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Bionic hand wins engineering prize

Monday, June 09, 2008 11:06 PM
This is just unbelievably cool: The world's most advanced, commercially available, bionic hand has won the UK's top engineering prize. The i-LIMB, a prosthetic device with five individually powered digits, beat three other finalists to win this year's
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Three cool stories

Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:44 PM
Three very cool stories caught my eye today. 1) Researchers have managed to decipher and play back a recording made nearly two decades before Edison's phonograph. The phonautogram was made in France in 1860 and represents the earliest known recording
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Using JungleDisk

Saturday, March 22, 2008 2:26 PM
Jack Lail posted about JungleDisk the other day; it sounded interesting, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. I like it. The idea is pretty simple, at least in the abstract: using Amazon's S3 online storage service, JungleDisk maps an online storage location
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More cool stuff from TED: Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope

Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:20 PM
This TED video of Roy Gould and Curtis Wong highlights Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope , which is a mashup of the best images of the universe from all the world's telescopes, blended together in an interactive, zoomable, and feature-rich interface. It
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Rhapsody taking over Yahoo Music

Monday, February 04, 2008 8:40 PM
Yahoo announced today that their on-demand Yahoo Music service is being taken over by RealNetwork's Rhapsody. From the sound of it , Yahoo may be using Rhapsody only as an interim solution, pending resolution of Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo. I don't
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White House email: my dog ate it

Friday, January 18, 2008 11:42 AM
First, there's this : The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according
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My experiences with Windows Vista so far

Sunday, December 30, 2007 7:25 PM
I've had my new computer set up for about a week now, so I've had some time to play with Windows Vista (Home Premium, not that the version matters very much). So far, so good. I have an HP with an AMD 64 X2 dual core processor, 3 GB RAM, a 400 GB SATA
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My Best Buy addiction

Sunday, November 25, 2007 9:33 PM
After spending most of Thanksgiving weekend doing nothing but eating, I decided to take a break on Saturday by going to Best Buy. It didn't occur to me until I pulled into the parking lot that this was the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and the store was
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Blazin' download speeds coming soon

Monday, October 22, 2007 10:10 PM
Holy crap : IBM (NYSE: IBM) disclosed Monday that it has teamed up with Taiwanese vendor MediaTek to develop computer chipsets that the companies say will allow consumers to wirelessly zap high-definition content to televisions and other devices at push-button
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Just tinkering

Saturday, October 20, 2007 5:27 PM
I've been tinkering with some stuff under the hood today. For one thing, I've registered the domain name http://russmcbee.mobi , which I intend to employ as a mobile/WAP version of this site. I'd like to find a way to make an automatic, mobile-friendly
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An error message that explains a lot

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:04 PM
A while ago, my Flash player crashed Internet Explorer 7. Yeah, I know; you're saying "Use Firefox instead of IE7, dummy." Anyway, the Windows Error Reporting Service dutifully sent the error message to Microsoft; I expected some message to come back
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I'm thinking of buying a laptop

Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:34 PM
I've been toying with the idea of buying a laptop. I don't need one for any specific or imminent purpose, but I think it might come in handy. My criteria are pretty simple: I want performance, portability, and quality for the least cost. I'd likely use
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Climate change, Twitter, and billiards

Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:20 PM
A couple of random thoughts: Shortly after 7:00 PM tonight, it was still 101°F in Knoxville. A new computer model of climate change has been released which is able to model global warming over the next ten years. According to a story I just heard on the
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Twitter

Saturday, August 04, 2007 2:01 PM
I've been playing around with Twitter for the last day or so. I'm not yet sure what it represents, or how I'll use it, but I can already see how it can become addictive. I've added a feed for my most recent Twitter updates in the right-hand sidebar, just
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Crackberry addicts do it in bed

Saturday, July 28, 2007 5:15 PM
This is getting ridiculous : A survey by AOL and Opinion Research of 4,025 Americans over the age of 13 found that almost six out of 10 used their mobile email gadgets in bed . Four out of 10 said they kept them nearby as they slept so they could hear
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To see a world in a grain of sand

Monday, July 02, 2007 11:19 PM
Microsoft's Photosynth technology is mind-blowing. Imagine a satellite map of the United States; then imagine the ability to drill into a region, a city, a street, a building, and a blade of grass on the lawn. Imagine starting with a full frontal view
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Talking paper!

Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:28 PM
Some Swedish scientists with way too much time on their hands have invented talking paper : Researchers from Mid Sweden University have constructed an interactive paper billboard that emits recorded sound in response to a user's touch. The prototype display
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The latest creepiness from Google

Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:23 AM
I usually feel a mixture of awe and creepy dread whenever I read about Google's various technologies; those people are way too smart not to be aliens from Planet Genius. Today is no exception. Google's image search now supports basic face recognition
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Surface computing: the coolest thing I have ever seen

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:24 AM
Get ready to ditch the keyboard and mouse: That is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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Your wireless network is NOT secure

Friday, May 18, 2007 9:35 AM
Bruce Schneier points to an interview with three German researchers who have developed the latest crack of the WEP protocol, which is used to encrypt most of the wireless networks currently deployed. Here's the money quote : Last month, three researchers,
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