These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/07/08 … please enjoy:
Meet ApriPoko, Toshiba's channel surfing helper-bot | Engadget
ApriPoko is capable of learning how to control electronics by watching you and asking questions about your behavior. When you use an infrared device, the robot senses the signal and asks the user "What did you just do?"
MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies | Microsoft Research
MySong, introduced in our CHI 2008 paper, automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody, allowing a user with no musical training to rapidly create accompanied music.
CERN creates a new super-fast internet, invites tons of people to a deathmatch | Engadget
Apparently, when CERN isn't colliding particles (and ripping massive holes in the space-time continuum), it's busy working on a new "internet" which will be 10,000 times faster than our current version. The project is known as "the grid."
Gator blood touted as potential source of lifesaving drugs | Palm Beach Post
Someday an alligator might save your life. Researchers in Louisiana say they've discovered unique antibiotic proteins in the blood of American alligators that can kill a wide variety of deadly bacteria, halt the spread of common infections and perhaps ev
Magic Pen by Alejandro Guillen | Fizzlebot
This is pretty much just an online clone of Crayon Physics, but is pretty fun!
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These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/04/08 … please enjoy:
Edwards would not accept VP nomination | MSNBC
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said on Thursday he would not accept the nomination for U.S. vice president as he did four years ago. Declines to say whether he would endorse Clinton or Obama. Good for him!
Personal Soundtrack T-Shirt | ThinkGeek
Looks like we're the fools here. The Personal Soundtrack T-Shirt was originally an April Fool's Prank… but due to overwhelming positive response and hundreds of e-mails screaming to "make the damn shirt already" we're putting this item in to production
The Peril of Obama | The Atlantic
The glamour of Obama may be hard to resist, but could it get the country into trouble if he wins the presidency? At the risk of bitter disillusionment, perhaps Obama hopes to do for the country what his father?s image did for him: provide a noble lie t
Server room during a rain shower | Google Video
Server room floods during a storm. Sends shivers down my spine!
Ross Ching: Eclectic 2.0 | Rossching.com
This is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. The entire movie was shot using a digital SLR still camera and pieced together using Quicktime Pro and Final cut Pro. Since it was shot on a still camera, all the raw footage is 1080p HD.
Outsourced Comcast Tech Goes Vigilante On Xbox Cheaters | dslreports.com
A Convergsys support technician outsourced by Comcast may have gone a little overboard in a quest for videogame vengeance. After getting packet flooded by some fellow gamers on the Xbox Live! service, the rep decided to use Comcast support systems to wage
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These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/03/08 … please enjoy:
Net Scam Actually an Army Security Test | Military.com
An offer for free tickets to theme parks for servicemembers turned out to be an e-mail scam, which turned out to be a security exercise run by the Army.
Daily caffeine 'protects brain' | BBC NEWS
Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests. The drink has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer's Disease, and a study by a US team for the Journal of Neuroinflammation may
DJ Food: Raiding the 20th Century - UbuWeb Sound
In January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bas
Crawling fish may be part of new family | Yahoo! News
A University of Washington professor says a recently discovered fish that crawls instead of swimming and has forward-looking eyes like humans could be part of an entirely unknown family of fishes.
Study Finds Botox May Move From Face to Brain | FOXNews.com
A new study raises the concern that the popular anti-wrinkle treatment Botox may travel from its injection site into the brain. The toxin also moved from one hippocampus, which controls long-term memory and spatial navigation, to the hippocampus on the
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