Nokia sued Apple again today, claiming that the iPad and iPhone infringe on five of its patents. The two companies have been throwing lawsuits back and forth for months, making this just the latest salvo in an increasingly bitter feud. More »
Apple - iPhone - Nokia - Smartphones - Handhelds
This is a video of my sister, Katie Yates, at the University of Toledo, Ohio describing how she uses Google Enterprise and Apple iPhone to remotely manage the administrative functions of my medical practice in Connecticut.
Katie will be joining me at Google I/O next week in San Francisco.
Brawndo: it’s what plants crave
Lunch Meeting regarding labor dispute over Brawndos
(These videos are from this summer)
Tonight! Evan Michelson on "The Saddest Object in the World," as experienced at this years Congress for Curious People.
Full details follow; hope to see you there!
The Saddest Object in the World
An Illustrated Meditation by Evan Michelson, Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Morbid Anatomy Library Scholar in residence
Date: TONIGHT! Friday, May 7th
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $5
Location: Observatory“The Saddest Object in the World” is a meditation on one particular artifact; an exercise in Proustian involuntary memory, aesthetic critique, and philosophical bargaining.
Sometimes objects have consequences.
Evan Michelson is an antiques dealer, lecturer, accumulator and aesthete; she tirelessly indulges a lifelong pursuit of all things obscure and melancholy. She currently lives in another place and time.
You can find out more about this presentation here. You can get directions to Observatory--which is next door to the Morbid Anatomy Library (more on that here)--by clicking here. You can find out more about Observatory here, join our mailing list by clicking here, and join us on Facebook by clicking here.
Her teen: More freedom, yes! But what's with this responsibility thing? Philadelphia Inquirer We might create an artificial ozone layer, new fuels for cars, new energies for houses, or new medical intelligence. Hopefully we can create better world ... |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 72 hour forecast (as of noon Saturday May 8, 2010) indicates that no oil is expected on any of Florida’s beaches during the next 72 hours.
The oil is currently 70 miles from Pensacola and 265 miles from St. Petersburg, Florida.
Keep up with the latest Gulf oil spill reports and forecasts.
Has saving energy ever sounded so exciting? No! And it's never looked as cool, either, as it does with Bugplug, a little monster of a device that uses sensors to switch your electronics off when you leave the room. More »
Arts - Vampires - Technology - Horror - Television
Here's a brief history of the internet's infatuation with the idea of a Web OS tablet: First we heard that HP was buying Palm. Interesting! Then we heard that the Windows 7-running HP Slate was canceled. Very interesting. Now, a post on the Examiner citing "industry insiders" says that a WebOS tablet dubbed "Hurricane" could be arriving as soon as Q3 of this year. It certainly seems like HP would try to get such a product out as quickly as possible, though there's nothing in this report that's substantial enough to get too excited about. Still, I want to believe, and so I will. [Examiner via Engadget] More »
Tablet - Slate - Hewlett-Packard - Apple - Microsoft
I recently purchased a download as an ISO that came as 1 CD and 1.3 GB.
I now wonder how I can burn it to a disc.
CD-R or CD-RW is too small.
What do I do now, since I cannot break it down into 2 CDS?
Actually the whole set will be 4 CDS and I do not want to purchase anymore if I
Yahoo's reportedly ponying up $85 million for an upcoming ad campaign—nearly twice as much as they spent on advertising in all of 2009. But as this chart shows, Yahoo's wager looks puny next to Microsoft's massive ad spending. More »
Once we run out of fossil fuels and our society devolves into a violent, resource-hoarding dystopia, the audiophiles of the world are going to have to get creative with their set-ups. This looks about right. More »
Doctors aren't hopeful about their prospects for separating the fledgling fan, which was born recently in Germany and is named Double Circulator, but it seems to be doing pretty well, all things considered: More »
I’ve just come back from a week holiday in Jordan, culminating in a few nights at Aqaba, a town bordering the Red Sea. On the first night, my wife and I walked to the jetty of our hotel and spent a glorious half-hour dangling our feet over the edge, toes tickling the water.
There was a school of small fish milling about the water beneath us but after about 15 minutes, a handful of them would periodically jump out of the water. They all seemed to be jumping in the same direction, and I suspected that a predator was behind it. Following the direction of the fish, we saw a small red blob in the water. The light wasn’t good enough to make a confident identification but the combination of size, shape and colour, and the fact that it was a very slow-moving predator screamed out “lionfish” to me.
Two days later, we went back to the jetty at sunset and saw the same school of fish being stalked by the same predator but, this time, in plentiful light. It was clearly a lionfish, and these photos were taken from the jetty looking downwards, hence the ripple distortions. Nonetheless, the water was clear and still enough to take some pretty cool snaps. In the one below, you can clearly see the small fish keeping their distance from the predator.
In this shot, you can just about make out the boundary of the school, with the lionfish at the middle of an empty circle. The edge of the school starts about halfway between the lionfish and the left edge of the photo and continues upwards and rightwards in a large sweeping arc.
Those beautiful fins aren’t just for show – those on the back are sharp and tipped with a very powerful venom. I’m just glad we didn’t dive into the water straight on top of it.
And then there were two. As a final treat, a second fish turned up, which I take to be a different species of lionfish. By this point, the water was getting choppier and this is the least distorted shot I could take of the two fish, practically on top of one another. If anyone can identify the exact species, I’d be grateful.
If you thought seeing Conan with a beard was weird, wait until you see Conan with a beard razzing Google VP Vic Gundotra. Really weird. Also really funny. The full, 48-minute clip includes bonus Andy Richter action—watch it! More »
Conan O'Brien - Google - Andy Richter - Television - Arts
The Times' Bits blog has an interesting little item on how the iPad is already making its way around the globe, courtesy of gadget travel agency eBay. Here are the countries who are paying top dollar. More »
EBay - auction - Home - Consumer Information - Apple
The scientist Tesla tried in past to transmit electrical power through air.
Is there any hope to achieve his dream today ?
NASA's space shuttle is near its sad end—along with the US manned space program. As we watch the last launches, I'm glad Lego is releasing this new Lego Space Shuttle set. It even separates and lands! More »
Lego - NASA - Lego Space - Space - Recreation
I found neutral gray linear iodine polarizer regular contrast in sheets and roll form. My useage is for photographic purposes. I put the polarizer sheet on a window. I then put a polarizer filter on the camera and now I can control the intensity of the light viewed through the window. My problem is
how do i couple a star/delta starter. and the circuit diagram
