You know, you can find the damndest things when you clean out your email, like perhaps an air conditioned jacket from Japanese firm PC2B. It keeps you cool and makes you look like a bloated marshmallow man all at once. Perhaps you could just, you know, take off the jacket. ——–
Pop Goes the GMail is a small Gmail -> POP3 converter that someone wrote for Windows. It seems interesting, but most of the neat GMail features are actually more to do with the web interface, so it seems like you’d be giving up most of the benefits of the service. ——–
In recent months, doctors have traced the problems to what has apparently become a phenomenon among New York City’s Latinas: haphazard cosmetic surgery conducted in the Dominican Republic after being arranged through beauty salons in Washington Heights and other city neighborhoods. The salons act as conduits for the procedure, with recruiters, some from the Dominican ...
Sun licensed the software from a small company in Alameda, Calif., called Karelia, which worked for years on a version of Watson for Apple computers. Sun has created a new version of the software–code-named Alameda–that runs on any Java-enabled computer, said Peder Ulander, senior director of marketing for Sun’s Desktop Solutions Group. Interesting. I was ...
A survey of around 350 undergraduates found nearly 25% had copied text from another source at least once. A new service that can scan 4.5 billion web pages is now online so that lecturers can check the originality of the work submitted by students. I wonder how much of this plagiarism would be avoided if ...
Air Conditioned Jacket
Jul
6
2004
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