Solar Powered Shrub Car is Not Your “Garden Variety” EV
The things you find on Slashdot. This is like something out of a spy spoof. Or maybe The Tick.
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Solar Powered Shrub Car is Not Your “Garden Variety” EV
The things you find on Slashdot. This is like something out of a spy spoof. Or maybe The Tick.
Awesome photo: skydiving past a shuttle launch https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/diving-into-and-out-of-the-sky
Can we finally bury the SCO case now, or will it once again rise from the grave as a shambling undead corpse? http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100610161411160
Oh, those Falcon UFOs
Yesterday, a lot of Australians reported seeing a bizarre UFO. Just before 6:00 a.m. local time, numerous reports came in about a spiral of light in the sky with a bright central spot. The light was actually spinning around, like a pinwheel!
Sightings line up perfectly with the Falcon 9 launch.
Extreme beer – man’s favourite drink suddenly gets much stronger
By the time you get to 50% ABV, can you really call it beer?
Guillermo Del Toro departs “The Hobbit”
Guillermo Del Toro announced today that he is no longer directing the two movies based on J.R.R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”…
Argh! I totally understand his decision (a 3 year commitment on the other side of the planet has turned into 6 years, and they still can’t start filming due to MGM’s financial problems), but this is one hell of a missed opportunity.
Video Gamers Can Control Dreams, Study Suggests
Playing video games before bedtime may give people an unusual level of awareness and control in their dreams, LiveScience has learned.
WTF: Arizonans want to boycott San Diego until SD stops boycotting AZ…but SD ISN’T boycotting AZ in the first place!
Because offering to stop sending electricity to Los Angeles isn’t weird enough.
[ABC Cancels Romantically Challenged, Scrubs, Ted, Flashforward]
I can't say I didn't see it coming. FlashForward has been a study in missed opportunities from episode two onward, and Better Off Ted had “Too Good to Last” stamped on every frame. OTOH, at least we know ABC will *show* the last two episodes of FF. I'm not so confident about Ted.
Comic-Con Move From San Diego To Anaheim Or LA? (Hell No! We Won’t Go!)
I like this characterization of the San Diego/Los Angeles battle: “Are you a fan show with trade elements, or are you a trade show that lets in fans…?”
Telekom Austria turns phone boxes into car recharging stations
Neat idea for reusing obsolete infrastructure.
SCO’s legal argument explained in comic-strip form: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100429121720753
Saw The Language Archive at @scr last weekend, and here’s the NYT on preserving endangered languages.
*cringe* One of the popular tags on Delicious for The Alot is “grammer.” I want to believe it’s deliberate.
Sony delivers floppy disk’s last rites
Electronics giant, which pioneered and dominated the market for the storage medium, announces it will cease Japanese sales of the disks in 2011.
Farewell, floppy disk!
Interesting read: Why Mozilla Needs to go into Survival Mode
I remember seeing a plume from some rocket test back in the 1990s, but that one was mostly white and yellow. It didn’t get the color variation this one has from sunrise.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/30/the-ultimate-guide-to-cloning-in-photoshop/
This looks incredibly useful, and I wish I had time to read the whole thing now.
It’s official: Not only did SCO lie about Linux violating their copyrights, but they never owned the rights they claimed!