Google to Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion This is big news. Google now becomes a software company that has all the ubiquity of Microsoft AND a hardware brand of its own like Apple. Microsoft’s new relationship with Nokia puts it in the meley, a three way war not just for handheld pho[...]
Archive for August, 2011
August 15th, 2011 - 8:49 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: It is a war: Superpowers Collide in the Clouds
August 15th, 2011 - 6:58 am § in Uncategorized
Animal Rights: Real Science is Archaic!
Jean Williams, an environmental writer n Seattle, has a blog post supporting the efforts of Dr. Kerry Kriger, founder of Santa Cruz based Save the Frogs, to get frog dissections out of the classroom and teach students more advanced and enlightened techniques. Her post is titled: Frog dissection: Rep[...]
Ayoon wa Azan : American Jews are All Agents of Israel and are Betraying the Interests of America)
The strangest thing is that Weiner had been married since 2010 to a woman named Huma Abedin, and that her mother is Saleha Mahmoud Abedin, active in the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. And since she is a Muslim, she cannot legally marry a non-Muslim. I do not imagine that Weiner converted to Islam to m[...]
August 14th, 2011 - 6:44 am § in Uncategorized
Sunday Revelations: A Psalm For Use With Tea
Liberal in Seattle humbly presents Sarah Palin’s Sermon on the Mount: …And seeing the oddly-garbed, strangely be-hatted multitudes among the Baggers of Tea, Sarah took up a microphone, and, reading from the writ upon the palm of her hand, shouted with a shrillness of voice that shook the heavens[...]
August 13th, 2011 - 8:33 am § in Uncategorized
Robot hand hits 20WPM,
nearly ready to embrace infinite monkey theorem By Sean Hollister posted Feb 20th 2011 at 10:31PM Robot hands have been grabbing, crushing, drawing and otherwise actuating for years, but have you ever seen one properly type? That’s the primary purpose of a new Virginia Tech design. Engineers b[...]
August 12th, 2011 - 9:06 am § in Misc.
Focus Free Photography???
Lytro says its light-field camera, due to ship later this year, will let people change the focus of their photos after the fact. A start-up called Lytro hopes to revolutionize photography by selling a camera later this year that lets people focus their images after the fact. The techniq[...]
August 11th, 2011 - 1:12 am § in Uncategorized
Money, is a big problem, even for an Einstein.
Evelyn Einstein. adopted grand daughter of Albert, has cancer, lives in a car, and is struggling to make ends meet in California. Einstein merchandise – tea shirts, comic books, bobble-head dolls, videos, mugs, coins, … none of it filters to the wizard’s grandaughter. The b[...]
China: Forging Sino-Israeli Ties.
Chinese army chief due in Israel next week By YAAKOV KATZ 08/08/2011 02:24 In signal of growing Sino-Israeli ties, meeting between Beijing’s top general, IDF chief Gantz follows Barak’s trip to China 2 months ago. Readmore[...]
August 10th, 2011 - 11:02 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Texas Pursues Profit Models for Higher Education.
Rick Perry Pushes ALEC-Backed Education Policies To Turn Texas Universities Into Businesses …from Think Progress By Travis Waldron posted from ThinkProgress Education on Aug 5, 2011 at 7:10 pm ThinkProgress intern Sarah Bufkin contributed to this report The Governor’s Transcript fro[...]