Bloggerific Bloggification -- A Blog: March 2007

AMD, Intel duel goes quad [updated]

iTWire - AMD, Intel duel goes quad [updated]

Bring on the Quads! .... :)

Intel's Pain Machine ....

More HERE and HERE.

Eat a lot of beef? It may affect your son's sperm

Eat a lot of beef? It may affect your son's sperm: Scientific American

We never think about some of the ramifications of the things we do ....

Circuit City Cuts 3,400 'Overpaid' Workers

Circuit City Cuts 3,400 'Overpaid' Workers - washingtonpost.com

More HERE and HERE.

Let the Public Backlash Begin! ....

This Stinks to High Heaven .... I'm going to do my best to never buy from them again.

Extemely Cold ... Told "You're Fired" ... with No Warning ... so we can fill your job, with someone who is willing to do it for less pay ... AND .. Oh .. By The Way ... Wait 10 weeks ... and you can reapply for your old job ... at the new reduced pay!

As one employee stated .... :
"I'm ticked off that they can just come at you from one day to another, no warning, and oh, you're gone," he said. "I dedicated seven years to them. Loyalty gets you nothing."

Saturn Hexagon Mystifies Scientists

Discovery Channel :: News - Space :: Saturn Hexagon Mystifies Scientists

I'm really going to be interested in hearing the explaination for this, when scientists figure this out, in a year or two ...

More HERE.

Avigilon Introduces 16 Megapixel Surveillance Cameras

PRESS RELEASE Avigilon Introduces 16 Megapixel Surveillance Cameras

Good News for the PTZ crowd .... (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) ..... Remarkable resolution ....

Global Warming Forecasts Creation, Loss Of Climate Zones

ScienceDaily: Global Warming Forecasts Creation, Loss Of Climate Zones

Not good news ...

More HERE.

China details Mars project with Russia

China details Mars project with Russia - theage.com.au Breaking News - World - Breaking News

Reds' satellite to orbit Red Planet? ...... :)

Yahoo to offer unlimited e-mail storage

Yahoo to offer unlimited e-mail storage: Scientific American

And YET these are the same IDIOTS that DELETED my Yahoo emails, because I hadn't checked in, on a regular basis ..... BUT they kept my photos, and ALREADY allow for Unlimited Storage of those! ......

Chemists Create Healthier Pizza By Boosting Antioxidants In Dough

ScienceDaily: Chemists Create Healthier Pizza By Boosting Antioxidants In Dough

Doh! ... A large slice of deep-dish antioxidants sounds good, right about now ..... ;-)

100-Year Forecast: New Climate Zones Humans Have Never Seen

100-Year Forecast: New Climate Zones Humans Have Never Seen: Scientific American

I may be nearing my demise ......................................................................... in 100 years ......

IBM develops 160 Gigabit per second optical chip

TG Daily - IBM develops 160 Gigabit per second optical chip

Hope this leads to some bigger, faster fiber optics .....

Weird Lizard Fossil Reveals Clues to Snake Evolution, Experts Say

Weird Lizard Fossil Reveals Clues to Snake Evolution, Experts Say

Short vestigials ... and pretty soon ... ya got nuthin' ....... :)

More HERE.

Study describes new type of 'semi-identical' twins

Study describes new type of 'semi-identical' twins - CNN.com

Life isn't as cut-and-dried as we thought it was ....

More HERE.

Worms Live Longer on Fortified Steak and Chicken

LiveScience.com - Worms Live Longer on Fortified Steak and Chicken

I like this concept, of not just sitting there, and taking the damage from Oxygen free-radicals ... but instead actually strengthening molecular bonds, in order to prevent damage, and cellular degradation.

Negative Refraction of Visible Light Demonstrated; Could Lead to Cloaking Devices

Negative Refraction of Visible Light Demonstrated; Could Lead to Cloaking Devices

The ability to see proteins and DNA through direct observation .... and Cloaking Devices ... Astounding ..

NASA Engineers Work on New Spacesuits

SPACE.com -- NASA Engineers Work on New Spacesuits

Need a New Suit for Mars .... :)

Rare Miniature Owl Spotted In Peru

CaribJournal » Rare Miniature Owl Spotted In Peru

More HERE ... Check out those eyes! ... :)

Supersonic bullets shoot through the Orion Nebula

Supersonic bullets shoot through the Orion Nebula - space - 22 March 2007 - New Scientist Space

Very puzzling, as to what created them ..... dense clumps of gas, about 7 Billion miles wide, and screaming along at close to 900,000 MPH ....

Oldest chunk of Earth's crust ever found

Oldest chunk of Earth's crust ever found - earth - 22 March 2007 - New Scientist Environment

This Ol' planet has been around a Long Time ... even forming crust, back when the Universe was probably less than 10 Billion years old ....

MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle

MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle

Now figure out why those soil microorganisms, have highly conserved the genes for making B12 ..... when they have no need for it ....

Scientists create microscopic alphabet

Scientists create microscopic alphabet

This is incredible ... I really, really like this .....

Multi-angle scanner sees objects from multiple perspectives

Multi-angle scanner sees objects from multiple perspectives

Nice ... That crystal looks rather striking, in multi-angle view ...

Stealth Inkjet Printer Startup Could Rock Industry

Stealth Inkjet Printer Startup Could Rock Industry

Good Grief! ... This sounds Incredible .....

Hinode's X-Ray Telescope Reveals the Sun's Secrets

Hinode's X-Ray Telescope Reveals the Sun's Secrets

Truly amazing pictures of magnetic fields arching out from the surface of the Sun ....

Bigger pictures HERE and another article HERE.

(Thanks G-Man, for making sure I was up-to-speed on this ... :) )

AI software to tighten up production lines

AI software to tighten up production lines - tech - 20 March 2007 - New Scientist Tech

Keep optimizing those variables ....

Burrowing, digging dinosaurs found in southwest Montana

Burrowing, digging dinosaurs found in southwest Montana

I think a lot of sites will now be reevaluated with "new eyes" ....

More HERE.

Calvert DeForest, TV's "Bud" Melman, dies at age 85

Television Calvert DeForest, TV's "Bud" Melman, dies at age 85 Seattle Times Newspaper

Calvert DeForest aka Larry "Bud" Melman ....

Funny Man .... I'd like to hear him laugh, one more time ....

Computing pioneer John Backus dies at 82

Computing pioneer John Backus dies at 82 - International Herald Tribune

John W. Backus was known as the developer of the Fortran programming language, but I am more appreciative of his development, along with Peter Naur, of the Backus-Naur (BNF) and especially, Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF) ---- a notation for describing the grammer of a computer language, via production rules.

More HERE.

Ancient Lizard Glided on Stretched Ribs

LiveScience.com - Ancient Lizard Glided on Stretched Ribs

Title, pretty much says it all ......

Brainiacs Succeed in Mapping 248-Dimensional Object

LiveScience.com - Brainiacs Succeed in Mapping 248-Dimensional Object

OK ... To calculate a 453,060 x 453,060 Matrix equation ...... Start with a SuperComputer, with 64 Gigabytes of memory ....

More HERE. ... I like the MIT graphics HERE. ... And more HERE.

Samsung Digital Picture Frames Get Wi-Fi

PC World - Samsung Digital Picture Frames Get Wi-Fi

How convenient ... now just make them Bigger .....

Species evolve faster in cooler climes

Species evolve faster in cooler climes - life - 15 March 2007 - New Scientist

Very lucid idea, for why speciation and extinction, might happen somewhat rapidly, as species moved into varied and numerous niches, exposed in newly re-formed temperate regions, as glaciers retreated.

The universe is a string-net liquid

The universe is a string-net liquid - fundamentals - 15 March 2007 - New Scientist Space

I think they may be on to something here .....

Adobe offers early peek at Apollo

Adobe offers early peek at Apollo Tech News on ZDNet

Interesting concept ....

More HERE.

Cluster opens a new window on ‘magnetic reconnection’ in the near-Earth space

ESA Portal - Cluster opens a new window on ‘magnetic reconnection’ in the near-Earth space

I didn't notice the first time ... but you can see the little antennas, on the tiny satellites, rotate like helicopter blades as they move along, in the video ....

Borneo's clouded leopard identified as new cat species

WWF - Borneo's clouded leopard identified as new cat species

I like how scientists today, can use nucleotide differences, to calculate when species diverged ...

Nice pix HERE.

Powerful Little Light: LED With 1,000 Lumens

Powerful Little Light: LED With 1,000 Lumens

This sounds very impressive ... I want a desk lamp made with this tech ... and I can't wait to see, what the innovative designs look like ..... :)

Robotic Telescope unravels mystery of cosmic blasts

Robotic Telescope unravels mystery of cosmic blasts

The Swift satellite is helping with some terrific insights into Gamma Ray Bursts .....

Paleontologists Discover New Mammal from Mesozoic Era

Paleontologists Discover New Mammal from Mesozoic Era

An important find, in the development of the mammalian middle ear bones .....

Photon's life cycle 'watched' in full

Photon's life cycle 'watched' in full - fundamentals - 14 March 2007 - New Scientist

Very Clever .... tracking a "virtual photon" that pops into existance for an average of 0.13 seconds ... and then pops out of existance, due to quantum fluctuations ... Nice piece of thinking ...

Icy chips off the old asteroid block

Icy chips off the old asteroid block - space - 14 March 2007 - New Scientist Space

Hmm ... A Family of Kuiper Belt Objects ....

News: Six Million New Genes Found on Ocean Sampling Expedition

http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=14187365&source=genwire

And this was just one swath across the ocean .... just imagine what lies in wait ...... hidden ..... in the ocean depths, or just different places and times ....

IBM puts PlayStation 3 chip into blades

Techworld.com - Operating Systems and Servers News - IBM puts PlayStation 3 chip into blades

An amazing multicore chip, and reasonably cheap too .....

More HERE.

Images of seas on Saturn's moon Titan

Images of seas on Saturn's moon Titan - Space.com - MSNBC.com

One of these hydrocarbon lakes, is larger than the Great Lakes .....

More HERE.

New form of matter-antimatter transformation observed for first time

New form of matter-antimatter transformation observed for first time

Astounding, that for these particles to convert into antimatter ... they must collide with a "virtual particle" that pops into existance, due to quantum fluctuations.

A modern child - but born 160,000 years ago

A modern child - but born 160,000 years ago Science News Connected Telegraph

Interesting that the non-destructive testing, can show the daily growth lines in the enamel, much like tree rings in trees.

More detailed Science HERE, explains the non-destructive testing method.

Commodore specs up Cxx games machine

Commodore specs up Cxx games machine Reg Hardware

Does this mean, it is a "Specs'y Cxx Machine" ... OR a "Specs'y Beast" ? ....... ;-)

With a hot Quad Core and 4GB of memory, they mean business! ... Price probably will excede $3500 USD too ....

More HERE and HERE and HERE.

And the Space Invaders one, made me laugh .... :) ... HERE.

Immense ice deposits found at south pole of Mars

Immense ice deposits found at south pole of Mars Science & Health Reuters

Vast deposits, probably at least 90% water-ice, plus dust, and about 2.3+ miles deep, in some places.

Oh! ... and the deposits are bigger than the state of Texas.... and would cover the entire planet Mars, to the depth of about 33 - 36 ft. deep, if they melted ..... and scientists think this is only about 10% of the amount of water that Mars had in the past.

What happened to the OTHER missing water? ......

More HERE and HERE.

Add remote frame composition to your Digital SLR

Add remote frame composition to your Digital SLR - SlashGear

Strap a camera ... onto your camera ..........

Coupon offered for digital-to-analog converter box

Coupon offered for digital-to-analog converter box

I can't believe they are still talking about pushing the date back for implementation. IIRC, the date has ALREADY been pushed back 2 years. --- It should have been implemented by NOW, and the old TV frequencies should have been auctioned, to cell phone and wireless-Internet providers, who can then extend their broadcast range by 5 TIMES ......

Intel enters the flash drive business

Intel enters the flash drive business TG Daily

This is a little more along the lines of what I was expecting, as opposed to the surprising (to me) idea of using USB thumb-drives for this .....

More HERE and HERE.

Discovery Reveals that Distant Quasars Live in Massive Dark-Matter Halos

Discovery Reveals that Distant Quasars Live in Massive Dark-Matter Halos

It appears we don't get much of anywhere, without Dark Matter scaffolding, to trigger star and galaxy condensation ......

First 3D map of the Universe’s dark matter scaffolding

ESA - Space Science - First 3D map of the Universe’s dark matter scaffolding

Remarkable ...

More HERE.

Going down: Get set for great camera deals

Going down: Get set for great camera deals - USATODAY.com

FROM THE ARTICLE:

"Popular digital SLR cameras from Canon and Nikon generally set you back around $1,000. But discounters will likely drive that down to $299 by year's end, says Chris Chute, an analyst at researcher IDC. That's just a tad higher than most people pay now for compact point-and-shoots. "This will dramatically reshape the digital camera market," Chute says."

How its chips are used is often a surprise, TI says

Dallas Morning News News for Dallas, Texas Business: Tech/Telecom

Alternate Copy HERE.

FROM THE ARTICLE:

"Mr. Callahan said that an experimental speech recognition program from Ambient was up to 70 percent accurate in recognizing the words that people were thinking.

A perfect system, though still far from reality, would enable people to converse without sound, an idea that intrigued the audience. "

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Hmm ...... beginnings of telepathy, ..... yes? .......

Could Venus watch for Earth-bound asteroids?

Could Venus watch for Earth-bound asteroids? - space - 09 March 2007 - New Scientist Space

Needs to get funded .....

Intel Unveils 50-Watt Quad-core Chips

Intel Unveils 50-Watt Quad-core Chips

Keep it up .... H2 of 2007 should be interesting ......

Researchers Find Cancer Tumor Suppressor Also Causes Tanning

VOA News - Researchers Find Cancer Tumor Suppressor Also Causes Tanning

Looks like the p53 tumor-suppressor gene, does at least double-duty. It becomes more evident, all the time, that our genes interact in myriad ways ... talk about highly optimized ...

TI tips DaVinci to cut the cost of digital cameras

TI tips DaVinci to cut the cost of digital cameras

Can't wait .....

Robo-salamander's evolution clues

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Robo-salamander's evolution clues

So they used .. Plastic .. which is derived from oil .. which is derived from ..... the creatures they are investigating! ...... ;-)

Adobe to extend Photoshop with animation, rendering features

Adobe to extend Photoshop with animation, rendering features TG Daily

Glad to see they are moving into animation and 3D models ....

The hybrid race is on: Apple and LG plan flash laptops

The hybrid race is on: Apple and LG plan flash laptops

More reasons it might be prudent to wait, before purchasing a computer .....

Rapists snared by sperm-free semen

Rapists snared by sperm-free semen - sex - 07 March 2007 - New Scientist

Astounding ... finding a criminal with a single cell .......

Dino Bones Reveal DNA Surprise

LiveScience.com - Dino Bones Reveal DNA Surprise

I love it when they figure a way around a seemingly intractable problem, that looks at first glance, as if there is insufficient information .....

This Is Amazing!

Technology Review: This Is Amazing!

Running Windows on a Mac ... pretty well, it looks like ...

More HERE.

Emotiv wants your brainpower

Emotiv wants your brainpower TG Daily

Wonder if this is another flash-in-the-pan? .....

More HERE.

Algae skeletons made into silicon components

Algae skeletons made into silicon components - tech - 07 March 2007 - New Scientist Tech

100,000+ shapes to choose from ...... :)

Surging groundwater solves Martian 'evaporite' mystery

Surging groundwater solves Martian 'evaporite' mystery - space - 07 March 2007 - New Scientist Space

Lots of underground travel by water, on Mars ....

Samsung ships first hybrid hard drive

Samsung ships first hybrid hard drive TG Daily

Interesting ...

Is Your Memory Erased While You Sleep?

Is Your Memory Erased While You Sleep?: Scientific American

It appears the brain has something like a temporary backup storage system ....

Exercise slows decline in Alzheimer's patients

Exercise slows decline in Alzheimer's patients: Scientific American

Exercise it is! ....

Sunshine puts asteroids in a spin - space - 07 March 2007 - New Scientist Space

Sunshine puts asteroids in a spin - space - 07 March 2007 - New Scientist Space

I'd say these scientist have the YORP effect, down to a "T" ......

More HERE.

Far more mutations than thought involved in cancer

Far more mutations than thought involved in cancer: Scientific American

More Hope ...

Commodore set to introduce high-end gaming PCs

Commodore set to introduce high-end gaming PCs - Engadget

I think I'll adopt a wait-and-see attitude ....

Panorama reveals thousands of growing galaxies

Panorama reveals thousands of growing galaxies - space - 06 March 2007 - New Scientist Space

Big spread of stars ... I like the discovery of the red galaxy, with two black holes at it's core. They are both about 4000 light-years apart.

Epileptic seizures sparked by tooth brushing

Epileptic seizures sparked by tooth brushing - health - 06 March 2007 - New Scientist

Calling Dr. Gregory House ...... ;-)

.... also the link for this Blogger window has the word "Farticle" in it ..... :) ... I don't know if that is a comment ... OR a criticism ....... ;-)

Epileptic seizures sparked by tooth brushing

Epileptic seizures sparked by tooth brushing - health - 06 March 2007 - New Scientist

Calling Dr. Gregory House ...... ;-)

.... also the link for this Blogger window has the word "Farticle" in it ..... :) ... I don't know if that is a comment ... OR a criticism ....... ;-)

Technology Creates Extreme Genealogists

Technology Creates Extreme Genealogists

Hmm ... a personal ancestral database with 1.7 million people in it .... THAT's even more than I have ... :)

Cleveland museum claims dinosaur find

Cleveland museum claims dinosaur find

Nice intermediate species discovery ....

Microscope discerns atoms of different elements

Microscope discerns atoms of different elements - tech - 28 February 2007 - New Scientist Tech

C'mon! ... Those aren't pretty colored atoms ... they're GumBalls!! ...... ;-)

Higgs boson: Glimpses of the God particle

Higgs boson: Glimpses of the God particle - fundamentals - 02 March 2007 - New Scientist

160 GeV may be one of those magic energy levels scientists have been hunting for, for years ....

Computer sleuths try to crack Pioneer anomaly

Computer sleuths try to crack Pioneer anomaly - space - 02 March 2007 - New Scientist Space

Wouldn't surprise me a bit, if this Pioneer-Effect is Dark Energy or Dark Matter related .....

Cassini Returns Never-Before-Seen Views of the Ringed Planet

Cassini Returns Never-Before-Seen Views of the Ringed Planet

Sort of over-the-top, huh? ...... ;-)

Computer-designed molecule to clean up fluorocarbons?

Computer-designed molecule to clean up fluorocarbons?

Much needed ....

Genome sequencing reveals key to viable ethanol production

Genome sequencing reveals key to viable ethanol production

Learn from Nature ....

Samsung announces Gigabit DDR2 DRAM

Samsung announces Gigabit DDR2 DRAM - Tech

Gigabit DRAM ... Bigger, Faster, Cheaper memory .... Sweet ..

New Nanocoating Is Virtual Black Hole for Reflections

New Nanocoating Is Virtual Black Hole for Reflections

Several things remain puzzling to me about this material .... I wonder if the nanocoating can selectively transmit photons OR if the photons are trapped and heat the nanocoating ... and if so ... does it then destroy the nanorods?
I also don't grasp at the moment, the concept of this creating High-reflectance mirrors .... hmmm ....

Towers in Peru called solar observatory

Towers in Peru called solar observatory - Los Angeles Times

Probably a lot more things like this, would be discovered about ancient peoples, if scientists could only detach from todays current hectic pace, and see the world from the perspective of indigenous people that were contemplating things over long spans of time.

Picture HERE ... More HERE.

A hidden twist in the black hole information paradox

A hidden twist in the black hole information paradox

So .. either Stephen Hawkings analysis of black hole evaporation by Hawking radiation, is wrong about the radiation containing no information about what entered the black hole ... OR quantum mechanics must break down into a new physics ....

Single photon detector wins UC San Diego engineering research competition

Single photon detector wins UC San Diego engineering research competition

MINDBLOWING!! ... The ability to TIME individual photons reflected from a human face ... a thereby create a 3D image almost instantaneously! ....

The final word on the ‘megapixel myth’

» The final word on the ‘megapixel myth’ George Ou ZDNet.com

Mr. George Ou raises some extremely good points, in response to David Pogue's original work ... I had some of the same thoughts, immediately upon reading Pogue's original article, where he obtained images via downsampling .....

Scientists invent real-life 'tricorder' for chemical analysis

Scientists invent real-life 'tricorder' for chemical analysis

This is unbelieveable .... The desorption electrospray ionization technique (DESI) that is used with this miniature mass spectrometer ... reminds me of ... the DESILU studios, that produced The Original Star Trek ... and was owned by Desi Arnaz and Lucile Ball .... Hmmm ....Of course, this one isn't small enough yet ... and it isn't wrapped in funky black leather ..... ;-)

More HERE and HERE.

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