December 2008
21 posts
North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Tracks... →
NORAD uses four high-tech systems to track Santa – radar, satellites, Santa Cams and fighter jets.
Tracking Santa starts with the NORAD radar system called the North Warning System. This powerful radar system consists of 47 installations strung across the northern border of North America. On Christmas Eve, NORAD monitors the radar continuously for indications that Santa Claus has left the North...
ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google... →
YouTube continues to be a standout contributor for Google generating 2.73bn searches in the U.S., up 8.5% from 2.52bn last month and up 114% from 1.28bn in November 2007. YouTube currently represents 25.4% of U.S. Google site searches compared with 17.4% in November 2007 and is larger than all of Yahoo based on total U.S. queries in November.
The Evolution of Search →
A look at the History, Vision, Innovators, and Future of Information Accessibility
www.ps3cluster.org: How to Build Supercomputer... →
UMass Dartmouth Physics Professor Gaurav Khanna and UMass Dartmouth Principal Investigator Chris Poulin have created a step-by-step guide to building a home-brewed supercomputer that can reduce the cost of university and general computing research.
Found at www.ps3cluster.org , the resource fully illustrates how to create a fully functioning and high performance supercomputer with the Sony...
Iraq Shoe Tosser Guy: The Animated Gifs →
It's official: Internet better than sex →
46% of women and 30% of men would rather go without sex for 2 weeks than give up Internet access for the same amount of time,
Vietnam's helmet law has saved >1000 lives already →
The World Health Organization said Monday that Vietnam’s mandatory helmet law helped save more than 1,000 lives since it was introduced a year ago but that more loopholes need to be fixed.
Krugman: US auto industry will probably disappear →
Nobel economics prize winner Paul Krugman said Sunday that the beleaguered U.S. auto industry will likely disappear.
Vietnam's market economy leaves the poor behind →
Vietnam far from a modern economy →
Vietnam was supposed to be the lair of the next Asian Tiger. Ripe for development, open for business, and with a young population eager for the homeland to emulate the economic miracle of its giant neighbour China.
There were all the early signs of growing affluence — Western designer stores such as Louis Vuitton and Burberry — flocked to the nation’s cities and Western...
How to Use Neuroscience to Become Your Avatar →
Our Stone Age brains — and the bodily boundaries they are used to — can be confused by technology that has outpaced our evolutionary development.
Facebook Connect →
Facebook Connect allows its members to log onto other Web sites using their Facebook identification and see their friends’ activities on those sites. Like Beacon, the controversial advertising program that Facebook introduced and then withdrew last year after it raised a hullabaloo over privacy, Connect also gives members the opportunity to broadcast their actions on those sites to their...
November 2008
52 posts
You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About... →
I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq →
Matthew Alexander led an interrogations team assigned to a Special Operations task force in Iraq in 2006. He is the author of “How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq.”