There’s a good write up on cinema’s most famous scream over at NPR. It even includes a real audio track so you can check it out for yourself. Now that I know what to listen for, I’ve noticed it in a bunch of video games too.
A genuine, flexible, flapping-capable winged aircraft, or ornithopter, has been produced by the University of Toronto‘s Institute for Aerospace Studies and non-profit research institute, SRI International
Picture-messaging phones may be about to get a whole lot more intrusive. Thanks to a novel way to make a thin sheet of a piezoelectric ceramic material work like an ultra-cheap micromotor, mobile phone cameras should soon be able to zoom and focus with the same precision as the autofocusing lenses used in expensive stills cameras
The popular Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera officially launched its English Web site, five months after hackers brought down a temporary site at the height of the Iraq war
So far I’ve only skimmed this article quickly and checked out the comparison charts, but this looks to be quite a solid article comparing the pros and cons of the 9 browsers available for us OS X users.
I rebooted the computer today and it refused to power up again. Half an hour of unplugging, replugging, removal and replacement of box panels and much swearing later — all while working under a desk, amid a rat’s nest of cables with a Husky standing on my chest — I discovered the problem. When the Palm is sucking power through its USB cable, there’s not enough juice to power up the box. And conversely, the box tries to draw power from the PDA, so flat batteries on the Palm.
Probably worth noting that I’ve had little to do with USB until recently, as instead of the usual array of USB friendly peripherals I opted for the SCSI versions instead. And I’ve never had the Palm connected to the box when I’ve had to reboot.
After this encounter with the pitfalls of USB, I’m quite glad I opted for SCSI for the hard core peripherals instead.
The Dutch are the first to permit cannabis to be legally dispensed to those with a doctor’s prescription, and other countries — including Britain, parts of the US, Australia and Canada, where plans for a similar system are at an advanced stage — will be watching the Dutch experience closely
Japan, China and South Korea plan to develop an original operating system in a bid to challenge the domination of Microsoft Windows. Microsoft has declared the strategy unfair
Microsoft has told the W3C that it’s considering making changes to Internet Explorer in light of a recent ruling against the company in a patent infringement lawsuit
American doctor Geoffrey Chernoff has told a Queensland medical conference that small skin biopsies are taken from patients and stored until the patient uses it for reconstructive or cosmetic procedures
A Tufts team has figured out how spiders and silkworms spin such strong silk, which could have far-reaching implications for everything from hospital dressings to body armour.
A few weeks ago, MIT graduate student Shan Sinha cancelled his broadband Internet service. Now his Net connection comes through the chimney. From a computer in the living room of his Cambridge apartment, a few blocks from the MIT campus, a cable goes into the fireplace up to the roof, where it is attached to an antenna. From there, data packets hop to another roof-mounted antenna at a nearby student’s apartment. That way, from roof to roof in multiple hops, Sinha’s data packets finally reach a gateway — a computer connected to the fixed Internet — at MIT’s computer science building
The WTO has agreed to give poor countries greater access to inexpensive lifesaving medicine by altering international trade rules
Spring has arrived and things are flowering in the garden.
As I have a long line of plant murders in my past, I’ve narrowed things down to some of the tougher specimens. I’m also a big fan of foliage. I figure if something is only going to flower briefly, why have a crappy looking plant the rest of the year, hence the Irises and Cliveas with their strappy green leaves.
The luscious purple Irises came from my great aunt Marj.
The bright orange Cliveas hiding under a tree are from my Nan. Both far better gardeners than I could ever hope to be.
The difficult part about making your own liquid motion lamp is, of course, the motion
US companies with the highest rates of pay for chief executives also have the greatest number of staff redundancies, according to the ‘Executive Excess 2003‘ report conducted by United for a Fair Economy and the Institute for Policy Studies. Is anyone really surprised?
Computer glitches by the US Air Force allowed some foreign countries to get classified or sensitive military parts they weren’t supposed to have
RSA Security is developing a ‘blocker’ tag that disrupts RFID tag transmissions, protecting a person’s privacy from those who would abuse RFID technology
EarthLink filed a lawsuit against the ‘Alabama Spammers’, an unidentified group it alleges used its access service to send massive amounts of junk e-mail
Penelope Corcoran, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter, had a chance to try out a Bow-Lingual on Crema, her part-Chihuahua part-Dachshund beastie. The unit didn’t score too well, looking more like an expensive, battery hungry, canine version of a Magic 8-Ball than a true translation device
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