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Branson to launch stem-cell bank

2007-02-11T18:42:00.000-05:00

Branson to launch stem-cell bank Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 Sir Richard Branson plans to start a company which will let families store stem cells from their child's umbilical cord. Posted in World News | No Comments » Space Station To Grow Faster, Mark Firsts Throughout Year Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 Already spanning an acre in orbit, the

December 31st, 2005

2005-12-31T15:02:00.000-05:00

jest for pun (December’05) Posted in Humor December’05 BlogThoughts Every calendar’s days are numbered. The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. - Peter De Vries The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. - Henry J. Tillman At the end of the game, both the king and the pawn go back into

November 30th, 2005

2005-11-30T14:59:00.000-05:00

Science & Photography Through the Microscope Posted in Tech/Science, Photography They say everything looks better from a distance, but here’s proof that it’s not always true. While no one’s itching to get close to the mosquito, when it’s magnified a couple of thousand times, the notorious pest begins to look almost…beautiful. With this site, you can zoom in on the

October 31, 2005

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jest for pun (October'05) October'05 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles. - Scott AdamsSarae Jahan Se Achha Hindostan Hamaragoogol: 10100, or 1 followed by 100 zeros October 31, 2005

September 30, 2005

2005-09-30T06:20:00.000-04:00

jest for pun (September'05) September'05 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. Somebody's DarlingAmerican women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - Gracie AllenYou don't

August 31, 2005

2005-08-31T06:20:00.000-04:00

jest for pun (August'05) August'05 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. can you hear me now?Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. - Dion Boucicault August 31, 2005 in Humor | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack August 30, 2005 Botany Photo of the Day Inspired by NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, the gardeners and plant

July 31, 2005

2005-07-31T06:20:00.000-04:00

jest for pun (July'05) July'05 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. - John Ford east or west India is the bestLast christmas my sister, Geri, gave me a lovely Cloth calendar. It only took me 5 hours to sew in a Doctor's appointment... - Robert Paul (British Computer Scientist, Humorist) July 31, 2005 in

June 30, 2005

2005-06-30T06:20:00.000-04:00

jest for pun (June'05) June'05 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. - Charles Darwin Never trust a thin chef. - Anonymous The art of photography is to make that which seems unbeautiful, beautiful. -Jennifer Barton To a leg of a heronAdding a long shankOf a pheasant.- Basho games people

May 31, 2005

2005-05-31T06:20:00.000-04:00

jest for pun (May'05) May'05 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. Publication is a self-invasion of privacy. -Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980) Canadian writer and theoretician. History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. - Leonard Louis Levinson You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win. - Ho Chi Minh to

April 30, 2005

2005-04-30T06:20:00.000-04:00

jest for pun (April'05) April '05 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. - Robert Jordan, (The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time) My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) if water is not

April 16, 2005

2005-04-16T07:23:00.000-04:00

Town with sign language as official language Architects and town planners yesterday began drawing up blueprints for the first town built entirely for deaf people in the US. Almost 100 families, from London to Australia, have reserved space in the South Dakota village, where all business will be conducted in sign language. Future residents hope to become fully integrated in the day-to-day

March 31, 2005

2005-03-31T07:20:00.000-05:00

jest for pun (March'05) March '05 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. - Rita Rudner (b. 1956) - American comedian, actress. Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind. - Austin

March 19, 2005

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Anything Is Possible How many times did you want to be a DJ?Now you can podcast. How many times did you want to be a movie maker?Now you can Vimeo. How many times did you want to be a rock star?Now you can garageband. How many times did you want to write music for TV shows?Now you can Freeplay. How many times did you want to be a journalist?Now you can blog. Anything is possible in

March 12, 2005

2005-03-12T04:38:00.000-05:00

Invisibility Shields Planned by Engineers In popular science fiction, the power of invisibility is readily apparent. Star Trek fans, for example, know that the devious Romulans could make their spaceships suddenly disappear. But is the idea really so implausible? Not according to new findings by scientists who say they have come up with a way to create cloaking device. Electronic engineers

Saturday, Mar 5, 2005

2005-03-05T06:29:00.000-05:00

Ex libris EXLIBRIS MUSEUM. We've done ex-libris bookplates before, but trust me, this site far surpasses anything you've ever seen. Just go to the Gallery and click on any of the names. Vereshchagin, for instance. Or Karol Felix. Or... hell, just dive in, you can't go wrong. Posted by SV at 6:11:00 AM in Art, Books | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Friday,

February 26, 2005

2005-02-26T13:43:00.000-05:00

New Indian drug patent rule hurts poor AIDS patients: US experts WASHINGTON (AFP) — US law and AIDS experts urged the Indian parliament to reject an executive order that will curb India's ability to sell cheap copies of the newest drugs for the world's poorest patients. The Indian parliament will debate the new December 26 order, which changed its laws to put India in line with World Trade

February 19, 2005

2005-02-19T07:38:00.000-05:00

India special: The next knowledge superpower Was there ever a doubt! - India special: The next knowledge superpowerIn just a few years, more than 100 IT and science-based firms have located R&D labs in India. Big changes are making the country a centre of innovation. - India special: Space programme presses aheadWhile detractors say India cannot afford a space programme, Indira Gandhi

Saturday, Feb 12, 2005

2005-02-12T06:00:00.000-05:00

Epica 2004 Awards It contains 109 commercials from 18 countries, including the popular 'Gandhi' spot for Telecom Italia. Posted by SV at 6:08:00 AM in Reality, Tech/Science | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Friday, Feb 11, 2005 A Mysterious Streak Above Hawaii A Mysterious Streak Above Hawaii Credit: Night Sky Live Collaboration Explanation:

Saturday, Feb 5, 2005

2005-02-05T08:38:00.000-05:00

The New York Times killed a story The Emperor's New Hump The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election—because it could have changed the election By Dave Lindorff. In the weeks leading up to the November 2 election, the New York Times was abuzz with excitement. Besides the election itself, the paper’s reporters were hard at work on two hot investigative

Saturday, Jan 29, 2005

2005-01-29T09:30:00.000-05:00

McDonald's Suspends Advertising On Hot 97 In America, the most powerful pressure comes from those that control economics. R&R has learned that the fast-food chain's advertising was pulled from CHR/Rhythmic WQHT/New York on Tuesday. The decision was made in the wake of last week's controversial broadcasts that resulted in Emmis' suspending the entire Miss Jones Morning Show team. The

January 22, 2005

2005-01-22T11:19:00.000-05:00

The Rocky Flats Horror Picture Show Ex-FBI agent charges feds with radioactive coverup at Rocky Flats By Amanda Griscom Little 21 Jan 2005 in grist magazine The plotline sounds as absurd as a made-for-TV movie: An FBI agent exposes deadly contamination at an old nuclear-weapons plant, but the federal government conceals the findings. Years later, Congress votes to convert the tract into

January 14, 2005

2005-01-14T11:17:00.000-05:00

FATAL CROSSROADS: A Novel of Vietnam 1945 As a child in Bombay, India I enjoyed reading international newspapers at the library. Initially it was just a desire to know what is happening in the far away land. One name that kept coming over and over again was Seymour Topping. I must have read every article of his which I could find. To me New York Times became a great newspaper when Seymour

January 08, 2005

2005-01-08T11:15:00.000-05:00

Top 10 bizarre e-mailed stories of 2004. CNN has its list of Top 10 bizarre e-mailed stories of 2004. The number one story: "Bear guzzles 36 beers, passes out at campground" (August 18) Campground workers at the Baker Lake Resort on Washington State's Puget Sound were surprised to find a black bear passed out and surrounded by three dozen beer cans. The animal had swiped the suds from campers

December 31, 2004

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Cold snap brings Gulf rare snow Snow has fallen in the United Arab Emirates for the first time in years, shocking residents of a desert country better known for its 50C summer heat. December 31, 2004 in World News | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack DAVID PHILLIPS: Countdown with Keith Olbermann I normally don't put any post on the last day of a month. But

November 30, 2004

2004-11-30T13:19:00.000-05:00

jest for pun (November'04) November'04 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. - Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory what you think is not what I said. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told

October 31, 2004

2004-10-02T06:53:00.000-04:00

jest for pun (October'04) October'04 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. The living need charity more than the dead. - George Arnold The Jolly Old Pedagogue - 1866) I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. - Woody Allen (Clown Prince of American Humor, 1975) It is not enough to do your best; you must

September 30, 2004

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jest for pun (September'04) September'04 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. Death, Be Not Cloud Is there life before death? - Graffito, in Belfast My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't. An electric company is always looking for high energy employees. I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a

August 31, 2004

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jest for pun (August'04) August'04 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. - Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) British Novelist and playwright Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. - Milton Berle 'Blanche not now!' 'If not

July 31, 2004

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jest for pun (July'04) July'04 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. - Joseph E. Levine fyi Is coffee your daily grind? We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we

June, 30 2004

2004-06-30T06:38:00.000-04:00

jest for pun June'04 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. - G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on. -George W. Bush (spoken at a Washington Dinner, March 2001) Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. -Walter Lippmann Life

May 31, 2004

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jest for pun May'04 BlogThoughts Every calendar's days are numbered. All reports are in. Life is now officially unfair. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. - Jay Leno A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. - Bill Gates (Business @ the Speed of

April 30, 2004

2004-04-30T19:57:00.000-04:00

jest for pun April'04 BlogThoughtsEvery calendar's days are numbered. Drinking too much coffee can cause a latte problems. Don't worry have curry in a hurry. Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at. - Carlos A. Urbizo All is well that ends well Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself. - Peter da Silva Age does

March 31, 2004

2004-03-31T19:47:00.000-05:00

jest for pun March'04 BlogThoughts March 30, 2004 When the CEO is the brand but falls from grace Horace Smith and D. B. Wesson did it when they engraved their initials onto a pistol in 1852. Henry Ford did it, as did Mary Kay Ash, Michael Bloomberg, Donald Trump and Michael Dell. Knowledge@Wharton examines how companies can save their skins even when the founder falls into disgrace. Google

With mixed feelings I bid this site good-bye... and I'll meet you at the new one.

2004-03-17T07:19:00.000-05:00

Like others before me who walked the one-way bridge to the next Blogging level, I have crossed from Blogger to MT. As of now MT (Movable Types) looks like Blogging Nirvana. In http://mblog.com/forsv/ you will find the same look which you and other readers loved , but with new subtle and ingenious goodies, like tool preview when you hover your mouse, comments, trackbacks, categories, a

Emergence:

2004-03-16T06:10:00.000-05:00

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson (Author) Amazon.com's Best of 2001 An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson explains what we know about this phenomenon with a rare lucidity in Emergence: The

Traffic lessons from ants

2004-03-16T06:05:00.000-05:00

When it comes to traffic congestion, ants prefer the no-nonsense approach.

NYC needs new streetlights design

2004-03-16T06:00:00.000-05:00

New York currently maintains over 300,000 streetlights within its 5 boroughs, but is seeking a new streetlight design for the city.

Movers and Shakers Of Digital Media

2004-03-15T06:03:00.000-05:00

Recently Digital Media (formerly Streaming Magazine) published the Media Moguls of the ever competitive industry. These are the people who significantly advance digital media through business or technological achievements. And to me one name in there meant the whole list. Dr. Andrew Economos, Founder/Chairman of RCS. What Microsoft's Windows did to PC-World, RCS's Selector did to Radio-World

Studies find pain is a matter of the mind

2004-03-14T07:20:00.000-05:00

When it comes to feeling pain, some of it really is all in your head.

Awesome - Wanna see a sonic boom?

2004-03-13T09:57:00.000-05:00

Stunning Photo Of Jet Breaking Sound Barrier

Save the Hubble

2004-03-12T07:22:00.000-05:00

Please sign. Thank you for your support and please spread the word. US residents only, sign the "Save the Hubble" petition Planet Earth residents only, sign the "Save the Hubble" (I signed both)

Lord of the Rings

2004-03-11T07:14:00.000-05:00

Ever-growing pictures of Saturn are coming back from the Cassini-Huygens probe, which drops into Saturn orbit in 123 days. Sweet.

Galactic Carnivore

2004-03-11T06:46:00.001-05:00

The accompanying illustration depicts how 'Giant Black Hole Rips Star Apart' may have occurred. A close encounter with another star put the doomed star (orange circle) on a path that took it near a supermassive black hole. The enormous gravity of the giant black hole stretched the star until it was torn apart. Because of the momentum and energy of the accretion process, only a few percent of

Quantum codes debut in real world

2004-03-11T06:46:00.000-05:00

Quantum cryptography has emerged from the laboratory and into the real world.

eye on the universe

2004-03-11T06:45:00.000-05:00

The Hubble Space Telescope Project Hubble Image Said to Echo Van Gogh 'Starry Night' Hubble Space Telescope Nasa says 'no' to Hubble reprieve In pictures: Hubble's successes Hubble's deep view of the cosmos

From China with love

2004-03-10T06:06:00.000-05:00

Her code name was "Parlor Maid," and she was an FBI "asset" for 20 years. Her information about China eventually made its way to four American presidents. Then in April of 2003, Katrina Leung and her FBI "handler," Special Agent J.J. Smith, were arrested. The government alleged that Leung was an agent for China and that Smith had helped her. And in a stunning announcement, the government also

Brothers in Arms?

2004-03-09T06:20:00.000-05:00

George W. Bush and John Kerry both spent their mid twenties in uniform. The similarities end there.

Pakistan may make Nigeria a nuclear power

2004-03-09T06:18:00.000-05:00

Great, as though we did not have enough nations to worry about!

You spin me right round

2004-03-08T06:04:00.000-05:00

They say that the Swindon Magic Roundabout — five mini-roundabouts within one larger one — works like a charm. For me, though, even though I like traffic circles … I think I’ll simply stay on the Motorway …

Sidewalk drawings in Perspective

2004-03-07T06:05:00.000-05:00

more...

Holi Hai

2004-03-06T09:22:00.000-05:00

In graphics: What The World Thinks Of God

2004-03-06T06:51:00.000-05:00

click the chart

Vol(v)o, Car for Women!

2004-03-05T06:16:00.000-05:00

If the Calendar Girls were making cars, this is what they would look like. The car should be programmed to discover any problems under the bonnet, then send a message to the garage to let them know. The mechanics would then contact the women directly to invite them over. ... And for women with ponytails, there is even a split in the middle of the headrest.

DAILY GRIST

2004-03-04T06:07:00.000-05:00

BURN ME UP, SCOTTY. Super-Hot Trash Zapper May Yield HydrogenI'VE SEEN FIRE AND I'VE SEEN RAIN. Amazonian Fires May Screw Up Entire South American Climate SOOTHE THE SALVAGE BEAST. Ecologists Warn Against Salvage Logging.SHAREHOLDING INDUSTRY RESPONSIBLE. Shareholders Call on Companies to Address Global Warming LOOK FOR THE GM LABEL. Battle Over Genetically Modified Foods Rages OnCERTIFIABLY

Google Googly

2004-03-04T06:06:00.001-05:00

Find out all about how Google Works and Google~Guide

Yahoo vs. Google: Algorithm Standoff

2004-03-04T06:06:00.000-05:00

So they have parted ways. Which one's better?

I can spel, ok?

2004-03-04T06:04:00.000-05:00

In Internet auctions, bad spelers pay a price.

The World's Smallest Website

2004-03-04T06:01:00.000-05:00

Indeed, it is.

Power lines set to carry Internet to outlet near you

2004-03-03T05:05:00.000-05:00

A unit of Cinergy Corp. today will become the nation's first electric utility to offer high-speed Internet service to customers via its power lines, turning every electrical outlet in homes or offices into a Web connection.

anything goes

2004-03-02T06:26:00.000-05:00

In olden days, a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now heaven knows, anything goes. - Cole Porter Complete Lyrics. Music CD

"The Real Macaw"

2004-03-01T06:01:00.000-05:00

Everyone loves macaws. Playful, intelligent, beautiful, they are the stars of parrot parks and zoos, and the cherished pets of devoted owners around the world. All of which makes them prime targets for poachers, who can make enormous profits from illegal sales of the birds. Thousands are smuggled from the wild each year, and many die in the process. In the forests of South America, several

jest for pun

2004-02-29T06:17:00.000-05:00

February'04 BlogThoughts

Ancient Egypt goes online

2004-02-28T06:05:00.000-05:00

Eternal Egypt, which brings to light over five thousand years of Egyptian civilization, it is a living record of a land rich in art and history, people and places, myths and religions. The stories of Eternal Egypt are told using the latest interactive technologies, high-resolution imagery, animations, virtual environments, remote cameras, three-dimensional models and more.

War In Space

2004-02-27T06:24:00.000-05:00

An Air Force report is giving what analysts call the most detailed picture since the end of the Cold War of the Pentagon's efforts to turn outer space into a battlefield.

The Theban (Egypt) Mapping Project

2004-02-26T06:14:00.000-05:00

Discover each tomb in the Valley in this interactive Atlas which includes details of each tomb, compilations of more than 2000 images, over 250 detailed maps, etc. Check the 3D tomb tour.

Thomas Easley

2004-02-25T06:00:00.000-05:00

Very few people have the power to make an impact on anothers life. One such person whose words have had profound effect on me is Thomas Easley. To me he is not only a great painter, writer but a down-to-earth human being with whom one can talk. His series on 'Roosters' is definitely fowl play. Hold your breath when you see 'Passion Play Series' or 'King of Feasts Series'. Very few artists can

Old Customs 'Die' Hard

2004-02-24T06:20:00.000-05:00

Barbara Walters of 60 Minutes (USA) did a story on gender roles in Kabul several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked about 5 paces behind their husbands. She returned to Kabul recently and observed that women still walk behind their husbands, but now seem to walk even further back and are now happy with the old custom. Ms. Walters approached one of the

The Other Gandhi

2004-02-23T06:31:00.000-05:00

He is the scion of the most celebrated family of Modern India. He has one of the most revered Indian surnames, Gandhi. He is, however, the first member of Nehru-Gandhi family who writes poetry and has already published his first collection, The Otherness of Self. Varun talks right, thinks forward and is at the right age at the wrong time. He could have been elected to Parliament had he been a

How to tap a VoIP call?

2004-02-22T06:54:00.000-05:00

The Federal Communications Committee and the Justice Department are at loggerheads over a new problem in the war on terror: how to listen in on Internet phone calls. Thanks to the blistering growth of VoIP—Voice over Internet Protocol—services, which have been adopted by approximately 10 million people worldwide so far, law enforcement officials now worry that wiretapping may one day become

Curry KitKat anyone?

2004-02-21T07:05:00.000-05:00

Willy Wonka had his never-ending gobstopper and Harry Potter is partial to Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans - but the maker of KitKats has proved that truth is stranger than fiction.

Visual Google?

2004-02-20T06:25:00.000-05:00

Behold "TouchGraph GoogleBrowser," a visualization tool that interfaces with Google and creates a linked map of the search results. A similar product is Kartoo, a meta search engine which too presents its results on a map.

BBC: Languages

2004-02-19T06:05:00.000-05:00

Word has it that we Yanks are linguistically challenged. Luckily, our English-speaking brethren across the Atlantic have devised this Berlitz-like primer to boost anyone's French, German, Italian, and Spanish speaking skills in no time flat. Whether you know very little or ascended to college-level language courses, each of these language courses is geared so you learn at your own pace. For

Half of all languages face extinction this century

2004-02-18T06:03:00.000-05:00

Half of all human languages will have disappeared by the end of the century, as smaller societies are assimilated into national and global cultures, scientists have warned.

Shelf Life

2004-02-17T10:58:00.000-05:00

Surf Life

2004-02-17T09:57:00.000-05:00

Microsoft ASP.NET, Web Matrix, ASP.NET Heaven

101 Cookbooks

2004-02-16T06:10:00.000-05:00

Heidi Swanson is a San Francisco photographer and graphic designer struggling with a delicate dilemma. She stockpiles cookbooks like "Once Upon a Tart" and "The New American Cheese," yet sticks to the same 20-odd recipes in the kitchen. As she sums up, "The intent is good, the follow through bad." Early last year, she decided to convert all that potential into something edible, and the result is

Be the Creature

2004-02-15T06:31:00.000-05:00

Chris and Martin Kratt have produced, written, filmed, and co-starred in two award-winning series for PBS -- Kratts' Creatures and Zoboomafoo. The Kratts examine six animals in the series -- the brown bear, lion, Japanese macaque, wild dog, lemur, and manatee -- offering in-depth lessons in the ways of the wild. The site's appealing Flash presentation, as well as the video clips and outtakes,

NASA Sun-Earth Media Viewer

2004-02-14T06:10:00.000-05:00

Great balls of fire! No, it's not images from Mars that have caught our fancy, but fiery portraits of our very own sun provided by NASA. That's right, as twin rovers romp around the red planet snapping up interplanetary postcards, the sun sends real-time greetings of its own in extreme UV imaging. What exactly is extreme UV light? It's the electromagnetic portion of the color spectrum between

In a galaxy, far away.

2004-02-14T06:00:00.000-05:00

The collision of two star systems has created a merged galaxy with an unusual appearance and bizarre motions.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia:

2004-02-13T11:24:00.000-05:00

Fear of Friday the 13th

Vote By Issue Quiz

2004-02-13T06:42:00.000-05:00

Forget about red-faced rants and ketchup heiress spouses for a minute. PBS Online News Hour and Boston NPR affiliate WBUR invite prospective Democratic voters to blind taste test the candidates on the basis of their platforms rather than their personalities. The premise is simple: read unattributed statements from the seven remaining candidates on 14 topics (tax cuts, gun laws, national security,

Oddly Enough

2004-02-12T06:20:00.000-05:00

Millionaire Hit with Record Speeding Fine Finnish traffic fines vary according to the offender's income. I love it. Wish US implements this!

3-D street paintings

2004-02-12T06:13:00.000-05:00

Sampling of street painting's created by Kurt Wenner around Europe.

Food for Wood

2004-02-12T06:02:00.000-05:00

Unique environmentally conscientious way of disposing off the dead bodies...

Picture Perfect

2004-02-11T06:02:00.000-05:00

"The primary focus of CrashRyan is to post random photos of a guy named Dennis Cernosia. Over time it has branched out to thingshim and his buds think about during the course of the day ... cars, photography, strange news, music, movies and politics."

Innovation life, inspired

2004-02-10T06:15:00.000-05:00

building to extremes In this episode, INNOVATION follows the architects and engineers who have dedicated their lives to reaching new heights, travels around the world to see giant buildings under construction, and investigates the risks and benefits of building tall. Can innovative materials and design techniques overcome critical new safety issues? Premieres Feb 10, 9:00PM on PBS. Check local

Descent into the ice

2004-02-10T06:12:00.000-05:00

Mont Blanc is one of the world's most popular destinations for Alpine climbers and scientists; no other peak has such a long record of mountaineering and glaciology. But 200 years of winter sports, science and tourism haven't tamed this mountain. This program follows a team of daring "glacionauts" as they explore the dangerous glacial lakes hidden inside Mont Blanc. (Closed Captioning) (Stereo) (

Sharpen C#

2004-02-09T06:19:00.000-05:00

Aimed at experienced programmers and web developers, the new edition of Programming C# doesn't waste words on elementary programming topics. Information covered include: Classes and objectsInheritance and polymorphismOperator overloadingStructs and interfacesArrays, indexers, and collectionsString objects and regular expressionsExceptions and bug handlingDelegates and

GOOGLE SHOCKER

2004-02-08T07:28:00.000-05:00

GOD, GOOGLED, EXISTS 59,900,000 Search Results Evidence of Deity, Experts Agree

Roll-able display

2004-02-07T08:31:00.000-05:00

Most flexible electronic paper yet revealed.

Our mobile future

2004-02-07T06:05:00.000-05:00

Brilliantly done Flash animation from Vodafone. Highly recommend the "Work" section.

'Superfoods' Everyone Needs

2004-02-06T06:05:00.000-05:00

And that "one really good diet," should be founded on these "superfoods": Beans Blueberries Broccoli Oats Oranges Pumpkin Salmon Soy Spinach Tea (green or black) Tomatoes Turkey Walnuts Yogurt

Today's Stock Market Report:

2004-02-05T06:06:00.000-05:00

Helium was up, feathers were down. Paper was stationary. Fluorescent tubing was dimmed in light trading. Knives were up sharply. Pencils lost a few points. Hiking equipment was trailing. Elevators rose, while escalators continued their slow decline. Weights were up in heavy trading. Light switches were off. Mining equipment hit rock bottom. Diapers remained unchanged. Coca Cola fizzled. Balloon

Flowers Could Help Clear Land mines

2004-02-04T06:06:00.000-05:00

A Danish biotech company has developed a genetically modified flower that could help detect land mines and it hopes to have a prototype ready for use within a few years.

God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts.

2004-02-03T06:06:00.000-05:00

A car full of ladies from the Temple Beth Israel fund raising committee is in a terrible accident. They arrive at the Pearly Gates where Saint Peter is waiting. The women want to get into Heaven, so Saint Peter looks through the book, but can't find them listed in the New Arrivals section. "I'm sorry," Saint Peter says to them, "but I can't find you in the book, there must be some mistake."

Jackie Mason on Starbucks

2004-02-02T06:05:00.000-05:00

I actually laughed out loud on this one. If I said to you, "I have a great idea for a business. I'll open a whole new type of coffee shop. Instead of charging 60 cents for coffee I'll charge $2.50, $3.50, $4.50, and $5.50. Not only that, I'll have no tables, no chairs, no water, no free refills, no waiters, no busboys, serve it in cardboard cups, and have the customer clean it up for 20 minutes

Yesteryear’s Greatest Singing Star Of Bollywood Suraiya Is Dead

2004-02-01T14:11:00.000-05:00

Suraiya was perhaps the last of the great singing stars. Born in Lahore, she debuted as a child star with Taj Mahal (1941). She did playback as a 13 year old for Mehtaab in Sharda (1942) under Naushad's direction. The barely-in-her-teens Suraiya had to stand on a stool to reach the mike! Suraiya Jamaal Sheikh's legend has endured for over four decades after her retirement post Rustom Sohrab (

Andy Borowitz: TRUTH SHOCKER

2004-02-01T13:37:00.000-05:00

BUSH ACCUSES SADDAM OF TELLING TRUTH Evildoer Knowingly Came Clean on WMD's, President Charges In his weekly radio address, President George W. Bush leveled his harshest charge ever at fallen Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, accusing the former dictator of "knowingly telling the truth" about not possessing weapons of mass destruction in the months leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. "

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2004-02-01T06:05:00.000-05:00

The L game

Winter Restaurant Week 2004

2004-01-31T06:24:00.000-05:00

January 26 -30 & February 2-6 174 restaurants. Only 10 days. New York’s best restaurants are offering three-course lunches for $20.04 and three-course dinners for $30.04 (beverages, gratuities, and tax additional). This is your chance to savor the cuisine of the city’s most talented chefs, and to experience the quality, variety, and hospitality that makes New York the best restaurant city in the