The frozen carcass of a 37,000-year-old baby mammoth unearthed this summer in Siberia arrives in Japan for tests that researchers hope will shed new light on the internal structure of the ancient beasts.
Original post by Associated Press
Archive for December, 2007
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Ivy League Universities Open Courses to All Online
Published by December 29th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsAn MIT initiative called “OpenCourseWare” makes virtually all the school’s courses available online for free, and more than 100 universities worldwide, including Johns Hopkins, Tufts and Notre Dame, are joining MIT in a consortium of schools promoting their own open courseware.
Original post by Associated Press
AOL to end support for Netscape browser
Published by December 28th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsAOL will end support for Netscape browsers on Feb. 1, 2008.
Original post by Jenna Wortham
Alternative Minimum Tax Blunder
Published by December 28th, 2007 in Politics, bush, congress, Republicans, deficit and Taxes. 0 CommentsThe Alternative Minimum Tax instituted in 1969 was put in affect to prevent a very small number of very rich Americans from using accounting tricks to avoid paying any income taxes. How much were the “very rich” earning in 1969? Well the alternative tax applied to those who earned $200,000 or more.
So what’s $200,000 adjusted […]
by Jens Jensen
Since 2005 Japanese art director Jun Tsuzuki has been running a project he calls Synchronicity. Remarkably simple, yet fascinating and intriguing, Jun asks people all over the world to take a picture of what they are doing at a pre-determined moment in time. These pictures, along with a brief explanation of the time […]
Netscape Browser to Die a Quiet Death in February 2008
Published by December 28th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsThe original browser from the earliest days of the web will cease to be in February, AOL says. After playing second fiddle to Microsoft and being eclipsed by its offspring Firefox, the Netscape browser will be killed off by parent company AOL, which purchased the brand in 1999.
Original post by Compiler
Excerpt: Avoid iPhone navigation and typing hassles
Published by December 28th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsOriginal post by Autopia blog
Review: ScanSnap S510M document scanner
Published by December 28th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsIf you want to turn your paper archives into searchable PDFs, it doesn’t get any easier than the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M. At $495 it’s not cheap—but its bundled software alone is worth far more than the scanner itself.
Original post by Autopia blog
The Aerocivic: Ugly as Sin, But Hey — It Gets 95 MPG
Published by December 28th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsThis homemade car won’t win any beauty contests, but with fuel economy this good, who cares?
Original post by Autopia
Does Mail balk at you tossing out a draft message? Let’s kill it together, shall we?
Original post by Associated Press