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Professor Popsicle

Jan

30

2004

Professor Popsicle – A researcher known as “Professor Popsicle” has found humans can successfully spend days on end in the bitter cold. Gordon Giesbrecht has spent the past 26 days skiing the isolated, frozen expanse of Lake Winnipeg as part of his research for the University of Manitoba on how the body copes with the ...

Bad Spelling Costs $

Jan

28

2004

In Online Auctions, Misspelling in Ads Often Spells Cash – Such is the eBay underworld of misspellers, where the clueless and sometimes just careless sell labtop computers, throwing knifes, Art Deko vases, camras, comferters and saphires. [ “(extlink)NYTimes”:http://www.nytimes.com ] At last some ammunition for the strict spellers among us. Although, admittedly I don’t understand why ...

iTunes Music Store RSS

Jan

22

2004

Apple has just unleashed the iTunes Music Store RSS Generator which allows you to build a RSS feed of new releases, top songs, featured items, etc. to read in your Aggregator. This is amazing. Like push except so much better. Now all they need to do is support trackback pings on individual music pages, and ...

Mars Rover Broken?

Jan

22

2004

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 ...

New Pixar Short: Boundin’

Jan

20

2004

Pixar’s released a new short film clip preview entitled Boundin’ (Play Boundin’). I love Pixar animation. Part of it is the quality of the rendering and CGI, but I think most of it has to do with the quality of the characters and stories that they build. “(extlink)Finding Nemo”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266543/ wasn’t a great computer animated movie, ...