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Economic turmoil, cheap oil, tabled wind farm plans, massive layoffs, car makers in trouble, and now this. Today I learned that my trusted breakfast partner, The Rocky Mountain News, is in considerable trouble. I’m one of a dieing group of people that read a daily newspaper religiously, and for years it’s been the Rocky. The [...]
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There’s an item on Slashdot about the toolbag that was dropped during last week’s spacewalk on the International Space Station. Apparently the bag has been spotted from ground from several observatories, and is being monitored. The post has a link to a video clip that shows the backpack-size bag floating away.
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Go to www.apple.com and punch something into the search window. What returns is a categorized list with icons and short descriptions for all things Apple sells or services. I was looking at a relatively new piece of software from National Geographic that’s a tie-in to a television special on the subject of King Herod’s Lost [...]
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I’ve come to the realization recently that I’m not that concerned about a hard drive failure. I’ve suffered a few of these in the past, with considerable disruption to my productivity and progress on projects. But now a vast majority of my content lives online, even in draft form, so keeping a lock on my [...]
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Archaeologists have discovered a series of connected caves and tunnels that the Mayans altered to match their stories about the journey to the afterlife. It has been understood that the Mayans viewed caves as sacred, and other altered caves have been found, but this series of caves are the largest ever found. There are underground [...]
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I watched CNN’s election coverage for many hours last night. I was lured in by their superior use of technology, but after a while I just couldn’t take any more. The commentary jumped around a great deal and there were too many visuals and inputs for me to keep track of. The manic bursts of [...]
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I was saddened to just learn that Randy Pausch, the virtual reality professor at Carnegie who inspired many with his Last Lecture, has passed away today. The lecture gained widespread exposure on the Internet, and was also turned into a popular book, which I enjoyed and gifted to many. If you haven’t read the book [...]
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We had a second annual 4th of July party in our neighborhood park last night. We have a number of musicians in the neighborhood, and we set up a PA and instruments for an informal open-mic jam. My two boys played some songs under their new band name Bloodstained Roses. It was a fun event [...]
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If you haven’t already viewed video of the updated mind-controlled prosthetic robot arm, view it here below. I’m blown away at how well this device works, and am inspired by the dedicated innovation that makes such technologies possible. Dean Kamen and his DEKA design group provided the genius behind the Segway transporter and many innovative [...]
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