Clippers 100, Bobcats 93
Corey Maggette scored a season-high 25 points and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Charlotte Bobcats 100-93 on Monday night after losing point guard Shaun Livingston in the first quarter with a dislocated left knee cap.
Will Bioterror Fears Spawn Science Censorship?
A federal advisory board is about to recommend new guidelines to limit publication of life-sciences research that could be misused by terrorists. It's treading on dangerous ground.
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New Mexico Real Estate Market Holds Steady as Historic Santa Fe Homes Continue to Gain Value
Home buyers seeking New Mexico real estate can now search for unique Santa Fe homes at High-Desert-Properties.com. (PRWeb May 4, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/RmFsdS1TaW5nLVByb2YtUHJvZi1NYWduLVplcm8=
Australia's Regional and Rural Communities have been Viewed as Being a Key Hindrance to the Privatis
... The report includes ARPU and subscriber statistics across a range of market segments including web hosting and advertising. In addition, it examines regional trends and infrastructure developments. An overview of ...
POWDER: Grouping Sets of Resources
2007-07-09: The POWDER Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources. POWDER is a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content labels and commercial requirements for content adaptation. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
Lightweight Version of MEPIS is Released
... MEPIS for very old 32 bit PC hardware. AntiX is built using the MEPIS Linux 6.5 core including the MEPIS 2.6.15 kernel and utilities, but mostly it has a different set of default user applications: fluxbox ...
On James
Bill James will be inducted into the Shrine of the Eternals on Sunday, July 22, in Pasadena, California. James, Yogi Berra, and Jim Brosnan comprise the ninth class of electees in voting conducted by the membership of the Baseball Reliquary. All three honorees have made significant contributions to the language and literature of baseball. ... (Read on Source)
So that's what eyebrows are for...
Why do we have a line of hair sitting caterpillar-like above each of our eyes? Forget such mundanities as dust protection or ornamentation, a new study suggests our eyebrows serve to control how easily other people can tell where we are looking. Four participants looked at hundreds of photos of the eye region of people who were facing forwards, ... (Read on Source)
New NIST Web Services Security Guide
The U.S. National Insitute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released a new standard of practice for deploying secure web services.
Tiny Carbon Nanotubes Show Big Germ-fighting Potential
In nanoscience's version of a David-and-Goliath story, scientists are reporting the first direct evidence that carbon nanotubes have powerful antimicrobial activity, a discovery that could help fight the growing problem of antibiotic resistant infections. Their research is in the area of single-walled carbon nanotubes. (Read on Source)
MPs call for identity fraud tsar
An "identity fraud tsar" should be appointed to oversee attempts to tackle the crime, a group of MPs has said. The All Party Group on Identity Fraud said a tsar was needed to co-ordinate the work being done by the government, police and private sector. (Read on Source)
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Plant-based plastics carving larger niche
Target offers shoppers an unusual message about its gift cards at some stores, advising that they are biodegradable. "Just make sure you spend them first," the displays conclude. (Read on Source)
Sportline TQR 775 Heart Rate Watch
Sportline has released a new watch that monitors heart rate that is attractive enough to be worn all the time. The TQR 775 has the look of a fashionable analog watch and you can hardly tell it?s designed to measure heart rate until you activate the heart ...
Bell Sued For Slowing Internet
Bell Canada is being sued by a Quebec consumer watchdog, L'Union des consommateurs for its practice of slowing Internet traffic.
The class-action suit was filed in Quebec Superior Court on behalf of Montreal resident Myrna Raphael, seeks certification on behalf of all subscribers in the province. The suit claims that by purposely slowing Internet speeds, Bell has misrepresented its service and caused privacy concerns.
SmartVM Adds New Features to Their Enhanced Line of Video Matrix Switch Units
The video matrix switch is designed to simplify the task of routing video input from multiple computers to multiple displays (monitors, plasma screens, projectors). Each input can be routed to one or more outputs, creating a cross pattern of interconnecting configurations known as a video matrix router. (PRWeb Jul 9, 2008)
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Ion Channels Caught In Their Opening Act
Each thought or action sends a million electrical signals pulsing through your body. At the heart of the process of generating these electrical impulses is the ion channel. A new study sheds light on a longstanding debate over how they open and close.
Dressing for Success Now Means Looking Like Hell
Get on an elevator in any Manhattan office building, and there's a good chance you'll find yourself surrounded by them: the tattersalls, the windowpanes, the mini-checks of Brooks Brothers' fleet of Non-Iron Dress Shirts.
Inoffensive? Yes, as are the often-accompanying oxfords with Nike Air technology in the soles. But as the patterns blend together, they start to form a vaguely disturbing picture.
Gone is the time when the Patrick Batemans of the world could hold pissing contests over the microscopic differences in their business card stocks, dismissing peons for the inferior weaves of their suits. These days, there are fewer distinctions between industries and power levels. Pretty much everyone looks more like they belong in tech support than in a partners' meeting. (View our slideshow to see how the captains of industry dress.)
That's because somewhere between His Girl Friday and casual Friday, between black-tie and BlackBerrys, our workforce morphed from Mad Men into marathon men?and the race is not to the sartorial top, but to the bottom of the laundry pile.
When the dot-com bubble burst, many predicted an end to Teva-wearing C.E.O.'s and even the curtailment of casual Fridays. Clearly the second tsunami of tech money, which brought twentysomethings in hoodies to the head of the conference table, has helped keep that from happening. But tech chic only has so much to do with the dressing down of the workforce. As Bill Clinton might say, "It's the economy, stupid."
Before sitting down to write this, I e-mailed a bunch of friends in various professions and asked them about their work wear. The men overwhelmingly responded with an affinity for the aforementioned stiff shirts from Brooks Brothers, as well as half-brags about their disheveled appearances at the office. "I wind up wearing my lunch more often than not" one wrote [subtext: because I eat at my desk every day]. "I wear pleated-front pants because they're more comfortable," another admitted [subtext: I eat at my desk every day?and every night].
If you look good, you're obviously not working hard enough. Outdoing the next guy in terms of looking put-upon is the new pissing contest.
In a world where profits are down, bankruptcies are rampant, and the most entrenched I-bankers are getting the heave-ho, you can't afford to look as though you spared an extra second thinking about the cut of your Charvet shirt. Did you go shopping for a Breguet instead of billing that extra hour? Are you interviewing? Because seriously, who wears a suit these days? Who has time for that?
With subprime losses piling up, it's not just cubicle-bound young analysts who are being subjected to this sort of scrutiny. After all, Angelo Mozilo always looks like he put a lot of thought into his clothes. Company shareholders are more concerned with what the stewards of their wealth actually do. "Hey, nice suit, asshole. How much did it cost me?"
In fact, it's not uncommon for the messiest guy in the office to also be the most heralded, a phenomenon that has made its way into popular culture. In Dana Vachon's recent novel, Mergers & Acquisitions, the only clear hero is the poor overweight slob to whom all J.S. Spenser's dirty work has been outsourced. The other guys?the ones who can tell the difference between a Turnbull & Asser and a Thomas Pink shirt "blindfolded"?are not so laudable.
Women can take even more criticism if they seem overly concerned with their dress?often at the hands of female superiors. "I'm more 'fashiony,' which is definitely misunderstood and under-appreciated in my line of work," wrote a V.P. at one of New York's better banks. Sport more tailored and modern clothing and you get hit with a double-whammy?not only are you not working hard enough, you're trying to distract everyone else from their business.
If you think that's all hooey, I'd ask you to recall the time Hillary Clinton showed up on the Senate floor revealing a centimeter of cleavage under her rose-colored blazer. No one went so far as to accuse her of trolling for a date, but no one exactly congratulated her on the outfit either. (Or glance at the wardrobes of such titans as Meg Whitman, who just stepped down from her post as eBay's C.E.O., and Irene Rosenfeld, head of Kraft Foods. For them, the way to success was brains, hard work, and separates from Talbots.)
There are, of course, the rare exceptions to the rule. Julie Macklowe, portfolio manager for Sigma Capital Management, was recently recognized as an "It" girl by Vogue. And, speaking of that venerable title, fashion is perhaps the one industry where showing up looking like a slob or like a buttoned-up matron can get you into hot water. Don something less-than and you could face the same question: "Who has time for?that?"
First Look: See2 Xtreme, USB video card
Monitors keep getting bigger and bigger, but it seems that the more display space you have, the more you may want. While Leopard provides Spaces so you can flip through multiple virtual desktops, you may prefer connecting multiple monitors to your Mac instead. For a simple solution to plugging in additional monitors to any Mac, take a look at Trittonís See2 Xtreme external video card....
Bugs & Fixes: Messy App Store Update Tracking
Sometimes, a situation is so fouled up that there is no polite way to describe it. Such is the situation with the tracking of...
A Linux Bun in HP's Oven; Firefox and the EULA Hounds
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the Linux community must be doing something right. Rumors abounded throughout the blogosphere last week that HP may be working on its own version of our favorite operating system. Specifically, employees within HP's PC division are reportedly working on a mass-market operating system that is based on Linux but easier to use. CariNet, Reviews
Carolyn Porco: Use Big Robots — and Big Rockets
She has been criticizing the space program's shuttle-centric approach for years, and now the agency is finally listening to her. Carolyn Porco, 55, leads the imaging team of the Cassini mission to Saturn — which has sent back thousands of snapshots — a project that she says could have been done more quickly and cheaply had it been launched with the kind of big rockets the US quit building after the moon program. Here are the talking points she would bring if she were granted an audience with the president. Porco's talking points for the president Space shuttle program will be retired in 2010. Hooray! · Waste of an estimated $170 billion. Instead of circling Earth, we should be exploring outward. · Ares V rocket (being developed) can carry more than six times the weight the space shuttle can — meaning more equipment and better results. · More launch capacity also means ability to travel huge distances more quickly. Send robots. · Robots will always have to go before humans — don't need to eat, breathe, or be kept safe. Plus, never have to come back. · Also cheap. Cassini's cost: about $3.3 billion. Getting to the moon: An estimated $135 billion. · True, robots are heavy, but Ares is powerful enough to get them to Saturn and beyond with relative ease. Still, need to send humans, too. · End robots-versus-people debate — let both sides win. · NASA aims to return people to the moon and build a research outpost there as base for future exploration. Good. · Sending people is more dangerous and expensive, but putting someone on Mars shows that we have higher ideas and ideals. US can be inspirational again. Carolyn Porco is a Planetary Scientist with NASA.
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42nd Street Times Square Passageway Subway Art 29
tags: Times Square , 42nd street , The Revelers , subway art , NYC through my eye , photography , NYC The Revelers (2007). Artist: Jane Dickson. Photographed in the passageway at 42nd Street/Times Square traveling east between the 8th Avenue/Port Authority Bus Terminal A, C, & E trains) and the 7th Avenue/Broadway (1, 2, & 3 trains) platforms. I ... (Read on Source)
THANKS, DAD!
SOME New Yorkers were disappointed Michael Bloomberg opted out of running for president, but the mayor's daughter, Georgina, 25, isn't one of them. "Was it something I wanted? Absolutely not," she tells Page Six Magazine in Sunday's Post. "I don't...
LOL With Funny Linux Man Pages
Tech Source From Bohol: "Are you feeling a little down lately? Why not open a Linux terminal and read some man pages. Well, not those man pages that can sometimes make our head spin. I'm talking about the funny man pages that will make you laugh out loud."
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