INAX has come up with some tiles that are "not cool." The
"Thermo Tiles" feature bazillions of microscopic air bubbles inside,
reducing their heat conductivity. It seemed to me that reducing heat
conductivity would be a bad thing when you wanted something to be
warm, but the problem apparently isn't in the tiles themselves.
It's with your feet; reducing heat conductivity allows your feet to
retain heat that would normally escape.
Don't expect to see/feel these outside of Japan anytime soon. Just
in case you happen to live there, though, prices start from 12,600 yen
per square meter.
File Sharing Is Totally Uncool04/30/2004 04:52 AM The MPAA tries to turn junior high school into anti-piracy camp,
complete with scripted role-playing educational games. By Jeff Howe
from Wired magazine.
Young Britons think Germany is uncool (Reuters)
Young Britons think Germany is uncool (Reuters)07/29/2004 11:36 AM Reuters - Attempts to persuade young Britons that Germany is cool have
made little progress, and many still associate
the country with Adolf Hitler, beer and football, a survey shows.
Wired awake
Wired awake07/29/2004 11:32 AM Soldiers in the field go for days without rest. Now, an investigation
has found the British Ministry of Defense has been buying a new
stimulant in bulk.
I woke up at 7:30AM when my phone beeped with an incoming SMS. It
was a message telling me that Min had just checked in. I forgot to
turn off dodgeball and
the SMS was telling me where Min was in SF and that she had checked
in. Now I know why they call it "dodgeball". ;-p For those who haven't
tried it yet, dodgeball is a cool new service that is a location based
SNS that lets you "check in" and it sends a SMS to your friends to
tell them where you are. But it's not very useful when I'm in Madrid
and Min's in SF. ;-)
Will Real/IBM Deal Keep Microsoft Media Folks Awake at Night?
Will Real/IBM Deal Keep Microsoft Media Folks Awake at Night?01/10/2004 01:09 PM Other than filing a $1 billion RealNetworks
and IBM announced on Friday at the Consumer Electronics Show a deal to
provide jointly infrastructure aimed at companies who want to deliver
audio and video services to their customers. Microsoft isn't standing
still in this space, however; at the end of last year, it announced
with Loudeye a service for businesses that want to build online music
stores.
Jack Shafer (Slate): Libel Suit 9/11: Michael
Moore's hysterical, empty threats. Of course, multimillionaire
Moore can always punish his critics financially by filing silly
lawsuits that require them to spend huge sums to be dismissed as
frivolous. But Moore is not likely to want that sort of publicity and
heartache—it's as much a drag to sue as it is to be sued. And a
man with his sort of assets isn't likely to tempt a countersuit by the
defendant when the case is tossed out. Moore isn't likely to find a
more severe appraisal of his film and his work than this Slate piece
by Christopher Hitchens. Read it, Mr. Moore. We invite your
suit.
Not content to rest on his laurels as "that one guy on
the X-Files and then that spin-off that tanked," actor Dean Haglund
used his natural ability to place things under other things (a skill
developed through years spent on casting couches) to develop the
'Chill Pak,' a cooling pad filled with reusable gel that is designed
to lower the amount of heat dumped from sperm-boiling laptops. The $20
sack of sack protection is even made of a special material that
prevents condensation, keeping any bags jammed below your laptop sweat
free.
Researchers Chill Chips with Water03/20/2003 01:05 PM By spraying a fine mist of water directly on the top of silicon
semiconductors,
researchers at UCLA say they are boosting performance while keeping
chips cool. The
thermal management technique may have applications in everything from
high-performance
microprocessors to communications platforms in unmanned aircraft and
electric car engines.
Bryant Case Could Chill Rape Reports (AP)
Bryant Case Could Chill Rape Reports (AP)09/05/2004 03:09 PM AP - In the 1970s, rape crisis counselors celebrated when states began
to pass laws designed to stop lawyers from discrediting victims with
salacious details about their sex lives.
Wind chill worsens Arctic freeze
Wind chill worsens Arctic freeze01/28/2004 12:04 AM The coldest spell since Arctic weather arrived will see wind chill
make temperatures feel like minus 15C.
Dino impact gave Earth the chill
Dino impact gave Earth the chill05/31/2004 04:11 AM Scientists find firm evidence for a global winter following the
asteroid impact that is thought to have killed off the dinosaurs 65
million years ago.
Kool Solutions Chill Vent II Deluxe CV-288 @ Madshrimps
FEC to bl0ggers: chill, you're still exempt from most campaign finance laws
FEC to bl0ggers: chill, you're still exempt from most campaign finance laws03/24/2005 12:05 AM Xeni Jardin:
Political bloggers in the United States will continue to be exempt
from most campaign finance laws, according to highly anticipated rules
released by federal regulators today. Li
nk to Declan McCullagh's politech post, and link to his
CNET news article.
Chill Pill May Cool Cell Phones (NewsFactor)
Chill Pill May Cool Cell Phones (NewsFactor)04/12/2004 06:17 PM NewsFactor - University of Wisconsin researchers say they have
developed a
"chill pill" to help cool down overheated cell phones and improve
signal
quality while using less battery power.
License To Chill : Hackers Hamstring Rights Violators
License To Chill : Hackers Hamstring Rights Violators02/10/2004 02:54 AM http://www.cultdeadcow.com/news/hacklicense.txt
SUMMARY: International hacker organization issues software license
that
allows the group or its licensees to take human rights violators to
court.
CROSSHAIRS: This story is important for anyone interested in hacking,
human rights, information security, open-source software, Internet
censorship, international law, international politics, or technology
transfer.
LUBBOCK, TX, November 25 -- Hacktivismo, an international group...
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Dino impact gave Earth the chill
"A post about bill gates somehow fools a whole lot of people into believing bill gates posted the story, or is at least reading the comments with rapt interest."
What's up with Technorati11/17/2003 05:46 AM David Sifry's Technorati
service -- a blogmining and analysis system that can tell you the
shape and velocity of the blogosphere at any given moment -- has been
cranky and creaky for a couple days now. Sifry has posted an update
to his blog, with info on how things are going and the difficulty of
keeping pace with blogging's amazing growth.
Allow me to give you some growth statistics: One year ago, when I
started Technorati on a single server in my basement, we were adding
between 2,000-3,000 new weblogs each day, not counting the people who
were updating sites we were already tracking. In March of this year,
when we switched over to a 5 server cluster, we were keeping up with
about 4,000-5,000 new weblogs each day. Right now, we're adding
8,000-9,000 new weblogs every day, not counting the 1.2 Million
weblogs we already are tracking. That means that on average, a brand
new weblog is created every 11 seconds. We're also seeing about
100,000 weblogs update every day as well, which means that on average,
a weblog is updated every 0.86 seconds.
