If you have the chance to see John Carter, go see it. It's been declared a box office failure, and the math on its box office may make that hard to argue with, but what I saw was a complex, passionate, well written adventure film, the likes of which you won't see that often.
Even if its not the most popular film, you'll be doing yourself a favor. You'll be like one of those people who saw Blade Runner when it first came out, rather than waiting until critical opinion or pop culture began recalling it on the merits, rather than simply reporting the financial underperformance. I have my doubts that John Carter won't break even. Even the worst crap eventually breaks even under the financial system Hollywood runs. Let me tell you, though, this film will have a long time to go before it's ever forgotten.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Monday, March 05, 2012
This is what Windows 8 on the desktop should have looked like - GSMArena Blog
This is what Windows 8 on the desktop should have looked like - GSMArena Blog
I sort of agree here. To me, the Metro desktop and setup looks fine, and the idea of integrating OSes for both devices seems like a good idea, but I think on desktop PCs, people should have the option to tune their experience- that is, more towards a desktop-like set up if they've got a more traditional set up, more towards the tablet style when they have touch interfaces.
I sort of agree here. To me, the Metro desktop and setup looks fine, and the idea of integrating OSes for both devices seems like a good idea, but I think on desktop PCs, people should have the option to tune their experience- that is, more towards a desktop-like set up if they've got a more traditional set up, more towards the tablet style when they have touch interfaces.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Let's see if it can support multiple embeds and/or TED embeds on the same page
What strikes me about this is that it seems to bring a different kind of 3-D to the table than the stereoscopic or simple rendered kind. The drawback, of course, is that you only have one person who can experience this at a time, but if you have somebody sitting in front of a computer screen(which tends to be one person watching the monitor, or playing a one-player video game), then it's not an issue.
What I'd be interested to see here is whether this video posts properly from blogger
Here's the thing I notice here: look how much time is spent distracting you from actually directly interacting with him. You might have some nice little AI tricks regarding him noticing or taking interests with things you do, but you only get real interaction after having been narratively tunnelled into a certain conversation that has certain social expectations attached to it
But I do have to say it's a neat trick. But is it going to seem all that neat as others develop this kind of interaction more extensively?
I have to wonder, is this just a problem when dealing with embeds?
Or does the blogwriter program just screw things up when it deals with embedded video?
Friday, June 17, 2011
Test for Telepresent Texan
Just trying to see how this works on my blog, You know how it goes. The same old story with all the fun and glory. This could make it easier for me to just sit down and write more of these entries. There’s a lot that’s interesting in the world.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
An interesting article on the Anonymous Hack of HBGary
Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
What strikes me about this story is that despite the prestige in the media about it, the means by which it were done were not especially exotic, and the vulnerabilities it exploited were not especially unknown. In fact, they were pretty basic!
If there's a comment to be made from my end of subject, it's a cognitive one. The thing about passwords is that the truly unpredictable ones, the ones that are all surprise information, which can't be guessed from the other side from other info, are also the most difficult to remember. Meaningful information is both memorable and recoverable by others by logic and detective work for the same reasons.
What strikes me about this story is that despite the prestige in the media about it, the means by which it were done were not especially exotic, and the vulnerabilities it exploited were not especially unknown. In fact, they were pretty basic!
If there's a comment to be made from my end of subject, it's a cognitive one. The thing about passwords is that the truly unpredictable ones, the ones that are all surprise information, which can't be guessed from the other side from other info, are also the most difficult to remember. Meaningful information is both memorable and recoverable by others by logic and detective work for the same reasons.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Darth Vader's borderline? No, I don't think so.
What is Darth Vader's diagnosis?
What some folks miss is Anakin Skywalker never had a pure Jedi education. From the start, Chancellor Palpatine was teaching him, influencing him. People ask how he could all of a sudden turn Sith, but at the risk of being contradicted later by Lucas, I believe he was being taught the principles of the Sith, as he was being educated in the Code of the Jedi.
There are lines in either Episode Two, or Episode Three, where Palpatine goes something like "Remember what I taught you, those with power are loath to part with it.". That sounds to me like he was giving Anakin lessons about power and its uses, a rather Sith thing to be doing. Why can't the secret Sith give his pupil in politics shadow lessons in Sith doctrine ? He wouldn't have to announce it, saying, turn your Sith Textbook to page 108, he could simply give those lessons as pointers for dealing with political situations, or dealing with the real world, as a counterpoint to what the Jedi taught him. Rather than only having a few hours to teach him everything, Palpatine would have over ten years to instruct his pupil in Sith thought, if not actual force techniques.
There was always a parallel path. What Palpatine did over time was force Anakin into the belief that he had no other path to walk than to walk the path of Dark Side, and as he was tunnelled more into that, his behavior became increasingly outside the pale.
Anakin doesn't have to be mentally ill to react like he did. People underestimate the consequences of having a head full of bad ideas, of being under the bad influence of somebody who could be termed a psychopath, a remorseless manipulator.
What some folks miss is Anakin Skywalker never had a pure Jedi education. From the start, Chancellor Palpatine was teaching him, influencing him. People ask how he could all of a sudden turn Sith, but at the risk of being contradicted later by Lucas, I believe he was being taught the principles of the Sith, as he was being educated in the Code of the Jedi.
There are lines in either Episode Two, or Episode Three, where Palpatine goes something like "Remember what I taught you, those with power are loath to part with it.". That sounds to me like he was giving Anakin lessons about power and its uses, a rather Sith thing to be doing. Why can't the secret Sith give his pupil in politics shadow lessons in Sith doctrine ? He wouldn't have to announce it, saying, turn your Sith Textbook to page 108, he could simply give those lessons as pointers for dealing with political situations, or dealing with the real world, as a counterpoint to what the Jedi taught him. Rather than only having a few hours to teach him everything, Palpatine would have over ten years to instruct his pupil in Sith thought, if not actual force techniques.
There was always a parallel path. What Palpatine did over time was force Anakin into the belief that he had no other path to walk than to walk the path of Dark Side, and as he was tunnelled more into that, his behavior became increasingly outside the pale.
Anakin doesn't have to be mentally ill to react like he did. People underestimate the consequences of having a head full of bad ideas, of being under the bad influence of somebody who could be termed a psychopath, a remorseless manipulator.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
'Sex and the City' movie may be too racy for one city - CNN.com
Define Irony.
An expert says that Sex and the City II (A movie I intend to somehow fail to see) will do for Abu Dhabi what Lord of the Rings did for New Zealand.
Exceeeeept:
Lord of the Rings was actually shot in New Zealand, which doubled for Middle Earth, whereas this movie is set in what's supposed to be Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, but actually is Morocco!
Curiously enough, Morocco's doubled for a great many dry, dusty Arab countries, especially with movies that deal in controversial issues.
One would think that Morocco should see the benefit of all their hard work at making their country a good location for movies, no?
An expert says that Sex and the City II (A movie I intend to somehow fail to see) will do for Abu Dhabi what Lord of the Rings did for New Zealand.
Exceeeeept:
Lord of the Rings was actually shot in New Zealand, which doubled for Middle Earth, whereas this movie is set in what's supposed to be Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, but actually is Morocco!
Curiously enough, Morocco's doubled for a great many dry, dusty Arab countries, especially with movies that deal in controversial issues.
One would think that Morocco should see the benefit of all their hard work at making their country a good location for movies, no?
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
I can't get the site to load properly, but here's why...
...I think Ebert is wrong that Video Games can never be an artform.
My basic belief is that Art is Communication. That's its reason to exist. There is nothing in the annals of artistic history to suggest designed or mass produced objects cannot have aesthetic aspects to them, or artistic value. A car's design, and thus the car itself can be a work of art. A building can be a work of art. After all, that's why Architecture is considered an artform, even though there are engineering aspects to it, practical concerns.
Participation is no barrier to something being an art. Theatre can be participatory, and so can ritual. There can be art to interactions, as in a debate, where words are chosen carefully. Rhetoric is an artform, to be certain.
Interaction does not take something away from being art. I could cite the avante-garde artists out there who have people push buttons or do something else, but let's try this from a more theoretical perspective.
If I were to design a panorama in a computer, in video, or as a wraparound mural, aesthetics and art certainly would come into play. Is the scene bright, dark, lovely, tragic, nasty, gory, or whatever? You couldn't escape from questions both of artistic skill, and artistic merit.
Would it change if I made this panorama into a 3-D computer generated landscape? Certainly not. Issues of perspective, of occlusion, of general ambience would come into play.
Okay, so what if we set a game in here? The game could be story based or non-story based. If you took it down the non-story route, you could make a maze, or make it like one of those games you see online, where moving a certain number of elements together would clear them. Even so, questions of appearance, kinetics, animation, and other matters would require the judgment of those developing the game.
There is no scientific way to create this product, everything depends, like most artistic endeavors do, on the judgment of the artist synchronizing in some way with the experience of the audience.
In other words, you need artists to make a game work. Since game-making mainly serves a recreational purpose in our society, it's not even really a question of whether the audience member's experience of the work is relevant, it's practically the whole point. If the game's experience doesn't move the audience in some way, it's not doing its job, and people are going to lose money on it.
I have no doubt every new artform prompts questions from the practitioners and appreciators of the old as to whether it was really art, but I think video game design has been an art from the start. The question is whether video games themselves have been art, and I think the answer is yes. It's been a developing art, though, and is admittedly a young art.
An art, nonetheless, it is.
My basic belief is that Art is Communication. That's its reason to exist. There is nothing in the annals of artistic history to suggest designed or mass produced objects cannot have aesthetic aspects to them, or artistic value. A car's design, and thus the car itself can be a work of art. A building can be a work of art. After all, that's why Architecture is considered an artform, even though there are engineering aspects to it, practical concerns.
Participation is no barrier to something being an art. Theatre can be participatory, and so can ritual. There can be art to interactions, as in a debate, where words are chosen carefully. Rhetoric is an artform, to be certain.
Interaction does not take something away from being art. I could cite the avante-garde artists out there who have people push buttons or do something else, but let's try this from a more theoretical perspective.
If I were to design a panorama in a computer, in video, or as a wraparound mural, aesthetics and art certainly would come into play. Is the scene bright, dark, lovely, tragic, nasty, gory, or whatever? You couldn't escape from questions both of artistic skill, and artistic merit.
Would it change if I made this panorama into a 3-D computer generated landscape? Certainly not. Issues of perspective, of occlusion, of general ambience would come into play.
Okay, so what if we set a game in here? The game could be story based or non-story based. If you took it down the non-story route, you could make a maze, or make it like one of those games you see online, where moving a certain number of elements together would clear them. Even so, questions of appearance, kinetics, animation, and other matters would require the judgment of those developing the game.
There is no scientific way to create this product, everything depends, like most artistic endeavors do, on the judgment of the artist synchronizing in some way with the experience of the audience.
In other words, you need artists to make a game work. Since game-making mainly serves a recreational purpose in our society, it's not even really a question of whether the audience member's experience of the work is relevant, it's practically the whole point. If the game's experience doesn't move the audience in some way, it's not doing its job, and people are going to lose money on it.
I have no doubt every new artform prompts questions from the practitioners and appreciators of the old as to whether it was really art, but I think video game design has been an art from the start. The question is whether video games themselves have been art, and I think the answer is yes. It's been a developing art, though, and is admittedly a young art.
An art, nonetheless, it is.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Science and Technology Links for the Week of March 8, 2010
Popular Science-
Flexible Nanocrystal Fibers Can Harness Tidbits of Waste Energy to Create Hydrogen Fuel
International Space Station Appears Ghostly Blue in Radar Satellite Photo
Orange Dwarf Confirmed to be On Collision Course With Earth
The Super Mario Multiverse (Article written in 2008, but you've got to see it!)
'Quake Catcher' Software Converts Laptops Worldwide into Earthquake Sensor Network
Tiny Flaws Can Be Tracked to Make Mass-Produced RFID Tags Unique and Unclonable
Concept Waterscraper Brings Monumental Architecture Into The Open Sea
Popular Mechanics-
6 Steps to Prepare Your Car For Long-Term Storage
Driving Hazards More Dangerous Than Unintended Acceleration
Budget Wars Spell Grim Future For F-22 and F-35 Planes
Lost Makes Looney-Tunes Sense With Dynamite Use
5 Most Notorious Recalls of All Time
Discover Magazine-
Spooky "Dark Flow" Tracked Deeper Into the Cosmos; No Word on What's Tugging at Galaxies
Vaccinating School Kids Can Protect the Whole "Herd" of Community Members
Einstein Proven Right (Again!) by the Movements of Galaxies
Pioneering Deep-Sea Robot Is Lost to a Watery Grave
Fly over Mars!
Beautifully Detailed Supercomputer Simulations
Scientific American-
6 Fun Facts about the James Webb Space Telescope [Slide Show]
Consciousness-Raising: Kick-Starting the Brain's Dopamine System May Revive Some Vegetative Patients
Software behaving badly: Machine learning could resolve issues raised by multi-core processors
A New Spin on Conductivity: Electric Signals Can Propagate through an Insulator
Researchers Gain New Insights into the Mystery of Thalidomide-Caused Birth Defects
Sunshine is free, so can photovoltaics be cheap?
Storing megawatts: Liquid-metal batteries and electricity
Few Studies Compare the Efficacy of Medical Treatments
Accents Trump Skin Color
Technology Review-
Ultra-Efficient Gas Engine Passes Test
Faster Healing for Severe Fractures
Gasifying Biomass with Sunlight
Packing More into Lithium Batteries
Teaching an Old Polymer Memory Tricks
Here Come the High-Definition 3-D TVs
Ars Technica-
Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP users
Hands-on with Sony's new PlayStation Move motion controller
Researchers get plastic to act totally metal
Pushing the speed limits of quantum memory
Nanotubes help create thermopower waves
Flexible Nanocrystal Fibers Can Harness Tidbits of Waste Energy to Create Hydrogen Fuel
International Space Station Appears Ghostly Blue in Radar Satellite Photo
Orange Dwarf Confirmed to be On Collision Course With Earth
The Super Mario Multiverse (Article written in 2008, but you've got to see it!)
'Quake Catcher' Software Converts Laptops Worldwide into Earthquake Sensor Network
Tiny Flaws Can Be Tracked to Make Mass-Produced RFID Tags Unique and Unclonable
Concept Waterscraper Brings Monumental Architecture Into The Open Sea
Popular Mechanics-
6 Steps to Prepare Your Car For Long-Term Storage
Driving Hazards More Dangerous Than Unintended Acceleration
Budget Wars Spell Grim Future For F-22 and F-35 Planes
Lost Makes Looney-Tunes Sense With Dynamite Use
5 Most Notorious Recalls of All Time
Discover Magazine-
Spooky "Dark Flow" Tracked Deeper Into the Cosmos; No Word on What's Tugging at Galaxies
Vaccinating School Kids Can Protect the Whole "Herd" of Community Members
Einstein Proven Right (Again!) by the Movements of Galaxies
Pioneering Deep-Sea Robot Is Lost to a Watery Grave
Fly over Mars!
Beautifully Detailed Supercomputer Simulations
Scientific American-
6 Fun Facts about the James Webb Space Telescope [Slide Show]
Consciousness-Raising: Kick-Starting the Brain's Dopamine System May Revive Some Vegetative Patients
Software behaving badly: Machine learning could resolve issues raised by multi-core processors
A New Spin on Conductivity: Electric Signals Can Propagate through an Insulator
Researchers Gain New Insights into the Mystery of Thalidomide-Caused Birth Defects
Sunshine is free, so can photovoltaics be cheap?
Storing megawatts: Liquid-metal batteries and electricity
Few Studies Compare the Efficacy of Medical Treatments
Accents Trump Skin Color
Technology Review-
Ultra-Efficient Gas Engine Passes Test
Faster Healing for Severe Fractures
Gasifying Biomass with Sunlight
Packing More into Lithium Batteries
Teaching an Old Polymer Memory Tricks
Here Come the High-Definition 3-D TVs
Ars Technica-
Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP users
Hands-on with Sony's new PlayStation Move motion controller
Researchers get plastic to act totally metal
Pushing the speed limits of quantum memory
Nanotubes help create thermopower waves
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Science and Technology Links for Week of March 1st
Popular Science-
New Answer to 80-Year-Old Question Makes Computer Modeling 100,000 Times Faster
MIT Stumbles on a Way to Print Flexible Coatings Made of Micromachines
LED Shortage This Year Could Keep TV, Device Prices High
Skinput Turns Any Bodily Surface Into a Touch Interface
NASA Finds Millions of Tons of Water Ice in Lunar Craters, No Moon Bombing Necessary
Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6
Massive Solar Storms of the Future Could Reap Katrina-Scale Devastation
Discover Magazine-
Spacecraft-Collected Comet Dust Reveals Surprises From the Solar System's Boondocks
Tattoo-Removing Lasers Also Remove Grime From Classic Works of Art
Physicists Shoot Neutrinos Across Japan to an Experiment in an Abandoned Mine
An Iceberg the Size of Luxembourg Breaks Free From Antarctica
More Watery Eruptions, and More Heat, on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Scientific American-
Is ARPA-E Enough to Keep the U.S. on the Cutting-Edge of a Clean Energy Revolution?
Gut bacteria gene complement dwarfs human genome
Shift happens: Will artificial photosynthesis power the world?
Scientists observe protein folding in living cells for the first time
Stroke victims aided in motor function recovery by playing home video games
Artificial arthropod hair makes for top-notch waterproofing
Surprised? How the brain records memories of the unexpected
Popular Mechanics-
Anatomy of Toyota's Problem Pedal: Mechanic's Diary
The Future For UAVs in the U.S. Air Force
Suborbital Safety: Will Commercial Spaceflight Ramp Up the Risk?
The World's 18 Strangest Airports
Technology Review-
Reinventing the Commercial Jet
Faster Optical Switching Through Chemistry
Loan to Kick-start U.S. Solar Thermal Industry
Material Traps Light on the Cheap
Ars Technica-
The end of analog: Blair Levin on the National Broadband Plan
Case closed: why most of USA lacks 100Mbps 'Net connections
Obama admin declassifies major cybersecurity plans
Desperate cities beseech St. Google: bless us with thy fiber
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Science and Technology Links for the Week of February 8th
Popular Science-
Superinsulating Aerogels Arrive on Home Insulation Market At Last
Sony's New Internal Wireless Tech Snips Wires Inside Your Gadgets
By Stimulating Stem Cells, Bioactive Nanogel Regenerates Cartilage in Joints
New Armored Wall System Assembles Like Legos, Could Replace Sandbags in Afghanistan
Wonder Material Graphene Becomes Lighting for Future Devices and Homes
California Utilities to Store Off-Peak Power In Blocks of Ice
Discover Magazine-
How Henrietta Lacks's Cells Became Immortal and Changed Medical Science
Looks like the Sun is in its teens again
In a First, Ground-Based Telescope Measures Alien Planet's Atmosphere
Dew-Spangled Spider Webs Could Inspire High-Tech Water Collection
Scientific American-
The Advantages of Being Helpless
City Dwellers Drive Deforestation in 21st Century
CERN Gears Up Its Computers for More Atom Smashing
Moving forward with electronic health records
Better Broadband: New Regulatory Rules Could Change the Way Americans Get Online
Popular Mechanics-
Toyota Cites Brake Software Problems in New Prius Recall
The MV-22 Osprey Finds Purpose In Disaster Relief
The New NASA: A Path To Anywhere, And Everywhere
Solar-Powered Circuits Charge by Sunlight in Real-Time
The Science Behind 7 Winter Olympic Events
Technology Review-
Micro Solar Cells Handle More Intense Sunlight
U.S. Solar Market to Double in the Next Year
Graphene Transistors that Can Work at Blistering Speeds
"Melting" Drywall Keeps Rooms Cool
Ars Technica-
The lost souls of telecommunications history
Microsoft: your battery is the problem, not Windows 7
AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challege Intel in laptops
Contextualizing the copyright debate: reward vs. creativity
Royalty-free codec still needed despite no-cost h264 license
Science and Technology Links for Week of February 1st
Popular Science-
Ultra-Strong Biomimetic Adhesive Could Allow Human Wall-Walking, Ceiling-Dancing
Bayonet Skills to be Omitted from Basic Training for Modern Soldiers
NASA Budget: Constellation Officially Canned, But The Deep-Space Future Is Bright
French Scientists Build First Transistor That Mimics Brain Connections
Spray-On 'Liquid Glass' Protects Surfaces From Just About Anything
Discover Magazine-
The Intellectual Property Fight That Could Kill Millions
The Lancet Retracts 1998 Paper That Linked Vaccinations to Autism
National Ignition Facility Warm-Up Successful. Next Step: Fusion Tests?
NASA Jet Studies Haiti's Fault Lines for Signs of Further Trouble
Will Genetically Modified Eucalyptus Trees Transform Southern Forests?
Scientfic American-
Over the Top: Data Shows "Green" Roofs Could Cool Urban Heat Islands and Boost Water Conservation
Can a Brain Scan Predict a Broken Promise?
Microsoft's Hands-Free Answer to the Nintendo Wii
Popular Mechanics-
Behind the Scenes of Splice: Interviews with the Director and VFX Supervisor
Next-Gen Transplant Techniques Can Stop Organ Rejection
How to Fall 35,000 Feet-And Survive
The Panama Canal Gets a New Lane (With Gallery!)
3D Sports TV Debuts With British Football Match
Technology Review-
What's Inside the iPad's Chip?
Flexible Sheets Capture Energy from Movement
Skin Cells Turned into Brain Cells
A Safer Way to Coat Long-Lasting Solar Cells
Ars Technica-
No rules: Internet security a Hobbesian "state of nature"
High-energy physics has a case of the Higgs
Levitating magnet could make fusion faster and cheaper
How a stray mouse click choked the NYSE & cost a bank $150K
Insanely great? Ars reacts to the Apple iPad
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Friday, November 06, 2009
Science Links for Week of 11/02/09
Popular Science
Cheap, Printed Solar LEDs To Light Up Off-Grid African Villages
Silk-Silicon Implantable Electronics Conform to Tissues, Then Melt Away
Stealth Wind Turbines Avoid Erasing Aircraft From Radar
Algae Used To Produce Green Plastics, Sans Petroleum
Happy 40th Birthday, Internet! Five Milestones in the Ever-Evolving History of the Web
Muscle-Based PC Interface Lets You Literally Point and Click, No Mouse Required
Popular Mechanics
Why the Hydrogen Feud Needs to End: Analysis
Car Industry Plans Shift to Low-Impact Refrigerant in A/C Systems
7 Saber-Dueling, Phaser-Blasting Hollywood Laser Myths
How Plane Technologies Affect the Titanium Market: Timeline
Ares' Continued Technical Problems and Money Troubles: Guest Analysis
Discover Magazine
A Crack Opens in the Ethiopian Landscape, Preparing the Way for a New Sea
Military Taser Has 200-Foot Range-and Safety Concerns
Latest Mercury Pics Reveal Massive Craters & Possible Volcanic Vents
Golden Nanocages Could Deliver Cancer Drugs to Tumors
Cassini dances with Enceladus once again
Scientific American
Emission Impossible?: Is Dark Matter Behind the Hazy Radiation at the Milky Way's Center?
How You Learn More from Success Than Failure
How Noise Can Help Quantum Entanglement
Stellar deal: NASA awards $2 million to X Prize winners for helping develop a lunar lander
Wireless tech taking a toll on Earth science and astronomy
Mining for Algae: Could Abandoned Mines Help Grow Biofuel?
Why Johnny can't hypothesize: A discussion about math and science education
Technology Review
A Genetically Engineered Rainbow of Bacteria
Wrapping Solar Cells around an Optical Fiber
Ultracapacitor Startup Gets a Big Boost
How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA
The Failing Future For Earthquake Forecasts
Ars Technica
You win some, you lose some: a review of Apple's Magic Mouse
Little, big, and green: a biography of the solid-state disk
Time-travel doesn't imbue quantum computers with superpowers
Microsoft posts 140-page Windows 7 Product Guide
Stackable memory advance brings flash-killer closer to market
Science and Technology Links for the Week of 10/19/09
Popular Science-
Physicists Calculate Exact Number of Alternate Universes
iRobot's Cronenbergian Blob Bot is Ready to Roll, or Rather Ooze
Video: Play Dungeons and Dragons on Microsoft's Surface Table
Apple's Magic Mouse Mates a Multitouch Trackpad With Traditional Pointer
A Hammer Is No Match For a Flexible OLED Display
New Neurological Evidence That the Internet Makes People Smarter
Ten Young Geniuses Shaking Up Science Today
Popular Mechanics-
4 Things the Barnes & Noble Nook Does Right, and 5 It Does Wrong
The Key to the Battery-Powered House: Q&A With Ceramatec
Exclusive Interview With Nintendo Gaming Mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto
PM Takes Project Natal For A Test Drive (With Video!)
New Drill Bit for F-35 Planes has Bonded Home-Grown Diamonds
Discover Magazine-
Who Killed All Those Honeybees? We Did
How Invaders Break Through the Brain's Great Wall
Is Alzheimer's Like a Strange Form of Brain Cancer?
Moon Plume Detected! NASA's Lunar Crash Wasn't a Flop, After All
The Sneaky Pain That Fooled 6 Experts
Scientific American-
Two Eyes, Two Views: Your Brain and Depth Perception
Editing Scientists: Science and Policy at the White House
How much are coral ecosystems worth? Try $172 billion--A year
Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn
Rare Procedure Pinpoints the Location, Speed and Sequence of the Brain's Language Processes
It's all Chinese to me: Dyslexia has big differences in English and Chinese
Technology Review-
Artificial Black Hole Created in Chinese Lab
Nanopatterns Improve Thin-Film Solar Cells
Next Stop: Ultracapacitor Buses
Intelligence Explained - Actually, this particular article is about the use of MRI with a technique called diffusion tensor imaging to map out the circuits of the brain's white matter, and how that circuitry might correspond to intelligence.
Ars Technica-
LHC reaches operational temps, collisions start in 5 weeks
Magic Mouse: Oh my God-it's full of capacitive sensors! - This relates to Apples new multi-touch mouse for the Mac.
30 years of failure: the username/password combination
DRAM study turns assumptions about errors upside down
Modeling a black hole with a 300 GigaWatt laser
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