Irwin Kula on blessings and spiritual yearnings.
First Run of iPads Sold Out, Ship Date For New Orders Pushed To April 12 [Apple]
Ooh, looks like somebody's popular. If you tried to order a Wi-Fi iPad this morning, you might have noticed that the expected ship date has been bumped a week to April 12 and in-store pick-up has been nixed as an option. Seems like the first pack o' Pads have all been spoken for. Just how many is that? There's no way to be sure, but some of the most recent estimates put the number somewhere near a half a million. Yow. [9to5 Mac] More »
The Future of Smartphones: 4G and Beyond – Entrepreneur
The Future of Smartphones: 4G and Beyond Entrepreneur Ditto for the opportunity to upload HD video to online aggregators such as YouTube and Metacafe instead of the pixilated standard-def footage that's ... |
There Are More Painful Things [Science Tattoo] | The Loom
Corey writes, “I got this tattoo as an homage to the pain of my graduate work. It’s a model of fulvic acid which is a representation of natural organic matter in the soil. I work with this molecule for my grad work and I figured I might as well get it etched into my skin so I can look at it and say, ‘Well, at least it hurt less than grad school at Cornell.’”
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This One Is Easy — Really, It Is
UPDATE: SOLVED by Rob at 12:10 CDT
How about a nice, easy riddle to play with this Saturday? We’ve had a string of fairly hard riddles, and of course the Bonus Riddle was challenging. Here’s a nice, comfortable riddle for you to kick around for a few minutes, so let’s get right to it:
This is an object.
It is not visible to the unaided eye.
This object was predicted mathematically years before it was actually discovered.
Although we don’t know too much about this object, what we know is strange.
We have hopes of knowing much more about it in a few years.
This object has companions.
It has recently been the center of controversy.
Some scientists believe it’s not what we have always thought it is.
This object is well represented in popular fiction.
There you go… now isn’t that easy? I’m lurking, so come to the comment section and give it a shot. We’re building a list of participants for the next bonus riddle, and we’d sure like to put you on the list.
Trudy Sees a Spider
Valve Trim Material
Dear All
Recently I come across an issue related to valve trim material:
As per our approved Valve Material Specification the trim material should be 11-13% Cr steel. But as per the manufacturer data sheet the trim material is ASTM A105 + Stellite. Do this material comply with 11-13% C
Printable Nanotube RFID Tags Could Make Wireless Checkout Aisles a Reality [Supersupermarkets]
Wireless checkout is many a grocer's dream. It's like Amazon's one-click shopping in the real world, maximizing efficiency for the customer and cutting costs for the supermarket. A new printable RFID tag could make it a reality. More »
MY ANSWERS NOT REFLECTING IN THE UPDATED DISCUSSIONS.
In the past 7 days I have replied 4 queries in CR4, but it does not reflect in the updated posting, which can be seen in the right hand top corner.
I want to know how and why it is not getting up-dated. I am logging in before writing and posting.
dhayanandhan.s,
cr4 member,
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Transistion Towns
Stuey found this:
We can of course turn this into a Pointless argument about climate change.
What will that accomplish [Entertainment value aside]?
If we were designing an initiative of our own, what would it look like.
Do you like their format?
Th
Air Compressor
According to base on two stage reciprocating compressor. how to calculate counter weight of crankshaft of machine ? we have two throw machine.please give me detail description.
Liberal Media gets it way wrong on Rock thrown at office of Ohio Democrat Rep. Stephen Driehaus
Heluva 'n arm worthy of a Cincinnati Reds star pitcher
The Carew Tower cuts across the Cincinnati skyline. It stands 49 stories high, right on the Ohio river. It also happens to house the main district office of Democrat Congressman Stephen Driehaus.
With his boyish good looks, he's become the poster boy of sorts for the anti-Republican/anti-Tea Party "violence" campaign.
Hurried breaking news reports came out earlier in the week on how a rock was thrown through the Congressman's window. The story originated with the far left Seattle Times, and was carried through the liberal blogosphere and mainstream press.
GOP libertarian blogger Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) first captured the report from the Seattle Times story before the Times and syndicated versions were scrubbed:
"A rock was thrown through the window of Driehaus’ Cincinnati office Sunday."
Driehaus responded to non-incident by pointing the finger at Sarah Palin
Turns out the Congressman's office is not located on the ground floor, but rather on the 30th. Some on-line Right blogger sleuths caught the error.
The media line quickly changed to a local Democrat Party headquarters. But not before the Congressman had the chance to take a few shots at a certain Republican/Tea Party star.
The next day Local 12 WKRC in Cincinnati reported:
A rock was thrown through a window at Hamilton County Democratic Party headquarters, but any other acts of violence have just been talk. Driehaus says the hateful chatter is becoming more and more mainstream. He points to a fundraising website for Sarah Palin that puts targeted seats in congress literally in the cross hairs.
"That kind of constant reference to violence. I don't think it's helpful."
Of course, the Congressman's comments were picked up without reporters/bloggers checking the facts of the original story. And the comments added fuel to the fire of the "Sarah Palin inciting violence" meme.
Local Democrats are admitting that the original story was completely fabricated. Two staffers at the Hamilton County Democrat HQ, one named Molly and the other Caleb Faux, have confirmed to a a local reporter no such incidents occured. Faux quoted from the Examiner.com:
When asked about the Seattle article and the rock being thrown through Driehaus’ Cincinnati office window, he replied, “I think that report is an error. You’d have to have an awfully good pitching arm to throw something that high.”
Pressure Vessel
From where pressure is generated in pressure Vessels..............?
Verizon’s FiOS Rollout Drawing To a Close [FiOS]
Fiber optics. It sounds fast (it is). But it also sounds expensive (it is). So expensive, it turns out, that Verizon has announced that it's winding down expansion of its FiOS network. It will keep plugging away in markets that it has already announced—Philly, New York City, and D.C., chiefly—but it won't be looking at expanding FiOS to any more major cities. The AP report gives a sense of how expensive the endeavor was for Verizon: More »
Shell Eco-Marathon: It’s Not Easy Being Green | Discoblog
And they’re off. This morning Shell’s Marvin Odum waved the ceremonial green flag, and the 50 vehicles that came down for the Shell Eco-Marathon Americas are getting ready to make their test runs around the oval track on the streets of downtown Houston. It’s the first time the event has come here, and Mayor Parker Annise Parker says it belongs in a car city like hers. “We want to figure out a way to be Houston, but be better about it,” she says. “We’re still a car city, and we get excited for moving vehicles.”
It was a long road just getting here, in the literal and metaphorical sense. University of Missouri team member Jon Tylka says “It’s really a miracle we have a car.” Missouri’s car, seen here, is the only entry in the smaller of the two divisions, urban concept, to run on a hydrogen fuel cell, and it was a couple years in the making. Tylka says the team was formerly working on a solar car, but solar vehicle competitions have been receiving less funding.
Despite the weeks and months that went into the project, Tylka and the team spent three or four all-nighters (it’s hard to remember how many when you’re sleep-deprived) preparing the car before and after the 15-hour drive down from Columbia, Missouri. Its driveshaft sheared before competition, and its electrical system caught fire. Missouri’s car is one of the few equipped with a suspension; they wanted to make the vehicle as close to a real car as possible, but that has presented difficulties too. One team member who speaks German had to call Europe to fix a last-minute bug in the fuel cell. At one point even the horn failed. “The horn has to work, or else we can’t race” Tylka says. Thankfully, they found a replacement.
We’ll keep you posted on how the Tigers do. While it’s a friendly competition, the team has one particular priority: Avoiding the ignominy of losing to one of the high school teams present.
Deodorant Cannons Wage War Against Landfill Stench [Smellsliketrouble]
"Alright men. Listen here and listen good. This landfill is one mean sumovabitch. And boy does it stink. Stinks bad. So we're rolling out the heavy artillery: One-hundred stink-killin', air-freshenin' cannons. I love the smell of deodorant in the morning." More »
developning the blank
Dear sir
How can we develop the blank in sheet metal give its formula
AutoCAD or NOT
I'm a casual user of CAD software and I only use it for electrical control panels (contactors, transformers, etc.). I can't afford AutoCAD Electrical for my small business and would like to know if there's a good alternative for my limited use. I'd like something with basic electrical templates and
This is what a Republican campaign for Congress in San Francisco looks like
JOHN DENNIS FOR CONGRESS!
An insider look into the John Dennis, Republican for Congress campaign. Conversation with John. Phone banks. Discussion of fundraising strategies.
John shows a bit of a prankster side during phone banking.
A new WND/Wenzell poll just released has Dennis at 22%. Previous GOP challengers have received 17% and 21% of the vote. Republican registration in the District is 13%. The San Francisco district is viewed as one of the top three most liberal in the country.
Editor's note - We here at LR strongly disagree with John's Ron Paulist foreign policy views. But support him wholeheartedly none-the-less for his 100% libertarian domestic agenda. We urge our readers to send John a contribution (here!)if you can.
Rumor: "iAd" Mobile Advertising Platform Is Apple’s Next Big Thing [Apple]
MediaPost reports that Apple's next next big thing, after iPads invade the world next weekend, will be iAd, a mobile advertising platform to be debuted April 7. Coffee dates and patent suits aside, this could be the true Apple-Google battleground. More »
Pair of wings -eidolia | Bad Astronomy
I am traveling extensively for my Sooper Sekrit Project™, and staying in one interchangeable hotel after another. But one recent hotel was a bit special: while perambulating to my room down an outside corridor, I spotted this on the floor:
As it happens, the town I am in — forgive me for not revealing the location! — is very religious, and in a way that shapes like this would easily be revered as some sort of icon of God’s presence. The resemblance to an angel is obvious.
But of course, I happened to be walking back to my room from lunch. Had I instead been walking to lunch when I spotted it, I would’ve seen this view on the left. I suppose angels have to breathe, too, so this could be interpreted as a divine pulmonary system, but somehow I doubt it.
What does it look like to you?
