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30 May 2008

My Faves for Thursday, May 29, 2008

Quoted: Listen to any song in the world for free.

[tags: music]

Quoted: Videos and recipes from top celebrity chefs and people like you

[tags: recipes, CulinaryAdventures, video]

* All your music in one place: on the web
* Listen online as much as you want
* Share music with your friends
* Get MP3s for your iPod

[tags: music]

Quoted: Thin is in. Long a tiny corner of the global solar-power market, thin-film solar has suddenly become the hottest property. Masdar, the Abu Dhabi company trying to create a renewable-energy city in the middle of the desert, just announced a $2 billion investment in new thin-film solar production capacity. The announcement comes on the heels of word from Germany’s Q-Cells that it will invest up to $3.5 billion in thin-film production in Mexico’s “Silicon Border.” Thin-film panels shun expensive and often scarce polysilicon in favor of a chemical cocktail that converts sunlight into electricity. Masdar’s goal, beyond creating a ...

[tags: solar]

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29 May 2008

My Faves for Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Quoted: Regarder Chimene badi et maureen - la boheme sur Dailymotion Partagez Vos Videos. Chimene badi et maureen - la boheme

[tags: music, france]

Quoted: LiveNewsCameras.com brings together the resources of journalists around the world and makes live streaming video easy to find and use on your computer.

As of today, there are nearly 150 channels of live streaming video here - that number is growing every day.

[tags: news, video, tv]

Quoted: Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going ...

dooyoo is a community of review writers which aims to advise on product purchases through their own experiences.

Quoted: At dooyoo you can find impartial reviews and products in price comparison.

[tags: reviews]

The dream of medical science is to train the body to repair itself in the face of disease or trauma, and the main focus of this dream is the heart. For five years, teams of doctors around the world have been trying to coax adult stem cells, the body's innate repair kit, to regenerate damaged heart tissue after a heart attack or other coronary disease.

Quoted: So far, stem cells have not delivered the results scientists hoped for. But excitement is still rising.

[tags: health, stem cell, research]

Quoted: A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data.

[tags: internet, future, semantic web, technology]

Quoted: The World Economic Forum has bestowed the coveted honor on 39 companies, which could become the Googles, a previous winner, of tomorrow.

[tags: technology, business, future]

BusinessWeek - Special Report

A Cell Phone Made of ...Tapioca?
Scientists are experimenting with viruses, salmon sperm DNA, potatoes, and more in making biomaterials for consumer electronics

E-Waste: Whose Problem Is It?
As more states mandate e-recycling, the financial burden is shifting from consumers to manufacturers

Podcast: HP Doesn't Waste Time with E-Waste
The Evolution of HP's Green Policies

Clean Energy: It's Getting Affordable
The argument that we can't afford renewable sources of energy falls flat when considering the growth in solar, wind, biofuels, and fuel cells

Cleantech Innovations
Researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center are exploring ways to develop cost-effective clean technologies that meet industry needs

[tags: environment, EnergyTechnologies, innovations]

Quoted: The U.S. has a dismal showing among nations in terms of broadband availability, with no easy solution to bridge the gap.

[tags: broadband, US, internet]

Quoted: Telefónica, Nokia, Ericsson, and other European companies in BW's IT 100 know the future is in emerging markets.

[tags: mobile, internet, telecom]

Quoted: We could feed the hungry, balance the budget—even save the press. What's not to love?.

[tags: google]

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28 May 2008

My Faves for Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Un jour à Verberie, le lendemain à Rungis avec "la France qui se lève tôt" puis dans la foulée sur les ondes de RTL, Nicolas Sarkozy en a fini avec le relatif effacement des dernières semaines. S’appuyant sur une équipe resserrée, le chef de l’Etat revient en première ligne pendant que les députés poursuivent l’examen du projet de loi sur la réforme des institutions.

[tags: france, politics, video]

Quoted: Le site C dans l'air vous propose de poser vos questions pendant l'émission en direct. Retrouvez la vidéo intégrale de l'émission dès 20h sur le site, ainsi qu'un résumé et des informations sur les invités.

[tags: video, france, petrol, politics]

Quoted: Those of you who've hunted for news of crazy Frenchman Michel Fournier and his attempt on the skydiving height record

[tags: france, skydive]

Quoted: Suzersize power plants are taking root, but different technology designs are battling it out for dominance. Read this blog post by Martin LaMonica on Green Tech.

[tags: solar]

Interferometric modulator display (IMOD)[1] is an electrically switched display composed of miniature Fabry-Perot interferometers (etalons) that are switched on and off with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). An etalon reflects light at a specific wavelength and gives pure, bright colors like those a butterfly's wings, while consuming no power. Qualcomm has demonstrated the technology in prototype. IMOD technology was developed for use in mobile phones[1] and other portable devices.

[tags: technology, display]

Quoted: Orange is getting into internet radio. It is launching a £99 wireless internet radio that streams music from any of around 4,000 web-based radio stations and can also be synchronised with an Orange mobile phone.

[tags: internet, radio, audio]

Quoted: My blog reading habits have changed a bit lately, so I thought I'd give you a glimpse into the places that I'm spending a lot of my time: On Topic - Social

[tags: blog, technology]

As part of a science fair project, a Canadian teenager has come up with a way to get plastic shopping bags, which normally take up to 1,000 years to decompose, to break down in as little as three months.

Quoted: Environment news from The Christian Science Monitor

[tags: environment, plastic, bags]

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27 May 2008

My Faves for Monday, May 26, 2008

Quoted: Michio Kaku (加來 道雄 Kaku Michio) (b. January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in string field theory, and a futurist. He is a popularizer of science, host of two radio programs, and a best-selling author.

[tags: science, physics, future, author]

String theory is a still-developing mathematical approach to theoretical physics, whose original building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects called strings. Unlike the point particles in quantum field theories like the standard model of particle physics, strings interact in a way that is almost uniquely specified by mathematical self-consistency, forming an apparently valid quantum theory of gravity.

[tags: physics, string theory, science]

Quantum teleportation or entanglement-assisted teleportation is a quantum protocol by which quantum information can be transmitted utilizing a classical communication channel and an entangled pair of qubits. The sender's original qubit is destroyed in the process, as required by the no cloning theorem. The entangled pair of qubits is also separated.

Quantum teleportation does not transport energy or matter, nor does it allow communication of information at superluminal (faster than light) speed, but is useful for quantum communication and computation.

[tags: science, communication]

Teleportation is the movement of objects from one place to another, more or less instantaneously, without traveling through space. The concept has been widely used in science fiction. It should not be confused with quantum teleportation.

[tags: science, teleportation]

The Conversations Network is a listener-supported non-profit podcast network brought to you by a global team of passionate audio/video producers and editors.

[tags: podcast, technology, Science, network]

Quoted: Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of "Physics of the Impossible" about the improbable, and the very likely in the near future: phasers, force fields and time travel.

[tags: Science, physics, future, technology, podcast]

Those of us fanboys who work at our day jobs in the computer biz are well aware of the concept of Moore's Law which is that as time goes on more sophisticated hardware becomes cheaper to manufacture at an incremental rate. Well it seems that now some folks who develop photovoltaics (PV for short) think that they may see their technology reach a turning point by 2015 which is only seven years away:

Photovoltaic Moore's Law Will Make Solar Competitive by 2015

[tags: solar]

PicLens - Promotion

[tags: piclens, image, photography]

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Quoted: Phoenix Mission: A new space explorer is waiting in the wings and ready to take center stage: the Mars lander called Phoenix. Set for launch aboard a Delta II rocket, Phoenix's assignment is to dig through the Martian soil and ice in the arctic region and use its onboard scientific instruments to analyze the samples it retrieves.

[tags: nasa, mars, video]

This video includes highlights from the entry, descent and landing phase as Mars Phoenix Lander touched down on the Red Planet on May 25, 2008.

Quoted: Phoenix Mission: A new space explorer is waiting in the wings and ready to take center stage: the Mars lander called Phoenix. Set for launch aboard a Delta II rocket, Phoenix's assignment is to dig through the Martian soil and ice in the arctic region and use its onboard scientific instruments to analyze the samples it retrieves.

[tags: nasa, mars, video]

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26 May 2008

My Faves for Sunday, May 25, 2008

Quoted:
A team of biology and mathematics experts has created living computers by adding genes to Escherichia coli bacteria, showing that computing in living cells is feasible.

The researchers from Davidson College, North Carolina and Missouri Western State University, Missouri, say that their work opens the door to a number of applications like data storage.

[tags: blogs, biology, computers, science]

The globetrackr web service is designed to help bloggers and web site owners track their visitors geographical location. By doing so, web site owners can know how best to optimize their content to target their core audience or expand to new audiences.

[tags: web, tracking]

Elsa Margaretha Kjellgren
Född: 29 mars 1921
Kviberg

I hörnet av Haga Kyrkogatan och Bellmansgatan
i Göteborg låg Ahlströms privata förlossningshem,
och där föddes jag en dag i mars 1921.

[tags: genealogy, sweden, history]

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), translated by Velma Swanston Howard. Illustrated by Mary Hamilton Frye. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922.

[tags: books, authors, sweden]

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25 May 2008

My Faves for Saturday, May 24, 2008

Quoted: SJ har köpt in 20 nya snabbtåg från Bombardier. Tågen ska sättas in på sträckor där det idag går X2000-tåg, för att man ska kunna förlänga X2000-tågen på de trafiktyngda sträckorna Stockholm-Göteborg och Stockholm-Malmö.

[tags: sweden, train, travel, transport]

Quoted: Company's flagship plasma TV can stream YouTube videos and access digital photos stored on the Picasa photo service, among other IPTV-related features.

[tags: video, tv, youtube, Picasa]

Quoted: Mozilla, which oversees development of the open-source Web browser, said it will release the final version when add-ons catch up.

[tags: firefox, internet, apple]

Quoted: Sure, it gets you better data. But what if the insurance companies get it?

[tags: health, google]

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