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Mackey named Entrepreneur of the Year
John Mackey, chairman, president and CEO of Austin-based Whole Foods Market Inc., has been named the overall national Entrepreneur of the Year by professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP.
Elderly cockroaches become doddery with age
Cockroaches that survive into old age become decidedly doddery. Their joints seize up, causing them to slow down and the insects have trouble walking up hills.
Marriage turns to crap no matter what you do. At best it’s a tedious bore. At worst a living hell with financial ruin thrown in for good measure.
(Thanks Chris)
The memory upgrade is complete, and now I’m running with 32mb of RAM in my tivo:
Memory Statistics:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 30826496 30302208 524288 80424960 8728576 6164480
Swap: 67104768 0 67104768
MemTotal: 30104 kB
MemFree: 512 kB
MemShared: 78540 kB
Buffers: 8524 kB
Cached: 6020 kB
SwapTotal: 65532 kB
SwapFree: 65532 kB
It does seem more repsonsive, but I’ll only know once I mess with video-extraction again and other more memory intensive stuff. Honestly, its not as fast I hoped it would be… but at least its not swapping to disk anymore.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve antispam legislation that could end more than six years of failed attempts to create a federal law restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail.
Muting Meddling Microwaves
Scientists Create Microwave Oven That’s Wireless-Friendly
Have you ever noticed how sometimes your kitchen microwave oven zaps more than last night’s leftovers?
Valley firms ditch desks to cut costs
Freeing workers from their cubicles has been touted for at least two decades as a way to cut corporate real estate costs. Now, spurred by the sluggish economy and new technology, some of Silicon Valley’s biggest firms seem to be taking the advice seriously.
You might remember Lemmings about 10 years ago… maybe it was longer than that… I loved that game… now theres a clone written in flash….
I could play this game for hours.
Hungover CNET wakes up next to MP3.com
What a night out that was. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time…
Next time you’re in a meeting, try this little experiment: Take a big yawn, cover your mouth out of courtesy, and watch and see how many people yawn. There’s a good chance that you’ll set off a chain reaction of yawns. Before you finish reading this question of the day, it’s likely that you will yawn at least once. Don’t misunderstand, we aren’t intending to bore you, but just reading about yawning will make you yawn, just as seeing or hearing someone else yawn makes us yawn.
Perry issues fitness challenge to city leaders
Gov. Rick Perry launched a new health and fitness campaign aimed at improving the health of Texans and changing sedentary lifestyles.
Pregnant stars get creative cover-ups
The persistent nausea is gone. So are the headaches. Now, Charmed sorceress Holly Marie Combs can enjoy her first pregnancy.
Walking robot carries a person
The first walking robot capable of carrying a human was unveiled on Friday in Tokyo, Japan.
This past March, I had the priviledge of checking out SXSW. Whlie I was there I ran into a booth on the show floor where a company would make a hologram of you. They had this funky camera on rails that would shoot video of you and a few months later they’d send you the finished product. I got the hologram as promised – very very cool stuff.
Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with Paul Christie, the founder of Liti Holographics. Evidentally, he’s calling up past customers to see how they’re liking their holograms. We had a long and entertaining conversation, lasting over an hour. Evidentally they invented the technology to make all this stuff happen. Good guy. Cool company.
If you have a video clip or some sort of 3-D object you want as a hologram, I highly recommend you give these guys a call. I couldn’t find a place where you could read about how to get one made, but their contact page is here.
Its really amazing technology.
Family Guy could return with as many as 35 new episodes for January 2005.
Ok, I bit the bullet and signed up for Vonage. Basically Vonage provides telephone service over your internet connection – so you disconnect your local phone service and replace it with Vonage. I’ve been making tons of long distance calls as of late, so I decided that this was the cheapest way to get unlimited LD. From the people I’ve spoken too, and the things I’ve read the quality is great and the clarity is often better than standard phone service.
If you’re interested in signing up too, here’s a link to use to get your 2nd month for FREE.
Interesting Vonage facts:
Additionally the $35/month plan also throws in:
My VoIP box should be here next week. I hope things go well – I’ll report how things go.
Does a stress-free holiday visit really exist?
Are you looking forward to having out-of-town family and friends stay at your home for the holidays?
Coors goes health conscious, with low-carb beer
Adolph Coors (RKY) said Wednesday it is introducing a low carbohydrate beer as the No. 3 U.S. brewer seeks a foothold in the growing market for health-conscious drinkers.
Hossein Barkhah of Iran dislocates his elbow attempting to lift 157.5 kilograms in the snatch category in group A of the men’s 77 kilogram weight class at the World Weightlifting Championship in Vancouver, British Columbia, November 18, 2003
Face transplants feasible – but not yet
An influential report on the ethics and feasibility of face transplants has decided on a “wait and see” approach. The UK panel – the first to address the issue anywhere in the world – decided that the risks of the operation outweigh the potential benefits at present.
Keeping Small Business Off the Street
Rackspace, a profitable, San Antonio-based web-hosting company, wanted to raise $50 million in the capital market. But Sarbanes-Oxley simply made it too expensive. So Rackspace’s executives decided to hold off going public for at least two years, when they hope to be so big that absorbing the extra costs won’t be too painful. Sarbanes-Oxley “makes the efficiency of the capital market lower for a smaller company,” says Rackspace president Lanham Napier. “And when you don’t get money as quickly, your growth is impacted.”
Serverbeach #2, Rackspace #4 Top Windows Server 2003 Hosters
A table of the top Windows Server 2003 Hosters is provided as an excerpt from our Hosting Provider Server Count.
Fastest growing Hosting Companies over last year Hosting
A table of the Hosting Providers who grew the fastest over the year September 2002 to October 2003 is provided as an excerpt from our latest Hosting Provider Server Count. Companies are included in the filter if they started September 2002 with more than 600 servers, and finished October 2003 with at least 1000, and grew at a rate of 66% or better, year on year. This removes hosters which can show a significant percentage increase by virtue of being small at the start of the period.
This cell phone jammer looks just like a cell phone and is ideal for use when commuting on the bus and train or when eating in restaurants etc, anywhere where you need effective control at close quarters!
SH066P Personal Cell Phone Jammer
(Thanks Dirk)
Microsoft’s VSS: Can a Snapshot Ease Backup Woes?
Paul Wimmer, Windows manager with the intensive hosting division of Rackspace, reports he has not seen any demand for VSS as a backup tool among his clientele. “VSS is not a substitute for routine backups, it’s more of an add-on to that,” he says. While he does see limitations to the technology, he says it also better empowers end-users. “If you’re on a shared file system, and it’s backed up, you can go to the last backup the night before. However, there’s always an in-between period that’s in the dark. VSS will, on a pre-determined schedule, copy that information that wasn’t backed up yet to another volume, from which it can be restored.” Wimmer notes that files on Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 servers can also be copied by VSS residing on a Windows Server 2003 system in the data center.
Camera phones rival DVD players as fastest growing
Teeny camera cell phones appear to be on pace to replace DVDs as the fastest-growing consumer technology device ever.
I miss Adcritic… its gone pay and I cant’ justify paying since I don’t visit the site much.. but this crossed my desk…
More hotel guests want to unwire
When readers of the New Yorker opened their magazines last September, they got a surprise: a Zagat mini-guide of hotels and restaurants that offer Wi-Fi access.
God, I love Wifi.
Brains drained by hidden race bias
People with implicit racial prejudices are left mentally exhausted after interacting with someone from a different race, perhaps because they are trying to quell their feelings.
Survey: Job satisfaction takes a plunge
Fewer Americans are happy with their jobs and more are willing to go elsewhere than was the case two years ago, according to a report by Reston, Va.-based jobs site Careerbuilders.com.
Cancers obey universal law of growth
A universal law that describes the growth of animals also seems to describe the growth of tumours. Though the work is only in its early stages, researchers are already using it to explore the way cancers invade healthy tissue.
Rap star Jay-Z has been hinting that his next album would be his last ever since his first album, Reasonable Doubt, hit the streets in 1996. But this time he’s serious.
Fitness Top 10: Most Unhealthy Snacks
It’s 4 p.m., and it seems like your lunch hour was ages ago. You’re hungry and you need to eat something right now. But before you grab whatever is most readily available, read the following 10 most unhealthy snacks, and make sure that you choose to scarf down something else instead. Your six-pack will thank you.
Fold US dollars into pictures that reveal the September 11 Attacks
As students power up, colleges spend on upgrades
In Steve Leslie’s dorm room at Miami University, there are bunk beds, posters of Led Zeppelin and the Simpsons, and an inflatable palm tree. There’s also a plug for every outlet.
Soy supplements cut sexual behavior in rats
Soy supplements can decrease normal sexual behaviour by as much as 70 per cent, a study of female rats has shown.
The Heliodisplay projects full color streaming video into free space (i.e. air). It is plug-and-play compatible with most video sources (TV, DVD, computer, etc.). These non-holographic images can be fully interactive, allowing a hand or finger to select, navigate and manipulate — as if it were a virtual touch screen.
(Thanks Bart)
Expert advice on which flat-panel deserves your attention and cash.