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And yes, the name is significant: it's a cube and it's designed for use in space

Everyone seems to be losing personal details. But the claim about Best Western is stunning: 8m people from 1412 hotels? Or ten from one?

Your handy guide to operating the vast particle accelerator beneath Switzerland

Typewriters were terrible tools for writing drafts if only because they had no facility for crossing sections out. At least with a pen, you could make a quick line through an entire paragraph that failed.

If McCain hadn’t become Karl Rove’s sockpuppet, this is what he might have said in response to the selection of Joe Biden as Obama’s running mate:

Chet Edwards is the rumor of the day for Obama’s vp. Here he talks about how Democrats can win. He is very close to Obama in his thinking on this: [Tags: chet_edwards obama politics ]

In an effort to counter Apple’s must-see Mac vs. PC ads, Microsoft is paying Jerry Seinfeld $10M to appear in Vista ads. Yes, nothing proves you’re hip like hiring a retired, 1990s sitcom star.

Here’s how the DMCA has worked so far: A copyright holder (henceforth “publisher”) notices an instance (henceforth “video”) of what it thinks is a violation of its copyright on a site such as YouTube (henceforth “YouTube”). The publisher sends YouTube a notice that the video infringes copyright. YouTube then has a choice: It can disagree that the video...

The games industry is clamping down - but what's your take?

Mobile Computer's side-by-side comparison does not look good for RIM

There’s an excellent story on the front page of the Boston Globe today, by Carolyn Johnson, about scientists who just go ahead and blab about their data before the village elders have given them permission. Yay. The article says: Scientists who plunge into openness also risk giving a competing lab a leg up.

I am a fan of PhotoSynth. I hope Microsoft gets some traction with this. Brady's take here. My earlier coverage.

Price cuts may help clear the way for a refreshed line-up

Pablo Castro has recounted some of his timelined memories about how "Project Astoria" evolved from a lunch time conversation to bits in .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 now known as ADO.NET Data Services Framework). Nice write up. Three memories of my own to add to the story: 1. I was reading up on the whole REST thing in the summer of 2006 - its origins, philosophy and design patterns....

DreamWorks demonstrated 3D movies at the Intel Developer Forum

#8567 If iTunes — one of the least intuitive user interfaces around — isn’t transferring podcasts onto your iPod (which, except for the wheel, is a UI so badly designed that your first instincts are almost wrong): 1. Click on your iPod in the “Devices” section of iTunes

Here’s an animated explanation of how humans spread across the planet. (Thanks for the link, Greg!) [Tags: science anthropology genetics ]

Gene Koo and Eric Gordon are giving a Tuesday lunch talk on “Hub2: Creating Deliberative Publics through Virtual Worlds.” [I'm taking quick notes and will undoubtedly get some stuff wrong.]

Google is taking to the public in its lobbying of the FCC to make the “white space” available for wireless broadband. This is the space between designated channels. Right now, we use it as sort of bowling alley gutter bumpers between assigned frequencies, but given modern technology, we can make better use of it, if only we’re allowed to.

Th Soviet Union used to fake photos to rewrite the past, and now ordinary people are doing the same thing