"Europe this month rolled out new restrictions on makers of chemicals linked to cancer and other health problems, changes that are forcing U.S. industries to find new ways to produce a wide range of everyday products."
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Chemical Law Has Global Impact - washingtonpost.com
MSFTextrememakeover: Eight Years of Wrongness
"So with that, I announce the end of my MSFTextrememakeover blogging career. The timing seems right as this is my 100th post. Good luck to all those who continue to hold MSFT."
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Google Docs to Add PDF Storage
"After allowing people to collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations, Google Docs will support a new file type: PDF. Judging from Google's code, PDFs will have a distinct section and won't be imported as Google Docs documents."
Will Masses Embrace Apple's $199 Handset? - WSJ.com
"The moves are an acknowledgment by the Cupertino, Calif., company that the original iPhone was too pricey for the mass audience, especially in a weakening economy. Apple said it will halve the entry price for the new iPhone 3G to $199 in the U.S. and abroad, compared with the $399 starting price for the current iPhone. In an interview, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said the iPhone could even be free to consumers in some countries outside the U.S. if they commit to richer wireless plans with carriers."
Masses? No. But being available in 70 something countries they'll sell a lot of phones. As many have figured out the important price number is the $1600 or so cost of ownership over the two year contract. I don't personally make enough cell phone calls to make it more valuable than other things I could spend that amount of money on (and have around for many years to enjoy), but for a lot of people who aren't worried about brain cancer these will be irresistible toys.
Google LatLong: Street View turns 1, keeps on growing
Along with showing you some great metropolitan areas, I'm especially excited that we're also bringing you 10 new parks and recreational areas:
# Everglades National Park (Florida)
# Florida Keys
# Grand Teton National Park (Wyoming)
# Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming/Montana)
# Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado)
# Joshua Tree National Park (California)
# Death Valley National Park (California)
# Lassen Volcanic National Park (California)
# Sequoia National Park (California)
# Lake Tahoe (California/Nevada)
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Monday, June 09, 2008
John Batchelor Show - Home
"In 'War and Peace,' Tolstoy told the tale of Bonaparte and Alexander's meeting from the cool remove of the ambitions of the two emperors. Both wanted confirmation of their regal status. Nether wanted more war. Lev Nikolaievich leaned hard on making Bonaparte impudent, bold, vulgar, fresh, dynamic, unpredictable. The Tsar remained majestic. Mrs. Clinton makes a Petersburg darling. You can imagine her at the Winter Palace, in long furs, drinking green tea, writing, writing, writing. Obama as Bonaparte? Directing the letter 'O' on the flatware, the parquet floor, the horse blankets, the bear skin hats of the Imperial Guard? Sure. Certain. Start Puccini. JB."
John Batchelor has a radio show again. Has had for a while, but only recently has it been easy to get to (for me anyway). Daily would be nice, weekly will do. Two hours after all would be a lot of work five times a week at the level it was going before (cram packed).
There is also a web page again, finally!
Welcome back John Batchelor.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . It's the Platform, Stupid | PBS
"The FAA is already testing SwiftFuel with the goal of approving it for use without modification in all aircraft, leaving the platform unchanged while improving its impact on almost any scale. Hopefully by the 2010 cutoff for tetraethyl lead SwiftFuel will replace the 1.8 million gallons of 100LL aviation fuel used every day.
'But what about cars?' I asked Mary Rusek. 'We don't say much about that,' she replied. 'The aviation fuel market is tiny and has a real need we can fulfill so everyone wants us to succeed. Cars are different and we don't want to make any enemies.'"
EMI grabs Second Life creator - Entertainment News, International News, Media - Variety
"As co-founder of Linden Lab, Ondrejka led the development of Second Life and his new employer is hoping he will draw from past experience to build the digital strategy for EMI Music, drive innovation around new revenue opportunities and build an engineering team for the company."
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Intel NOT Inside: Military Supercomputer Surpasses Petaflop Milestone - NYTimes.com
"The Roadrunner is based on a radical design that includes 12,960 chips that are an improved version of an I.B.M. Cell microprocessor, a parallel processing chip originally created for Sony’s PlayStation 3 video-game machine. The Sony chips are used as accelerators, or turbochargers, for portions of calculations.
The Roadrunner also includes a smaller number of more conventional Opteron processors, made by Advanced Micro Devices, which are already widely used in corporate servers."
What do you do when the downolator is down?
"http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/slashdot.org"
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Saturday, June 07, 2008
Your U.N. at Work – IV - WSJ.com
"Speaking after his election, Father d'Escoto called for greater 'democracy' at the U.N. – an odd remark coming from a former servant of a communist dictatorship. He also called for the U.N. to take a stand against 'acts of aggression, such as those occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan.' That would be American aggression, not the Taliban's, the Mahdi Army's or al Qaeda's.
A former Lenin Prize winner as General Assembly president and cruel Burma as vice president – another sick joke from the U.N."
Friday, June 06, 2008
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