanger for air crafts and is it allowed to have the foam blader tank in out side with no room to cover it and … Continue reading
How To: Execute the Ultimate Phone Prank With Skype [Pranks]
Here’s an old gem of a trick for anyone feeling lonely, vindictive, or very drunk this New Year’s Eve: with Skype, you can connect any phones in the world, and listen in on the results. Man, what a decade. Here’s … Continue reading
Time Warner Cable’s Genius Solution to Possible Fox Outage: The Internet! [TimeWarner]
PSSSSST! Hey, Time Warner Cable! If you tell everyone how to watch Fox shows from their PC, they’ll probably start doing it for all your other programming, too! Self-defeating bitterness really is the perfect way to say goodbye to 2009. … Continue reading
Saving Tasmanian Devils From A New Form of Life–Themselves | The Loom
Tasmanian devils have given rise to a weird new quasi-form of life: a cancer that spreads from animal to animal like a parasite. In tomorrow’s New York Times, I report on the latest analysis of devil’s facial tumour disease, published … Continue reading
Wassup with lead solder anyhow?
I had the chore yesterday of prepping some equipment for use in an electronics lab. There were about two dozen breadboard like arrangments of resistors and capacitors, most of which had been put aside and marked "problems" or similar. When … Continue reading
Ben Stein schools Ron Paul on Foreign Policy, strong support for Israel
From Eric Dondero: Ron Paul appeared on Larry King Live on Monday night, along with Co-guests humorist Ben Stein and ironically Rep. Sheila Jackon-Lee of Houston. The subject: The Muslim Christmas Bomber. Stein has been a longtime favorite of cultural … Continue reading
Peter Schiff shifts to Pro-Defense stance: Says intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq may have been justified
On Iran, if they don’t let our inspecters in, we need to “just blow the place up” Woodbury, Connecticut, Nov. 19, speaking to a local Young Republican group from YouTube video: QUESTIONER: I take it you wouldn’t have gone into … Continue reading
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai: Father of the Indian Space Program
Today marks the anniversary of the death of one of India's greatest scientists, Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai. Regarded as the father of India's space program, the noted physicist is also remembered as "a rare combination of an innovator, industrialist and … Continue reading
The Decade in Tech Stocks: Hope You Had GOOG and AAPL [Y2k10]
Turns out it was a tough decade for tech companies. First the bubble they helped create burst and took the rest of the economy down with them; now the credit markets have sunk them in return—with two notable exceptions. I’ll … Continue reading
List of Speakers Announced for the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference in February
Astronauts, researchers, educators, senior government officials including the director of NASA’s Ames Research Center, Dr. Pete Worden, and the head of the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Dr. George Nield, and representatives from commercial space companies and the Commercial … Continue reading
Gene Therapy and Stem Cells Save Limb
Blood vessel blockage, a common condition in old age or diabetes, leads to low blood flow and results in low oxygen, which can kill cells and tissues. Such blockages can require amputation resulting in loss of limbs. Now, using mice … Continue reading