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Lights? Not quite

Lights? Not quite 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 1:19PM GMT

Where Was FERC When the Lights Went Out?

Where Was FERC When the Lights Went Out? 08/06/2004 09:40 AM

SF Chronicle: Death Star' trader admits manipulating California market. The Enron Corp. energy trader who devised the notorious "Death Star'' scheme to bill California for fictitious electricity pleaded guilty in a San Francisco court to a federal fraud charge and admitted plotting to manipulate the market during the state's energy crisis.

Who else should be indicted? An e-mail correspondent this morning points to one of the worst offenders in this scandal: the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where inaction in the face of utter sleaze is a way of life. Instead of helping California and the other states that got screwed by the bandits at Enron and other energy companies, FERC has consistently stiffed the victims, offering a tidbit here and there but essentially doing nothing serious. FERC keeps insisting that it's on the case. We'll need some actual evidence one of these days.

Too many Christmas lights?

Too many Christmas lights? 12/10/2003 07:56 PM
Is there such a thing as too many Christmas lights? I love seeing lavish displays of lights at Christmas time. Some folks like a few old-fashioned Christmas lights and some like to deck the halls in a blaze of glory (this one boasts 700,000 lights). And how much does it cost to run a fabulous display?

Bryght lights

Bryght lights 09/01/2004 12:02 PM

Roland Tanglao reports......

If you haven't already, go check out our new venture, Bryght.

What is Bryght? Bryght is all of the following:

1. "The Salesforce.com of community content"
2. Content Management System + Community Blogging System + Email + DNS + Domain Name Registration + much more (see our features page for more details)
3. A hosted website service for communities, corporations, organizations and individuals built using the open source Drupal system.

What is the relationship between Bryght and StreamLine? None, other than the fact that I work on both :-) !

Seriously, StreamLine continues to resell Blogware blogs to individuals and Bryght is focused solely on hosted Drupal sites (with domains, email and DNS as well).

Why Blogware blogs? Because Blogware is still the best individual hosted blog service out there.
Why Bryght? Because Bryght is the best hosted website service for communities.

and those bright lights

and those bright lights 04/01/2005 02:42 PM
Just after 9 Wednesday morning, we said goodbye to Felix The Bear. He left us peacefully and quietly, surrounded by...

Last One Out, Turn Off the Lights...

Last One Out, Turn Off the Lights... 06/11/2004 04:05 PM

Gateway to consolidate Midwestern facilities: With this, Gateway is leaving Sioux Falls completely. This is too bad, as Gateway is a child of South Dakota.

Gateway will close its Sioux Falls, S.D., facility this month, as part of its plan to return to profitability.

Here's a statistic for you: in the last four years, Gateway has reduced their workforce by 91%, from 24,000 workers worldwide in 2000 to just 2,000 workers after this latest round of layoffs.

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Show lights up Paralympics

Show lights up Paralympics 09/17/2004 06:21 PM
The XII Paralympics begins in Athens, after a spectacular opening ceremony.

Bright Lights Seen in Sky Over 5 States

Bright Lights Seen in Sky Over 5 States 07/10/2004 06:15 AM
Free Internet Press Jul 10 2004 10:12AM GMT

Campaigns rev up as soon as lights go
down (USATODAY.com)

Campaigns rev up as soon as lights go
down (USATODAY.com) 09/03/2004 06:49 AM
USATODAY.com - The general election campaign roared to life Thursday night less than an hour after President Bush's acceptance speech here at the Republican convention. Bush was to head for the crucial state of Pennsylvania shortly after the balloons dropped in Madison Square Garden, and Democrat John Kerry held a midnight rally in Ohio.

Lights, camera, technology

Lights, camera, technology 04/19/2004 07:07 PM
CNET Apr 19 2004 11:15PM GMT

NYC Lights Design Competition

NYC Lights Design Competition 01/07/2004 02:02 PM
New York City Lights Design Competition (via Gothamist). What are the existing examples of urban illumination that impress? Are there unused designs or interesting ideas from art and movies floating around?

EV-DO lights up mobile data

EV-DO lights up mobile data 08/02/2004 08:00 AM
The light at the end of the tunnel to 3G mobile data services in the U.S. is getting brighter as technology that builds on Code Division Multiple Access networks comes into view.

Red traffic lights in Naples

Red traffic lights in Naples 06/05/2004 03:58 AM

I heard from one of our hosts last night that when driving in Naples, "there are three kinds of red lights. Some you must stop at or you will die. Some provide advice to be careful. Others are merely decoration." Seriously though, I have never seen so many drivers completely ignore traffic lights in my life.

Turn off the lights when you leave.

Turn off the lights when you leave. 07/24/2004 06:16 PM
The end of the light bulb? E. Fred Schubert, a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "claims to have invented a 99-percent efficient reflector that promises to speed the replacement of light bulbs with LEDs." According to researchers, this could happen within the next five years. The current prototype is bankrolled by the ARPA and The National Science Foundation "recently award Schubert's team a $210,000 grant to create in three years a commercial version of his patented omnidirectional reflector."

"Schubert claimed that lighting accounts for 25 percent of U.S. electrical energy consumption. Since white LEDs emit more light per dollar and generate less unwanted heat, they are potentially a major energy saver." (see EE Times link)

Meanwhile, some of the oldtimers seem to be pretty refractory.

Texting lights up Glasto

Texting lights up Glasto 06/26/2004 02:20 PM
Techzonez Jun 26 2004 5:12PM GMT

PPC FAQ: iPAQ Notification Lights

PPC FAQ: iPAQ Notification Lights 01/04/2004 01:39 AM

"Welcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com!"

"Welcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com!" 12/26/2003 09:03 AM

Control TiVo, Lights With Your PSP

Control TiVo, Lights With Your PSP 04/19/2005 08:47 AM

Myriad hacks are emerging for the PSP as eager tweakers have their way with the black box. Add to the list the ability to control your home automation system (and TiVo) wirelessly. Liquidice explains:

I now have the ability to turn my lights on and off. [I] have full control (Play, Stop, Pause, Menu) of my DVD player, TIVO, and High Def TV, all wirelessly from my PSP. ... I put an image map on [some] graphics and created some HTML pages which are hosted on my WACI NX server. The links are crafted so that when the PSP highlights and clicks on a spot on the image map, it instructs the WACI NX server to send an IR signal to my A/V equipment or triggers it's relays to cut power on the lights.

While he doesn't have step-by-step instructions, he explains his methodologies pretty clearly, and mentions that an official Sony web browser for the PSP will make things much simpler.

(#gizmodo frequenter AMIB points out (with some sass, it's noted) that the PSP isn't so spectacular in this feat because all the heavy lifting is handled by the home automation web server. A valid point, by way of saying any device or code that can make a GET request to a web server can accomplish the same thing.)

P SP Home Control 1.0 [psphacks via PVRblog ]

Lights in Plague Park

Lights in Plague Park 12/02/2003 01:26 AM
Plague Park has a rather unusual collection of lights hanging from a tree. In the darkness they look like...

The Truth of Neon Lights

The Truth of Neon Lights 12/02/2003 02:01 AM
She's turning 30. And I mean, turning. Walking, one street fades like a dawn fog and without a signpost or a lamplight she strides into Next, and 24 hours - towards a café she isn't sure is really as open...

More Northern Lights photos

More Northern Lights photos 12/30/2003 12:09 AM
OK, I thought my pictures were pretty cool albeit a little dark and grainy, but check out these photos over at Yahoo....

Sun Lights Up U.K. Servers, Desktops

Sun Lights Up U.K. Servers, Desktops 12/08/2003 10:33 AM
Systems vendor's low-cost office software line makes more headway against rivals as the company signs Britain's Office of Government Commerce to a five-year deal.

Welcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com!

Welcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com! 12/25/2003 08:07 AM
UGLY CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. COM .. and then you have these

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Meteor Lights Up Sky in Washington State

Meteor Lights Up Sky in Washington State 06/04/2004 01:08 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Thu Jun 3, 06:31 pm GMT

Boingo's SBC Home Roaming Lights Up

Boingo's SBC Home Roaming Lights Up 06/24/2005 10:01 PM
Boingo customers can now roam onto 3,400 SBC FreedomLink locations that SBC has directly contracted: To avoid confusion, SBC should probably better label its different offerings. SBC operates 3,400 FreedomLink locations at The UPS Store, Barnes & Noble, Caribou Coffee, and other locations. This is its home network. It also resells access to Wayport and a few other networks as part of its roaming network. And it buys access to McDonald's restaurants via Wayport, but includes that access in its standard network. So SBC FreedomLink subscribers who sign up for the basic deal gets SBC-run locations and McDonald's. Add in roaming, and they get the roaming partners, which includes airports, hotels, and other locations. Boingo Wireless announced it would resell SBC-run locations, and those locations are now live in their network. Whew....

EC green lights Infineon state aid

EC green lights Infineon state aid 07/14/2004 06:54 AM
Portuguese hand-out

Lights go out for Microsoft's anti-SP2
tool

Lights go out for Microsoft's anti-SP2
tool 04/12/2005 06:48 PM
ZDNet UK Apr 12 2005 11:11PM GMT

Lights out for Lucid's Manchester
subsidiary

Lights out for Lucid's Manchester
subsidiary 04/06/2005 11:23 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 7 2005 3:42AM GMT

US green-lights Sony BMG merger

US green-lights Sony BMG merger 07/30/2004 06:56 AM
Implementation starts Monday

Bright Lights, Burning City

Bright Lights, Burning City 09/08/2004 05:03 AM
This year's Burning Man festival was alive with light all day and all night, as luminescent art and wild displays of fire lit the desert skies. Daniel Terdiman reports from Black Rock City, Nevada.

Lights! Computer! Action! It's A Movie

Lights! Computer! Action! It's A Movie 09/19/2004 02:42 AM
The movie "Tarnation" marks a milestone in cinema history. It was made by one person sitting in front of a personal computer. By Allan Hoffman, The Star-Ledger (via MyAppleMenu)

Biolaser Lights Up Stem Cells

Biolaser Lights Up Stem Cells 04/01/2005 06:16 AM
A new laser could help researchers learn how to change stem cells into neurons, heart cells and other types of therapeutic cells. And they might learn a thing or two about cancer along the way. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Designer: Christmas Lights on Web a Hoax
(AP)

Designer: Christmas Lights on Web a Hoax
(AP) 12/28/2004 01:11 PM
AP - A man who boasted to reporters around the world that his Web site allowed strangers to turn his outdoor Christmas lights off and on admitted Monday it was an elaborate hoax designed, he said, to spread holiday cheer.

Morfeo Couch with Eyestalk Lights

Morfeo Couch with Eyestalk Lights 08/09/2004 07:27 AM

There's not a whole lot of detail available about this Morfeo couch with hide-away bed, but really, how much information do you need? It's a couch with two bendy lights at the corners to be easily positioned for reading and other couch-bound activities. No word on price or availability, or if there will be other version that don't look like slug heads.

Read - Morfeo [FunFurde]

Ibiza Outdoor Lights with Speakers

Ibiza Outdoor Lights with Speakers 03/31/2005 07:08 PM

Italy's Oluce has unveiled their new line of outdoor lights called Ibiza. The Oluce fixtures are made out of white, weatherproof polyethlene and feature an integrated speaker. They're not wireless, sadly, with a separate stereo cable included. The speakers also only put out 20 watts, so this might be the type of fixture for your local dark (yet style-conscious) parking lot instead of your own backyard. Available now, if you can hunt down an Oluce distributor.
Product Page [Oluce via MoCoLoco]

Variable Intensity Brake Lights

Variable Intensity Brake Lights 08/10/2004 11:31 PM
Here's an idea. Why not design brake lights whose intensity varies depending up on how hard the driver is stomping on the pedal? It might help ease some of the overreaction I've seen on various highways and interstates in the last few years. According to a quick search, this isn't a new idea. But why it it only mentioned on the expensive 5 series BMW cars?...

Alek's Christmas Lights: Humbug

Alek's Christmas Lights: Humbug 12/27/2004 07:21 PM

R!OT Lights Up Motorola 'Homing Device'

R!OT Lights Up Motorola 'Homing Device' 01/27/2004 08:38 PM
Design In Motion Jan 28 2004 1:06AM GMT

Zander lights a fire under Motorola

Zander lights a fire under Motorola 12/17/2003 08:24 AM
ZDNet Dec 17 2003 7:53AM ET
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ToneGuys and STARE Magazine Sign
Agreement - STARE photo shoots now
available on USA cell phones

ToneGuys and STARE Magazine Sign
Agreement - STARE photo shoots now
available on USA cell phones 09/12/2004 03:03 AM
ToneGuys and STARE Magazine announce the launch of STARE Magazine photos on www.toneguys.com. Fans of STARE Magazine’s online monthly (www.staremagazine.com) can now send their favorite photos directly to their cell phones at www.toneguys.com . The STARE portfolio includes beautiful models in exotic photo shoots from around the world. [PRWEB Sep 12, 2004]

Make your own WWII victory shoes

Make your own WWII victory shoes 05/05/2004 05:04 PM
"Scrap materials, the end of an ordinary box, scraps of leather or canvas, are all you need to manufacture a pair of comfortable, serviceable play shoes." So says the introduction to this Sunset article from 1943 on how to make your own "Caterpillars." I'd rather have these than those embarrassingly smug Adbusters sneakers. Link (If the link gives you problems, use the access code KAYAK to gain admittance. What a dumb rule!)

Install a Solaris datastream package

Install a Solaris datastream package 01/27/2004 01:15 AM
Tech-Recipes Jan 27 2004 5:08AM GMT

Install a Solaris directory-based
package

Install a Solaris directory-based
package 01/27/2004 01:15 AM
Tech-Recipes Jan 27 2004 5:08AM GMT

Sun sets Solaris x86 free

Sun sets Solaris x86 free 12/10/2003 06:40 PM
Back where we started

PHP Magazine: Package up your App

PHP Magazine: Package up your App 12/17/2003 09:34 AM
Over on the PHP Magazine website this morning, there's a new posting covering one of their articles from their December Issue - Package Up Your App.

Sounds That Surround You Make It Onto
Your Playlist

Sounds That Surround You Make It Onto
Your Playlist 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
The air is full of sounds that are not filed on your digital music player: new recordings and live performances on FM radio, not to mention the ambient music of the world around you. The JMTek MelodiBox MP3 lets you add them to your collection on the fly.

RIAA Wants To Make Sure Radio Sounds Bad

RIAA Wants To Make Sure Radio Sounds Bad 06/11/2004 05:34 PM
Mikester writes in to tell us that the RIAA is complaining that: "Digital radio broadcasts that bring CD-quality sound to the airwaves could lead to unfettered song copying if protections are not put in place." Not at all surprising, of course, but they're basically complaining that digital radio - whose whole claim to fame is the quality of the sound - sounds too good.

Sun Sets Sights on Solaris File System

Sun Sets Sights on Solaris File System 06/01/2004 12:55 AM
Offers a sneak peek at forthcoming dynamic file system—and its code.

Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 Device Emulator

Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 Device Emulator 08/27/2004 02:05 PM
The Device Emulator contains the emulator technologies featured in Windows CE 5.0. By using the Device Emulator, you can run emulated-based images created by Windows CE 5.0 without installing Platform Builder, its development tools.

WinFellow - Amiga Emulator for Windows

WinFellow - Amiga Emulator for Windows 07/01/2004 06:54 AM
WinFellow project looking for beta testers

Inside Update.exe - The Package
Installer for Windows and Windows
Components

Inside Update.exe - The Package
Installer for Windows and Windows
Components 06/28/2004 11:47 AM

Windows Tip: Add a Calculator to the
Excel Toolbar

Windows Tip: Add a Calculator to the
Excel Toolbar 07/11/2004 08:41 PM
G4 Tech TV Jul 11 2004 11:17PM GMT

gzip vs. bzip2 vs. rzip

gzip vs. bzip2 vs. rzip 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
For a short article in the June issue of Linux Magazine, I needed to compare the relative performance of gzip, bzip2, and rzip. I used a 180MB mbox file, consisting of my non-spam e-mail from last month. (I know, it's only one test and doesn't represent how the tools will work on other data sets.) command cpu time new size ------- -------- -------- gzip 17.63 sec 87 MB gzip -9 23.26 sec 87 MB bzip2 -9 114.90 sec 76 MB...

Forum Stories: Interesting problem
comparing text

Forum Stories: Interesting problem
comparing text 07/20/2004 05:58 PM

Text Link Brokers

Text Link Brokers 06/16/2004 11:56 AM

Buy and Sell Text Links ads: These guys buy and sell text links from one site to another, with the specific intent to increase PageRank.

We specialize in brokering text link Advertisements. Text Link Ads on popular, highly ranked web sites help increase the traffic to a site from the search engines along with contributing direct traffic. In contrast Banner Ads or PPC Advertisements will only climb in price with each click, while contributing nothing to search engine ranks.

Links from pages with current PageRank of 4 go for $5 - 50 per month while links from pages with a PageRank of 9 go for $500 - $2,500 per month. I'd be interested to know who the 9's are.

I just checked and the PageRank of the Gadgetopia home page is just 5, so I'm not sitting on a gold mine or anything. For the sake of comparison, CNN's home page is a 9, while Boing Boing and scripting.com — arguably the two most popular blogs around — are both 7. I'm shooting for a 6 one of these days.

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Motorola sets up wireless office link

Motorola sets up wireless office link 07/27/2004 02:25 PM
CNET Jul 27 2004 6:45PM GMT

Emulator Images for Windows Mobile
2003-based Pocket PC Development

Emulator Images for Windows Mobile
2003-based Pocket PC Development 04/30/2004 02:00 AM
The Pocket PC 2003 Software Development Kit (SDK) includes an emulator that uses a virtual machine to run the full Pocket PC 2003 software independent of your main operating system on the same machine. We’re pleased to release new Emulator Images that allow you to test your applications in all available Pocket PC 2003 languages.

Emulator Images for Windows Mobile
2003-based Smartphone Development

Emulator Images for Windows Mobile
2003-based Smartphone Development 04/30/2004 02:00 AM
The Smartphone Software Development Kit (SDK) includes an emulator that uses a virtual machine to run the full Smartphone 2003 software independent of your main operating system on the same machine. We’re pleased to release new Emulator Images that allow you to test your applications in all available Smartphone 2003 localizations.

How to Make Easy-to-Package Linux
Software

How to Make Easy-to-Package Linux
Software 04/02/2005 07:54 PM
Slashdot Apr 2 2005 10:49PM GMT

Writing effective link text

Writing effective link text 07/23/2004 04:21 AM
Hypertext links are what connects web pages together and are at the very core of the Internet. As they're so important it's essential that your link text is effectively written and displayed - find out how.

FrontPage magazine.com :: The
Saddam-9/11 Link Confirmed by Laurie
Mylroie

FrontPage magazine.com :: The
Saddam-9/11 Link Confirmed by Laurie
Mylroie 05/12/2004 05:13 PM
FrontPage magazine.com :: The Saddam-9/11 Link Confirmed by Laurie Mylroie .. on

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Windows Tip: Windows Error Messages

Windows Tip: Windows Error Messages 08/28/2004 05:08 PM
G4 Tech TV Aug 28 2004 8:25PM GMT

Norbert's Emulator Software: ONE, the
Online NES Emulator

Norbert's Emulator Software: ONE, the
Online NES Emulator 12/13/2003 09:22 AM
Norbert's Emulator Software: ONE, the Online NES Emulator .. Online Nintendo simulator .. 8-bit nintendo .. emulator .. Alright .. NES

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Microsoft sounds fresh alert as Windows
secrets revealed

Microsoft sounds fresh alert as Windows
secrets revealed 02/13/2004 04:47 AM
Independent Feb 13 2004 8:40AM GMT

Pagcor sets sights on Internet, text
gaming

Pagcor sets sights on Internet, text
gaming 07/07/2004 09:19 PM
Philippine Daily Inquirer Jul 8 2004 1:46AM GMT

adage.com Marketers press for product
placement in magazine text

adage.com Marketers press for product
placement in magazine text 04/13/2004 07:30 AM
Location Location Location .. Ad Age

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New O'Reilly magazine: Make

New O'Reilly magazine: Make 07/29/2004 10:02 PM
Today, at OSCON in Portland, Dale Dougherty and I announced a new O'Reilly magazine called Make. It'll be a quarterly, full-color magazine filled with fun projects and hardware hacks involving technology. (Dale is the editor and publisher, and I'm the editor-in-chief. Thanks to BB's own John Battelle for getting me involved!)

Make will have 5-minute tips you can use to improve your gadgets, networks, and computers, as well as much longer projects that might take several days (or weeks) to complete. The first issue is coming out in January. If you're interested, visit the web site and sign up for the newsletter. I'll also be running the Make blog on that page. I hope that a lot of BB readers become Make contributors, too. Please send me your ideas for hacks, tips, tricks, workarounds, neat things to build, useful tools, etc. Link

Make Magazine Coverage

Make Magazine Coverage 03/26/2005 09:53 PM

Tech magazine speaks to the MacGyver in us all: USAToday has a nice, little article about O'Reilly's new Make magazine.

[...] the magazine offers dozens of simple and practical tricks and hacks. For example, the Imaging section tells you how to recover photos that have been erased from a digital camera's memory, and the reviews section highlights a tool that uses carbon dioxide cartridges to blast clogged drains.

Another article shows you how to adapt satellite radio into a portable headset while another contains useful tips for Excel and Google's GMail. Make even tells you how to build an overloaded bowl at one-trip salad bars. Now that's news I can use.

Salad bar engineering? Nice.

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