I doubt anybody is going to keep this Firefox plugin installed for very long (the point is made after a few minutes), but big red boxes and airhorns blasting you in the face are a good way of saying “HEY.
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Privacy-Conscious? Hear An Airhorn Every Time Google Detects You
WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) – The Congress on Tuesday gave President Barack Obama long-delayed funding for his troop increase in Afghanistan despite opposition from many fellow Democrats, while Obama played down the gravity of leaked war documents.
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Congress gives Obama long-delayed Afghan war funds
When the specs for Nikon’s new entry-level D3100 leaked out, it got a lot of folks’ attention. Now, the camera could officially be unveiled by the Nikon folks in about three weeks. Nikon is hosting a press week in Europe from August 16 to 20 and it’s expected that the new entry-level DSLR will make its debut there.
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Proper Nikon D3100 Unveiling Coming August 19th? [Rumors Point Towards D3100 Being Shown Off During Nikon Event August 16-20 In Europe]
I have a couple dozen of art instruction books, but few are as fun as Robots!: Draw Your Own Androids, Cyborgs & Fighting Bots , by Jay Stephens. Unlike a lot of other art books geared towards kids, Robots! has less emphasis on step-by-step tutorials (though there are a few of these, which is a good thing), focusing instead on ideas to incorporate into your own bot drawings: heads, sensors, communications subsystems, arms, legs, materials, armor, dials & levers, defense systems, controls, etc
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Robots!: Draw Your Own Androids, Cyborgs & Fighting Bots
Just the other day I was chillin on our Hammock and thought to myself, “boy, wouldn’t it be nice if there was such a thing as a Heated Hammock?” I took to the internet and sure enough, here it is. The heating elements are woven into the fabric giving you up to 122 degrees of radiant heat. This bad boy runs on rechargeable batteries that can go about 2 and a half hours on high heat (4 on low). I must also admit this a nice looking Hammock as well. It comes with two removable pillows, triple varnished solid wood headers and hand knotted rope. The 75″ by 57″ bed is made from quilted, fade-resistant polyester filled with 1/2″ of soft polyfill (sounds comfy). Now, this high end heated hammock doesn’t come cheap. At $299 you must decide on the ultimate luxury or just getting a blanket. The Only Heated Hammock
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Heated Hammock
Back in the dark ages, it used to be if you wanted a computer, you built it yourself. And I don’t mean order the parts and put them together, I mean soldering the chip sockets into a breadboard and assembling all the bits by hand
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Apparently, You Can Still Solder Together Your Own Computer If You Really Want To
Analysis of blood protein data from the Women’s Health Initiative cohorts has revealed new biomarkers for stroke and coronary heart disease (CHD). Research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Genome Medicine found that beta-2 microglobulin (B2M) levels were significantly elevated in postmenopausal women with CHD, and insulin-like growth factor binding protein 4 (IGFBP4) was strongly associated with stroke.
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Biomarkers found for postmenopausal cardiovascular disease
Get Nintendo Wii “Family Fun” Bundle with 7 Games, 3-in-1 Sports Pack, Wii Console and More for $299.99 – $40 discount = $259.99 at TigerDirect.
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Nintendo Wii "Family Fun" Bundle with 7 Games and Sports Pack $259.99 at TigerDirect
Next week, AT&T and RIM are going to be unveiling a mystery product at a press event in New York City. It’s widely speculated to be the BlackBerry 9800, the touchscreen slider that’s supposed to help RIM compete the Android phones and the iPhone.
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BlackBerry App World Ready For BlackBerry 9800 [BlackBerry 9800, BB6 Show Up As Options On App World Submission Form]
We’re expecting to get official word on the D3100 next month; Nikon is currently planning a press event the week of August 16th-20th in Europe, which is pretty typical. It’s expected that there will be two events, one to announce the launch of new Coolpix cameras, and one to announce the launch of the previously rumored D3100, as well as some new lens.
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Official Nikon D3100 Announcement Expected August 19th
The Motorola Milestone XT720 never made it to the United States, but now us Yanks can get our hands on the Android phone (‘tumor’ and all) by way of Newegg.com.
(PhysOrg.com) — A team of BYU engineers built a super-sensitive antenna for processing signals from deep space. Then they flew to Puerto Rico and installed it at about the same spot where Pierce Brosnan and Sean Bean battled it out during the climax of the James Bond film GoldenEye.
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BYU team installs new antenna on world’s largest radio telescope
When we last left the intrepid research scientists at Intel, they had managed to hit 40Gbps throughput using something called the Avalanche Photodetector. It’s been two years since that report (yeah, this has been in development for a while), and the gang at Intel have not been idle, let me tell you. They’ve managed to improve the field of photonics to achieve throughput of 50 Gbps ! While not as much of an advance as one might like to see in two years, this is still a respectable achievement
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Intel Hits 50 Gbps Throughput With Photonics
Dale Dougherty wrote in the kickoff article for this Making Detroit series about how a GO-Tech meeting was a catalyst for the Detroit Maker Faire. Well, GO-Tech, a once-a-month Maker Show and Tell, held on Ann Arbor’s west side, also brought together the members of an incredible experiment in industrial coworking known as the A2 MechShop
The Leaf is Nissan’s all-electric car. Nissan is doing some pretty interesting things with marketing the car (more on this later), but at first, like it’s competitor the Volt, it’ll only be sold in select markets at first
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Nissan Leaf Availability To Be Limited, Too [Like The EV1 & Volt, Leaf Will First Only Arrive In Select Markets In The United States]
Using chemical “nanoblasts” that punch tiny holes in the protective membranes of cells, researchers have demonstrated a new technique for getting therapeutic small molecules, proteins and DNA directly into living cells.
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Nanoblasts from laser-activated nanoparticles move molecules, proteins and DNA into cells
Fluids experts writing in the journal Physics of Fluids, which is published by the American Institute of Physics, are projecting it will be many decades before we can accurately probe the properties of turbulence near walls. High-Reynolds-number flows (which are prone to turbulence) are critically important in aeronautics, naval applications, energy conversion processes, manufacturing, mixing and dilution of pollutants, and in many aspects of climate modeling, according to Professor Hassan Nagib at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
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Eddies against the wall
Earth’s climate is strongly influenced by the presence of particles of different shapes and origins — in the form of dust, ice and pollutants — that find their way into the lowest portion of the atmosphere, the troposphere. There, water adsorbed on the surface of these particles can freeze at higher temperatures than pure water droplets, triggering rain and snow.
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Artificially controlling water condensation leads to ‘room-temperature ice’
Apple must make a big, juicy target to lawyers trying to cobble together class-action lawsuits. They make promises in plain English that, as is the case with almost all advertising, don’t exactly pan out, but usually allowances can be made. Does Old Spice make you “smell like a man”
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Class Action Lawsuit Against Apple Alleges That iPads Get Too Hot When Used In The Sun
This is a viral marketing campaign for some kind of extra-fine point Pilot pen. I love the minifigs themselves, but the campaign bugs me for a couple of reasons: 1) I’ve been Googling around pretty hard and can’t seem to figure out exactly which of Pilot’s many pens these photos are promoting, and 2) nowhere does it explicitly state that the art on the minifigs was actually done with whatever pen they are advertising. So even if I could figure out which one that was, it’s not at all clear that I could actually use it to tattoo my own minifigs.
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Tattooed Lego minifigs