Science has just named its top breakthrough for 2005.
EVOLUTION IN ACTION!
It’s based on all of the remarkable advances in evolution in 2005, such as the comparison of the human and chimpanzee genomes, which just happens to have been featured in the Kitzmiller trial.
The full issue is available at the Science Magazine site.
This is pretty hip, take a look at this article, Google in focus as Net stocks succumb. Not the article content, but the AJAX stock prices next to the symbols (GOOG: 427.50, +2.90, +0.7%)
Yes that’s right, they update live as you’re reading the article. Yes, it’s somewhat slow and jumpy. But it’s [...]
On Tuesday, the most serious hack demonstration to date took place in Leon County. Supervisor of elections Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an election.
Correct results should have been: Yes:2 ; No:6
However, just as Hursti had planned, the results tape read: Yes:7 ; No:1
The results were then uploaded from [...]
Make your own DRM CD!
Nothing says “Merry Christmas” (or Happy Chanukah, et al) like a homemade CD with the same crippling DRM technology that Sony and BMG use. Let a friend or relative know that you care enough to prevent them from stealing music you’ve already stolen, even at the expense of enjoying the CD [...]
Dorsia.com is undergoing a redesign. I’m really liking it, personally. 2006 will bring a lot of new hip stuff. Look for our article in Fortune: Small Business.
I was very impressed by this video of the Revolution controller in action. The Nintendo Revolution is definitely something I’m interested in. It’s sleek and stylish, much like the PS3 (and much unlike the xBox 360) and it’s… revolutionary!
Not to be outdone, it seems, MTV and Microsoft band together for a new music service. It’s called URGE. Apparently because they’re urging you to use it, no doubt by integrating it seamlessly into every other application Microsoft makes, as well as every MSN product in existence.
URGE is going to have an iTunes-style [...]
