Solar power is magnificently exciting. Just lay down a sheet or a panel and every day, for the life of the device, you get free power. There are no fuel costs. No one is ever going to start charging $4 per gallon of sunlight. But, unfortunately, the size of the initial investment keeps the cost of solar generated power higher than the cost of coal.

Nanosolar prints it's mixture of several elements in precise proportions onto a metal film. The production is fast, simple and cheap, at least for now. Some fear that shortages in indium will bring a halt to nanosolar's cheap printing…

Just follow the link. It's a madlibs-esque form letter for Yahoo resignations amidts the chaos at that company.

For example, I found the recent advertising agreement reached with Google Mr. Yang's poisoning of the MSFT bid with disregard to his shareholders pretty much everything Terry Semel did to be unwiseill-advisedfucking retarded. Furthermore,…

The AP’s getting played in their own game.

Well I think the old press is just on the verge of being supplanted by the blogosphere. I find more info that is not AP than is. As others have noted much of their material is originated elsewhere. I regularly am quoted by local media but have yet…

This screenshot displays a HUD display running in front of iTunes, seemingly pulling music videos down from YouTube, one of Apple’s major partners. Can’t wait for the next version of iTunes!

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3892/picture1jk2.pngBigger: http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3433/screenjb4.jpgThis is really running, and it's so awesome. But it makes me want to buy so much more music on ITMS Sweet! Someone dugg it

Now may be the time to become an Apple iPhone owner at last.

Those prices put Apple's smart phone into the reach of more consumers than ever before. Only four handsets on our current Top 10 smart phones chart–Palm's Centro ($100 with a Sprint contract, $200 with an AT&T…

In the wake of Friday’s downtime debacle, reports are emerging this afternoon of fresh Web site trouble for Amazon.com.

(Update 8, 5:50 ET: AP now has this from the company: "Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith described Monday's troubles as 'intermittent' and said they did not affect Amazon Web Services, a separate offering that…

“HTML5 is a super-sized effort to bring all the browsers under a single, standard markup language and set of APIs - but with Microsoft, Adobe and others racing ahead with their own next-gen web technologies, will we ever see a real HTML5 standard?”

In what is now referred to as Web 2.0, thousands of rich web applications have been developed using HTML, CSS and XML - more commonly referred to as Ajax (ironically the a and x parts of Ajax started as a proprietary add-on to Internet…

Today, exactly two years have passed since The Pirate Bay was raided by the Swedish police. Unlike Hollywood would have wanted, the worlds largest BitTorrent tracker now more popular than ever, and they are here to stay.

What fair justification is there for blanking out cameras monitoring the ‘legitimate’ activites of the Police ‘authority’? What have they to hide? Is it because they fucking well know they feel like the real…

Widely regarded as the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass was designed in 1979 and made available in 1982. Each unit sold for over $8,000 (taking inflation into account, thats the equivalent of $18,000 today). It even went aboard the space shuttle!

On to the technical details. The Compass used the then hugely popular Intel 8086 processor, 384K of magnetic bubble memory, a 320×200 monochrome ELD screen, and a 1200bps modem. External storage in the form of hard and floppy drives could…

A Digg iPhone theme by Louie Mantia

feels… meh. Agua is still the only theme in my eyes. *goes back to his honey*

This week, the world marks an anniversary that has changed the face ' and other anatomical regions ' of email inboxes everywhere: the first known spam email was sent 30 years ago on Saturday.

Actually im wih Judge Dave on this one. - Martin - You point to Wikipedia as a reference? Thats pretty laughable. There are dozens of theories about how the term SPAM came about. One is that it is an acronym, meaning Single Posting to All…

“Take a few minutes to reflect on the world-changing tool that RSS is, and consider how different our lives would be without it.”

<a href=”http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/lone_remaining_burmese_blogger.php”>News from Burmese blogger “Niknayman”</a><iframe style=”margin: 10px; padding: 10px; float: left”…

Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.
The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb drive” that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June.

The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb drive” that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith described its use…

HiTechMommy Cat Schwartz on The TODAY Show on how to save 1/2 hour of time each day.

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