Archive for March, 2007
Key Rove aide fingered in Mid-Term Massacre
The Raw Story | Key Rove aide fingered in US Attorney investigation to step down; Could face subpoena
Multiple sources reported today that a top aide to President George W. Bush’s key adviser Karl Rove will soon step down from her job in the White House. The aide, Sara M. Taylor, was identified in yesterday’s [...]
Khufu revealed
Khufu revealed
If you haven’t checked it out, it’s worth exploring one architect’s theory about how Kfufu was built. What’s great about it is how 3D is used to convey these ideas. They did a great job on the 3D modeling and narration, though I’d hope for some more interactivity if this is meant as a [...]
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Microsoft lays out plans for Virtual Earth | News.blog | CNET News.com
Also, Curlander said the company currently has 370 million users of instant messaging, and MSN is considering merging those users with Virtual Earth so they can chat in the virtual setting. But, he said, Virtual Earth developers want to blot out the real cars [...]
Students Sue Anti-Cheating Service
McLean Students Sue Anti-Cheating Service - washingtonpost.com
The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, seeks $900,000 in damages from the for-profit service known as Turnitin. The service seeks to root out cheaters by comparing student term papers and essays against a database of more than 22 million student papers as well [...]
New Jeff Han Video of their Multi-Touch Display
New Jeff Han Video - Multi Touch UI | The Last Minute Blog
It’s looking pretty good. I was a little saddened to see them resorting to menus and hotspots, though it was probably inevitable. The magic of the early MT demos was that you could simply touch the screen and the computer would have enough [...]
Gonzales feels heat from GOP senators
Gonzales feels heat from GOP senators - Los Angeles Times
Not only are they liars, but they’re really poor liars… Gonzales had originally claimed he had nothing to do with the firings. Now, it seems, he did.
“Ooops,” said the Justice Department [I'm paraphrasing]. “Here’s a memo that shows a conference-room meeting with Gonzales about the [...]
Paging Dr. Morreau
Now scientists create a sheep that’s 15% human | the Daily Mail
The process would involve extracting stem cells from the donor’s bone marrow and injecting them into the peritoneum of a sheep’s foetus. When the lamb is born, two months later, it would have a liver, heart, lungs and brain that are partly human and [...]
Meet Ron Paul
Rep. Ron Paul on War, Peace, and the News Media by Michael Shank
I don’t ordinarily like LewRockwell for its magical thinking on economics. But they have the transcript of the above interview if you can’t watch.
I’ve been following Rep. Ron Paul’s Presidential bid, hoping he’d get more attention and at least have some [...]
Escalation Watch: British Sailors Detained by Iran
Britain says 15 sailors detained by Iranian forces in Iraqi waters - International Herald Tribune
The British sailors were most likely in international waters, though the region is small. Iran was most likely sending a warning to the US to stop “detaining” its generals, which we have reportedly been doing in secret for the past few [...]
Duck
As I was standing on the street corner this afternoon, I saw a woman and her three children on the opposite corner. We were all waiting for the light. And I figured I’d wait rather than jay-walk–you know, to set a good example. The only car in sight, a big navy blue SUV, was sitting [...]
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