"Cryptic Message" Found In Suicide Note Yeah, suicide is a sad thing, but I still couldn't help but laugh at this- "A suicide note left by a troubled South Florida teen has sparked a extensive investigation into the meaning or identity of "kthxbai"." From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Is Any Subject Safe? President Bush tried to change the subject yesterday, away from the Mark Foley congressional-page scandal and the general Republican pre-mid-term meltdown. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
How Package Tracking Should Be An excellent suggestion to make tracking packages online easier. With such a nice UI, who wouldn't want to obsessively monitor that new gadget of yours in the mail? From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Microsoft and Intel Get Ready For Windows Vista and Office 2007 Intel Corporation and Microsoft Corp. today announced the Ready 2 Rock Road Show, a series of day-long, hands-on events designed to help system builders make the most of myriad business opportunities afforded them by new and innovative products and technologies from Microsoft and Intel. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Canada troops battle 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants One soldier told him later: "Sir, three years ago before I joined the army, I never thought I'd say 'That damn marijuana'." From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Software Startup Myths Debunked Myth #1: I need to get VC funding to make my company successful. This isn't true by any stretch of the imagination and, in fact, it calls into question the very meaning of 'successful.' The goals of a venture capitalist are to maximize the return on investments that pan out and minimize the costs of investments that will not... From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Physicians Stop Liver Cancer with Millions of Glass Beads University of Cincinnati (UC) physicians are using a new technique that involves injecting patients with millions of tiny radioactive glass beads to control advanced, inoperable liver cancer. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Final Review: The Lowdown on Microsoft Office 2007 "You'll probably get used to the new interface within a few hours; whether you like it, however, is a different story. New users will benefit most, since they won't have to change existing habits. For advanced and power users, the adjustment may be a bit more disconcerting, at least initially." From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
New Surveillance Technology Monitors The Invisible There's little doubt that surveillance cameras are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and that there's really no such thing as privacy in public. But monitoring images visible to the naked eye may one day look quaint compared to the next generation of surveillance technologies. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Treasures in Ashes left by Wildfires During a gargantuan fire that burned for nearly a month this fall in the Los Padres National Forest north of Los Angeles, fire crews found an abandoned gold mining camp and an adobe homestead from the 1800s. After a smaller fire there in June, they discovered a cave with rock art and a site with unusual beads made from freshwater shells. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
How CIA Director Goss Leaked Agency's Controversial Rendition Program An unsolicited remark from Porter Goss, then chairman House Intelligence Committee, led a British journalist to unravel many of the details of the CIA’s controversial “extraordinary rendition” program, according to a new book. The disclosure of this highly sensitive operation later prompted a major leak investigation that roiled the agency From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
How the Immune System Avoids Attacking Itself A finding by University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers about how immune cells "decide" to become active or inactive may have applications in fighting cancerous tumors, autoimmune diseases, and organ transplant rejection. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Nvidia to bring "World's Fastest GPU" to Notebooks Computer graphics developer Nvidia Corporation announced on Thursday that it is teaming up with Dell Computer to deliver the "worlds fastest" graphics processor to Dell's enthusiast line of notebook computers. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
My Dream App Semifinals, and Kevin's Judging! The semifinals are here, with only 9 apps remaining. This round's guest judges include Kevin Rose, Leo Laporte, David Pogue (NYT), Jason Snell, Peter Cohen (Macworld), Shawn King (Your Mac Life) and Rik Myslewski (MacAddcit). Plus, all voters get Voice Candy for free. Who'll remain? From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
North Korea might have The Bomb, but it doesn't have much electricity North Korea may have atomic weapons, but it doesn't have electricity to keep its lights on. While the north shivers in darkness and starvation, its neighbors to the south are thriving. A lesson in skewed priorities. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Nintendo Creates AI Trainer For Wii Remote Nintendo and tools company AiLive have teamed up to produce LiveMove, a "groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence product" available to Nintendo Wii developers that enables the Wii remote to learn, and making game design much simpler and more innovative for the new spatial controller! From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
The death of G4TV? Comcast folds G4 into E! Entertainment Comcast is consolidating its West Coast entertainment networks, bringing G4 management under the E! Networks tent. G4's executive staff will move into E!'s Los Angeles offices. Sources said layoffs among the G4 staff are likely. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
The Marriage of Social and Business Applications "It takes a long time for technologies to understand each other. So how long will it take for social and business applications to embrace each other, much less produce the next generation of applications? It turns out not too much longer, because social and business applications have both been around the block a few times...." From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
UK Army chief says British troops should be pulled out of Iraq Tony Blair has received a public warning from the country's most senior military commander that the British presence in Iraq is threatening disaster there and in the UK. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
YouTube is killing my business! Utube, YouTube, whose tube?A company, which sells used machinery for making tubes has seen its site utube.com knocked off line by millions of online searchers looking for the video site. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
YouTubers to Google: Now What? Fans of the online video-sharing site aren't quite sure what to make of everything as they watch their quirkly little community go corporate. Some are upbeat but plenty are openly hostile to the $1.65 billion deal that delivered YouTube into Google's waiting arms From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Developer says PSP still has a lot of life left! Well not really a retail developer (think GamesRadar), but one of the PSP scene's most respected homebrew developers, FreePlay, points out the faults of GameWorld's recent claim that the 'PSP is dead', as well as agrees with some of the reasons why Sony, did really, mess up, in his latest podcast. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
The Big Lebowski Phonetic Alphabet I find myself in a line of work where where I need to communicate long strings of letters over the telephone very precisely - And frankly, this drab NATO Phonetic Alphabet business just isn't cutting it anymore. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Bush Confounded by the 'Unacceptable' In speeches, statements and news conferences this year, the president has repeatedly declared a range of problems "unacceptable," including rising health costs, immigrants who live outside the law, North Korea's claimed nuclear test, genocide in Sudan and Iran's nuclear ambitions. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Censored Stories: The 10 stories the nation's mainstream news media ignored The juiciest one of all: Halliburton sold key nuclear-reactor components to an Iranian company as late as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions. Funny, I don't remember seeing this on Fox News... From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Is U.S. Government Using LSD for Interrogations? In a new court filing on behalf of alleged dirty bomber Jose Padilla, his lawyers allege that government interrogators forced him to take LSD, Gerstein reported. "Additionally, Padilla was given drugs against his will, believed to be some form of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or phencyclidine (PCP), to act as a sort of truth serum..." From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
New Red Logo for Apple's 5th Avenue Store Apple's cube store has changed its traditional white Apple logo for a red one. Perhaps this is in anticipation of the oft-rumored Red iPod. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
New Wii Interface Pictures These cannot be 100% percent confirmed, but seem pretty legit. They give you a good idea of what you should expect from the Wii interface come launch day. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
SanDisk Introduces 2GB microSD to Japan Memory manufacturer SanDisk Corp. announced on Thursday that it will begin selling microSD memory cards at capacities up to 2-gigabytes, the highest amount of storage offered in microSD format to date. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Parents, the Xbox 360, and safe gaming With video game ratings and content in the news so much lately, Microsoft believes its time to educate parents on the Xbox 360 and its parental control system. At the DigitalLife Conference in New York today, the company launched its new "Safety Is No Game. Is Your Family Set?" campaign. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Portable typewriter laptop This really is a bizarra mod. It's a typewriter crossed with a laptop + a morse code keypad of sorts. [via make] From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
BitTorrent: an excellent medium for indie labels Over the past year or so, BitTorrent as a medium for independent artists and labels to distribute content has grown immensely. It's good to see that BitTorrent.com, the 'official' BT site is spearheading this movement. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Understand the benefits of the JavaHelp framework JavaHelp is an application help technology that can run on any platform and browser that supports Java. Peter Mikhalenko details the features and benefits of this easy-to-use framework. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Linux kernel gains new real-time support Additional real-time technology will be incorporated into the mainline Linux kernel starting with version 2.6.18. Linux users wishing to build kernels capable of achieving millisecond-level real-time responsiveness will no longer have to apply patches. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
iPod Red Nano Site Looks like all the rumors were true: here's the red nano. Apple will donate $10 for every one purchased to help fight AIDS From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Down With DRM Video Contest Winners Announced! Freeculture.org is pleased to announce the contest winners for our Down With DRM video contest. We had a lot of great entries, and want to thank *all* of the participants for their submissions. They’ve all contributed greatly to raising awareness in the fight against DRM.The winners will all receive a Neuros OSD digital video recorder. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Totems Insane Japanese game. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Lack of Talented People in India, Says Google. There may be more than a billion people in India, but even an Internet superstar like Google Inc has trouble recruiting talented locals in its South Asian operations, a board member said here. "I know first hand that we’ve had a bit more of a challenge trying to hire engineers for Google in Bangalore compared to other parts of the world," From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
Seventeen Innocent Guantanamo Detainees Released Sixteen Afghans and one Iranian released from years in captivity at Guantanamo Bay prison arrived in Afghanistan on Thursday, an Afghan official said, maintaining that "most" of the detainees had been falsely accused. He said many of the detainees, had served up to four years, after being turned in by other Afghans with personal disputes. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
PS3 Europe launch could be delayed again We all know that Sony is the bringer of bad news around here. They are constantly having problems with the production of PS3 and are having shortages for the US and Japanese launches. With all these setbacks, Ken Kutaragi says the PS3 launch in Europe could be delayed even further. From digg on October 13, 2006 at 9:34 a.m..
About five weeks to a social library - online course This online course is devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity for librarians who do not otherwise have access to conferences or continuing education and who would benefit greatly from learning about social software. The course will be taught using a variety of social software tools so that the participants acquire experience using the tools while they are taking part in the class. The course will make use of synchronous online communication, with From EdNA Online on October 13, 2006 at 9:33 a.m..
Teens and social networking in schools and public libraries Social networking sites are those that enable the opportunity to interact with others on the net. This report from Chicago discusses the positive uses for social networking from a school perspective. From EdNA Online on October 13, 2006 at 9:33 a.m..
NZ guidelines on physical contact The New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) has published new guidelines on physical contact with students, to assist its members who work as teachers and support staff in schools and early childhood education centres. The guidelines recognise that teachers and support staff will come into physical contact with children and students during their work and state 'this is acceptable when carried out in a professional and responsible manner that is age appropriate.' They offer clear and concise advice designed to assist members in making their schools and early childhood education centr From EdNA Online on October 13, 2006 at 9:33 a.m..
Post hraduate scholarships, harvesting and operations Co-operative Research Centre for Forestry. Research Programme Three of the CRC for Forestry aims to build an Australian research capacity in the field of forest harvesting and operations. As a consequence, the CRC for Forestry is offering a number of post-graduate research scholarships in this field. Expressions of interest are sought from prospective candidates interested in negotiating projects within the following broad areas of forest harvesting and operations research: * Safety, productivity, cost effectiveness and design of harvest systems and wood transport infrastructure. Forest resour From EdNA Online on October 13, 2006 at 9:33 a.m..
Air Conditioning and Mechanical Contractors' Association (AMCA) of Victoria This organisation represents the air conditioning and mechanical services industry in Victoria. The Air Conditioning and Mechanical Contractors' Association (AMCA) is also a Registered Training Organisation (RTO), offering a range of accredited and short courses. AMCA also offers workplace training programs. From EdNA Online on October 13, 2006 at 9:33 a.m..
Google's library grows Google said that another US university will add its books to the internet search titan's controversial project to make the world's written works available online. The library books at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society will be digitised and added to the virtual shelves of the Google Books Library Project, according to the arrangement. From EdNA Online on October 13, 2006 at 9:33 a.m..
Skills for the Future The Prime Minister has announced new investments by the Australian Government to raise the skills of Australia's adult workforce. The Skills for the Future package includes Work Skills Vouchers which will be made available to individuals aged 25 years and over who do not have Year 12 or equivalent qualifications. Further information about Skills for the Future is outlined in the Ministerial Statement to Parliament. From EdNA Online on October 13, 2006 at 9:33 a.m..
Information about Prime Minister’s prize for Australian History The Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, announced that information about how to apply for the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History is now available on her website. The Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History is awarded for an outstanding publication or body of work that contributes significantly to an understanding of Australian history. The Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History comprises an embossed gold medallion and a grant of $100,000 and may be awarded to an individual or a group. DEST Media release, 13 October 2006