Muckraker's Slay Leaves Fear of Crackdown (1)
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Russian police arrested and shot to death the head of an Internet news service who had been critical of authorities in the volatile Caucasus province of Ingushetia.
Shuttle Retirement In 2010 Under Review (3)
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An anonymous reader alerts us to an Orlando Sentinel report based on a leaked NASA email, indicating that NASA is looking at options to extend the Shuttle program. The fighting between Russia and Georgia has put a strain on plans to rely on Russian boosters until the Shuttle's replacement flies in 2015. Yet extending the Shuttle's life is no sure thing. According to a former NASA program manager, "We started shutting down the shuttle four ...
25 ETFs That Actually Are Making Money (1)
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WisdomTree Files For a Slew of New Currency ETFs (1)
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Roger Nusbaum submits: Here is the list of currency ETFs filed for by WisdomTree, according to IndexUniverse:WisdomTree Dreyfus Chilean Peso FundWisdomTree Dreyfus Czech Koruna FundWisdomTree Dreyfus Hong Kong Dollar FundWisdomTree Dreyfus Hungarian Forint FundWisdomTree Dreyfus Israeli Shekel FundWisdomTree Dreyfus Icelandic Krona FundWisdomTree Dreyfus Indonesian Rupiah FundWisdomTree Dreyfus Malaysian Ringgit FundWisdomTree Dreyfus Mexican Peso FundWisdomTree Dreyfus Norwegian KroneWisdomTree Dreyfus Polish Zloty FundWisdomTree Dreyfus Russian Ruble FundWisdomTree Dreyfus Singapore Dollar FundWisdomTree Dreyfus Swedish KronaWisdomTree Dreyfus Swiss Franc ...
Debris from Seth's Attic (1)
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"The Turkey that Ate St. Louis" (1969)A real Turkey that Seth and Molly found in Seth's Attic - an old 16mm movie made in Seth's salad days. It's hard to believe that this was the main course. Seth comments:One of the many doubtful activities of my youth was making films. I started doing this at age 11, and by the time I was a teenager, my buddy Jerry Rebold and I had already constructed a ...
How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity (1)
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Free online business articles and news at Harvard Business Review. Read a preview of How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity, by Ed Catmull.
10 Android Apps To Actually Use (80)
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Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb shared by 9 people Yesterday, Google announced the winners of the Android Developer Challenge I, a contest that awarded cash prizes to the most innovative and promising applications designed for the upcoming mobile OS, Android. The ten top teams received $275,000 and 10 other teams received $100,000. The ADC Gallery lists all the winners as well as the finalists. Although Google has already named their winners, we decided to browse through ...
How Google's cafes turned into hell's kitchens [Food Fight] (8)
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Live by the fork, die by the fork. Now that Google is cutting back on its free food, where will its flacks woo journalists? Morale in Google's kitchens is rock-bottom, as leaderless workers try to keep understaffed cafes running, even as Google management insists they open new eateries. The last place Google's PR staff should want to entertain a reporter is in their cafes. The tragedy of it all: As we learn more about how ...
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Forrest said:
"Do no evil"
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Brett L. said:
A long time in coming. Sad. The food is still mostly good, which is a testament to the employees who have been unfairly subjected to poor management.
JavaScript JIT: The Dream Gets Closer (in Firefox) (25)
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For years, many of us have been salivating over the idea of JIT’ed JavaScript in the browser. Adobe’s JIT’ing Flash VM showed a preview of tremendous speed gains to be had, but we’ve had to wait until SquirrelFish from WebKit to see anything dramatic happen in the browser. Until now. Mozilla just let the cat out of the bag on their new TraceMonkey project. Brendan Eich, Mozilla’s CTO, describes it thusly: I’m extremely pleased to ...
New $199 Xbox 360 Arcade bundle rumored to include motion controller (4)
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Filed under: GamingWe've already heard plenty of talk about the Xbox 360 Arcade dropping to a mere $199, but a tipster to Xbox 360 Fanboy is now claiming that there's more than just a price cut in store for the entry-level bundle, with it also supposedly in line to get a motion controller as a pack-in. According to the source, who's supposedly "close to Microsoft's marketing department," the new bundle will include the usual Arcade ...
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I've been waiting to blog about this for a long time now. A fantastic new improvement to Mozilla's JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) has landed. Code-named TraceMonkey this engine utilizes a techniques, called trace trees (PDF), which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey. A major goal of the project has been to set JavaScript up to compete with natively-compiled code, rather than simply against other interpreters. This means that we're starting to see speeds that are ...
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Sebastian Werner said:
Nice, but we still need to wait for IE to improve upon these new standards.
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Jason Cartwright said:
This, is awesome
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Daemach said:
Microsoft just can't keep up.
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Sean said:
Javascript as fast as C. Mmmmmm. (Well, maybe not THAT fast, but still cool.)
New $199 Xbox 360 Arcade bundle rumored to include motion controller (1)
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Filed under: GamingWe've already heard plenty of talk about the Xbox 360 Arcade dropping to a mere $199, but a tipster to Xbox 360 Fanboy is now claiming that there's more than just a price cut in store for the entry-level bundle, with it also supposedly in line to get a motion controller as a pack-in. According to the source, who's supposedly "close to Microsoft's marketing department," the new bundle will include the usual Arcade ...
Photo Contest: 30 Napkin Sketches Prove There's a Little Inventor in All of Us (4)
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Last week I asked you to send me napkin sketches of your brilliant gadget ideas. The sketches I received ranged from good ideas to bad ideas to flat-out horrible ideas. It's safe to say that no time machines or gadgets that'll make you attractive to ladies are suddenly feasible because you did a poor drawing of one on a napkin. Sorry! Hit the jump for the top three winners and check out the rest of ...
Mozilla drags IE into the future with Canvas element plugin (48)
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Mozilla is developing a plugin for Internet Explorer that will add support for the HTML5 Canvas element. Microsoft's attempts to stifle adoption of open web standards could soon be circumvented by plugins that bring Firefox technology to Internet Explorer.Read More...
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ewbrown said:
The Canvas element is cool, but I am more interested in Screaming Monkey (http://bit.ly/screaming-monkey), which could bring all of Mozilla’s engine improvements to Internet Explorer users.
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Ryan said:
I've heard the FF people joke that IE8 was their best release, but this is ridiculous. I am very impressed.
Mozilla drags IE into the future with Canvas element plugin (1)
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Mozilla is developing a plugin for Internet Explorer that will add support for the HTML5 Canvas element. Microsoft's attempts to stifle adoption of open web standards could soon be circumvented by plugins that bring Firefox technology to Internet Explorer.Read More...
SF Gate: Multimedia (image) (1)
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Wow. What a bubble in commodities!
'Thunder' rumbles past 'Dark Knight' with $26M (1)
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Taking inflation into account, "The Dark Knight" trails both movies in actual tickets sold, however. "The Dark Knight" would need to gross about $900 million to match the number of admissions for "Titanic" and about $1.2 billion to equal "Star Wars."
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Rob said:
Amazing that Star Wars pulled in $1.2 billion in today's dollars. That's stunning.
