The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913 (Tuesday 02nd of September 2008 09:15:01 PM)
Radioweather writes "August 2008 has made solar history. As of 00 UTC September 1st 2008 (5PM
PST) we just witnessed the first spotless calendar month since June 1913.This was decisive
irrefutable to sunspot data from NOAA's subject Geophysical Data Center, ...
(more)Lenovo Intros the Monstrous ThinkPad W700 (Tuesday 12th of August 2008 10:30:02 PM)
Engadget freshly got their hands on an early delivery of Lenovo's new powerhouse of a laptop,
the W700. Aimed at graphic artists and photographers this beast is designed to really pack a
punch. No word on how much for the extra fusion generator to power ...
(more)A third grade teacher always took role call each morning and had the pupils' ... (Saturday 02nd of August 2008 12:10:02 PM)
A third grade teacher always took role call each morning and had the pupils' answer by reciting
a short poem.The first kid sat in the first row was a teachers pet. He stood and said, "My name
is Dan, and when I become a man, ...
(more)SpaceX Conducts Full Thrust Firing of Falcon 9 (Saturday 02nd of August 2008 09:15:01 AM)
Toren Altair sends us this excerpt: "Space research Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) conducted the
first nine engine firing of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle at its Texas Test facility outside
McGregor on July 31st. A second firing on August 1st completed a major ...
(more)Three young women in there thirties are on a road trip and are tearing down the ... (Wednesday 30th of July 2008 12:10:02 PM)
Three young women in there thirties are on a road trip and are tearing down the freeway.
unfortunatley, they lose control, the car flips over the guard rail on to the polar lanes and
gets smashed by an eighteen wheeler.Up at the pearly gates, all ...
(more)Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion (Sunday 27th of July 2008 01:45:03 AM)
Mytrip points out news that Google's index of unique URLs has reached a milestone: one
trillion. Google's blog provides some more information, noting, "The first Google index in 1998
already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the ...
(more)Teen Birth Rates, Homicides on Increase, Report Shows (Saturday 12th of July 2008 12:02:34 AM)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) -- The teen birth rate is up for the
first time in
15 years, and homicides among teens are up for the first
time in 12 years, a new sovereignty
report finds.
...
(more)Westinghouse Commits to Green Plug's Universal A.C. Adapter (Sunday 15th of June 2008 04:25:15 AM)
Ian Lamont writes "Westinghouse is the first major computers manufacturer that has publicly
committed to using a 'smart power technology' that will let people use a single & analysis on
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(more)Intel's Atom — First benchmarks and a Full PC Review (Tuesday 03rd of June 2008 06:10:53 PM)
Barence writes "PC Pro has received, benchmarked and discussed the first Intel Atom processor
to be seen in the wild. A full anatomy of the Atom processor itself is accompanied by a full
review of the first PC — yes it's a PC, not a ...
(more)Stonehenge As a Royal Family's Burial Site (Sunday 01st of June 2008 06:00:04 PM)
Mikesd81 sends in a report from Newsday about radiocarbon dating of cremated bones excavated
from Britain's Stonehenge that, an archeologist said, has solved part of the ancient mystery
surrounding the 5,000-year-old site: It was a burial ground for what ...
(more)Scientists Image an HIV Particle Being Born (Monday 26th of May 2008 09:30:03 AM)
FiReaNGeL alerts us to a huge evolution in virology and microscopy: by using a specialized
microscope that only illuminates a cell's surface, scientists at Rockefeller health center have
watched, in real time, hundreds of thousands of molecules coming ...
(more)Scientists identify key roadblock to gene expression (Friday 09th of May 2008 01:09:00 AM)
A team of scientists has provided, for the first time, a circumstantial map of how the domicile
blocks of chromosomes, the cellular structures that contain genes, are organized in the fruit
fly Drosophila melanogaster. The work identifies a critical stop ...
(more)Eee Is 1st Windows Laptop To Support Multi-Touch (Saturday 19th of April 2008 03:55:12 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "CNET UK has just put up its review of the Asus Eee PC 900 Win
running Windows XP and discovered that it's the first Windows machine to support multi-touch,
'Better still, the mouse trackpad supports multi-touch gesture inputs ...
(more)Griefers Assault Epileptics Via Message Board (Sunday 30th of March 2008 10:00:05 AM)
An anonymous reader tips us to a story up at Wired reporting on what may be the first
minicomputer attack to inflict physical harm on victims. Last Saturday, griefers posted
hundreds of bogus messages on the support forums of the nonprofit Epilepsy bed ...
(more)Calculating the Date of Easter (Monday 24th of March 2008 03:45:04 AM)
The God Plays Dice blog has an entertaining post on how the date of Easter is calculated.
Wikipedia has all the messy details of course, but the blog makes a good introduction to the
topic. "Easter is the date of the first Sunday after the ...
(more)W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of HTML 5 (Wednesday 23rd of January 2008 01:45:06 AM)
Lachlan Hunt writes "Today W3C announced that the HTML Working Group has published the first
public working draft of HTML 5 — A vocabulary and customer's broker APIs for HTML and
XHTML. It's been over 9 months since the working group began in March ...
(more)Yahoo Patents 'Smart' Drag and Drop (Wednesday 23rd of January 2008 01:45:06 AM)
Unequivocal writes "According to the web banking Frontier Foundation, Yahoo has filed a patent
for 'smart' drag and drop. From the article: 'A computer-implemented method for manipulating
objects in a user interface, comprising: contingent upon the user ...
(more)Two engineering students meet on campus one day. ... (Tuesday 08th of January 2008 07:10:02 PM)
Two sociology students meet on campus one day. The first inventor calls out to the other, "Hey
nice bike! Where did you get it?" "Well," replies the other, "I was walking to class the other
day when this pretty, young coed rides up on this ...
(more)Mighty Mouse (Friday 28th of December 2007 12:00:00 AM)
Three mice are sitting at a bar in a pretty rough suburb late at night trying to impress each
other about how tough they are. The first mouse orders a scotch, gulps it down and slams the
glass on the bar. He turns to the ...
(more)First Class Blondie (Monday 17th of December 2007 12:00:00 AM)
A plain young blond woman boards a plane to LA with a ticket for the coach section. She looks
at the seats in coach and then looks ahead to the first class seats. Seeing that the first
class seats appear to be much larger ...
(more)Through the Desert On a Man With No Ears (Thursday 11th of October 2007 01:00:00 AM)
A man was in a bad blow and was injured. But the only invariable damage he suffered was the
loss of both ears, which made him very self-conscious. However, he received a large sum of
money from his security company.
It was always his ...
(more)FDIC Closes Netbank, One of the First Online Banks (Sunday 30th of September 2007 03:00:03 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "NetBank, one of the first internet banks in the country was closed
by the FDIC on Friday. Being a loyal customer for 8 years, I am saddened that an institution
that provided me with so much great service and a cool, ...
(more)Newton II - Does The Rumor Have Legs This Time? (Saturday 29th of September 2007 01:45:03 AM)
Ian Lamont writes "Mike Elgan at ComputerWorld has an provocative analysis of the small
computing market, and predicts that the market is primed to take off. He admits that small
computers have been tried before and failed ('Every single UMPC device ...
(more)Four worms were placed into four separate jars. ... (Tuesday 25th of September 2007 04:30:06 PM)
Four worms were placed into four separate jars.The first worm was put into a jar of alcohol.The
second worm was put into a jar of cigarette smoke.The third worm was put into a jar of
sperm.The fourth worm was put into a jar of soil.After ...
(more)Your Chance to be an Astronaut (Wednesday 19th of September 2007 07:30:04 PM)
Codewarrior78411 writes "NASA posted a hiring notice for new astronauts Tuesday, on
usajobs.com, seeking for the first time in almost 30 years men and women to fly aboard
spacecraft other than the shuttle. The agency is seeking 10 to 15 new faces for ...
(more)Wii Uses Elliptic Curve Cryptography For Saves (Sunday 16th of September 2007 03:15:03 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "A user at the Nintendo-Scene forums just posted a lengthy post
about his discovery that the Wii savegame files are signed and encrypted with NIST B 233 bit
elliptic curve cryptography. Could this be the first step for a Wii ...
(more)A third grade teacher always took role call each morning and had the pupils' ... (Saturday 08th of September 2007 05:45:03 PM)
A third grade teacher always took role call each morning and had the pupils' answer by reciting
a short poem.The first kid sat in the first row was a teachers pet. He stood and said, "My name
is Dan, and when I become a man, ...
(more)Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora (Wednesday 05th of September 2007 11:15:01 PM)
Stony Stevenson writes to mention that the Mozilla underpinning has quietly released the first
beta version of the revised Eudora email application. This is the first development Eudora has
seen since Qualcomm stopped development and turned it over to ...
(more)Gettin' Drunk (Monday 13th of August 2007 01:00:00 AM)
One day this guy was sitting at this bar in Chicago and looks over and sees this guy that looks
exactly like him. He says to the guy, "Hey you look just like me!"
The other man agrees and
asks, "Where are you from?"
The ...
(more)Stem Cell Fraudster May Have Actually Made Breakthrough (Saturday 04th of August 2007 06:15:04 PM)
Otter writes "Woo Suk Hwang's career swung from fame over his lab's claim of the first stem
cells from a cloned human embryo to humiliation when the results were found to be fake.
Research at Harvard on Hwang's cells has found that they are actually ...
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