WiFiFoFum
A PocketPC app to find nearby WiFi hotspots. Not just a listing of name and signal strength but shows the location of each of them on a radar-type screen.

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Ninetydays was a global design challenge posed to 9 designers in 9 cities around the world: within 90 days, build a chair that can be made for $200 or less that can support the weight of a person up to 200lbs. The catch? The chair had to be able to fit inside a FedEx box.

All nine FedEx packages made it to their destination, here is the video of the chairs being assembled.

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What's New in Shrek 2?

Article on some of the advances in CG in Shrek 2. Hope I manage to see it this week.

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10 Stories The World Should Hear More About
The United Nations put up this site covering the top 10 global news that the media isn't covering, or isn't covering enough.

Also, http://worldpress.org/ "was founded in 1997 and we are committed to offering our readers a first-hand look at the issues and debates that occupy the world's newspapers and magazines. As the space devoted to thoughtful, incisive reporting of foreign news shrinks in the U.S. media, many subjects and perspectives of vital international importance are increasingly obscured or invisible to Americans."

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Speakerless speakers: "Induction Dynamics SolidDrive installs directly behind walls for a truly inside-wall speaker - turning the entire wall into a sound source. Sound is generated from these large acoustic-radiating surfaces and the listener becomes immersed in sound. The sound is omni directional at nearly all frequencies while channel separation is maintained."

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Amateur rocket breaks the space barrier: "A team of rocketeers has claimed success in its goal of launching the first amateur rocket into space, sending a 21-foot (6.5-meter) rocket an estimated 70 miles (112 kilometers) above the Nevada desert."

How are Carmack's efforts going? Maybe too busy with the Doom III release.

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Apple seeks patent for see-through windows: "Apple's patent application, appears to focus on a particular way of doing translucency, specifically windows that become more see-through after they are unused for a period of time. "

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Lamborghini donates Gallardo to Italian police
Don't even think of out-speeding the Italian cops - they have a 185mph Lamborghini!

MSNBC report: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4979103

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Transmeta to add antivirus feature to chips

Anti-virus stuff gets into processors now!

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Plane Flies to Edge of Space: "A piloted rocket plane has blasted through the earth's atmosphere becoming the first privately funded vehicle to reach the edge of space."

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Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site

"A GPS device and a hunger for adventure are all you need for high tech treasure hunting. Here you can find the latest caches in your area, how to hide your own cache, and information on how to get started in this fun and exciting sport."

Should be fun to do!

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Payphone Project: "His Web site, www.payphone-project.com, which gets about 45,000 visitors per month, is one of the only places where people can match an incoming pay phone number to a location."

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Globe Grows Darker as Sunshine Diminishes 10% to 37%: "Defying expectation and easy explanation, hundreds of instruments around the world recorded a drop in sunshine reaching the surface of Earth, as much as 10 percent from the late 1950's to the early 90's, or 2 percent to 3 percent a decade. In some regions like Asia, the United States and Europe, the drop was even steeper. In Hong Kong, sunlight decreased 37 percent."

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CDs and DVDs Not So Immortal After All
Consumers and professionals are discovering their optical media suffer from "CD rot," a gradual deterioration of the data-carrying layer. It's just one of a number of reasons that optical discs, including DVDs, may be a lot less long-lived ....


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Quick, After Him: Pac-Man Went Thataway: "Somewhere out there on the streets of Greenwich Village, a fellow student was running around in a yellow Pac-Man suit. His four pursuers, code-named Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde, aimed to track him down and snuff him out - the sooner, the better."

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The Bionic Running Shoe by Adidas: "The shoes will have push-button controls, light-emitting diodes to display settings and an instruction manual on a CD-ROM that will advise wearers on, among other things, how to change the battery after every 100 hours of use. "

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Spring 2004 Mayfield newsletter on datacenter management.

A technical-commerical newsletter on current companies that Mayfield, a VC company is supporting in a certain field, this time it is data center. One of them is Mendocino Software, where I currently work.



Amit

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Apple patented by Microsoft: "Microsoft, amid an IP spree that has won the company patent protection for everything from XML dialects to video game storage methods, mistakenly received a patent on Tuesday for a new variety of apple tree."

Now I know what the bloke meant the other day when he said "tree control".

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