The Conservative Brotherhood used to be a blog roll. A mere list of right of center bloggers. Now they have a whole site of their own. check it out. They are not ALL what you might think when you think about conservatives. Some of them I don’t think are conservative AT ALL but you judge.
The Boondocks premieres Sunday, November 6, at 11 p.m. on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.
What more needs to be said? I’ll watch and give my thought afterwords.
Trekers will remember that in “Star Trek: The Journey Home” Scotty messed around with history by a giving 20th century engineer the formula for “Transparent Aluminium”
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s materials and manufacturing directorate is testing aluminum oxynitride — ALONtm — as a replacement for the traditional multi-layered glass transparencies now used in existing ground and air armored vehicles.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, White House counsel Harriet Miers, abruptly withdrew from consideration on Thursday after fierce criticism from the right and the left about her credentials for the lifetime job. (link)
Buffalo Chips !!! The right criticized her because they weren’t sure if she drank the Neo-con Coolaid. If Repubs had gotten behind the nomination, the Dems would have tried to block it but I bet within a month she would be sitting on the bench.
Prediction:
Look for the next nomination to be ANOTHER person with close ties to the business community. Everybody is talking about Roe V Wade, but Bush, is trying to secure drilling rights. So he is going to pick somebody who will put a lid on environmental laws.
Someone doing experiments with LED (Light Emitting Diodes) may have discovered how to make the incandescent light obsolete nearly a century after it was invented by Thomas Edison.
The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork.
An accidental discovery announced this week has taken LED lighting to a new level, suggesting it could soon offer a cheaper, longer-lasting alternative to the traditional light bulb. The miniature breakthrough adds to a growing trend that is likely to eventually make Thomas Edison’s bright invention obsolete.
LEDs are already used in traffic lights, flashlights, and architectural lighting. They are flexible and operate less expensively than traditional lighting.
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Dap: /.
Hint: LED will be the new ceramics. This is going to be a hot field to get into. Especially if a white one can be made that can replace incandescent and florescent lights.
Hint2 : Look for an application that gives us electronic paper, like we saw in “Minority Report.” You heard it hear first.
Wine is the Windows Emulator. It is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API, on *nix systems like FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris. It will allow you to run Windows programs without the MS Windows.
After roughly 12 years of work, the Wine Project is about to take its widely used Windows translation layer to a place it has not been in all that time: beta.
Wine Project leader Alexandre Julliard, who has worked on the software nearly since its beginning in 1993 and maintained it since 1994, said interview yesterday that the beta release is “a matter of days away.” He has since updated that forecast and said it would be released on Tuesday, October 25th.
“We are currently in code freeze for the release,” Julliard said. “It should happen sometime next week.” (more)
Dap: /.
These guys have an almost impossible task, trying to catch up with MS. I am sure every so often MS tweaks the API making it that much harder. Hopefully it won’t take another 12 year before a release version comes out.
queen has passed away today. It was because of her, how she had the courage to demand respect. It was her and those that stood with her, and supported her, and all of those like her, in that era had the courage to do the same in thier corner of America, that we, not only black people, but all Americans, can enjoy any of the freedoms and inalienable that we are promised in the Great Documents of Our Nation. I agree with the Neville Brothers “Thank you, Miss Rosa.”
During the 2003 to 2004 outbreak of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in Asia, there were anecdotal reports of fatal infection in domestic cats, although this species is considered resistant to influenza. We experimentally inoculated cats with H5N1 virus intratracheally and by feeding them virus-infected chickens. The cats excreted virus, developed severe diffuse alveolar damage, and transmitted virus to sentinel cats. These results show that domestic cats are at risk of disease or death from H5N1 virus, can be infected by horizontal transmission, and may play a role in the epidemiology of this virus. (link)
dap: The Long Tail (no pun intended)
This the speed of a new Wi-FI standard coming out next year, 802.11n. 802.11n is being promoted by the Enhanced Wireless Consortium. Basically all the people who stand to gain the most money if 802.11n is widely accepted.
27 companies announced on Monday that they would be joining forces to promote the next generation of wireless networking technology. The group would be known as the Enhanced Wireless Consortium and will push for the ratification of 802.11n.
802.11n promises connection speeds of up to 600 Mbps. In comparison, 802.11b maxes out at 11 Mbps, and 802.11a and 802.11ag at 54 Mbps
While this is cool, this will really be meaningless unless pressure is put on broadband ISP to open up their pipes more. The top speeds right now max out at about 6 Mbps.
Google Reader Has just recently been launched.
Google Reader, a service we hope helps you spend more time reading what’s important to you (or is, if you’d prefer, nicely diverting). The Reader team is excited to begin iterating in public, and now that Jason Shellen’s announced it at Web 2.0 we’re excited to get your feedback on this early-stage effort.
I checked it out. I have a tenancy swoon over apps that Google puts out. Even beta versions of many apps they put out are usually way better than most commercially release software and services . But this one, while it does the job is still squarely a beta. Bloglines is still the leader in my book for o RSS Feed readers period. Granted I have yet to tryout Feed Daemon, so when I get a round to giving that a spin maybe I’ll change my mind.
Google has a virtue that it rather build than buy technology, but if you ask me they should have NEVER let this property (Bloglines) go to Ask Jeeves, or at least make them pay though the nose for it. They could have replaced Bloglines feeble blog service with that of Blogger, and would have a great platform from which to serve ads. But I digress ….
Critisms
While they try to shell out more of the AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) goodness that they achieved with their maps, gmail and personalized homepage, this one doesn’t quite make it. It is not as fast as I’m used to seeing from a Google AJAX product, though that might have something to do with me uploading ALL of my 281 feeds from Bloglines.
Thats another thing. Importing feed subscriptions is a hassle too. I can’t just give it the URL of an OPML file. I have to save the OPML file locally and upload it to Google Reader.
Organization is decent. I preserves the groups that I have set up, but it doesn’t tell me which feeds, or groups of feeds have unread content, until you select the feed.
All in all an adequate service but nothing that would make me switch readers from Bloglines as my regular reader.
Update:
Adding this the Freedbacking category
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