Wired News: Mighty Mice Regrow Organs

Wired News: Mighty Mice Regrow Organs: "Genetically altered mice discovered accidentally at the Wistar Institute in Pennsylvania have the seemingly miraculous ability to regenerate like a salamander, and even regrow vital organs."

Tom's Hardware Guide PCs & HowTo: Pepping Up Windows - Introduction

Tom's Hardware Guide PCs & HowTo: Pepping Up Windows - Introduction: "The average Windows user tends to be less than satisfied with Windows. And that's no surprise, either, given the rather woeful state of its default applications. Consider that both Wordpad and Notepad refuse to open larger files, the integrated audio recorder limits recordings to 60 seconds, and Paint, the integrated graphics program, offers only the most rudimentary of features. Worse still, Internet Explorer can neither be considered modern nor safe for browsing, while Outlook Express is known for its affinity for contracting any number of worms and viruses. In short, the out-of-the-box Windows configuration is usually outdated and problem laden."

Prog Power VI

Main Page: "So, finally, Prog Power VI was here..this is the second time I have experienced this two-day Metal Event! I had gone to the now highly documented and loved Prog Power III(Angra, Edguy, Gamma Ray, Silent Force, Blind Guardian), so it's safe to say that my expectations were very high. I will not bore you with details of our trip to and from Atlanta(almost event-less) but I'll just say that this is not the last time I will visit this awesome city to go to Prog Power!!"

WorldNetDaily: Paraplegic breakthrough using adult stem cells

WorldNetDaily: Paraplegic breakthrough using adult stem cells: "Apparent major breakthrough
with patient paralyzed 19 years"

Blogcritics.org: U.S. Sponsors Discrimination.

Blogcritics.org: U.S. Sponsors Discrimination.: "More of our democracy and formerly 'free' country got flushed down the toilet last week when the House of Republicans voted to allow states to freely discriminate against American citizens on the basis of religion."

Mad Penguin

Mad Penguin: "Every community has its heroes. From the beginning of time, we've all needed that special something to grasp onto and worship in one way or another. The Linux community is no different. Sure, there are a handful of people known as leaders or visionaries that people look up to, but what other alta..."

The digital Dark Age - Technology - smh.com.au

The digital Dark Age - Technology - smh.com.au: "The quicker we are to record and store our lives in digital form, the bleaker the future of information looks, writes John Huxley."

Mobile Phone As Home Computer

Mobile Phone As Home Computer: "What would you call a device that has a screen, a keyboard, storage for personal information such as contacts, email, documents, the ability to play audio and video files, some games, a spreadsheet program, and a communications capability? Sound like a personal computer? How about 'mobile phone'?"

The Korea Times : Seoul to Build Combat Robot

The Korea Times : Seoul to Build Combat Robot: "Defense and communications technicians will team up to develop a mobile combat robot to fight alongside human soldiers on the battlefield, the government said Wednesday."

SPACE.com -- Nanotechnology: Scientists Pin Big Hopes on a Small Scale

SPACE.com -- Nanotechnology: Scientists Pin Big Hopes on a Small Scale: "BOULDER, Colo. -- Nanotechnology, which is being developed for use in a number of industries, may have large payoffs for space applications and exploration missions."

Space Elevator: Momentum Building

Space Elevator: Momentum Building: "Leading experts are meeting this week to take a longing look at the idea of a space elevator. The idea is a stretch, no doubt, with plenty of work to do before travelers have push-button, top floor access to space."

The Fibonacci Numbers and Golden section in Nature - 1

The Fibonacci Numbers and Golden section in Nature - 1

The Golden Section - the Number and Its Geometry

The Golden Section - the Number and Its Geometry

What is the golden section (or Phi)?
We will call the Golden Ratio (or Golden number) after a greek letter,Phi (phi) here, although some writers and mathematicians use another Greek letter, tau (tau). Also, we shall use phi (note the lower case p) for a closely related value.

Autopackage

Home :: autopackage: "This is Autopackage, the multi-distribution binary packaging framework for Linux systems.

* Build packages that will install on many different distros
* Multiple front ends: best is automatically chosen so GUI users get a graphical front end, and command line users get a text based interface
* Multiple language support (both in tools and for your own packages)
* Automatically verifies and resolves dependencies no matter how the software was installed. This means you don't have to use Autopackage for all your software, or even any of it, for packages to successfully install."

TUX | The First and Only Magazine for the New Linux User

TUX | The First and Only Magazine for the New Linux User

Troubling Exits At Microsoft

Troubling Exits At Microsoft: "Once the dream workplace of tech's highest achievers, it is suffering key defections to Google and elsewhere. What's behind the losses? "

news @ nature.com - Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins - Google Earth programme leads to remains of ancient villa.

news @ nature.com - Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins - Google Earth programme leads to remains of ancient villa.: "Using satellite images from Google Maps and Google Earth, an Italian computer programmer has stumbled upon the remains of an ancient villa"

clevescene.com | News | Kill Bill | 2005-03-30 | Printable

clevescene.com | News | Kill Bill: "Microsoft's army of lawyers was no match for a kid from Kent State"

bit-tech.net | Hardware Reviews Index

bit-tech.net | Hardware Reviews Index

Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle

Untitled Document:

Introduction
It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management. What are the causes and consequences of this lack of agreement? Since 1 part in 100,000 would imply that one could put a Shuttle up each day for 300 years expecting to lose only one, we could properly ask "What is the cause of management's fantastic faith in the machinery?"

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: "There's lots of innovation going on in security - we're inundated with a steady stream of new stuff and it all sounds like it works just great. Every couple of months I'm invited to a new computer security conference, or I'm asked to write a foreword for a new computer security book. And, thanks to the fact that it's a topic of public concern and a 'safe issue' for politicians, we can expect a flood of computer security-related legislation from lawmakers. So: computer security is definitely still a 'hot topic.' But why are we spending all this time and money and still having problems?"

Charles Baudelaire - Biography

Charles Baudelaire - Biography: "Charles Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du mal; (1857;The Flowers of Evil) which was perhaps the most important and influential baudelairepoetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his Petits poèmes en prose (1868; 'Little Prose Poems') was the most successful and innovative early experiment in prose poetry of the time."

Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud: "Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)


Now, only recently, being on the point of giving my last squawk, I thought of looking for the key to the ancient feast where I might find my appetite again.

Charity is that key. -- This inspiration proves that I have dreamed!

'You will always be a hyena...' etc., protests the devil who crowned me with such pleasant poppies. 'Attain death with all your appetites, your selfishness and all the capital sins!'

Ah! I'm fed up: -- But, dear Satan, a less fiery eye I beg you! And while awaiting a few small infamies in arrears, you who love the absence of the instructive or descriptive faculty in a writer, for you let me tear out these few, hideous pages from my notebook of one of the damned."

Tech Shows

Tech Shows: "This is a list of the best free downloadable tech/gaming shows currently available on the Internet. These shows are also referred to as vidcasts, VODcasts, videozines, and IPTV. This site is currently only for video content, and will not list tech podcasts. This list will be regularly updated with new shows and information."

Bosch, Hieronymus

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Christ Carrying the Cross

c. 1490 (160 Kb); Oil on panel, 76.7 x 83.5 cm; Musee des Beaux-Arts, Ghent

Bosch's belief in the pervasive evil of the world colored his paintings of more conventional religious subjects; the stories of Christ and the saints became images of torment by demons or mobs of mocking humans. Typical of these interpretations are the numerous images from Christ's passion, such as the half-length Crowning with Thorns, or Christ Being Shown to the People (c.1485; National Gallery, London). A representative image of this type is the view, also half-length, of Christ Carrying the Cross (c.1490; Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent), in which a crowd of grotesque faces seems to swallow up the face of the suffering Christ.

Robi Draco Rosa - USATODAY.com - Man of many names succeeds with his own

USATODAY.com - Man of many names succeeds with his own: "Man of many names succeeds with his own
By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY
Who he is: After writing hits for Ricky Martin, singer/producer/composer Robi Draco Rosa is living la vida solo. The 13-track Mad Love (12 tracks in English, one in Spanish), with its unbridled passion, driving Latin punk-rock rhythms and exotic jazz-tinged flourishes, could be Rosa's front-stage pass. Due March 30, it's his fourth solo effort, following 1994's Frio (later released in English as Songbirds & Roosters), 1996's Vagabundo and 2001's Libertad del Alma. "

WebMuseum: Bosch, Hieronymus

WebMuseum: Bosch, Hieronymus: "Timeline: Late Gothic Painting

The master of the monstrous... the discoverer of the unconscious.
-- Carl Gustav Jung, on Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus, or Jerome, Bosch, b. c.1450, d. August 1516, spent his entire artistic career in the small Dutch town of Hertogenbosch, from which he derived his name.

At the time of his death, Bosch was internationally celebrated as an eccentric painter of religious visions who dealt in particular with the torments of hell. During his lifetime Bosch's works were in the inventories of noble families of the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and they were imitated in a number of paintings and prints throughout the 16th century, especially in the works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder."

Mundo Mazinger

Mundo MazingerGood site with lots of anime and all about Mazinger

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche: "Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of traditional morality and Christianity. He believed in life, creativity, health, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond. Central to Nietzsche's philosophy is the idea of 'life-affirmation,' which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines which drain life's energies, however socially prevalent those views might be. Often referred to as one of the first 'existentialist' philosophers, Nietzsche has inspired leading figures in all walks of cultural life, including dancers, poets, novelists, painters, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists and social revolutionaries."

Interview: Hans Reiser

Interview: Hans Reiser: "In this interview, Hans discusses his background and how he came to create Namesys and Reiserfs. He looks back at Reiser3, describing the advantages it had over other filesystems when it was released and its current state. He then explores the many improvements currently in Reiser4, describing the plugin architecture and its exciting potential for future semantic enhancements."

DNS Stuff: DNS tools, DNS hosting tests, WHOIS, traceroute, ping, and other network and domain name tools.

DNS Stuff: DNS tools, DNS hosting tests, WHOIS, traceroute, ping, and other network and domain name tools.



This is one handy page, with tons of practical tools for Web wizards (and wannabes). Look up Whois data for any domain in several ways, check a mail server to see if it's on spam blacklists, test an e-mail address for problems, and more.

Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum

Identity Theft Resource Center | A Nonprofit Organization

Identity Theft Resource Center | A Nonprofit Organization

PC Magazine: Top 100 Web Sites

PC Magazine: Top 100 Web Sites

Feature from PC Magazine: Spyware Warrior

Feature from PC Magazine: Spyware Warrior