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Starting March 12, 2005, there’s a new SAT: New essay and grammar section Elimination of analogies More advanced math A total potential score of 2400 (versus 1600) A half hour increase in the testing time An increase in cost to take the test You can read more about it at the Princeton Review website.
Friday’s puts low-carb Atkins on menu Thank God it’s low-carb. T.G.I. Friday’s, the casual dining chain known for its flavor-laden but often-fattening foods, on Friday will announce a deal with an unlikely partner: Atkins (yes, the diet Atkins).
Fossilised crustacean boasts oldest penis The well-endowed fossilised creature has organs (circled) strikingly similar to modern ostracods (Image: Science) A newly discovered 425 million-year-old fossil boasts a lurid claim to fame – it has the oldest penis on record.
Vonage is amazing… I dialed up with my USR Courier v.Everything modem and connected to the local Earthlink POP and saw the following: CONNECT 49333/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS Thats just nuts. I’m so impressed with Vonage. I’m definitely getting rid of my SBC phoneline.
Take a look at this picture… So, what did you see? Research has shown that young children cannot identify the intimate couple because they do not have prior memory associated with such scenario. What they will see are the nine dolphins.
I’m formally requesting a favor from my readers! I was hoping you could take a few minutes to help support Rackspace on an award for which we’ve been nominated. We’re trying to win a spot as one of Fast Company Magazine’s Fast 50 companies. We’ve submitted an entry and need help from some of our […]
Testing the Three-Click Rule In a recent client meeting, a high-ranking executive told us that every piece of content should take no more than three clicks to access. We knew exactly what he was talking about: we’ve heard the Three-Click Rule many times before. This unquestioned rule of web design has been around nearly as […]
Public Rates Nursing as Most Honest and Ethical Profession Nurses top Gallup’s annual survey on the honesty and ethics of various professions, followed by other medical professionals like doctors, veterinarians, pharmacists, and dentists. Car salesmen, HMO managers, insurance salesmen, and advertising practitioners are rated as the least honest and ethical. Overall, there has been little […]
Xbox deflects real bullets Irate Marylander shoots his roommates’ console, but the 9mm round fails to penetrate its casing.
Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier Introduction. This page contains what I believe to be one of the highest resolution, most detailed stitched digital images ever created. It is the view from Bryce Point in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. It consists of 196 separate photographs taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera, and then stitched […]
Largest prime number ever is found A 26-year-old graduate student in the US has made mathematical history by discovering the largest known prime number.
Review: ColorWare Custom paint jobs are now available for your iBook and iPod.
Woohoo! I can run Linux on my Toshiibia e740 PocketPC… fun, fun,fun! http://www.mnementh.co.uk/e7xx/
Enron to auction headquarters building Enron Corp. will begin auctioning off its 50-story headquarters in downtown Houston on Tuesday.
Ok… I got my vonage box… I literally plugged it in, and it started working… the calls are crystal-clear with no lag at all… I’m stunned at the quality… this thing is bad-ass. The only thing that doesn’t work is CallerID – need to drop them a line. UPDATE: CallerID works, turns out my old […]
Linux tablet PC breaks $1,000 barrier A small PC maker and a Linux distributor have teamed up to offer a tablet-style PC for $999, hundreds of dollars less than similar devices running Microsoft’s Windows XP Tablet PC Edition software.
Patching: Process matters The list of all-too-familiar names – Nachi, Klez, Lovsan, SoBig, BugBear, Swen, Blaster and Yaha – represents only a sampling of the most prevalent worms and viruses that slithered into corporate networks this fall. But they all have one thing in common: Patches were readily available before most damage had been done. […]
Elderly falls linked to vitamin deficiency An unexpected risk factor for the potentially fatal falls suffered by many elderly people has been discovered – vitamin D deficiency.
CEOS of the future get formal training to take giant leap Six corporate chief executives of the future sip brandy by a fire at the Inn at Montchanin on a rainy October night. They’ve paid $27,500 each, more than a year’s tuition at most colleges, to attend a five-day program called Top Talent put on […]
Getting Real About the DVR Threat Television broadcasters, who increasingly find themselves adrift in a multichannel media world, have only themselves to blame and may have only a few years to salvage or leverage their grass-roots franchises.