Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Digg Unveils New Features - Kevin's Blog Post Explains with Video

New Digg Features O
’ Plenty
by Kevin Rose at 6am, Dec 18th, 2006 in Digg Website
Big update today. Tons of new features to share with you – many inspired by feedback you’ve given us over the last few months (thanks!). Check out this video ...
(( http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/18/digg-break ))

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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Spanish surgeon rushed to treat Castro

A renowned Spanish surgeon has been rushed to Cuba to treat ailing leader Fidel Castro, a Spanish newspaper reported on Sunday.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Student tasered at UCLA library for not having his ID 11-14-06 11:30pm

Don't you hate it when you forget to bring your ID to Library... and the CSO or UCPD end up zapping you like five times with a stun gun? what is happening in todays universities now a days?
UCLA library is a 24/7 library only for UCLA students...

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Thursday, June 15, 2006

F-22 scores direct hit in supersonic, high-altitude JDAM drop

Success of the standoff delivery is due in part to the Raptor avionics' ability to compute an accurate Launch Acceptability Region (LAR), the area in the sky from which the pilot can release a weapon to successfully attack the desired target

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Voyager 2 Detects Odd Shape of Solar System\'s Edge

Voyager 2 could pass beyond the outermost layer of our solar system, called the \"termination shock,\" sometime within the next year, NASA scientists announced at a media teleconference today.

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Saturday, March 25, 2006

New Internet Backbone Map 'Published'

The map includes 134,000+ routers. The map is made by CIO.com.

Link to Boing Boing includes map links and supporting articles.

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Top 25 Craziest Deaths

They say: "shh.. it happens". This is a list of crazy, weird and even funny deaths of prominent people in the last 100 years. Funny stuff, and hey, it's a top 25 list!

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First SpaceX launch ends in failure

The first attempt by private company SpaceX to launch a satellite into space ended in failure Friday after the Falcon 1 rocket had to be destroyed a minute after launch, an official said

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Steve Jobs' Taxes - $295 million

Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs this month used over 4.5M of the 10M restricted shares owed to him by the company to pay income and other employment taxes applicable to those shares, AppleInsider has discovered. He did not sell any of his stake in the company.

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Norwegian reinvents helicopter stablization with tiny helicopter

A Norwegian engineer reinvented the way helicopters keep themselves stable. The result: create a radio-controlled craft that can take off from the palm of your hand

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Friday, March 10, 2006

The Story of Ctrl-Alt-Delete

Story behind the creationg of Ctrl Alt Delete. This guy burns Bill Gates; great video!

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EXCLUSIVE: Satellite Sleuth Closes in on Noah�s Ark Mystery

High on Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey, there is a baffling mountainside "anomaly," a feature that one researcher claims may be something of biblical proportions.

Images taken by aircraft, intelligence-gathering satellites and commercial remote-sensing spacecraft are fueling an intensive study of the intriguing oddity.

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