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Biofuels: informed comparison

Sep 26th, 2007 12:21pm

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From National Geographic peeps comes a great multimedia piece on alternative energy. "Biofuels Compared" interactively illustrates how emerging biofuels size up and the benefits and costs of producing each one. It also shows comparison of each source's greenhouse gas emissions and energy balance (ratio of the amount of fossil fuel ...

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Google China: an apartheid era reminder

Jun 7th, 2006 7:00pm

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Chinese authorities have blocked most domestic users from the main Google.com search engine, a media watchdog said. ... But Google.cn, the controversial Chinese language version launched in January, has not been affected. The site blocks politically sensitive material to comply with government censorship rules. ... On Tuesday, Google co-founder Sergey Brin defended his company's decision to launch the ...
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Poll: what brand/size laptop do you use?

Jun 2nd, 2006 9:10pm
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If you use a laptop, please vote in the brand and screen size that you use. Gracias!

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Car that runs on air debuts in France

May 31st, 2006 12:54am
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Just the other day, I was thinking it would be so crazy-cool if some company bust out a new technology that allows cars to run on a dirt-cheap gasoline alternative thus banishing the great oil dependency for good. Unpurified ...

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Information is addictive and enablers abound

May 4th, 2006 1:02am
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If you're like me, you probably think information is sexy. Or even worse, you realize that information is addictive and you're always on the lookout for new pushers in places you shouldn't be when you should be twelve-stepping towards normalcy instead. Ok, you're not abnormal, you just always like to know stuff even if of no use ...
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News alerts: Update vs opinion filters

Apr 29th, 2006 2:28pm
You know what would be great? News alerts that differentiate between an actual news update and just another published opinion. For example: Say the sky is falling and Chicken Little wasn't just high/drunk/whatever her original problem was. Meteorologists confirm that the cloud/candy floss layer of the sky is 2 feet lower than it should be, especially in Ireland. They say its falling at a rate of 2 inches per year and ...
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Tough noogies; Google PO’ed about being googled

Aug 9th, 2005 3:00am
"After the article appeared, David Krane, Google's director of public relations, called CNET editors to complain, said Jai Singh, the editor in chief of CNETNews.com. "They were unhappy about the fact we used Schmidt's private information in our story," Singh said. "Our view is what we published was all public information, and we actually used their own product to find it." He said Krane called back to say that ...
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Interesting use of P2P: user to user lending

Jul 21st, 2005 2:00am
Zopa demonstrates an interesting use in P2P (peer to peer) technology: lending. Works like eBay, but no banks involved; users lend to other users. I imagine restrictive regulations prevent such implentations in North America? Can't otherwise imagine why nothing like that has been seen/tried here.

Apple switches from IBM to Intel chips in its machines.

Jun 7th, 2005 1:00am
As I commented on the BBC page, I think Apple may as well call it a day and save us the confusion because switching chips is not the point. THE issue is the mounting quality problems that its product lines have been presenting for consumers. I mean, logic board replacements, battery recalls, all within the last 2-3 years? I say something's ...
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Online gansters; Hackers who extort money

Jun 1st, 2005 1:00am
These days, the new gansters are online; hackers who extort money from firms by threatening of DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks. Ransom emails demanding lots of money in return for not hacking and knocking your company servers offline is becoming a very common problem. DDOS attacks overwhelm servers with customer requests until they are forced offline. Worst part is, many computers (which may include yours) are used to ...
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