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PATH Terminal Design

PATH Terminal Design
I like the new design for the PATH terminal. I think it has to do with a matter of scale. The angular crystal towers and giant latticework on the “Freedom Tower”:177 don’t appeal to me because they are large structures so the details fade out, and leave them looking blocky and unfinished. This terminal on ...

Mars Rover Broken?

Mars Rover Broken?
NASA unable to communicate with Mars rover – The Spirit rover has stopped transmitting data from Mars, NASA mission controllers said Thursday, but there were signs it is still operating at a basic level. NASA scientists now have received a basic communication tone from the rover indicating it is alive but the solid flows of ...

Cameraphone Barcode Scanners!

Camera Phones Help Buyers Beware – with a camera phone that is also a bar-code scanner, you can go into a store like Barnes & Noble, take a photo of the ISBN number on a book and instantly receive a coupon offering the book for 30 percent less at Amazon.com,” said Attia. [ “(extlink)Wired News”:http://www.wired.com ...

Free Simcity Classic

Maxis has posted a version of Simcity online to play for free: Classic Live – SimCity.com. p(update). Unfortunately, the site says that you must be running MSIE or Netscape on Windows. Spoofing the user agent with Safari just resulted in a blank page. Does anyone know a support number/email we can use to complain? I ...

Briton Jailed for Bomb Joke

Bomb ‘joke’ student jailed – According to the arrest report, Ms Marson placed her bag on the belt at a security check, telling a Transportation Security Administration screener: “Hey be careful, I have three bombs in here” – before allegedly repeating the joke twice more when confronted by officials. [ “(extlink)BBC”:http://www.bbc.com ] It’s hard to ...