Signs of Primeval Life Said Found in Lava Rocks

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Life Found Lurking under Arctic Rocks

Life Found Lurking under Arctic Rocks 09/23/2004 12:43 AM

Early life thrived in lava flows

Early life thrived in lava flows 04/22/2004 05:25 PM
Geologists discover tiny burrows where some of Earth's earliest life forms tunnelled into volcanic glass 3.5 billion years ago.

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life 03/08/2004 11:24 PM
Following the news from Mars, people might think it was the story of scientists who cried "Water!" over and over.

Mars Rover Finds Mysterious Rocks and
More Signs of Water

Mars Rover Finds Mysterious Rocks and
More Signs of Water 08/19/2004 03:52 AM
Both rovers, the Spirit and the Opportunity, have more than doubled their intended lifetimes of three months.

Signs of life

Signs of life 12/17/2004 06:28 PM

Hah!

At least there's some evidence that Brian Dear's company - EVDB - has a logo.

Lots of folks are talking about it - but Brian's zipped lipped.

But they're apparently part of the 'Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium' - so now they're public. :-)

Hmm - why isn't WhizSpark part of this consortium? I wonder if they wanna help put up shared XML servers of Events - scraped from throughout the web? That's what OpenEvents is all about. Open APIs into shared Events.

Signs of Crater Linked to Mass
Extinction Said Found

Signs of Crater Linked to Mass
Extinction Said Found 05/14/2004 01:54 AM

U.S. markets show signs of life

U.S. markets show signs of life 12/28/2004 05:37 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 28 2004 9:30PM GMT

"I Found Some of Your Life"

"I Found Some of Your Life" 09/18/2004 08:51 AM

I found some of your life

I found some of your life 09/17/2004 10:39 AM
I found some of your life. You are unknown to me. Your camera's memory card was in a taxi; I have it now. I am going to post one of your pictures each day. I will also narrate as if I were you. Maybe you will come here and reclaim this piece of your life. (via the Morning News)

Study: Server Market Shows Signs of Life

Study: Server Market Shows Signs of Life 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In the fourth quarter of 2002, the server market saw its strongest quarterly sequential growth in three years, according to research firm IDC. But Forrester analyst Galen Schreck told NewsFactor that a number of factors will continue to create downward pressure on server sales.

Signs of Danger Were Missed in a
Troubled Teenager's Life

Signs of Danger Were Missed in a
Troubled Teenager's Life 03/24/2005 03:15 AM
A loner in real life, Jeff Weise, whose violent outburst left 10 people dead in Minnesota, found a community of sorts in cyberspace.

Microsoft's Online Unit Shows Signs of
Life

Microsoft's Online Unit Shows Signs of
Life 07/19/2004 11:44 PM
After years of struggle, Microsoft's online unit is beginning to show signs of life.

Bay Area IPO market showing new signs of
life Investors think ...

Bay Area IPO market showing new signs of
life Investors think ... 12/28/2003 08:13 PM
I think we will see many, many more IPOs in 2004, including the most anticipated one in the tech world, the offering for Google.". ...

Musarium: discovering signs of
intelligent life on planet earth

Musarium: discovering signs of
intelligent life on planet earth 08/08/2004 05:33 AM
I've been having a great time exploring the maze that is Musarium, wandering about and peeking into into various nooks and crannies to find such exotica as the wonderfully bizarre birdhand book, and absorbing cultural artifacts and musings, including the poetic Visions and Icons (I really love the way the text works with the images on this), the atmospheric Familiar Ghosts (the texts will cue you on clicking through this somewhat dream-like landscape), the time-capsule imagery of Balkan Portraits (1906-1910), the breathtaking portraits of photographer Steve McCurry (famous for his National Geographic portait of the Afghani girl), the subterranean monologue of Grand Central: the View Down Under, and the shocking and heartbreaking Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. There's a lot more, so take your time. You can use this page to access archived material.

Signs of Life as Normal Return to Iran
Quake City

Signs of Life as Normal Return to Iran
Quake City 01/02/2004 02:28 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 2 2004 1:08PM ET

Researchers Develop New Machine for
Detecting Signs of Life on Mars

Researchers Develop New Machine for
Detecting Signs of Life on Mars 02/01/2005 09:58 PM

Dozens of new species of marine life
found

Dozens of new species of marine life
found 07/11/2004 08:41 PM
Straits Times Jul 11 2004 11:20PM GMT

Flash! Intelligent Life Found at
Microsoft

Flash! Intelligent Life Found at
Microsoft 05/07/2004 03:09 PM
After posting the item about spam and the recent relationship between Microsoft and whitelist provider IronPort, I got a letter from Reeves Little of Microsoft. Initially, he asked for some clarification about my opinions involving whitelists, but as we traded letters, we got into a pretty good discussion about Microsoft’s efforts to do something about spam and e-mailed viruses. I think that the whole thing is worth reading, since it reveals a side of Microsoft that outsiders seldom see. I’m going to edit out some personal items that have nothing to contribute and paste in the rest.

Near-Death Company Springs To Life,
Thanks To Found Patents

Near-Death Company Springs To Life,
Thanks To Found Patents 03/31/2005 07:20 AM
Dan writes "Ampex is another company resorting to an arsenal of patents to keep themselves alive. Now, their stock price price has taken off." This story is an interesting one. The company has been around for quite a long time, and obviously has done some very innovative things over the years. However, its patent windfall seems like a fluke. It certainly doesn't sound like any of the companies they've convinced to cough up these millions of dollars really made use of these patents -- they just came up with the same concepts independently. That, of course, demonstrates the weakness of the patent system. The point of the patent system is to publicize the info, so that others can build on top of it, while compensating the original creator. The problem, though, is that if innovations are done entirely separately of the patents in question, then you could easily make the claim that the original patents aren't valid. They should only have been granted if they were "non-obvious" and if others are coming up with the same thing independently, it's difficult to claim it wasn't obvious to the skilled practitioner. Either way, while the article suggests Ampex is trying to build a business model out of this, it's hard to see how it's sustainable for more than a few years. Sure, they're creating a licensing program, but the patents will run out in a few years -- and they realistically lucked into this patent windfall. They've just been hanging onto them for years, and suddenly noticed they were relevant. That's not a sustainable business model, but a lucky windfall.

Tiny, USB Lava Lamp

Tiny, USB Lava Lamp 06/24/2005 04:01 PM

Inside of all of us, there is a tiny, tie-dye-wearing Assembler demo coder waiting to shine. Don't let him out—he'll only make a couple of cool 65k demos before deciding what he really wants to be is a four-track MOD DJ, spreading the healing power that a danceable remix of the Airwolf theme provides.

Instead, keep him deep inside your brain, appeased by the random number generator of the random lovers generation, the Lava Lamp. This new model available on Thinkgeek is not only powered by USB, but is only ten bucks.

Catalog Page [Thinkgeek via GadgetMadness]

Lava Vader Details

Lava Vader Details 03/25/2005 12:46 PM
Here are a few details on Target's exclusive "Lava Vader" from "Metalzombie". I work for a Target DC, and on Sunday we had about four skid loads of the Target exclusive Darth Vader's roll in. My buddy and me popped a case open, and they look incredibly sweet. They come packaged in a clear plastic case, like the vintage OTC ones, with Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith on the back. The bottom says Target Exclusive, with a red picture of Vader to the left, and the sticker across the top simply says "Darth Vader".

USB-powered mini lava-lamp

USB-powered mini lava-lamp 06/24/2005 06:22 PM
Cory Doctorow: Thinkgeek is selling a miniature USB-powered lava-lamp for $10 -- now that's a good buy! Link (via Gizmodo)

Will Google stay as hot as its lava
lamps?

Will Google stay as hot as its lava
lamps? 12/27/2004 08:26 AM
To remain at top of HR game, company faces hurdles including less-attractive stock options and prospect of reputation declining.
Photos: A Google of ways to enjoy work

Darth Vader (Lava Reflection) No Longer
Available

Darth Vader (Lava Reflection) No Longer
Available 04/07/2005 10:16 AM
Wonder why you can't find the Target-exclusive Darth Vader (Lava Reflection) figure on target.com anymore? Read on for the answer

Target Lava Reflection Vader On-Line

Target Lava Reflection Vader On-Line 04/03/2005 10:38 AM
Target has their exclusive Lava Reflection Vader on-line with a limit of one each. It says availablity in 4-8 weeks. Target Vader $12.99. Thanks to Howard for the link.

Mpeye TS-400, And I Discover Korea is
Not A Firey Lava Planet

Mpeye TS-400, And I Discover Korea is
Not A Firey Lava Planet 08/13/2004 12:19 PM

There are so many music players flooding in from Asia it's hard to keep track of them all - especially the flash players - but there are occasional stand-outs, like the Mpeye TS-400, which if it weren't shot with such a happy, colorful background would remind me of some sort of Klingon device. Sizes up to 1GB will be available, as well as the almost de rigueur color screen.

Now if we could only sharpen this to be fit for battle. Kerplah!

Read - Product Page [MpeyeKR via DPreview]

Photo Archives: ROTS Darth Vader (Lava
Reflection)

Photo Archives: ROTS Darth Vader (Lava
Reflection) 04/06/2005 05:16 AM
Today's Photo Archives update is the first of several exclusives that were available at last weekend's debut of Revenge of the Sith toys. The Target exclusive Darth Vader (Lava Reflection) may be just a simple repaint of an older figure, but with the frenzy felt from Midnight Madness, fans flocked to their local stores to get their hands on this collectors edition. Even if he does remind me of Azrael, this just goes to show that Star Wars fans love Vader!

Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools
Don't Always Mesh With How People Work

Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools
Don't Always Mesh With How People Work 12/18/2003 06:55 AM
Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools Don't Always Mesh With How People Work
http://www.nsf .gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?pr03146

Of all the personal computers to be unwrapped during the holiday season, more than 80 percent will be used to go online and search the Web's more than 92 million gigabytes of data (comparable to a 2 billion-volume encyclopedia). Getting online is the easy part, finding a useful Web page is a bit harder—keeping track of a useful Web page is another issue altogether.

People have devised many tricks—such as sending e-mails to themselves or jotting on sticky notes—for keeping track of Web pages, but William Jones and Harry Bruce at the University of Washington's Information School and Susan Dumais of Microsoft Research have found that often people don't use any of them when it comes time to revisit a Web page. Instead, they rely on their ability to find the Web page all over again.

Keeping Found Things Found on the Web

Keeping Found Things Found on the Web 01/28/2004 08:56 AM
Keeping Found Things Found on the Web - A Research Project of the Information School at the University of Washington
http://kftf.isc hool.washington.edu/projKFTF.asp
http://kftf .ischool.washington.edu/publications.asp

The goal of this study is to understand better the ways in which people manage information for subsequent re-access and re-use. The study focuses on the management of information found on the Word Wide Web. Follow-on studies will look at similar problems and practices of personal information management for other information types including email and personal files (electronic and paper-based). The classic problem of information retrieval, simply put, is to help people find the relatively small number of things they are looking for (books, articles, web pages, CDs, etc.) from a very large set of possibilities. This classic problem has been studied in many variations and has been addressed through a rich diversity of information retrieval tools and techniques.

A follow-on problem also exists which has received relatively less study: Once found, how are things organized for re-access and re-use later on? What can be done to avoid the need to repeat the entire search process? We refer to this as the problem of Keeping Found Things Found. The current study addresses this problem in the context of World Wide Web use. The study focuses on use of the Web by managers, researchers, librarians and other information specialists. But it is expected that the results of the study will be relevant to most users of the Web.

Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes

Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes 05/14/2004 07:41 PM
Here's a novel use for a First-Person Shooter:

An autism institute apparently is interested in using Half-Life 2's facial animation capabilities to help teach autistic children how to recognize expressions, according to PC Gamer magazine.

Link

LifeBio.com’s “Road of Life Adventure”
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories

LifeBio.com’s “Road of Life Adventure”
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories 07/23/2004 09:58 AM
LifeBio, Inc., the leading online personal history company, believes that everyone has a story to tell and they need to tell it. From August 2 to August 7, the company will conduct free audio interviews, present workshops on why and how to tell life stories, and give away old-fashioned wooden YoYos, traveling through the Midwest. People they meet will pick LifeBio questions from a traveling treasure chest and share memories through audio and written recordings. [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

20 New Half-Life 2 Screenshots @
PlanetHalf-Life

20 New Half-Life 2 Screenshots @
PlanetHalf-Life 08/15/2004 05:34 PM

Life Imitates Seinfeld Imitating Life

Life Imitates Seinfeld Imitating Life 01/02/2004 04:48 AM
Woman Files $10M Suit Vs. Starbucks .. suing each other

newsday.com/news/local/longisland/columnists/ny-bzstar30360541 1dec30,0,3929925.story?coll=ny-linews-featured
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Wired News: Campus Life Comes to Second
Life

Wired News: Campus Life Comes to Second
Life 09/25/2004 09:11 AM

BT Rocks

BT Rocks 01/17/2003 01:25 AM
SS: You're known for your deep programming and audio sequencing and also for not using MIDI. Is it just the timing or do you have

Rocks from the sky

Rocks from the sky 05/20/2004 01:14 PM
Sure, you've seen pictures of Meteor Crater, Arizona, but are there any impact craters near you? Probably< /a>.

Why PHP 5 Rocks!

Why PHP 5 Rocks! 07/16/2004 06:52 PM
Adam Trachtenberg provides a quick tour around PHP 5, highlighting seven of his favorite new features. These features (including better support for OOP, bundled SQLite, iterators, and more cool stuff) will allow your PHP 5 code to be more concise, more elegant, and more flexible than ever. Adam is the author of the upcoming Upgrading to PHP 5.

.NET Rocks #44 - Don Box

.NET Rocks #44 - Don Box 01/10/2004 04:59 AM
Carl and Mark talk with Don Box about SOAP, WSE, Longhorn, Indigo, COM, the PDC, Band on the Runtime, and the meaning of life. Don reveals a few gems about Indigo, and talks about the ways in which Indigo makes Web services better.

The Tea Here Rocks

The Tea Here Rocks 12/02/2003 12:17 AM
One of the cool things I've discovered is the Tea served at the Yahoo Bangalore office. After getting situated in some unused cubes this morning, Rasmus and I were just catching up on some e-mail and stuff when a guy came by and offered us tea. That's right. There's a guy who comes around to all the cubes and offers tea. Cool, huh? Unfortunately, the tea has milk mixed in with it and I'm lactose intolerant. But after a couple...
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